The Patriot Post Digest 11-28-2016

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Mid-Day Digest

Nov. 28, 2016

IN TODAY’S EDITION

Rebutting leftists who are fawning over Fidel Castro.
Hillary Clinton jumps on the recount bandwagon.
Another look at the possible radical Islamist leader of the Democrat Party.
Trump taps Haley as UN ambassador, and DeVos as education secretary. Both are good picks.
And more news, policy and opinion.

THE FOUNDATION

“We should be unfaithful to ourselves if we should ever lose sight of the danger to our liberties if anything partial or extraneous should infect the purity of our free, fair, virtuous, and independent elections.” —John Adams (1797)

TOP RIGHT HOOKS

Jumping on the Recount Bandwagon1

On Saturday, Hillary Clinton joined Green Party candidate Jill Stein in calling for a vote recount in Wisconsin. Despite the lack of any credible evidence of voter fraud — even the Obama administration stated that “the federal government did not observe any increased level of malicious cyber activity aimed at disrupting our electoral process” and that “we believe our elections were free and fair from a cybersecurity perspective” — Stein has pushed to have recounts in the states of Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania on the basis of “concerns” over Russian hacking of the voting machines.

Clinton has also conceded that there was no “actionable evidence of hacking or outside attempts to alter the voting technology.” So why join Stein in the push for a recount? Does this not smack of absolute hypocrisy since it was Hillary who chastised Donald Trump before the election for declining to say he would accept the election results? While the explanation may be as simple as Hillary being a sore loser, it’s a safe bet that this is yet another attempt to delegitimize Trump’s presidency. It also may be a continued push by the Left to justify the “need” to eliminate the Electoral College2.

Speaking of Trump, however, on Sunday, he tweeted that millions of illegal immigrants had voted and, had they not done so, he would have also won the popular vote. While undoubtedly there were many illegal votes, to suggest that there were millions of fraudulent votes is an unfounded and speculative claim that doesn’t help his case. As president-elect, Trump would do better to refrain from commenting and continue to focus on choosing his team. If anything, this move by Hillary may cause Trump to re-evaluate whether or not to further investigate her3.

Another DNC Party Leader with Radical Racist and Islamist Roots?4

Debbie Wasserman Schultz was ousted as chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee earlier this year after allegations surfaced that she rigged the system in favor of Hillary Clinton. But whatever level of corruption she brought to the job could pale in comparison to the trouble her replacement frontrunner would bring to the table.

As we recently reported5, House Democrats, despite a disappointing performance on Nov. 8, appear unwilling to abandon their increasingly leftist views and, in fact, are doubling down: “Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison, a radical black Muslim member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, has launched a credible campaign to be the next DNC chair. Ellison launched his career as a member of the anti-Semitic Nation of Islam, and he’s a man who likened 9/11 to the Nazis' Reichstag fire — in other words, an inside job meant to create a pretext for going after Muslims. And Democrats are considering putting him in charge of the party.”

Even by some Democrat standards, Ellison is radical (although he’s a natural extension of Obama’s radical roots6). But a deeper look at his profile paints an even more alarming picture7. According to The Washington Free Beacon, “The House Ethics Committee opened an investigation into Rep. Keith Ellison (D., Minn.) after he failed to disclose that a group founded by members of the Muslim Brotherhood paid for him to make a pilgrimage to the Islamic holy site of Mecca in Saudi Arabia.”

The 2008 trip was paid for by the Muslim American Society, which the Beacon explains was “founded by Muslim Brotherhood members in 1993 to act as the ‘overt arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in the United States,’ according to federal prosecutors in 2007.” Make no mistake: Ellison is a dangerous man8. That Democrats are even considering him for a leadership role speaks volumes about where the party is and where it is going. And it’s not good. They evidently learned nothing on Election Day.

Team Trump’s Latest Additions9

South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley accepted Donald Trump’s appointment of ambassador to the United Nations. While some have questioned both Trump’s offer and Haley’s acceptance, it may best be described as a mutually beneficial agreement — or as Trump would say, a “good deal.” Haley is a rising star in the GOP and this appointment would give her more national notoriety. In other words, for the term-limited governor, this move is a logical next step for her career. For Trump, this move should be encouraging to those conservatives who are still hesitantly supportive, as this is yet another solid choice. It’s also a sign of his magnanimity after Haley’s thinly veiled criticism of Trump in her State of the Union rebuttal10.

