Scott Jennings, aka the voice of reason on CNN, managed to extract a damning admission from one of the network’s analysts on Tuesday night. Appearing at a roundtable during Abby Phillip’s show, the conservative commentator faced off against former Watergate prosecutor Nick Akerman.
What was said by the latter was stunning, not insofar as it is a revelation (we already know what Democrats think of American voters) but that someone would be brazen enough to say it out loud. Here’s how Jennings set things up.
JENNINGS: Here’s what I think is a joke, that you have these partisan hack Democrat attorney generals, they get together, and the only thing they know how to do is try to nullify the results of the last election by venue-shopping these district court judges. They find the most lunatic liberals they can. They file lawsuits knowing full well they’re going to try to usurp the president’s authority, tie this up in court for years…
Akerman then responded by describing the bureaucratic state as “sacrosanct.”
AKERMAN: That stuff is sacrosanct, and you’ve got people going in there who don’t know anything about…(crosstalk)…Elon Musk doing this, he knows nothing about it.
The word “sacrosanct” means something is too important to be interfered with. In other words, a former government hanger-on believes that bureaucracies are simply above being controlled and reformed by pesky elected officials. They are, in effect, an untouchable fourth branch of government.
It only got worse from there because Akerman then said the following.
JENNINGS: What you just said is so profound. You said these people don’t know anything and they don’t know what they’re doing.
AKERMAN: That’s right. I’m talking about Elon Musk.
JENNINGS: I understand, but they are appointees of the duly elected president so you’re view, you’re hear as our legal expert, but your view is because you don’t personally believe they know enough, that the duly-elected president who appointed a treasury secretary and who appoints special appointees like Elon Musk shouldn’t be able to act as the president because you don’t personally believe they know enough? Is that how it works? Do elections mean anything to you?
AKERMAN: It’s got nothing to do with elections.
That last line is the money quote that perfectly illustrates the left wing of democratic governance. While they love to toss around the word “democracy” while pretending they are defenders of it, they do not believe in representative government. What they believe in is an unaccountable bureaucratic system that allows them to thumb their noses at American voters. It’s a “heads I win, tales you lose” setup, and it has been the basis of Democratic Party power stretching back to the Woodrow Wilson era.
Akerman and those like him truly believe their grip on power has “nothing to do with elections.” They want to be able to dictate their policy wants regardless of who wins. It is a tyrannical mindset wrapped up in a high-minded facade. It’s also abject nonsense in a technical sense. How efficient has the government been being run by those Akerman would call qualified? How effective has been managing your taxpayer money? Meaningless credentialism is how the nation ended up with a bureaucratic system that wouldn’t last five minutes in the private sector without major reforms or outright dismissal.
Democrats can continue their lawfare games if they’d like, but all it’s doing is postponing the inevitable while continuing to turn Americans against them.
