Kimball's Fun With Quotes: Burnham & Cleta Mitchell

This guy Roger Kimball can assemble really good quotes and make a powerful column.  In this case, he righteously lauds Donald J Trump for every. damn. appointment. he has made so far.

First quote of note is from James Burnham, who quoted (!) a Frenchman on "The Rule."

...The usual rule is this: when Democrats win elections, they wield power. When Republicans win elections, they seek, or at least agree to, compromise.

In Suicide of the West, the political philosopher James Burnham quotes the nineteenth-century French writer Louis Veuillot, who summed up the essence of this political dialectic in one elegant sentence. Quand je suis le plus faible, je vous demande la liberté parce que tel est votre principe; mais quand je suis le plus fort, je vous l’ôte, parce que tel est le mien. “When I am the weaker, I ask you for my freedom, because that is your principle; but when I am the stronger, I take away your freedom, because that is my principle.”...

There are hundreds of examples of Republican girlish weakness; one was George HW Bush, another was Paul Ryan; then there was Eric Cantor, GWBush, Mike Pence, and Jeff Sessions--not to mention the (arguably) worst of them:  John McCain.  Note well:  all of them are "ex."  Only McCain has a really good excuse for that.

Then to Cleta Mitchell, who was dumped by local lawyers Folly & Lardbucket when it was clear that Cleta is a lawyer who believed in Constitutional principles:

... Responding to a CNN report that Trump is skipping FBI background checks for some of his cabinet nominees, including Matt Gaetz and Tulsi Gabbard (Trump’s pick to be Director of National Intelligence), the gimlet-eyed attorney Cleta Mitchell observed that “Obama didn’t have FBI vet his nominees because the nominees were corrupt; Trump isn’t having FBI vet his nominees because the FBI is corrupt.” Bingo....

This is why Trump can attend a UFC event and the winning fighter hands Trump his victory belt.  This is why Trump can attend a UFC event and the whole crowd (less a few) chants "USA  USA  USA!!"

So much winning.