Rigged? Then what?

The establishment . . . recoiled in horror from Milwaukee Sheriff Dave Clarke’s declaration that it is now “torches and pitchforks time.”

Yet, some of us recall another time, when Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas wrote in “Points of Rebellion”:

“We must realize that today’s Establishment is the new George III. Whether it will continue to adhere to his tactics, we do not know. If it does, the redress, honored in tradition, is also revolution.”

Baby-boomer radicals loved it, raising their fists in defiance of Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew.

But now that it is the populist-nationalist right that is moving beyond the niceties of liberal democracy to save the America they love, elitist enthusiasm for “revolution” seems more constrained.

What goes around comes around.

Hey, no fair, Pat Buchanan. These leftist people are on the right side of history, aren’t they? No?

Checkered history there:

In 1824, Gen. Andrew Jackson ran first in popular and electoral votes. But, short of a majority, the matter went to the House.

There, Speaker Henry Clay and John Quincy Adams delivered the presidency to Adams – and Adams made Clay secretary of state, putting him on the path to the presidency that had been taken by Jefferson, Madison, Monroe and Adams himself.

Were Jackson’s people wrong to regard as a “corrupt bargain” the deal that robbed the general of the presidency?

And so is unreasonable for Trump to make it a front-and-center issue, as he has immigration and media bias and collusion with Democrats. He gets us talking about things, does  he not?

Try this on for size.

Six months ago, Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, the Clinton bundler, announced that by executive action he would convert 200,000 convicted felons into eligible voters by November.

If that is democracy, many will say, to hell with it.

And if felons decide the electoral votes of Virginia, and Virginia decides who is our next U.S. president, are we obligated to honor that election?

Hanging chads or not?

The Donald gives them a hotfoot. With what he said about election results.

. . . what do these chattering classes and establishment bulletin boards think the Donald is going to do if he falls short of 270 electoral votes?

Lead a Coxey’s Army on Washington and burn it down as British Gen. Robert Ross did in August 1814, while “Little Jemmy” Madison fled on horseback out the Brookville Road?

What explains the hysteria of the establishment?

Source: An establishment in panic

If a Chicago alderman could look more familiar with this headline, I do not know how.

CHICAGO 10/18/2016, 07:46pm

Ald. Willie Cochran under federal investigation: sources

Ald. Willie Cochran (20th) is under federal investigation in connection with his use of political campaign funds, sources told the Sun-Times.

The Sun-Times reported Oct. 8 that records show Cochran paid himself more than $115,000 from his campaign fund over a three-year span.

He’s not supposed to do that.

Else why would she not just deny what Jake Tapper and “stolen,” but not made-up, emails say, that she got the questions ahead of time and gave them to Hillary?

Very good lessons for political operatives in training here. J-schools around the land should use this clip — in their classes on indignation while lying. Especially, the part about being “a Christian woman.”

The woman is a credit to her breed.

If these Cubbies could look more vulnerable, I do not know how.

Rick Telander: “These walking-dead Cubs had better wake up fast. The cemetery of broken dreams beckons.”

Nobel people can’t find him.

I put this in category of what if they called a meeting and no one came?

Nobel peace-prize givers getting what they bloody well (Britishism) deserve.

. . . and its purple next-door neighbor.

. . . via Wednesday Journal blog.

All ye Oak Park and River Forest Democrats, REPENT!

Never-Trump Republicans too. Please. Do the right thing.

Sunday, October 16th, 2016 1:18 PM

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By Jim Bowman

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Enough of this blather from the leftist, I might add mean-spirited, Clinton camp. All you Democrats (and fence-sitting Republicans), please see past the dredging up of breathless, questionable accounts which are even now being debunked or at least questioned — here, for instance.

Bombarded by newspaper and TV lemmings coast to coast, you probably believe it all. This Yale professor does not disbelieve it. Writing in the Wall Street Journal, he admits that “in his Mr. Nauseating video of last weekend,” Trump comes across as “an infantile vulgarian.”

Why vote for him anyhow? Because . . . .

Read the rest here.