Is the Democrat Party Evil?
I opened my new historical novel, The Concert, with a scene from the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials. Nazi scientist Ernst Ziegelmeyer did not actually testify there, but maybe he should have. In this WW2 novel, based on a true story, I began with Ziegelmeyer because his crime — facilitating Adolf Hitler’s diabolical plans of destruction — sets the stage for the Third Reich’s brutality. On some level, it answers the question of why Germans saluted the idea of killing millions of innocent people — a Holocaust that even now, eight decades later, is hard to comprehend.
Telford Taylor approached the witness. Tall, with a strong jaw, the graduate of Harvard Law and General of Army Intelligence had told [reporters] he was astonished when he read Ziegelmeyer’s file. Everyone knew they were all diabolical, of course, Goring and Bormann and Speer and the rest of the defendants on trial for war crimes committed by the Third Reich. But in a press conference, Taylor had said that more than any other witness, he thought this oddly-proud professor could document the Nazis’ immorality, and paint their inhumanity on an epic scale.
“You are a professor?” Taylor asked.
“I am a scientist.”
“Where did you work during the war?”
“I was director of the Munich Institute of Nutrition.”
“And in September 1941, were you approached by one of the defendants to work for the Third Reich?”
“There were three million people living in Leningrad. The Third Reich intended to surround them. General von Leeb wanted to know how long it would take—once calories, essential proteins and fat were removed from their diet—before they would all starve to death.”
Taylor stared at the witness, as if pretending not to comprehend.
“Before they would all starve to death?”
A soft murmur of anguish spread around the courtroom, in waves, as translations into various languages were completed on individual headsets to journalists, lawyers and observers alike.
“And what did you conclude?”
“Mr. Prosecutor, I am a man of science. I calculated that if the people living in Leningrad were restricted to 250 grams of bread apiece each day, they would all starve to death by the summer.”
“So from the time the Germans invaded the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, you expected it would take about a year for all the inhabitants of Leningrad to die?”
“That is correct.”
“And why was that important to know?”
“Because it was not worth risking the lives of our troops to occupy the city. Shut off all land and air access to food, and the Leningraders would have died anyway. No precious Aryan blood need be shed for their defeat. I simply applied the science of nutrition to the war goal of starvation.” Later he adds, “There is a science to starvation!”
I do not equate today’s Democrat Party of Kamala Harris, Merrick Garland, Elizabeth Warren and Alejandro Mayorkas with the National Socialist German Workers' Party of Hitler’s creation. Frankly, they’re just not that clever — although they do fall in line with the party orthodoxy, very good at convincing a gullible public to follow their lead.
I am saying that what these Biden Administration puppets are doing to this country — imposing a double standard of justice and violating our sovereignty at the border, legalizing pedophilia and supporting a corrupt Ukraine war with Russia, empowering a green economy whose wind power and electric cars are hurting the environment — these are crimes. But what they are doing to Donald J. Trump is just plain evil.
Suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome, they have convinced themselves that they cannot under any circumstances “allow” Trump to be returned to the Oval Office by voters. They are lobbing bomb after bomb, indictment after indictment, to tarnish his public standing. Some of these cases are more absurd than others — charging former chief of staff Mark Meadows with a racketeering charge in Georgia because he called a legislator in Pennsylvania and asked for the speaker’s phone number is at the upper end of the scale — but none of them is motivated by a blind Lady Justice.
Speaking out against election results, claiming falsely that you won, is not a crime. If it were, Hillary Clinton and Stacey Abrams would also be headed for Rice Jail to be fingerprinted. I wonder why no partisan Republican prosecutor has pursued them with the ferocity of the Soros-backed radical prosecutors targeting Trump. Where is the conservative spine? Where is the insistence on fair play, on equal justice?
The vile overreach of these partisan prosecutors — with tactics meant to deny Trump witnesses, legal counsel and constitutional rights of free speech — has had the effect of elevating him to an unprecedented level of popularity. They may also have the cumulative effective of making him unelectable to a general public in Nov 2024.
POTUS 45 is outsized, a unicorn, whose principal attraction — like Howard Roarke in Ayn Rand’s Fountainhead — is to disrupt the accepted narrative held dear by the establishment. Brash, arrogant, egotistical. Also patriotic. Sometimes I just want to look away, as you might from a solar eclipse. His energy is just too intense.
Trump made serious mistakes in his first term — judgment miscues that in my view he needs to own. He threw his weight behind the Warp Speed rush of science during the pandemic, which led to an mRNA vaccine that has killed and injured many people and changed the DNA of the rest of us. He should never have listened to Dr. Anthony’s Fauci call for 15 Days to Slow the Spread. The only thing that misguided policy did was Spread the Fear. He failed to finish building the Wall. But perhaps Trump’s biggest liability is his tendency to hire dreadful candidates, and keep them. Barr, Bolton, Comey, Cohen, Mattis, Sessions, Tillerson — the list is dizzying. He will have to explain how he intents to drain the swamp, as he never could in his first term.
Vivek Ramaswamy, the tech billionaire, to me is the future of conservatism — young, idea-driven and charming. He wants to rid the federal government of the Department of Education and the FBI, sending their functions to other agencies. He says he would pardon Trump, should any of these cases against him lead to conviction — and this is likely, given the jury pools in NY, DC, Atlanta & Miami. An author of important books on our cultural decline — Woke Inc. and Nation of Victims among them — he has been labeled by Politico as one of the “intellectual godfathers of the anti-woke movement.”
But my preference for Ramaswamy is now irrelevant. Like Hitler’s mad scientist who thought calculating how long it would take to starve a people was a noble undertaking, today’s Democrat Party think they can rob the free speech rights of all us — using biased allies in the media — just to keep Trump from office. We no longer have the luxury of selecting which candidate we would prefer. We are all Trump now.
In The Concert, I trace a group of musicians, writers and dancers as they defy Hitler’s efforts to starve them. Amid hunger and deprivation, they summon the energy to perform Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 7, itself a rendition of the brutal Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. This magical concert lifts the spirits of a city on the brink of elimination, and propels it toward victory. As I wrote in an earlier post, Fight for Our Liberty Like It’s 1787, we can save this country, but only by standing for its principles.