"So yes, the hypocrisy is stupendous and blatant. But let me suggest that decrying the hypocrisy here is a loser's game. What you see in these anti-Trump indictments is not hypocrisy, it's hierarchy. We all became familiar with this concept during the Covid pandemic. Gathering for church, even outside, was against the law, but mass rioting in the streets was OK — so long as you were rioting for racial justice. Ordinary people had to let their elderly loved ones die alone and were not even allowed to bury them, yet thousands attended the funeral and memorial services for secular saint George Floyd.
As my colleague Eddie Scarry wrote at the time, "This is simply another example of those in power, those running our most influential cultural and political institutions, sending a message: There's a new social hierarchy in America. And this one isn't about what you can afford to do, it's about what you're allowed to do."
The same analysis applies to the raft of indictments against Trump, whose post-2020 denunciations of the election are no different than those of Clinton in 2016 or most Democrats in 2000 and 2004. Democrats are allowed to question the results of an election, Republicans are not. That's not hypocrisy, it's hierarchy.
Once you understand this, you begin to recognize it everywhere. Antifa thugs and BLM rioters were allowed to trash entire city blocks, torch police stations, take over neighborhoods, besiege federal courthouses — and do so with the blessing and encouragement, at times even with the complicity, of elected Democrat Party leaders. But every granny that set foot within a mile of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 had better brace for a federal indictment.
The same goes for teachers who push transgender ideology and critical race theory on students versus the parents who object to these things being taught behind their backs. The former are courageous leaders, the latter are potential domestic terrorists, at least according to the Biden Justice Department. Ditto for the media's treatment of the Trump family business versus the Biden family business. None of this is hypocrisy, it's hierarchy. The left is trying to tell you something, which is that they have all the power and you have none."
As my colleague Eddie Scarry wrote at the time, "This is simply another example of those in power, those running our most influential cultural and political institutions, sending a message: There's a new social hierarchy in America. And this one isn't about what you can afford to do, it's about what you're allowed to do."
The same analysis applies to the raft of indictments against Trump, whose post-2020 denunciations of the election are no different than those of Clinton in 2016 or most Democrats in 2000 and 2004. Democrats are allowed to question the results of an election, Republicans are not. That's not hypocrisy, it's hierarchy.
Once you understand this, you begin to recognize it everywhere. Antifa thugs and BLM rioters were allowed to trash entire city blocks, torch police stations, take over neighborhoods, besiege federal courthouses — and do so with the blessing and encouragement, at times even with the complicity, of elected Democrat Party leaders. But every granny that set foot within a mile of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 had better brace for a federal indictment.
The same goes for teachers who push transgender ideology and critical race theory on students versus the parents who object to these things being taught behind their backs. The former are courageous leaders, the latter are potential domestic terrorists, at least according to the Biden Justice Department. Ditto for the media's treatment of the Trump family business versus the Biden family business. None of this is hypocrisy, it's hierarchy. The left is trying to tell you something, which is that they have all the power and you have none."
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