American Leftists have lied about President Trump and his supporters for so long that they are utterly bereft. How will they make it through the new year? Will they proceed through the steps of grief and finally accept that they were in error and outside the bounds of rationality or will they get stuck in anger—the second stage of grief?¹

For some the stage of bargaining has begun already. They are insisting that we, Trump and the MAGA movement, we who insist on the precepts of the Constitution and rule of law, treat our Leftists better than they ever treated Trump or us.

Remember how they projected their anti-American rage on all conservatives? How can we forget that the anti-Americans in control of our federal police apparatus and the Department of Defense (DOD) used taxpayer dollars to create lies about then-candidate Trump, then spread those lies through illegal leaks using the anti-American media? 

There was the Russia Hoax. But “hoax” makes it sound like a joke. Something funny. But there wasn’t anything funny about it. It was an illegal use of American assets and taxpayer money to target a political candidate for destruction. Who has been held accountable? None of the players.

How about the Office of Net Assessment (ONA) at the DOD giving $1 million to a guy named Stefan Halper? ONA couldn’t provide the documentation supporting the payment to Halper or clearly explain what Halper did for that $1 million. The Inspector General investigated and found that Halper was somebody’s cutout. Oh yeah, this is the same guy the FBI used to spy on Carter Page and George Papadopoulos in 2016.²

The anti-American Leftists want us to forget about their crimes and misdeeds, such as labeling the events of January 6, 2021, an insurrection, led by President Trump. Odd, isn’t it, that no one has been charged or convicted of insurrection in the Department of Justice’s largest manhunt in history. 

Trump, whom the anti-American Left and its media gang continue to label an insurrectionist, was the one who had the National Guard standby to help keep the peace on January 6. But D.C. Mayor Bowser and Capitol Police and then-Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, specifically indicated that they did not want the National Guard at the Capitol or the Mall. Who called for peace? President Trump. Who was more concerned about the optics? The anti-American Leftists, of whom Pelosi is one.

Is it hard to forget demented former President Biden standing in front of Independence Hall, with hellish lighting, calling Trump and his supporters insurrectionists and white supremacists? Or, Secretary for Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas’s bogus claims that domestic terrorism is the number one threat to America, while letting millions of illegal aliens cross our border, bringing criminals and terrorists with them?

But, the bargaining stage of grief has set in. The anti-American Left wants us to forget about the past eight years of incessant gaslighting, abuse of process (see J6 prosecutions, wrongful isolated detentions, FACE Act prosecutions), and their promise to stop the mandate given to Trump and Congress by the voters. A la Rodney King, the Left wants us all to “just get along.”

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But for political equilibrium to be restored in America, those who have done wrong, who have violated the law (i.e., the Congressional J6 Committee that suborned perjury, doctored evidence, and suppressed exculpatory evidence), must be held accountable. That is the only way to restore the rule of law. 

In order to have freedom, you must have the rule of law. The rule of law prevents bullies from overwhelming the weak. It preserves equal treatment before the law.

And, if the anti-American Left is grieving because of the electoral beating that they took in November, it might be possible that there is some residual desire for justice on the Right. 

Accountability might just help the anti-American Left finally come to acceptance, the final stage of grief.

¹https://www.healthline.com/health/stages-of-grief#how-many-stages

²Patel, Kash Pramod. Government Gangsters: The Deep State, the Truth, and the Battle for Our Democracy. Post Hill Press, New York. 2023.

Congressman Andy Biggs is an American attorney and politician who represents Arizona's 5th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives.