Unpardonable — 50 Years of Excusing Crimes Against America

Guest post by Janice L Blixt.

We are warned that those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. For most educated and open-minded people, that’s a dire warning. I would argue a much worse problem are those, without scruples, who do learn from history — but they learn corruptive lessons.

For the past 46 years, because of the quaternary “peaceful passage of power,” the overall policy of the Federal Government has been to let bygones be bygones. We have put all but the most egregious faults in the “difference of opinion” category — we agree to disagree. Even the worst of the worst crimes tend to end up pardoned and forgotten.

Part of the outrage on the left surrounding the 2016 election chant of “Lock Her Up” concerned the fact that Hilary Clinton had committed no crimes (cleared by a parade of partisan investigations). Even more troubling, however, was that fact that in the United States we do not take legal action against our political opponents. Political foes have traditionally been the “loyal opposition” (notwithstanding a few famous 18th and 19th century duels).

Instead, the current POTUS has made it clear that his political foes are actually America’s foes. If a person is an “enemy” to Mr. Trump, they are then deemed an enemy of the state, an enemy of…