WILL THE DEMS SELF-DESTRUCT? – AT 1:20 P.M. ET:  The Democrats, symbolically wearing the neck scarves of the Japanese Kamikaze, plan to impeach President Trump this week, several days before he leaves office.   What a brilliant idea.  What a way to "unite" the country.  From the astute Michael Goodwin at the New York Post: 

One of President Trump’s biggest flaws is not knowing when to stop, as his speech before the Capitol invasion demonstrated. But while he thankfully saved his worst mistake for last, Democrats are exhibiting the same flaw at the very start of their term.

Political winds rarely get more favorable for a party than they are now, with Dems winning control of the White House and both chambers of Congress. Joe Biden will get the Cabinet and judges he wants and the path is open to tax and regulatory overhauls. Media handmaidens will cheer his every move.

Equally important, the post-Trump Republican Party is in shambles after an absolutely disastrous week. White House and agency officials are jumping ship to distance themselves from the president they served and GOP members of Congress as well as donors and supporters are blasting Trump for the loss of the two Senate seats in Georgia as well as the fatal storming of the Capitol.

In short, Dems have it all — except the good sense to be gracious in victory. Celebrating their golden moment with anger and revenge, they are the definition of sore winners.

With less than two weeks remaining in Trump’s term, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer vow to impeach him if VP Mike Pence doesn’t organize a 25th Amendment posse to force him from office. By Friday, ­Pelosi’s team had drawn up articles accusing the president of “inciting an insurrection” and plan to introduce them to the full House ­Monday.

Pelosi even asked Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley to reject orders from the commander in chief, saying she wants Milley to stop “an unstable president from initiating military hostilities or accessing the launch codes and ordering a nuclear strike.”

Keyboard warriors on the left also flew into action, demanding that Facebook and other Big Tech overlords shame, silence and banish Trump and his “complicit” supporters. Instantly, the cancel-culture goons delivered as numerous platforms suspended or ended Trump accounts, including Twitter, putting the president’s 88.5 million followers in the dark.

Meanwhile, Iran’s mad mullah and other global gangsters continue to be exempt from the same rules.

Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley, the first Republican senator to say he would object to the Electoral College results, had his book canceled by publisher Simon & Schuster just five months before publication. The title is “The Tyranny of Big Tech,” so Hawley might want to add a chapter on the tyranny of “woke” publishers.

Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley’s publisher Simon & Schuster caved to the “woke” mob and canceled his book.

In a sign of corporate cravenness, Simon & Schuster said that while “it will always be our mission to amplify a variety of voices and viewpoints . . . we cannot support Senator Hawley after his role in what became a dangerous threat.”

Ah, yes, a dangerous threat. Hawley didn’t smash windows or break furniture in the Capitol or loot and burn private businesses over the summer. But he did exercise his First Amendment rights and constitutional duty as he saw it as a United States senator, so he is too toxic to publish.

Punishment for speech doesn’t get any more obvious, a sign that a top publishing house’s reverence for the First Amendment is no greater than that of your average college snowflake.

COMMENT:  Read the rest.  It is an excellent example of solid advocacy journalism.  I wonder when they will come for Goodwin.

January 10, 2021