Quick: name a single institution whose credibility has survived the past eight years?

I was reflecting this morning that the past eight years have seen the complete destruction of the credibility of the nation’s major institutions: education, science, health,

The Associated Press report of these pardons reads like a page from the left’s propaganda machine. Reporters Colleen Long and Zeke Miller write, “The decision by Biden comes after Donald Trump warned of an enemies list filled with those who have crossed him politically or sought to hold him accountable for his attempt to overturn his 2020 election loss and his role in the storming of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Trump has selected Cabinet nominees who backed his election lies and who have pledged to punish those involved in efforts to investigate him.”

Interestingly enough, Long and Miller also acknowledge that what Biden has done with his pardons falls far outside convention.

“It’s customary for a president to grant clemency at the end of his term, but those acts of mercy are usually offered to everyday Americans who have been convicted of crimes,” they write. “But Biden has used the power in the broadest and most untested way possible: to pardon those who have not even been investigated yet.”

…“Biden, an institutionalist, has promised a smooth transition to the next administration, inviting Trump to the White House and saying that the nation will be OK, even as he warned during his farewell address of a growing oligarchy”. …. “He has spent years warning that Trump’s ascension to the presidency again would be a threat to democracy. His decision to break with political norms with the preemptive pardons was brought on by those concerns.”

An “institutionalist”, eh? What institution is that? The Biden crime syndicate? The Democrat Party? Certainly not democracy, or the principle of the rule of law, both of which he sacrificed to preserve his skin and satisfy his malicious lust for revenge.

institutionalism

noun

1: emphasis on organization (as in religion) at the expense of other factors