Trump also tapped Betsy DeVos as his secretary of education. DeVos didn’t support Trump during the primaries, and said of him in July, “A lot of the things he has said are very off-putting and concerning.” She was also a delegate for Ohio Gov. John Kasich at the GOP convention. But she obviously warmed to Trump. DeVos, a former Michigan Republican Party chairwoman, has been a strong advocate for school choice for over 20 years, helping to push through Michigan’s charter school bill in 1993. Trump stated upon nominating her, “She is passionate about the prospect of making sure that every child in every family, regardless of their economic circumstances, has an opportunity to go to a good school.” Interestingly, she’s the mother of four children, none of whom attended public school.

With both appointments, Trump has shown the ability to look beyond past disagreements in order to find those he believes will be best for the job. This may be one of the strongest qualities he has displayed thus far.

BEST OF RIGHT OPINION

George Will: Fidel Castro and Dead Utopianism11
Peggy Noonan: No More Business as Usual, Mr. Trump12
Jeff Jacoby: Less Frank Costanza, More Mike Pence13

For more, visit Right Opinion14.

TOP HEADLINES

Dakota Pipeline Protesters' Camp to Close15
Black Couple Plotted to Start Race War16
Is a Major Awakening Brewing in France?17

For more, visit Patriot Headline Report18.

FEATURED RIGHT ANALYSIS
The Real Castro Legacy19

By Nate Jackson

Fidel Castro, who ruled Cuba for more than 57 years with an iron fist (notwithstanding his passing power to his brother Raul in 2008.), is likely finding his current accommodations a bit warmer than Cuba. But Barack Obama, who wields power as if he wishes to imitate the Cuban dictator, almost mourned the latter’s loss. After all, Obama has always gravitated toward20 radical Marxist mentors.

Pre-Castro, the U.S. and Cuba enjoyed friendly trade relations. Castro completely destroyed the island’s prosperity, though. The U.S. embargoed Cuba, seeking to isolate and starve the Castro regime, but Fidel found friends in the Soviet Union and Venezuela. After Castro seized power, John F. Kennedy launched the embarrassingly failed coup attempt at the Bay of Pigs, which led to the ensuing Cuban missile crisis involving the Soviets. Nuclear war was only narrowly avoided. Fast forward to 2014, and along comes Obama to normalize relations21 with Cuba. Perhaps that explains his statement.

“At this time of Fidel Castro’s passing,” Obama said in an official statement, “we extend a hand of friendship to the Cuban people. We know that this moment fills Cubans — in Cuba and in the United States — with powerful emotions, recalling the countless ways in which Fidel Castro altered the course of individual lives, families, and of the Cuban nation. History will record and judge the enormous impact of this singular figure on the people and world around him.”

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Worse, Obama said, “We offer condolences to Fidel Castro’s family.”

Aside from that last outrage, clearly, Obama’s statement was meant to be ambiguous. “Powerful emotions”? Yes, ignorant academics may shed a tear for Castro, but the people he brutally oppressed have somewhat different emotions. Castro “altered the course of individual lives”? Yes, if by “altered” Obama meant ended. “History will judge”? Yes, it will, but why wait for “history”? We already know the extent of Castro’s evil. We can judge him now, and have been judging him since he took over the Caribbean island in 1959.

As The Wall Street Journal briefly recaps22, “Castro took power on New Year’s Day in 1959 serenaded by the Western media for toppling dictator Fulgencio Batista and promising democracy. He soon revealed that his goal was to impose Communist rule. He exiled clergy, took over Catholic schools and expropriated businesses. Firing squads and dungeons eliminated rivals and dissenters. The terror produced a mass exodus.”

That exodus includes many Cubans in Miami, hundreds of whom took to the streets to celebrate Fidel’s demise. The refugees included the parents of U.S. Senator Marco Rubio. “Sadly,” Rubio said in a statement, “Fidel Castro’s death does not mean freedom for the Cuban people or justice for the democratic activists, religious leaders, and political opponents he and his brother have jailed and persecuted. The dictator has died, but the dictatorship has not.”

House Speaker Paul Ryan hoped for the death of that dictatorship: “Now that Fidel Castro is dead, the cruelty and oppression of his regime should die with him.”

Unsurprisingly, Donald Trump’s statement was also far more appropriate than Obama’s: “Today, the world marks the passing of a brutal dictator who oppressed his own people for nearly six decades. Fidel Castro’s legacy is one of firing squads, theft, unimaginable suffering, poverty and the denial of fundamental human rights.” Trump also noted that “Cuba remains a totalitarian island,” but that he is “absolutely” willing to undo Obama’s work to normalize relations with Cuba.

