Let's Go Crazy

One of the Left’s problems is that they are so damn boring and predictable.

This bunch couldn’t even run a high school football team.  They run the same plays over and over and over again.

Take the Clintons.  At least the Clintons execute well.  When caught doing something nefarious, the first instinct is to lie and deny.   And keep denying. “I did not have sexual relations with that woman.”  “I kept a personal emails for convenience.”   Keep it up as long as you possibly can until someone comes up with physical, undeniable, irrefutable truth.  And that will be hard to do, because they obfuscate, hide evidence, resist disclosure every inch of the way.   And years later when all the facts are assembled and point to ethical breaches, the Clintons then claim that “this is old news.” 

Similary, the Left has consistently attempted to discredit a Republican president as either “dumb,” “crazy” or “addled.”  Gerald Ford was maligned as stupid and clumsy.   Ronald Reagan was an “amiable dunce” and claims were made that he was symptomatic of Altzheimers while he was still president.  George W. Bush similarly was vilified as stupid by the press as the press landed on each and every malaproprism as definitive proof.  

And now the Left has trotted out a couple of psychiatrists to buttress the Left’s claim that Donald Trump is “not fit to be president,” in a grotesque attempt to establish grounds to have him removed under the 25^th Amendment.   This is all interesting because the American Psychiatric Association adheres to the “Goldwater Rule” which forbids forming an opinion about the mental health of a person without an in-person consultation with him or her.  CNN knows this.  Yet it did not prevent them from trotting out some quack and it did not prevent an Ivy League psychiatrist from briefing Congress on his mental fitness.   Yale psychiatrist Bandi Lee makes the Chicken Little claim that Trump’s mental state could destroy the entire human species.  

I’m much more worried about the Soviet style tactics of the left---using the State’s security and enforcement apparatus to punish political enemies—that the F.B.I., NSC, and IRS have been thoroughly politicized.   I’m deeply concerned about the steady erosion of free speech on college campuses.  I’m much more concerned that the Democratic leadership has sidled up to Antifa as the recent photo of Keith Ellison with the Antifa handbook showed. 

The American electorate had plenty of opportunity to render a judgment on that, and will again in about 34 months.  It is not a decision by a couple of psychiatrists that are breaching ethical standards by talking about it.

The Soviet and Chinese Communists played this card all the time.  Dissidents were deemed by party psychiatrists to be mentally unstable.   It’s so painfully obvious that the Left is running this play again.  It needs to stop.  The conversation has shifted from “Russian collusion” to “Trump is mentally unstable,” moving the strategy from the FBI deciding on whether Trump should be president to psychiatric “experts” making that determination. 

I am much more confident in the will of the electorate making a judgment on someone’s fitness for office than a couple of people that are violating the ethical standards of their profession.  Sorry, but We the People get to make that decision.   But you do get to try again in 2020.