Motus Mentis

We’re in Hong Kong now, thirteen hours ahead of Eastern time, so I was only able to check in on events a little after the fact — but wow, what a day for America.

Pardons for J6 political prisoners! Sealing the border! Withdrawals from the Paris boondoggle, and from the WHO! Federal hiring freeze! An end to birthright citizenship! Remain-in-Mexico reinstated! Two sexes again! DEI abolished in all government agencies and policies! No more “catch and release”! Banning government censorship! A moratorium, pending review, on all foreign aid! Drilling for oil! Reversal of military vaccine-mandate firings! And so much more.

Meanwhile, Joe Biden, on his way out the door, disgraced himself by issuing a bundle of “pre-emptive” pardons to, among others, the J6 committee, Mark Milley, his own family, and, worst of all, the monstrous Anthony Fauci, who arguably has the blood of thousands, or even millions, on his hands. (In a just society, many of those pardoned would rightly be facing the gallows — or, depending on the mood of the people, tumbrels and lamp-posts.)

As bad as these pardons are, though, there are at least two good ways forward:

1. Grill those pardoned over hot coals in Congressional investigations, knowing they can’t invoke the 5th;

2. Indict them all anyway, which would force those thus charged to appeal their cases to SCOTUS. (There’s a very good chance the whole idea of “pre-emptive pardons” would be discarded by this Court — which would do future generations of Americans a favor.)

Obviously, we should all keep in mind that these are just the giddy early moments of what’s sure to be a long slog back to the “broad sunlit uplands” — if we can even manage to get there at all. As bracing as it is to see the enemy in utter disarray and driven before us, we should remember that the Left, like Entropy itself, never surrenders, and never sleeps. There will be court challenges to everything Mr. Trump has just done, and stubborn resistance at every level to the very idea that America is a nation worthy of patriotic enthusiasm and a return to greatness. But for now, while we have the wind at our backs, there’s no reason we shouldn’t all give a cheer, raise a glass to the sudden prospect of better times, and savor this delightful moment.