VIEW from behind the plow

It’s all politics.

As the column by Jan von Spakovsky in Wednesday’s edition regarding the House of Representatives’ effort to impeach President Trump indicates, it’s not about a crime but a political maneuver.

Leftist members of the House hate the president bitterly, and the impeachment effort is designed – at this point – to smear him so as to make it less likely, they hope, that he will be elected to a second term next year.

They know that any impeachment effort will die in the Republican-controlled Senate. President Trump might even welcome impeachment because it will give his allies a chance to question the accusers who have not been shy in making salacious comments.

We’ve expressed our opinion as to why the left is so bitter many times before. President Trump ruined their plans to seat Hillary Clinton in the Oval Office and continue a scheme to destroy a constitutional America where citizens have guaranteed rights.

The left has been more successful than conservatives like in efforts to destroy the free enterprise system that made the U.S. the world leader in, well, just about everything but it hasn’t been totally successful, yet, in destroying the Bill of Rights.

And leftists won’t be successful until they accomplish their long-dreamed of plan to disarm American citizens.

The sadism of leftist leaders is demonstrated in a move reported by columnist Dennis Prager to move former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort to New York’s infamous Rikers prison.

Prager sees the action as an example of how leftism makes people meaner.

He quotes Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz on this score, who said:

“The decision to move Paul Manafort … from the decent federal prison to which he was sentenced to solitary confinement to the dangerous hell hole that is New York City’s Rikers Island seems abusive and possibly illegal.

“I know Rikers well having spent time there visiting numerous defendants accused of murder and other violent crimes. It is a terrible place that no one should ever be sent to.”

Mass murderers and torturers (psychopaths) are sent to Rikers – people who can’t be allowed to be around anyone else.

Prager reported that Manafort, who was convicted of a white collar crime, will be placed in solitary confinement.

Virtually everyone who has written about solitary confinement, both on the right and the left, deems it torture, Prager writes. Manafort will therefore be tortured after being sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment for fraud and, in the words of The Daily Wire, “a little-known law that requires lobbyists to report that they are working on behalf of a foreign government (in Manafort’s case, Ukraine).”

Angry over the possibility that Manafort may be pardoned by President Donald Trump, the Manhattan district attorney, Cyrus Vance, charged Manafort with additional crimes based on state law. That way, if convicted of state offenses, he cannot be pardoned by Trump, as the president’s power to pardon applies only to federal – not state – crimes.

It would be hard to find any normal American who doesn’t know that the charges against Manafort were purely political.

Vance is a member of the hate Trump contingent and obviously planned Manafort’s transfer to Rikers to break him down so that he can force him to “admit” anything he wants him to in the effort to remove President Trump from office.

Dershowitz, who is liberal in his politics and supported Hillary Clinton for president (certainly no conservative), said in an interview on Prager’s radio program that Vance’s maneuver against Manafort reminded him of Stalin and Beria, the infamous state prosecutor who Stalin referred to as “my Himmler.”

Dershowitz doesn’t use Stalin analogies loosely, Prager says.

Even lefty Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez opposed the Manafort transfer, tweeting: “A prison sentence is not a license for gov torture and human rights violations. That’s what solitary confinement is. Manafort should be released, along with all people being held in solitary.”

Prager quotes former federal prosecutor Sidney Powell thusly:

“When a witness or defendant from whom prosecutors want ‘cooperation’ does not do as they demand, they put him in solitary confinement. And it works. It literally breaks people.

“Solitary does have a place in our prison system, but only for those people who are simply too dangerous to be placed around others at all. However, the torture of solitary confinement should never be used as it is now to break people to prosecutors’ will– to torture them until they will say anything to get out.”

There it is: the Left’s plan for America revealed.

This sounds a lot like the USSR, doesn’t it?