Obama wasn’t the only one offering foolish words, nor did he make the worst statement. Jimmy Carter wrote, “Rosalynn and I share our sympathies with the Castro family and the Cuban people on the death of Fidel Castro. We remember fondly our visits with him in Cuba and his love of his country.”

Castro “loved” his country by brutalizing it.

“In many ways,” pontificated Jesse Jackson, “after 1959, the oppressed the world over joined Castro’s cause of fighting for freedom & liberation — he changed the world. RIP.”

Castro only fought against freedom and liberation.

But Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau may have taken the cake: “ Fidel Castro was a larger than life leader who served his people for almost half a century. … While a controversial figure, both Mr. Castro’s supporters and detractors recognized his tremendous dedication and love for the Cuban people who had a deep and lasting affection for ‘el Comandante’. … We join the people of Cuba today in mourning the loss of this remarkable leader.”

Only after being challenged did Trudeau grudgingly acknowledge that, “yes,” Castro was a dictator and there were “concerns around human rights.”

Such pathetic paeans should be roundly condemned because whitewashing Castro’s true legacy23 is itself an appalling and immoral act. Yet there is hope. People around the world should take solace that even dictators are mortal. And while tyranny will continue to rear its ugly head — and it still lives in Havana — those who love Liberty will always be there to oppose it. Here’s to Liberty winning the day in Cuba.

MORE ANALYSIS FROM THE PATRIOT POST

The Leftmedia’s ‘Alt-Right,’ ‘Fake News’ Propaganda Campaign24 — Perhaps nothing tilted the 2016 election in Trump’s favor more than the media.
Obama Judge Halts Overtime Rule25 — The news just keeps getting worse for Democrats.
Unpatriotic America26 — College officials' attempt to placate irrationally irate students ends in failure and division.

OPINION IN BRIEF

Peggy Noonan: “For half a century Donald Trump has devoted all his professional energies to money, profit, the deal. That is how he thinks: It’s his deepest neural pathway. He’s a free-market capitalist who started with a lot and turned it into more. He created jobs, employs many. Good! But that’s his mind: money, profit, the deal. He has brought up his children to enter his business. Whatever else they do, they have surely absorbed the family ethos. And now, for the first time in his life, money, profit, the deal is not his job. He will be president of the United States. He can’t help the family business as president. He can’t help his children make a living as president. He has to be losing money as president and putting personal profit motives behind him. Which means putting the ways and habits of a lifetime behind him. Because he’s entered something much bigger: the presidency. History. The welfare of the republic. … It would be a painful act, selling the business he loves and around which he has ordered his life. But there would be comfort in this: In doing the right thing, in denying his opponents a sword, in enhancing his stature and demonstrating that yes, he will sacrifice for his country. That’s pretty great comfort. You’ve made your money. Now go be a patriot. That’s his job now, and it requires sacrifice.”

SHORT CUTS

The Gipper: “How do you tell a Communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin.”

For the record: “A silver lining to Castro’s long life is that he lived enough years to see the collapse of the Soviet Union, the end of communism in Eastern Europe, the discrediting of Marxism, China abandonment of communist economics if not statist brutality, and, depending on his mental acuity in his final years, the collapse of Venezuela. Even some countries that are still communist, like Vietnam, the streets showcase American icons like McDonalds, Subway, Starbucks, and Kentucky Fried Chicken. Commandantes may rule the closed systems, but Colonel Sanders conquers the free market. The last 30 years of Castro’s life were a thorough global comeuppance for his philosophy and worldview.” —Jim Geraghty

Braying Jenny: “Let’s remember Hillary Clinton won the popular vote. We actually won the hearts and minds of a majority of voters.” —Debbie Wasserman Schultz

That’s racist! “In my opinion we don’t need white people leading the Democratic party right now. The Democratic party is diverse, and it should be reflected as so in leadership.” —Symone Sanders, former spokeswoman for the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign

Non Compos Mentis: “Most oppressed people are celebrating the life of a liberator who fought and won against the rich and oligarchic rule of Batista. … Why should we celebrate the life of a freedom fighter? President Castro helped to free Mandela in South Africa. Upon his release he went to Cuba to say thank you. Castro stopped South African apartheid expansion into Namibia and Angola, which protected American interests. … In many ways, after 1959, the oppressed, the world over, joined Castro’s cause of fighting for freedom & liberation.” —Jesse Jackson

And last… “Fidel Castro was a freedom fighter — if he found freedom anywhere in his country, he fought it.” —Frank Fleming

Semper Vigilans Fortis Paratus et Fidelis!
Managing Editor Nate Jackson

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