Recall these same people insisted that Trump’s supporters bludgeoned a Capitol policeman to death when he actually died of a stroke, minus evidence of any head wounds the next day. They took the riot seriously but not literally.
The New York Times falsely claimed that “pro-Trump supporters attacked that citadel of democracy, overpowered Mr. [Brian] Sicknick, 42, and struck him in the head with a fire extinguisher, according to two law enforcement officials. With a bloody gash in his head, Mr. Sicknick was rushed to the hospital and placed on life support.” None of this happened — as the postmortem and lack of criminal charges indicated — but Democrats bizarrely placed this falsehood in their bizarre post-presidency articles of impeachment anyhow. They took the riot seriously but not literally.
Progressives take the Constitution neither seriously nor literally. And as the late National Review senior editor Joe Sobran frequently observed, a living-document Constitution necessarily becomes a dead letter. People who take liberties with the manner of a policeman’s death to score political points find no compunction against doing likewise with the 14th Amendment. They reverse-engineer from deciding the optimum outcome backward to determining the best way to interpret the document’s text to arrive at that outcome. The peculiar and incessant use of insurrection — the same word mentioned in Article 3 of the 14th Amendment — from the jump signals the contrived manner of all this.
Approved ~ FS
ConservativeChick
Article URL : https://spectator.org/trump-appeal-obliterates-colorado-supreme-court-decision/