This article was first published over at Ricochet.com, where I have been a member since 2012. Its title was “Kopechne and the Democrat American Imaginary”. Here it is in its entirety. Believe me, this has needed saying for decades, and I am proud to publish it here. The political world has let the Kennedys slide for far too long.

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In a discussion with one of he few Democrats willing to discuss anything about Trump without just screaming and cancelling me (and I give him a lot of credit for that) I received the following quote:

“To me it’s sad that the Trump party is no longer what this country stood for from a morals, values, honesty, forthrightness, retributions, and even caring for immigrants (this country has never done to human beings what they are doing to them now) – it’s not right really.”

To make this a little more amazing, the person lives in Minnesota, the land of Walz! Here are MN state employees talking about how they attempted to warn Harris about Walz, stating that when they attempted to blow the whistle on corruption and incompetence, they were retaliated against by Walz. To the credit of even The NY Times, the Walz scandal has gotten some coverage, but to a Democrat in MN, Trump’s supposed unique sins are of more import. Why worry about your own state?

Even the most patriotic of us find things like slavery, abuse of American Indians, Jim Crow, treatment of all sorts of legal immigrants in sweatshops, mines, railroads, packing plants, and so forth belie lofty statements like “… what this country stood for morals, values, honesty, forthrightness, retributions, and even caring for immigrants .

I assume “retributions” was referring to Trump fighting back in a manner similar to how the Democrat Media establishment operates. Republicans are supposed to take what is thrown and them and not fight back. They find it reprehensible that Trump would have the gall to fight … usually in the same manner that they do. 

I wonder what a slave or black person in the Jim Crow South would think about “(this country has never done to human beings what they are doing to them now)” ? Propaganda IS very effective and it is no mystery how Nazi Germany happened when intelligent educated people can be so influenced they state such things today. I consider a baby in the womb to be a human being. Democrats seem quite intent on doing bad things to the most vulnerable human beings. 

We were a great nation (and are progressing at the moment to being so again), however (apparently news to many Democrats), we have always had significant flaws (and always will) even before Trump was born. Great nations and great men are flawed. Being great often has a negative effect morally, and also causes the chief human sin, that of pride, to be radically increased. 

There are a lot of questions about how “honest and forthright” many politicians have been down through American history. Aaron Burr, Boss Tweed, Huey Long, George Wallace, Richard Daley, Al Sharpton and many others spring to mind quite quickly, but for those committed to the Democrat narrative, politics in America was pure and transparent prior to Trump!

In my lifetime though, and let’s face it, we all tend to consider our lifetimes to be quite special, Chappaquiddick looms large as an inflecdtion point at which our pride in the “morality” of our political figures, and our willingness to hold them accountable needed some stern re-evaluation. Let’s compare the “Trump Party” against the Teddy party.

Mary Jo Kopechne is a name that ought to be remembered more than that of Ted Kennedy. I was still enthralled with the mythology of America in 1969 and at 12 years of age with us landing on the moon, I plead youthful innocence. The mythology of Watergate was yet to come, an event that the propaganda machine has milked for decades, but which the Russia Hoax far exceeds as an event of Administrative/Deep State corruption.

The link takes you to an article that exposes the lie that the American Democrat Media.

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2017/09/a-chappaquiddick-reckoning-at-last.php

(It’s 56 years ago now, but the facts are the same.)

Forty-eight years later, let’s be clear on what the meaning of Chappaquiddick is. Ted Kennedy should, by all rights, have stood trial for involuntary manslaughter, which would likely have ended his political career. The fact that the Kennedy family — the original postwar dynasty of the one percent — possessed, and exerted, the influence to squash the case is the essence of what Chappaquiddick means. The Kennedy’s lived outside the law; the one documented instance in American history of an illegally stolen presidential election was the election of John F. Kennedy in 1960. He lost the race to Richard Nixon, but his father sealed the presidency for him by manipulating the vote tallies in Illinois. That’s the meaning of Chappaquiddick. too.

This link takes you to the movie referenced in the Power Line post. I guardedly recommend it. It is a dramatization of course, and unless you look at some of the documentation of the event, it is easy to get confused as the Kennedy machine intended. One aspect the movie makes fairly clear is the fact that an autopsy was never done on Kopechne and eyewitnesses (largely suppressed) observed that the condition of the body showed death by asphyxiation vs drowning. She was likely alive for an hour or possibly much more in an air bubble in the car and could had been saved had Kennedy reported the accident. 

For the Kennedy family and Democrat establishment narrative, the death of Mary Jo was a consideration only because it damaged the Kennedy destiny myth. As evidenced by the quote that kicked this off, Democrats believe their party holds the high moral ground. Republicans are more likely to believe that Christ holds the moral high ground and both they, their party, the government, leadership and humans in general are flawed. 

The Moon Landing coinciding with Chappaquiddick was a huge aid to Kennedy dodging a manslaughter charge with the help of local officials, the establishment media and high powered lawyers.

The steal of 1960 is another item that our propaganda complex has largely memory holed, but the general consensus is that Kennedy lost … Chris Wallace is not really a Republican conspiracist. Most Americans don’t know that Joe Kennedy, was a Hitler supporter and a fan of Fascism. He was also a notorious womanizer, a characteristic that JFK, RFK and obviously Teddy carried on. “The Dark Side of Camelot” is a good book to get a view of the JFK penchant for younger women – Trump is an amateur by comparison. 

The fact that the dominant political party and it’s lackeys were able to allow a sitting US Senator to effectively murder a young woman in his employ and yet continue on as a Senator showed that morality has been a dead issue for the Democrat Media Complex for ages. When Clinton stained the blue dress in the Oval Office, the Democrats had no lofty concerns of morality or “respect for the office”. Their chorus was “move on”. A president committing perjury “just about sex” was fine. 

Obama was “the one” for the Democrat Administrative/Deep State to establish the “Affordable Care Act” creating an unaffordable healthcare system that primarily benefitted insurance companies – a ruse that ought to be clear to all now after the shutdown, since massive taxpayer subsidies are needed to keep up the illusion of “affordability”.

From at least FDR on, the majority of what Democrats and the supposed “consensus” has been largely mythology and Trump remains an existential threat to that imaginary. 

This YouTube from the inestimable Victor Davis Hanson explains a lot about how the establishment narrative is so threatened by Trump. All should watch it!

[RB49 note, all YouTube embeds on WordPress sites say this. You can watch by pressing the play button in the lower right corner]