The Anti-Trump Hysteria Continues

Crazed protesters, angry Democratic leaders, and the mainstream media are all out to get President Donald Trump. Here is some insightful commentary for your review:

Kimberly Strassel on the media’s relentless crusade to destroy President Trump: 

[I]n the age of Trump… [t]he press has embraced its bias, joined the Resistance and declared its allegiance to one side of a partisan war. It now openly declares those who offer any fair defense of this administration as Trump “enablers.” It writes off those who question the FBI or Department of Justice actions in 2016 as “conspiracy” theorists. It acts as willing scribes for Democrats and former Obama officials; peddles evidence-free accusations; sources stories from people with clear political axes to grind; and closes its eyes to clear evidence of government abuse. This media war is extraordinary, overt and increasingly damaging to the country.

Michael Goodwin on the madness of leftist zealots: 

[S]ingling out Trump for the turmoil engulfing the country is possible only if you disregard the No. 1 contributor: the refusal of Democrats and most of the media to accept the results of the 2016 election. That refusal has become, among many on the left, borderline psychotic. Nothing else compares to the damage it is doing to our nation’s fabric and global image.

Law professor Glenn Harlan Reynolds (aka “Instapundit”) on how status anxiety fuels Trump derangement: 

Why are [Democrats and liberals still] so upset? I think it’s because of status anxiety. Our privileged, college-educated left — what Joel Kotkin calls the gentry liberals — feels that its preeminent position in American society is under threat. And people care a lot about status. What’s more, the people who seem to be lashing out the most are, in fact, just those gentry liberals: academics, entertainers, pundits, low-level tech types, and so on.

Victor Davis Hanson on the Democrats’ strategies against President Trump: 

After failing with the voting machine gambit, the Logan Act, the 25th Amendment, the emoluments clause, the McCabe-Rosenstein faux-coup, the Comey memos farce, the “resistance” efforts outlined by the New York Times anonymous op-ed writer, the campaign finance violations accusations, Stormy, tax returns, whistleblowers, leakers, the Mueller 22 months charade, and now impeachment 2.0, what exactly is the point of impeaching Trump just 13 months before the election? Here are the various rationales behind Trump’s Democratic and leftwing opponents’ latest “whistleblower” hoax…

Kimberly Strassel (again) on the civil servants of the “deep state” who seek to impose their own policy agendas: 

The “deep state”—if we are to use the term—is better defined as consisting of career civil servants, who have growing power in the administrative state but work in the shadows. As government grows, so do the challenges of supervising a bureaucracy swelling in both size and power. Emboldened by employment rules that make it all but impossible to fire career employees, this internal civil “resistance” has proved willing to take ever more outrageous actions against the president and his policies, using the tools of both traditional and social media.

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In an interview for the Rochester Beacon, RJC Board of Directors member Wayne Berman talks about his hometown and his remarkable career in Washington, DC.

Venezuela was elected to the United Nations Human Rights Council on Thursday with 105 votes and a round of applause, despite fierce lobbying against it by the United States and rights groups. Libya was also chosen to serve on the United Nations Human Rights Council.

The United States withdrew from the Geneva-based council in 2018 - half-way through a three-year term - over what it called chronic bias against Israel and a lack of reform.

The UN General Assembly elected a total of 14 Human Rights Council members on Thursday from five regional blocs. Germany, the Netherlands, Libya, Mauritania, Namibia, and Sudan were elected uncontested but still needed to win a majority vote. Armenia, Poland, Indonesia, Marshall Islands, South Korea,j  and Japan beat competition in their regional blocs to win seats - Japan for a second term. Iraq and Moldova were unsuccessful.

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