It Is Time the Right Stands Up to the Left’s Fascist Lawfare by Boycotting NYC and DC
Will you put money in the pockets of those who want to destroy you, or withhold your money until the Left realizes the road its traveling only ends one very bad way?
Look, I can’t begin to understand the complexities of the Trump Organization’s business, but I am stunned that Donald Trump, Don Jr., and Eric failed to appreciate the losing battle they and their company were waging. Sure, they may win appeals in both the E. Jean Carroll defamation case and the Latitia James fraud-that-wasn’t-a-fraud case, but the legal fees and related costs will be astronomical. And right around the corner is the warped legal theory “hush money" case, which Trump will surely lose given the anti-Right biases of both the judges and juries in New York. The moment the New York General Assembly passed the “E. Jean Carroll Get Donald Trump” law that allowed her to sue him well after the statute of limitations had expired, the Trumps should have seen the writing on the wall and started to unwind their New York business by putting assets on the market. The Left of New York will never rest until it totally destroys the Trumps. If that means death by a thousand legal cuts, then so be it.
Why stay in NYC anyway? Honestly, it is a high tax, crime-infested, smelly shit-hole, and the pandemic created the pathway for people and businesses to finally cut ties to locations they had long been wedded to.
Contrary to what some people who I hold in high regard believe, I don’t think there will be a business exodus from New York City after the latest verdict against Trump. If you are overtly Republican-led businesses that overtly support Trump/Republicans, you should definitely be nervous. With most CEOs and companies more than willing to genuflect at the Left’s altar, however, I think most businesses will dismiss this case as a Trump-centric issue that won’t go beyond the Trump family. That is what New York Governor Kathy Hochul stated this weekend, which strongly indicates Trump was singled out by the Left with this selective prosecution. That mentality reminds me of Reverend Martin Niemöller’s famous quote about the Nazis:
When the Nazis came for the communists, I remained silent; I was not a communist. When they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent; I was not a social democrat. When they came for the trade unionists, I did not speak out; I was not a trade unionist. When they came for the Jews, I remained silent; I wasn't a Jew. When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out.
In many ways, we truly have entered a fascist era in which rules are applied against the unfavored far differently than against the favored, with centralized power players coordinating a systemic and endless attack against the unfavored Right, as it moves mountains to protect perpetrators on the Left. Compare just these examples:
Hillary Clinton versus Trump
Joe Biden versus Trump
Christopher Steele & Igor Danchenko versus Michael Flynn & Alexander Smirnov (the confidential human source who, like Steele, apparently lied to the FBI)
Antifa/left-wing rioters versus 1/6ers
Hunter & James Biden versus Paul Manafort
Hunter Biden, Eric Holder & Lois Lerner versus Steve Bannon & Peter Navarro
E. Jean Carroll & Christine Blasey Ford versus Tara Reade & Juanita Broderick
The Left loves to distinguish the former examples from the latter ones, but no reasonable person looking at the examples would conclude anything other than that political party affiliation drove the outcome in every case.
As Julie Kelly, Miranda Devine, Mollie Hemingway, John Solomon, Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger, and other intrepid real journalists (versus Journalists in Name Only, or JINOs) have documented, Washington, D.C., isn’t much better for the Right. The overzealous prosecution and treatment of 1/6ers, Mark Steyn, and the eight-year sordid tale of what D.C. insiders have done to Trump and anyone who worked for him are proof of how bad it is to be “driving while Right” in our nation’s capital.
What can those of us on the Right do to combat this pervasive bias in New York City and D.C.? We should boycott those cities by curtailing any tourism or commerce tied to those places. Will I miss the black and white cookies from Juniors and the authentic New York City pepperoni pizza slices? Definitely, but we are in an existential fight to live freely without fear of being prosecuted and persecuted for our political beliefs. With every Broadway show you buy a ticket to, every hotel night you book, every restaurant you visit, and every tchotchke you buy, you are supporting a fascist ideology hell bent on destroying everything you believe it. As one loyal trucker from Illinois (Chicago Ray) tweeted on Friday:
I've been on the radio for over an hour and I've talked to at least (10) Truckers who are gonna start refusing loads of Monday for (NYC) ...I talked to (3) guys that I work with who texted the boss and told him no (NYC) Truckers are (95%) Trump... it'll get overturned on appeal but you know how fucken hard it is to get one of these mfrs into (NYC) cut the bullshit I'll cya down the road.
Once again, clarity of purpose and resolve come from Main Street America.
Frankly, the Trump Family, along with moving all operations to Florida and selling all New York assets, should have waged a massive public relations assault against New York City and D.C. for the last few years, including asking supporters to boycott those locations until their leaders reestablished blind justice. The loss of tourism would have hurt New York, which already is being crashed by the one-two punch of residents fleeing to freer states and illegal immigrants coming to mooch off the generous system. Trump should have offered to pay moving costs for people wanting to flee New York.
Speaking of moving, if Trump wins the 2024 presidential election, he should move as much of his presidency down to Mar-a-Lago to deprive D.C. of all the benefits it gets by having federal operations there. If Biden can spend nearly a majority of his presidency in Delaware or otherwise on vacation, then Trump should move the entire West Wing and staffers who work at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building down to Florida, along with his Cabinet and their support staff. Deprive D.C. of the oxygen (and all the cash pouring in to lobby) that comes with the president being there. A functioning presidency does not necessarily need to be done from The White House. This Southern White House approach is consistent with the Right’s belief that one way to curtail D.C.’s power is to move departments and agencies out of the Beltway to locations across the U.S., thereby making those who work in those departments and agencies live and work among those impacted by their work. Over time, it also will allow normal Americans (versus National Capital Region leftists) to obtain federal jobs and bring a more balanced execution of federal power.
Please understand, this call-to-action is not about Trump and his family. It is about us. I firmly believe that the Left will go after any Republican who obtains power, as evidence by their attacks on Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett, Ron DeSantis, and Greg Abbott. Don’t forget, they went after John McCain and Mitt Romney the moment they became the Republican Presidential Nominees. Today it is Trump. Tomorrow it will be DeSantis, Abbott, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, or J.D. Vance. The Civic War I wrote about in 2016 is edging ever closer to a civil war. Will you put money in the pockets of those who want to destroy you, or withhold your money until the Left realizes the road its traveling only ends one very bad way?
P.S. See the chart below on government outlays on the five items driving national deficits and our national debt. Note that net interest on the national debt surpassed both defense and Medicaid spending last year. Note also the massive uptick in Medicaid spending starting in 2013 when the federal government began bribing states with “free” money under Obamacare to expand Medicaid to 138% of the poverty level. Medicaid went from rising only a couple of hundred billion from 1994 to 2013 to skyrocketing by half a trillion dollars in just a decade, with forecasts pushing Medicaid spending to $1 trillion annually by 2035. Someone should tell Jon Husted his view that Medicaid spending doesn’t matter is grossly wrong. By 2035, net interest on the national debt will outpace both defense and Medicaid spending combined. The reckless federal spending binge will come crashing down by 2040. When it does, America will look more like hyper-inflated Argentina.
