Thursday, December 12, 2019

Republicans for the Ruling Class the Rule of Law

A group I never heard of before today called Republicans for the Rule of Law has created a digital billboard criticizing President Trump (the story's on HuffPost, which I refuse to link, but the gist is, "What is President Trump Hiding?").

There isn't a whole lot of info out there about the membership, except for a list of people on the "legal advisory board", which, hilariously in my opinion, includes the name of Wendell Wilkie II (that's some cutting edge, forward-looking Republicanism ya got there, boys! What, couldn't you find a descendant of Thomas Dewey, or a grand nephew of Harold Stassen?)

But scroll down to the bottom of the page, and there's the big giveaway: this organization of "conservative" Republicans is described as "a project of Defending Democracy Together", whose directorate includes, among other political and publishing failures, none other than William Kristol, Mona Charen, and ex-New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman.

A digital billboard campaign. Very 21st century, guys. Very revolutionary. Maybe you could put together a one-reel documentary and show it in drive-in theaters.

5 comments:

JeffS said...

This "Wendel Wilkie II" is an AEI "Adjunct Fellow", and a "adjunct professor of law at New York University".

AEI has gone downhill, and NYU has been a cesspool of lefties since forever. So he was ripe for the plucking by the NeverTrumpers .... .... if he wasn't at the cutting edge in the first place.

bruce said...

Citizen Kane plays on a loop in their heads, and Inherit the Wind - why those movies are just so relevant end even prophetic don'cha know. 'Even more relevant now' as they keep saying.

I'll stick to Mr Smith Goes to Washington, except for the happy ending.

Paco said...

I keep thinking of the cop movie, Prince of the City, in which the most repugnant characters were federal prosecutors.

bruce said...

Prince of the City: 1970s corruption. I was a juror in a 1970s trial in which it became evident that a couple of thug Sydney 'detectives' who looked like Bubba twins with scarfaces were using the law to pressure a nightclub owner who hadn't paid them due 'respect'. After giving evidence the 2 sat opposite us the jury, arms around each other grinning at us like devils, obviously trying to intimidate us. Anyway the law meant we had to convict, they'd thought it out well. But they couldn't resist the gesture of intimidating us in court, just to show the defendant their power I guess.

This kind of thing went on everywhere. Yeah tell me about 'rule of law'.

Spiny Norman said...

Someone brought up the notion that Clint Eastwood's Richard Jewell biopic that makes the media look really, really bad, is a just a "real life" remake of Sydney Pollack's Absence of Malice. Except I recall Sally Field's reporter character being an unwitting dupe of corrupt prosecutors and FBI agents. I don't think anyone in the media mob involved with Jewell's public crucifixion were "unwitting".