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   From: democrat-criminals@mail.house.gov   
      
   https://thefederalist.com/2022/10/25/bidens-destruction-of-america-   
   vindicates-mike-antons-2016-flight-93-essay/   
      
   Six years later, the Biden administration’s willfully malicious reign has   
   vindicated the overall accuracy of Mike Anton’s analysis.   
      
   Anti-Constitution insurrectionists have seized the American cockpit, and   
   they must be stopped even if that requires electing a polarized Donald   
   Trump, wrote social critic Michael Anton in 2016 under a pseudonym.   
      
   “The Flight 93 Election” set off an internet storm. The late, great Rush   
   Limbaugh read almost all of it to his audience of Republican base voters   
   soon after it came out, giving them assurance that not everyone on the   
   right hated their candidate after an ugly primary battle in which no less   
   than National Review published a cover essay collection titled “Against   
   Trump.”   
      
   Anton was as reviled as he predicted in the essay. But now, six years   
   later, Trump’s four years of governance and the Biden administration’s   
   willfully malicious reign has vindicated the overall accuracy of Anton’s   
   analysis.   
      
   Anton said the U.S. administrative state’s gradual replacement of   
   constitutional self-government has metastasized into a national emergency,   
   an argument American conservatives have been developing for more than 100   
   years. The essay justified a vote for Trump based on his platform against   
   open borders, endless foreign war, and trading our economic advantages to   
   China.   
      
   It was these, Anton argued, that really triggered the opposition to Trump,   
   not his public moral failings, since people who divorce their spouses,   
   commit adultery, say mean things about their own political team, publicly   
   glory in fetishes that involve sexual violence, proposition much younger   
   sexual partners, and destroy their own families are funded through   
   “conservative” institutions and celebrated by “conservative” politicians.   
   They are accepted in public discourse and “vaunted institutions” even   
   though such behaviors drive America’s decline.   
      
   Yes, America Is in as Much Trouble as We Say   
   It was the extent of America’s decay that Anton was rhetorically tarred   
   and feathered for noticing. The ruling class has destroyed our culture,   
   economy, traditions, norms, and law, he observed. He argued that we are in   
   a political crisis metaphorically comparable to the situation the Flight   
   93 passengers faced as they flew toward our capital city.   
      
   Standard operating procedures such as cooperating on a “bipartisan basis”   
   and foolishly assuming the communist left acts in good faith have not   
   arrested America’s descent, he argued. More courageous actions were   
   required; ones that recognized we’re facing a cultural and political   
   emergency.   
      
   Trump was a wild card, Anton noted, but every other Republican candidate   
   had no idea what time it is, so we’ll have to play the wild and see what   
   happens. The alternative was certain political suicide.   
      
   2016 is the Flight 93 election: charge the cockpit or you die. You may die   
   anyway. You — or the leader of your party — may make it into the cockpit   
   and not know how to fly or land the plane. There are no guarantees.   
      
   Except one: if you don’t try, death is certain. To compound the metaphor:   
   a Hillary Clinton presidency is Russian Roulette with a semi-auto. With   
   Trump, at least you can spin the cylinder and take your chances.   
      
   He was right. Nothing backs that truth so much as the Biden presidency. It   
   is, as Clinton’s would have been, a third term for Barack Obama, which is   
   to say another four years of planned national demolition and the   
   astonishing expansion of unlimited government, which is to say tyranny.   
   The evidence is more visible now than it was in 2016, and those who tried   
   to un-person Anton over his arguments owe him, and the country, an   
   apology.   
      
   The Predictions for Clinton Are True of Biden   
   In 2016, Anton predicted this, and it’s come entirely true in Biden’s   
   presidency:   
      
   A Hillary presidency will be pedal-to-the-metal on the entire Progressive-   
   left agenda, plus items few of us have yet imagined in our darkest   
   moments. Nor is even that the worst. It will be coupled with a level of   
   vindictive persecution against resistance and dissent hitherto seen in the   
   supposedly liberal West only in the most ‘advanced’ Scandinavian countries   
   and the most leftist corners of Germany and England. We see this already   
   in the censorship practiced by the Davoisie’s social media enablers; in   
   the shameless propaganda tidal wave of the mainstream media; and in the   
   personal destruction campaigns — operated through the former and aided by   
   the latter — of the Social Justice Warriors. We see it in Obama’s flagrant   
   use of the IRS to torment political opponents, the gaslighting denial by   
   the media, and the collective shrug by everyone else.   
      
   It’s absurd to assume that any of this would stop or slow — would do   
   anything other than massively intensify — in a Hillary administration.   
      
   This accurately predicts:   
      
   unprecedented lockdowns aided and abetted by most “conservative”   
   politicians and many “conservative” pundits based on false data   
   projections from communist and socialist countries, mass censorship,   
   population manipulation, and panic;   
   the revelations that the FBI and Department of Justice manufactured   
   disinformation, possibly with a real Russian spy, to frame a Republican   
   president as a traitorous Russian spy and got away with it;   
   the revelations that the Biden administration used social media monopolies   
   as a cover for wildly illegal government censorship operations;   
   the unhinged FBI raiding the homes of pro-lifers peacefully objecting to   
   legalized mass murder and the opposition party’s previous president, and   
   nabbing his supporters for apparent thought crimes while the Supreme Court   
   looks by;   
   the only Supreme Court justice who wanted to hear these concerns watching   
   his wife brought in for questioning before a legally illegitimate tribunal   
   that imprisons people who don’t obey its lawless and unprecedented   
   demands;   
   the suspicious expansion of the corrupt Internal Revenue Service that was   
   proven to have illegally suppressed conservative speech and was rewarded   
   instead of congressionally flogged;   
   the increased risk of a major global economic crisis due to disqualifying   
   financial mismanagement;   
   the amplification rather than resolution of a foreign war that has become   
   a proxy war between the United States and a fellow nuclear power over a   
   nation of non-strategic U.S. interest;   
   and the lawless and unconstitutional refusal to enforce U.S. national   
   security law to the point that the United States’ southern border is run   
   by transnational criminal cartels in league with our top foreign   
   adversary, China.   
      
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