<https://www.lewrockwell.com/2016/10/patrick-j-buchanan/establishments-panic -2/> An Establishment in Panic
By <https://www.lewrockwell.com/author/patrick-j-buchanan/?ptype=article> Patrick J. Buchanan October 22, 2016 Pressed by moderator Chris Wallace as to whether he would accept defeat should Hillary Clinton win the election, Donald Trump replied, I will tell you at the time. Ill keep you in suspense. Thats horrifying, said Clinton, setting off a chain reaction on the post-debate panels with talking heads falling all over one another in purple-faced anger, outrage, and disbelief. Disqualifying! was the cry on Clinton cable. Trump Wont Say If He Will Accept Election Results, wailed the New York Times. Trump Wont Vow to Honor Results, ran the banner in the Washington Post. But what do these chattering classes and establishment bulletin boards think the Donald is going to do if he falls short of 270 electoral votes? Lead a Coxeys Army on Washington and burn it down as British Gen. Robert Ross did in August 1814, while Little Jemmy Madison fled on horseback out the Brookeville Road? What explains the hysteria of the establishment? In a word, fear. The establishment is horrified at the Donalds defiance because, deep within its soul, it fears that the people for whom Trump speaks no longer accept its political legitimacy or moral authority. It may rule and run the country, and may rig the system through mass immigration and a mammoth welfare state so that Middle America is never again able to elect one of its own. But that establishment, disconnected from the people it rules, senses, rightly, that it is unloved and even detested. Having fixed the future, the establishment finds half of the country looking upon it with the same sullen contempt that our Founding Fathers came to look upon the overlords Parliament sent to rule them. Establishment panic is traceable to another fear: its ideology, its political religion, is seen by growing millions as a golden calf, a 20th-century god that has failed. Trump is talking down our democracy, said a shocked Clinton. After having expunged Christianity from our public life and public square, our establishment installed democracy as the new deity, at whose altars we should all worship. And so our schools began to teach. Half a millennia ago, missionaries and explorers set sail from Spain, England, and France to bring Christianity to the New World. Today, Clintons, Obamas, and Bushes send soldiers and secularist tutors to establish democracy among the lesser breeds without the Law. Unfortunately, the natives, once democratized, return to their roots and vote for Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Muslim Brotherhood, using democratic processes and procedures to reestablish their true God. And Allah is no democrat. By suggesting he might not accept the results of a rigged election, Trump is committing an unpardonable sin. But this new cult, this devotion to a new holy trinity of diversity, democracy, and equality, is of recent vintage and has shallow roots. For none of the threediversity, equality, democracyis to be found in the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Federalist Papers, or the Pledge of Allegiance. In the pledge, we are a republic. When Ben Franklin, emerging from the Philadelphia convention, was asked by a woman what kind of government they had created, he answered, A republic, if you can keep it. Among many in the silent majority, Clintonian democracy is not an improvement upon the old republic; it is the corruption of it. Consider: six months ago, Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, the Clinton bundler, announced that by executive action he would convert 200,000 convicted felons into eligible voters by November. If that is democracy, many will say, to hell with it. And if felons decide the electoral votes of Virginia, and Virginia decides who is our next U.S. president, are we obligated to honor that election? In 1824, Gen. Andrew Jackson ran first in popular and electoral votes. But, short of a majority, the matter went to the House. There, Speaker Henry Clay and John Quincy Adams delivered the presidency to Adamsand Adams made Clay secretary of state, putting him on the path to the presidency that had been taken by Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, and Adams himself. Were Jacksons people wrong to regard as a corrupt bargain the deal that robbed the general of the presidency? The establishment also recoiled in horror from Milwaukee Sheriff Dave Clarkes declaration that it is now torches and pitchforks time. Yet, some of us recall another time, when Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas wrote in Points of Rebellion: We must realize that todays Establishment is the new George III. Whether it will continue to adhere to his tactics, we do not know. If it does, the redress, honored in tradition, is also revolution. Baby-boomer radicals loved it, raising their fists in defiance of Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew. But now that it is the populist-nationalist right that is moving beyond the niceties of liberal democracy to save the America that they love, elitist enthusiasm for revolution seems more constrained. What goes around comes around. EM On the 49th Parallel Thé Mulindwas Communication Group "With Yoweri Museveni, Ssabassajja and Dr. Kiiza Besigye, Uganda is in anarchy" Kuungana Mulindwa Mawasiliano Kikundi "Pamoja na Yoweri Museveni, Ssabassajja na Dk. Kiiza Besigye, Uganda ni katika machafuko"
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