{"id":88998,"date":"2021-01-07T19:21:44","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T00:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=88998"},"modified":"2021-01-07T19:21:55","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T00:21:55","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-wednesday-january-6th-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=88998","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Wednesday, January 6th, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"

Post-Georgia editor’s note: Meet the most powerful person in Washington:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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More on that come Friday!<\/strong><\/p>\n

It’s Wednesday, January 6th, 2021…but before we begin, a brief thought on this Notable & Quotable<\/em> entry at the WSJ<\/em> taken from the December 9, 1876 edition of the Saturday Evening Post<\/em><\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0concerning the disputed election of that year:<\/strong><\/p>\n

“The madman who would recklessly scatter matches in a powder magazine would soon be placed where his freaks would be harmless. There are crazy heads of the press just now…who for sensational purposes are appealing to partisan spirit already raised to the highest pitch by the exciting political contest through which the country has just passed<\/span>…[T]hreats of violence, bloodshed, and civil war are covertly or openly uttered apparently with the hope of influencing the result, or at least of keeping up an excitement and profiting by it.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Unfortunately, there is too much powder lying around loosely to permit such firebrands to be scattered harmlessly. Disappointed office-seekers, men wrought up by party feeling, gamblers who have large sums staked upon the issue, desperate speculators mindful of fortunes rapidly acquired during the recent war and ready again to peril the nation to fill their pockets, and that large class of thoughtless men who are ready to rush into any tumult, are not slow to catch at such incendiary utterances.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Such words, whether thoughtlessly or maliciously uttered, should be met with the sternest indignation…No wrong<\/span><\/em> would be so monstrous as the kindling of civil war, and those who even indirectly lead their followers to its contemplation are guilty of a higher crime than the worst of election frauds<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span>“<\/p>\n

As Daniel Francis noted, having just experienced four years of bloody civil war, the Post<\/em>‘s aversion to an encore performance is understandable.\u00a0 But the horrors of the War Between the States are history.\u00a0 The America which today questions the justifiability of even the lightest KIA figures could not begin<\/span><\/em> to imagine the casualty lists which confronted their ancestors 160 years ago.\u00a0 But more on that later.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the Dimocratic Party’s earnestly engaged in duplicating the same circumstances which prompted an earlier generation to draft not calls to preserve the Union, but rather the Declaration of Independence which justified its creation.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

As Kurt Schlichter noted at\u00a0Townhall.com<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n

“One need not believe in either unicorns or krakens to understand that what happened in November 2020 was a mammoth scam and disgrace<\/span><\/em>, and our na\u00efve Constitution<\/span><\/em>, with courts demanding standing and a presumption of regularity<\/span><\/em> and all that old-fashioned stuff<\/span><\/em>, was unable to deal with the outright, blatant steal<\/span><\/em>. The establishment<\/span><\/em> leveraged the way we designed our system, assuming<\/span><\/em> the good faith of both sides, into a cheat that will cause untold damage to our country<\/span><\/em>.<\/span> Now the cabal may wish<\/span><\/em> to put behind us the whole unpleasantness about destroying all the norms in order to barely thieve back what the voters took from them as recompense in 2016, but that\u2019s not happening<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span>“<\/p>\n

Fletcher had it right in The Outlaw Josey Wales<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n