Democrats Aren’t Hiding Their Plans to Punish Political Enemies

Democratic Party leaders, already getting drunk on power they don’t quite yet possess, have spent the days following the midterm blue wave gushing about how they will punish their enemies with lawfare.

One party mover and shaker has been particularly forthcoming about what he and his colleagues intend to do once they take charge of Congress in January,

“Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime,” the notorious head of the Soviet NKVD, Lavrentiy Beria—one of Joseph Stalin’s chief henchmen—is often credited with saying.

That phrase appears to also be the creed of Rep. Robert Garcia, a California Democrat likely to become the new House Oversight Committee chairman.

Garcia has been one of the most outspoken Democrats suggesting that his party’s newfound powers will be used to prosecute and persecute anyone willing to carry out, promote, or even accept policies he and his cohorts disagree with. It was Garcia who went to X and said simply, “lawyer up” on the night of the midterm elections. It’s a pinned post on his account, so this is not just short-term election night overexuberance.

The California Democrat has posted other bizarre statements and imagery on his X account.

“When they go low, this is me,” Garcia wrote, while posting a picture of a demented clown in a sewer from the movie, “It.”

When pressed about why he intends to target members of the Trump administration, he said maybe the pettiness is because he’s “gay.”

Garcia was then interviewed by CNN’s Dana Bash on Sunday and was asked about his plans to investigate the new White House chief of staff Stephen Miller. His answers were Beria-esque.

Bash asked Garcia if he thought Miller had committed any crimes.

“What we think is that Stephen Miller is the architect of this horrific, unjust policy happening across the country,” Garcia said of the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement. “ … The way he is going around, creating immigration policy that separates families, that’s causing people harm, that’s creating a detention process where a few, large companies are profiting, the unconstitutional detention of people, the way that folks are losing their due process rights, he has to be investigated.”

Garcia continued to say that Miller was at the center of the “major policy decisions” of the Trump administration and never mentioned any specific crime.  

That’s what’s so notable here. He’s not really talking about rooting out actual corruption. He’s talking about finding something, anything to destroy enemies of the Left.

A Democrat who will soon be head of one of the most powerful congressional committees is suggesting that policy disagreements will make one the target of investigation and even possible prosecution.

Maybe he won’t follow through, maybe this is all just smoke to appease the base, but what Garcia and other Democrats have been signaling is that they fully intend to criminalize their opposition, make anyone who would dare craft policies they dislike subject to, at the very least, being hauled before Congress and harangued.

I’d say this is banana-republic-level stuff, but in some sense it’s worse. The United States isn’t a small, corrupt country in the Caribbean where swings in power come with regularized threats of violence. Those are typically failed states with histories of warlordism.

The U.S. is a 250-year-old constitutional republic, the most powerful country in the world able to exert its influence anywhere on the globe. We have a long tradition of appealing to ballots instead of bullets, in which a loss in an election means that the defeated party needs to reassess and consider what to do the next time around.

Unfortunately, President Joe Biden’s administration ended that tradition as radical district attorneys in deep blue districts attempted to prosecute Trump and his associates.

That likely boosted President Donald Trump’s return to the White House.

The Left has returned to that punitive ethos with a vengeance.

Instead of figuring out a way they can make life better for regular American as they promised, Democratic leaders—like Garcia—are hatching plans to punish businessmen, tech CEOs, low-level GOP staffers, and even Trump’s current advisers.

They are barely bothering to hide their intentions, though Garcia maybe realizes he’s a bit over his skis given that Trump is still in the White House.

After the Trump administration called out his antics on Monday, Garcia went into spin mode and wrote on X that “our investigations are focused on rooting out corruption and lowering the cost of living for working families.”

Back to the old affordability campaign nonsense.

But the American people need to pay attention.

The fallout over the lawfare of the Biden years didn’t leave the Left chastened. If anything, the lesson many Democrats seem to have learned is that it’s good to “fight harder” by stretching the law to punish enemies and scare anyone who would dare oppose them with the prospect of going to jail.

They intend to nip threats to their power in the bud by making it outright illegal to oppose them.

This is awful stuff, but it’s to be expected now. We are in for more interesting years ahead.

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