By Newt Gingrich | Washington Times
A smart friend of mine who is a moderate liberal asked
why I was not recognizing Joe Biden’s victory.
The friend made the case that Mr. Biden had gotten more
votes, and historically we recognize the person with the most votes. Normally,
we accept the outcome of elections just as we accept the outcomes of sporting
events.
So, my friend asked why was 2020 different?
Having spent more than four years watching the left
#Resist President Donald Trump and
focus entirely on undoing and undermining the 2016 election, it took me several
days to understand the depth of my own feelings.
As I thought about it, I realized my anger and fear were
not narrowly focused on votes. My unwillingness to relax and accept that the
election grew out of a level of outrage and alienation unlike anything I had
experienced in more than 60 years involvement in public affairs.
The challenge is that I — and other conservatives — are
not disagreeing with the left within a commonly understood world. We live in
alternative worlds.
The left’s world is mostly the established world of the
forces who have been dominant for most of my life.
My world is the populist rebellion which believes we are
being destroyed, our liberties are being cancelled and our religions are under
assault. (Note the new Human Rights Campaign to decertify any religious school
which does not accept secular sexual values — and that many Democrat governors
have kept casinos open while closing churches though the COVID-19 pandemic.) We
also believe other Democrat-led COVID-19 policies have enriched the wealthy
while crushing middle class small business owners (some 160,000 restaurants may
close).
In this context, let’s talk first about the recent past
and the presidency.
In 2016, I supported an outsider candidate, who was rough
around the edges and in the Andrew Jackson school of controversial assaults on
the old order. When my candidate won, it was blamed on the Russians. We now
know (four years later) Hillary Clinton’s own team financed the total lie that
fueled this attack.
Members of the FBI twice engaged in criminal acts to help
it along — once in avoiding prosecution of someone who had deleted 33,000
emails and had a subordinate use a hammer to physically destroy hard drives,
and a second time by lying to FISA judges to destroy Gen. Michael Flynn and spy
on then-candidate Donald Trump and
his team. The national liberal media aided and abetted every step of the way.
All this was purely an attempt to cripple the new president and lead to the
appointment of a special counsel — who ultimately produced nothing.
Now, people in my world are told it is time to stop
resisting and cooperate with the new president. But we remember that the
Democrats wanted to cooperate with Mr. Trump so
much that they began talking about his impeachment before he even took office.
The Washington Post ran a story on Democrat impeachment plots the day of the
inauguration.
In fact, nearly 70 Democratic lawmakers boycotted his
inauguration. A massive left-wing demonstration was staged in Washington the
day after, where Madonna announced she dreamed of blowing up the White House to
widespread applause. These same forces want me to cooperate with their new
president. I find myself adopting the Nancy Pelosi model of constant
resistance. Nothing I have seen from Mr. Biden since the election offers me any
hope that he will reach out to the more than 74 million Americans who voted for
President Trump.
So, I am not reacting to the votes so much as to the
whole election environment.
When Twitter and Facebook censored the oldest and fourth
largest newspaper (founded by Alexander Hamilton) because it accurately
reported news that could hurt Mr. Biden’s chances — where were The New York
Times and The Washington Post?
The truth of the Hunter Biden story is now becoming
impossible to avoid or conceal. The family of the Democrat nominee for
president received at least $5 million from an entity controlled by our
greatest adversary. It was a blatant payoff, and most Americans who voted for
Mr. Biden never heard of it — or were told before the election it was Russian
disinformation. Once they did hear of it, 17% said they would have switched
their votes, according to a poll by the Media Research Center. That’s the
entire election. The censorship worked exactly as intended.
Typically, newspapers and media outlets band together
when press freedom is threatened by censorship. Where was the sanctimonious
“democracy dies in darkness?” Tragically, The Washington Post is now part of
the darkness.
But this is just a start. When Twitter censors four of
five Rush Limbaugh tweets in one day, I fear for the country.
When these monolithic Internet giants censor the
president of the United States, I fear for the country.
When I see elite billionaires like Mark Zuckerburg are able
to spend $400 million to hire city governments to maximize turnout in
specifically Democratic districts — without any regard to election spending
laws or good governance standards — I fear for the country.
When I read that Apple has a firm rule of never
irritating China — and I watch the NBA kowtow to Beijing, I fear for our
country.
When I watch story after story about election fraud being
spiked — without even the appearance of journalistic due diligence or curiosity
— I know something is sick.
The election process itself was the final straw in
creating the crisis of confidence which is accelerating and deepening for many
millions of Americans.
Aside from a constant stream of allegations of outright
fraud, there are some specific outrages — any one of which was likely enough to
swing the entire election.
Officials in virtually every swing state broke their
states’ own laws to send out millions of ballots or ballot applications to
every registered voter. It was all clearly documented in the Texas lawsuit,
which was declined by the U.S. Supreme Court based on Texas’ procedural
standing — not the merits of the case. That’s the election.
In addition, it’s clear that virtually every swing state
essentially suspended normal requirements for verifying absentee ballots.
Rejection rates were an order of magnitude lower than in a normal year. In
Georgia, rejection rates dropped from 6.5% in 2016 to 0.2% in 2020. In
Pennsylvania, it went from 1% in 2016 to .003% in 2020. Nevada fell from 1.6%
to .75%. There is no plausible explanation other than that they were counting a
huge number of ballots — disproportionately for Mr. Biden — that normally would
not have passed muster. That’s the election.
The entire elite liberal media lied about the timeline of
the COVID-19 vaccine. They blamed President Trump for
the global pandemic even as he did literally everything top scientists
instructed. In multiple debates, the moderators outright stated that he was
lying about the U.S. having a vaccine before the end of the year (note Vice
President Mike Pence received it this week). If Americans had known the
pandemic was almost over, that too was likely the difference in the election.
The unanimously never-Trump debate
commission spiked the second debate at a critical time in order to hurt
President Trump.
If there had been one more debate like the final one, it likely would have been
pivotal.
This is just the beginning. But any one of those things
alone is enough for Trump supporters
to think we have been robbed by a ruthless establishment — which is likely to
only get more corrupt and aggressive if it gets away with these blatant acts.
For more than four years, the entire establishment
mobilized against the elected president of the United States as though they
were an immune system trying to kill a virus. Now, they are telling us we are
undermining democracy.
You have more than 74 million voters who supported
President Trump despite
everything — and given the election mess, the number could easily be
significantly higher. The truth is tens of millions of Americans are deeply
alienated and angry.
If Mr. Biden governs from the left — and he will almost
certainly be forced to — that number will grow rapidly, and we will win a
massive election in 2022.
Given this environment, I have no interest in
legitimizing the father of a son who Chinese Communist Party members boast
about buying. Nor do I have any interest in pretending that the current result
is legitimate or honorable. It is simply the final stroke of a four-year
establishment-media power grab. It has been perpetrated by people who have
broken the law, cheated the country of information, and smeared those of us who
believe in America over China, history over revisionism, and the liberal ideal
of free expression over cancel culture.
I write this in genuine sorrow, because I think we are
headed toward a serious, bitter struggle in America. This extraordinary,
coordinated four-year power grab threatens the fabric of our country and the
freedom of every American.
https://adrenogate.net/wp/2020/12/23/why-i-will-not-accept-joe-biden-as-president-washington-times/
