New in PJ Media:
Back in 2016, it was a feature of Trump rallies: the candidate would mention Hillary Clinton, and the crowd would start chanting “Lock her up!” In Oct. 2016, at their second presidential debate, Trump himself said it to Hillary: “If I win, I am going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation.” The Leftist establishment was not amused and inundated us with articles featuring various talking heads and political analysts saying this was nothing but banana republic stuff, and that it was extremely dangerous for a presidential candidate to talk about prosecuting, much less imprisoning, his opponent. Why, it was a threat to Our Democracy!
So where are all those “experts” today, now that a corrupt and hyperpartisan DA has indicted the chief opponent of the Biden regime on the flimsiest of pretexts?
In the days of the Trump-Clinton campaign, the Democrats and their media propaganda arms were certain that even to contemplate prosecuting one’s political opponent, and even worse, to joke about it, was the stuff of dictatorships and sham republics that gave the appearance of allowing an opposition but not the reality. Then-Sen. Al Franken, who was allegedly a comedian, was among the foremost po-faced guardians of Our Democracy to see no humor whatsoever in the “Lock her up” chants. In July 2016, he said that calls to try or imprison Hillary for mishandling classified information or anything else were “very banana republic,” and he claimed that the accompanying rhetoric of speakers at the Republican National Convention had “just been startlingly ugly.”
Where is Unfunny Al now? On Thursday evening, when news first broke of Trump’s indictment, he tweeted, “Remember when Trump said ‘I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and not lose a vote.’ Well that might have been true. But he would have been indicted!” Gee, Al, that’s very banana republic of you, not to mention startlingly ugly!
Then there was the New York Times. In Nov. 2017, the Paper of Leftist Record warned that if Trump or then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions “does authorize a new investigation of Mrs. Clinton, it would shatter post-Watergate norms intended to prevent presidents from using law enforcement agencies against political rivals.” Zowie! It would be really bad, wouldn’t it, if presidents started going around using law enforcement agencies against political rivals? The Times added that “the request alone was enough to incite a political backlash, as critics of Mr. Trump quickly denounced what they called ‘banana republic’ politics of retribution, akin to autocratic nations where election losers are jailed by winners.” You don’t say? Politics of retribution, in which election losers were jailed by winners? Wow, that could never happen here in the good old US of A, now, could it?
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commonsense says
I’m waiting for the repulsive Hillary Clinton to parrot the ” no one is above the law” trope re: President Trump’s indictment, followed by the same from the lying mushmouthed Biden. Perhaps both have already done so by now, escaping my notice. And note that I did not say former President Trump.
gravenimage says
Whatever Happened to the Dems Saying That ‘Lock Her Up’ Chants were ‘Banana Republic Stuff’?
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Good question.
OLD GUY says
It’s a slimy world in Washington D.C. And Hillary is the Queen of slime.