{"id":127875,"date":"2020-12-07T02:37:22","date_gmt":"2020-12-06T23:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/democrats-denied-trumps-legitimacy-and-other-commentary\/"},"modified":"2020-12-07T02:37:22","modified_gmt":"2020-12-06T23:37:22","slug":"democrats-denied-trumps-legitimacy-and-other-commentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/democrats-denied-trumps-legitimacy-and-other-commentary\/","title":{"rendered":"#Democrats denied Trump&#8217;s legitimacy and other commentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a36897d76469\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a36897d76469\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/democrats-denied-trumps-legitimacy-and-other-commentary\/#Roll_tape_Yes_Dems_Denied_Dons_Legitimacy\" >Roll tape: Yes, Dems Denied Don\u2019s Legitimacy<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/democrats-denied-trumps-legitimacy-and-other-commentary\/#Urban_beat_The_New_Untouchables\" >Urban beat: The New Untouchables<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/democrats-denied-trumps-legitimacy-and-other-commentary\/#Conservative_Bidens_Shady_DHS_Nominee\" >Conservative: Biden\u2019s Shady DHS Nominee<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/democrats-denied-trumps-legitimacy-and-other-commentary\/#Archbishop_Joes_%E2%80%98Catholic_Scandal\" >Archbishop: Joe\u2019s \u2018Catholic\u2019 Scandal<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/democrats-denied-trumps-legitimacy-and-other-commentary\/#Iconoclast_Trumpism_Will_Live_On\" >Iconoclast: Trumpism Will Live On<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#Democrats denied Trump&#8217;s legitimacy and other commentary<\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/12\/donald-trump-3.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Roll_tape_Yes_Dems_Denied_Dons_Legitimacy\"><\/span>Roll tape: Yes, Dems Denied Don\u2019s Legitimacy<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>New York Times columnist Paul Krugman recently claimed that Democrats \u201cnever\u201d questioned President Trump\u2019s legitimacy. And that, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2020\/12\/02\/your_brain_on_hyper-partisanship_144770.html\">RealClearPolitics\u2019 Carl M. Cannon snarks<\/a>, is what h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ens to a Nobelist brain high on \u201chyper-partisanship.\u201d In fact, \u201cmillions of Democrats\u201d spent the past four years questioning \u201cTrump\u2019s legitimacy, as did numerous anti-Trump pundits and Obama-era US intelligence-community officials.\u201d From the late Rep. John Lewis in 2017 (\u201cI don\u2019t see this president-elect as a legitimate president\u201d) to Hillary Clinton in 2019 (Trump \u201cknows he\u2019s an illegitimate president\u201d), denying Trump\u2019s right to occupy the White House was a Democratic obsession. And, of course, Krugman did it, too. \u201cAlthough the Royal Swedish Academy of <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Science<\/a>s hasn\u2019t asked for its award back, a cynic might wonder if Krugman\u2019s economics writing had the same level of intellectual rigor as his political commentary.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Urban_beat_The_New_Untouchables\"><\/span>Urban beat: The New Untouchables<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Seattle\u2019s city council recently considered \u201clegislation to provide an \u00adexemption from prosecution for misdemeanor crimes for any citizen who suffers from poverty, homelessness, addiction or mental illness,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/seattle-policymakers-untouchables-misdemeanor-crime\">reports Christopher J. Rufo at City Journal<\/a> \u2014 creating \u201ca new class of \u2018untouchables,\u2019 protected from consequences by the city\u2019s power brokers,\u201d who seem bent on establishing \u201ca \u2018reverse hierarchy of oppression.\u2019\u200a \u201d To the hard left, the bill to \u201ceffectively legalize an entire spectrum of misdemeanor crimes\u201d has the added plus of \u201cdramatically downsizing the court system,\u201d which they see as \u201ca bastion of racism and oppression.\u201d Craziest of all: A public outcry has only delayed the bill.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Conservative_Bidens_Shady_DHS_Nominee\"><\/span>Conservative: Biden\u2019s Shady DHS Nominee<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Joe Biden\u2019s pick to run Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, is \u201ca left-wing Democrat with a history of doing favors for wealthy and politically connected people, including working to help suspected Chinese spies enter the country and convicted drug dealers get out of prison,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/12\/04\/joe-bidens-dhs-nominee-is-the-absolute-picture-of-dc-political-corruption\/\">warns The Federalist\u2019s Christopher Bedford<\/a>. A 99-page report from the DHS inspector <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a> covering his tenure as head of US Citizenship and Immigration Services shows Mayorkas \u201cmeddling\u201d in the \u201cpay-to-play citizenship model\u201d with wealthy would-be immigrants, allegedly as a favor to figures like Hilary Clinton\u2019s brother and then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Mayorkas denies the allegations and \u201csays he can\u2019t remember the substance of any of the private conversations he had with these players.\u201d Yet his history dating back to the Clinton administration shows that \u201cfavors for the powerful\u201d have always been his go-to strategy, and if he is approved by the Senate, those friends will undoubtedly be very happy, indeed.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Archbishop_Joes_%E2%80%98Catholic_Scandal\"><\/span>Archbishop: Joe\u2019s \u2018Catholic\u2019 Scandal<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/web-exclusives\/2020\/12\/mr-biden-and-the-matter-of-scandal\">At First Things, Philadelphia\u2019s archbishop emeritus, Charles J. Chaput<\/a>, says he opposes vehemently \u201cany seeming indifference\u201d to the problem of Joe Biden\u2019s aggressive pro-abortion-rights stance and his receiving Communion at Mass. \u201cPublic figures who identify as \u2018Catholic\u2019 give scandal to the faithful when receiving Communion by creating the impression that the moral laws of the church are optional. And bishops give similar scandal by not speaking up publicly about the issue and danger of sacrilege.\u201d Thus, \u201cwhen bishops publicly announce their willingness to give Communion to Mr. Biden, without clearly teaching the gravity of his facilitating the evil of abortion (and his approval of same-sex relationships), they do a serious disservice to their brother bishops and their people.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Iconoclast_Trumpism_Will_Live_On\"><\/span>Iconoclast: Trumpism Will Live On<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>\u201cFor all his antics and vitriol,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.spiked-online.com\/2020\/12\/04\/why-trumps-america-will-live-on\/\">observes Joel\u00a0Kotkin at Spiked Online<\/a>, \u201cTrump has left a legacy that will be difficult to ignore.\u201d The New York \u00addeveloper \u201cchallenged in ways not seen for a generation the comfortable \u00adestablishmentarian politics of both parties.\u201d More important, Trump \u201chas re-established, along with his odd <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a>ist doppelganger, Bernie Sanders, the relevance of class in American politics.\u201d His populist views on\u00a0\u201ctrade, media, economics and immigration will continue to influence politics for the next decade.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Compiled by The Post Editorial Board<\/em>\n            <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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And that, RealClearPolitics\u2019 Carl M. Cannon snarks, is what happens to a Nobelist brain high on \u201chyper-partisanship.\u201d In fact, \u201cmillions of Democrats\u201d spent the past four&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":127876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/12\/donald-trump-3.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[82848,71829,10701,70921,4941,43,70616,991,82882,70428],"class_list":["post-127875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-12-6-20","tag-catholic-church","tag-democrats","tag-department-of-homeland-security","tag-donald-trump","tag-editorial","tag-fast-takes","tag-joe-biden","tag-populism","tag-seattle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}