On Hunter Biden, Republicans must think like Democrats
Brady Leonard
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I respect the Left for its ruthlessness. Democrats and their accomplices seize on any and all opportunities to advance their agenda regardless of the ever-evolving circumstances on the ground.
In the tragic case of a mass shooting, Democrats never fail to attempt to advance their gun control agenda even before the bodies of the victims have been identified by authorities. In the case that the mass shooter is a straight, white male, even better for the Democrats. They conveniently take a two-pronged approach attacking both the constitutionally protected rights of Americans and raving about “white supremacy.”
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Is it hot? Cold? Sunny? Rainy? Democrats will claim the answer to any of these naturally occurring phenomena is to raise taxes and transfer more wealth from the middle class to their donors and beneficiaries. Every tragedy is an opportunity to expand state power and silence opposition. When prominent Republicans step out of line, they are promptly discredited and their careers destroyed by a media class eager to do the bidding of their handlers in Washington, D.C.
Republicans, however, never quite seem to attack their political opponents with the same fervor, coordination, and precision as our friends on the Left. Even now, when the GOP seemingly has President Joe Biden’s alleged crack-smoking, prostitute-hiring, money-laundering, influence-peddling, child-denying son Hunter right where they want him, the Grand Old Party is missing the forest for the trees. Ask yourself, what would a Democrat do in this situation?
Hunter Biden’s legal team is defending its client against illegal gun possession charges by claiming that the charges against the president’s son violate the Second Amendment. Biden’s defense quoted Justice Clarence Thomas’s majority opinion in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen: “The government may not simply posit that the regulation promotes an important interest. Rather, the government must demonstrate that the regulation is consistent with this Nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation. Only if a firearm regulation is consistent with this Nation’s historical tradition may a court conclude that the individual’s conduct falls outside the Second Amendment’s ‘unqualified command.’”
Republican politicians and commentators are mocking this defense as “hypocritical” and claiming it sets up a father-and-son battle over gun control. This tactic is short-sighted. If Republicans were thinking like Democrats, they would universally agree that Hunter’s Second Amendment rights have been violated and insist he appeal all the way to the Supreme Court, where the great Justice Thomas would likely be more than happy to declare a whole new batch of gun laws unconstitutional.
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What hurts the Left’s tyrannical agenda more? Finally “getting” the degenerate son of a dementia-riddled president, who, win or lose, will exit the political stage for good in the next handful of years, or letting the Man from Montgomery crush the hopes and dreams of every gun grabber from California to the New York islands? I know what Democrats would do. What say you, Republicans?
Brady Leonard (@bradyleonard) is a musician, political strategist, and host of The No Gimmicks Podcast.