Even our most basic protections are limited based on content and intent. You have a First Amendment right to free speech, but that doesn’t mean you can defame someone or yell “Fire!” in a crowded theater. … It seems absurd that the pardon power, which is much less fundamental to a democratic society than free speech… should enjoy greater protections from content-based limits than any other right enshrined in the Constitution.
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Democrats are like the clean-cut guy with the good job who loses the girl to the bad-boy biker. Barack Obama was the quintessential honorable, well-spoken guy. Donald Trump is a bad boy through and through, breaking rules to suit his own purposes, regardless of who he hurts in the process.
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While most of us have forgotten, were too young to pay attention (like yours truly) or hadn’t been born yet, it was Democrats who torpedoed the only real chance to get rid of the Electoral College.
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If you see someone drowning, you shout to the lifeguard, “Hey, there’s someone DROWNING out there!” You don’t walk up casually and whisper in the guy’s ear: “Psst. There might be something going on out there. Take a look and tell me what you see.” If you see a house on fire, you don’t pass a note under the door of the burning structure with a suggestion that someone inside call the fire department.
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In our polarized nation, we’ve come to confuse two very different things: The right to express an opinion with the feeling we’re entitled to impose it on others. The former is a hallmark of democracy. The latter a feature of dictatorships.
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In any game, hometown fans might love it if the refs threw a penalty flags on every play — at first. But it would get boring after a while, because most fans want to see action. They’d rather see a circus catch at the 1-yard line than a penalty flag thrown for pass interference. Besides, no matter how partisan they are, most fans want their teams to win fair and square: to prove they’re legitimately better on the field.
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