So now the Federalist Society - the freakin' Federalist Society! - is mulling over the idea of purging Trump supporters.
This would be the same Federalist Society that has been a major player in vetting judges for nomination by Republican presidents. Listen to this cowering invertebrate:
Rosen, a former Trump judicial nominee who has served as the president of the Los Angeles Lawyers Chapter of the Federalist Society, is trying to engineer a purge of pro-Trump individuals, particularly those who supported an investigation into electoral fraud, from the group.
“[O]ne of the major causes of this incitement, John Eastman, remains prominently at the head of one of our most significant practice groups and a frequent speaker at our events. And Senators Cruz and Hawley are longstanding members and frequent speakers. I am sure there are others who acted similarly and are in our leadership and speaker ranks,” he wrote in the email.
“I think that the Federalist Society must take a stand to remove anyone from leadership and to take away the legitimacy of our public forums to anyone who participated in this attack on the rule of law and our constitution,” Rosen added.
I must have missed all of the highly detailed debunking of the many specific charges of cheating during the election. Btw, how, precisely, were the charges, and the requests for an investigation, substantially different from the same demands made by the vast majority of elected Democrats at the national level after Trump's victory in 2016 (except for the fact that there was no evidence of such cheating by Republicans)? I won't even get into the demands made by Hillary and her horde for electors to ignore their responsibilities and vote for her, pretty much just "because".
We are now in the age of the Great Political Epiphany, and the phonies, cowards and grifters are being exposed en masse practically every day. This is good information to know, although the extent of the betrayal is positively breathtaking.
H/T: Ace of Spades (also see his pistol whipping of David French).
Update: And to quote Bucky in the comments, "Justice for Ashli Babbitt!"
Update II: On Ace's sidebar, Andrew McCarthy caroms an air kiss off of Kevin Williamson which lands smack on the behind of Chris Stirewalt (late of Fox News). It's amazing how McCarthy seems never to have met a Deep State bureaucrat or conservative grifter he didn't like.
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The We're Better And Smarter Than You Uniparty members are all taking off their masks.
This would be the same Federalist Society that has been a major player in vetting judges
Now I think we know why McConnel was so quick about getting Trump's judges through.
Now I'm depressed.
Oh, and there will be no justice fore Ashli Babbit, she's not of the favored class.
Who knew there were so many traitors in the world and that 99% of them live in the former U.S.A.?
Who knew, indeed? I'm afraid we're all a bit like Col. Custer and his men at Little Bighorn ("Wooooiee! That's one hell of a lot of Indians out there!")
At my Catholic high school in inner Sydney in the 1960s, we were assigned Vance Packard's Hidden Persuaders to study among other things. So I was raised skeptical of the American mass-media culture from the start - skeptical of the US elites.
Among the Catholics I knew there was a raging debate between traditionalists and modernists. That debate had been going on since Pope Leo XIII in the 1890s, whose views sound now like a mix of left and right - opposition to big business and globalism, support for local uniqueness, later formulated by people like GK Chesterton into a full set of ideas:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributism
Tony Abbott got called a 'fascist' because he mixed with people like Bob Santamaria who shared these types of views. At least they had a coherent ideology, the modernists had nothing except 'progress' undefined.
It all sounds pretty whacky now - defending the Franco regime for example, and I don't rely on those ideas much. But the general sense that modernity is heading for a crisis has stayed with me and I feel vindicated for what it's worth. It doesn't make me happy to say we were wrong on details but right on general trends all along.
There are philosophers like Alasdaire MacIntyre who've been arguing this for decades. There's a Harvard law professor called Adrian Vermeule who is big in this field - some students of course want to cancel him:
https://twitter.com/vermeullarmine?lang=en
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