Don’t Count on the 2022 Elections to Set Things Right

   I HAVE BEEN TROUBLED TO SEE increasingly common expressions by opponents of those currently huddled behind the barbed wire and troops in Washington and many statehouses suggesting a belief that 2022 will see everything mended. This is the notion that the folks who:

• destabilized the whole country with hyperbolic panic-mongering over a virus which is no meaningful threat at all to healthy people below the age of 75;

• unhesitatingly issued, and have since maintained, a broad swath of completely illegal edicts resulting in the collapse of much of the American economy;

• encouraged and facilitated widespread, unhindered and unpunished rioting, looting, property destruction, assault and murder by their supporters and allies, all precisely meeting the statutory definition of domestic terrorism, throughout last summer (and again, more sporadically, on numerous occasions since);

• lied about Russian “bounty” payments to the Taliban in order to hurt Biden’s opponent and to thwart efforts to pull American soldiers out of the 20-year boondoggle in Afghanistan;

• concealed the Hunter Biden laptop revelations of systemic corruption by Biden and members of his family prior to the election;

• leveraged the “COVID-19 pandemic” into a pretext for massive unverified mail-in balloting after having carefully prepared the ground the y ...