{"id":795068,"date":"2019-04-22T21:20:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T03:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/opinion-liddick-democrats-embody-sore-loser-syndrome\/"},"modified":"2019-04-22T21:20:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T03:20:00","slug":"opinion-liddick-democrats-embody-sore-loser-syndrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/opinion-liddick-democrats-embody-sore-loser-syndrome\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | Liddick: Democrats embody sore-loser syndrome"},"content":{"rendered":"
Morgan Liddick lives in Summit County. His column appears in every Tuesday in the Summit Daily News.<\/strong>
btrollinger@summitdaily.com<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I blame Al Gore. The modern political manifestation of the infantile idea that, if one loses, one should howl and whine until satisfaction is given began with his ungracious loss to George W. Bush in 2000. Who can forget the weeks-long idiocy of butterfly ballots, hanging chads and public seances to determine \u201cthe will of the voter?\u201d Until the Supreme Court brought an end to the farce on the grounds of unequal representation, it being obvious that Democrats were cherry-picking districts in which they traditionally did well to contest the count. \u201cCount every vote,\u201d okay. \u201cCount every vote for us,\u201d not so much. The whole petulant business gave us nothing but the poisonous politics of \u201cI win, or else,\u201d and the legitimization of the political tantrum.<\/p>\n

2004 saw the same sort of tactics attempted by John Kerry partisans in key swing states, the argument being that exit polls were more accurate than actual votes cast in actual polling places. This time no one had the patience for another round of nonsense, so the whiners were ignored.<\/p>\n

They returned with a vengeance in 2018, chiefly but not exclusively focused on Donald Trump, who had the effrontery to make fools of both the political establishment and the commentariat, something neither could abide. So \u201cinsurance policies\u201d were enacted and voil\u00e0! Through the use of both national intelligence and federal law enforcement organs, a false narrative that the President was traitorously involved with a foreign enemy was concocted and pedaled by willing accomplices in the popular press to a credulous and vulnerable left-leaning segment of the population.<\/p>\n

It was the ultimate whine, the action of a political class unable to accept the reality of what had happened; the uber-sore-loser reaction that paralyzed our government for two years. And last week the lie was sunk by Robert Mueller, the very man they had looked to for deliverance from the reminder of their failure that is Trump.<\/p>\n

In the immortal words of Rocket Raccoon, \u201cAttention, idiots.\u201d It\u2019s over.<\/p>\n

A quote from the Mueller Report, page 10: \u201c\u2026the investigation did not establish that the members of the Trump Campaign conspired or collaborated with the Russian government in its election interference activities.\u201d To emphasize: Did. Not. Establish. In other words, those who habitually over the past two years referred to the president as a traitor were either misled, or knaves. Those who, moving forward, do so are liars or illiterates. Neither is very flattering in a politician.<\/p>\n

Without missing a beat, and certainly without apology for being vigorously, persistently, utterly and poisonously wrong, the hate-Trump crowd has now switched ground, arguing that if the president did not conspire with the Russians, he at least obstructed justice, for which he must be impeached \u2014 the obvious but oft-denied desideratum of Democrats since the man defeated Hilary Clinton.<\/p>\n

One could be puckish, as others have been, and simply ask \u201cObstruct what justice? As the report reveals, the Trump campaign did not do what it was accused by its opponents of doing, so at the most what the president did was to obstruct injustice in the form of wild accusations being pursued by zealots as though they had some basis in fact.\u201d But there is more to this.<\/p>\n

Part Two of the report, which deals with the accusation of obstruction, has Andrew Weissman\u2019s fingerprints all over it. The unorthodox theories of crimes, the innuendo, the logical leaps and non-sequitur arrivals at predetermined conclusions are all hallmarks of this prosecutor, for whom \u201cdisreputable\u201d would be a compliment. The section is constructed in a \u201cjust imagine\u201d style with weaselish phrases like \u201cThe president\u2019s actions were facially lawful (but) his position as head of the Executive Branch provides him with unique and powerful means influencing official proceedings.\u201d<\/p>\n

In this section the Mueller team does not attack presidential actions but, as exemplified by use of comments to staff members about getting rid of both Mueller and then-Attorney General Sessions, his thoughts and desires. \u201cHe said\u201d and \u201che wanted to\u201d figure big, making the whole exercise something that should make the average American first blanche with fear, then be filled with outrage. When did the Department of Justice establish an Office of Thought Crime? To understand the danger, consider that we all have desires, some of which are expressed: I\u2019ve often mentioned that I\u2019d like to see the Earth from the surface of the Moon. That doesn\u2019t make me an astronaut. But the Trump-haters on Mueller\u2019s team, and Trump-haters in general, insist that it does. By the same logic, anyone expressing appreciation for a co-worker\u2019s physical beauty or wishing a bothersome neighbor would go away might be subjected to an investigation for murder or sexual assault if they peeve the wrong bureaucrat. Ludicrous, yes. But possible once precedent has been set.<\/p>\n

Because, TRUMP.<\/p>\n

Morgan Liddick writes a weekly column for the Summit Daily News.<\/p>\n

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