December 7, 2024
“Remember the Alamo” was the battle cry of the visionary rebel forces in the battle for Texas independence. It was inspired by the acts of valor of a group of rebels holed up in the Alamo, a former mission converted into a fort, in February 1836 during their drive for independence from Mexico. Facing an assault by Mexican troops led by the legendary General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, a former president of Mexico, intent on putting down the rebellion, this small rebel force of less than 200 men refused General Santa Anna’s order to surrender. Despite overwhelmingly unfavorable odds in manpower and equipment, they vowed to fight on. To victory or death. Against all odds, these besieged American and Tejano rebels held off the much larger Mexican army for thirteen days. The battle ended when the Mexican army stormed the Alamo, and killed the rebels on March 6, 1836. Their inspiring last stand encouraged other revolutionaries to fight on, and, using the memory of the Alamo to fuel their ire, rebel forces led by General Sam Houston defeated General Santa Anna’s army a month later at the Battle of San Jacinto. This victory secured independence from Mexico and the creation of the Republic of Texas. The republic was annexed by the United States and admitted to the union as the 28th state in 1845. 179 years on, this former republic has become one of the most significant states in the United States of America.
Today, at this critical hour in our nation’s political history, American patriots face similarly insurmountable odds in their nascent revolution to restore limited government as enshrined in our Constitution by the Founding Fathers and as rediscovered by the American people in the 1980s through the outstanding leadership of the great American president, Ronald Reagan. The opposing forces today, unlike the Mexican army of 1836, do not use muskets and cannons. Their weapons, insidious and much harder to detect, are lies and innuendos, the stuff of an odious character foreign to Americans but which has pervaded America for over a century. Their specialty: grotesque character assassination to smear and embarrass their victim, to cause loss of public support and compel the victim to quit or, if that fails, compel the person who nominated the victim to withdraw the nomination.
They have co-opted the press for this and other repugnant and wicked purposes. Through the co-opted press, they publish stories after stories containing anonymous allegations, fabrications, lies, half-truths, and innuendoes to tar the victim, hurt his morale, and weaken the resolve of his supporters. Next, they publish stories based on off-the-record interviews they claim to have had with senators, particularly from the nominee’s parties, who they claim told them that they will not support the nomination. Their aim is to convince the nominee that his nomination will fail in the Senate and that he should save himself such embarrassment by quitting before the vote. A secondary aim is to convince senators who support the nominee to withdraw their support in view of the nominee’s alleged lack of support among the senators’ peers. The pressure such an onslaught brings upon the victim, the nominating president, the voting senators is much more than most nominees can bear. It is usually sufficient to convince the nominee to withdraw. These dark forces, always proclaiming freedom of the press, have no conscience. They have demonstrated that they will stop at nothing to gain and maintain power; they will destroy anyone they perceive as a threat to their power, as we have seen with former and future President Donald J. Trump in the last eight years and with North Carolina Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson during his campaign for governor in 2024.
One of the most disgusting recent examples of their treachery involves the man whose miraculous survival, against all odds, inspires our battle cry today: “Remember Brett Kavanaugh.” His takedown through one of those orchestrated character assassinations is among the most grotesque and vile acts we have seen in recent memory. That he survived it, and has gone on to serve honorably on the Supreme Court, is a testament to his own fortitude, his faith in our Lord Savior, and the fortitude of President Donald J. Trump, the man who nominated him to the court and stood by him in his darkest hour.
On July 9, 2018 Brett Michael Kavanaugh was nominated by President Trump to replace the retiring justice Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court. Convinced that President Trump was making good on his campaign promise that if any seats became open on the Supreme Court during his presidency, he would appoint conservative, limited government, jurists to fill them, the dark forces set about to sink Mr. Kavanaugh’s nomination. Although, Mr. Kennedy had been nominated to the court by the father of modern American conservatism, President Reagan, his jurisprudence on the court did not always align with the limited government principles of President Reagan. So much so that the dark forces came to see him as an ally. Mr. Kavanaugh, on the other hand, had been appointed to his then-current job on the court of appeals by President George W. Bush, a conservative Texan who fancied himself the heir of Ronald Reagan. Mr. Kavanaugh was suspected to be solidly conservative, a textualist in the mold of Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, two of the most conservative giants to have ever served on the Supreme Court. The dark forces believed Mr. Kavanaugh would upset the balance on the court and threaten their power. Everything had to be done, in their view, to destroy him. If their grotesque character assassination failed to convince Mr. Kavanaugh to withdraw or compel President Trump to pull the nomination, the dark forces would mount a pressure campaign on the Senate to intimidate all Democrats and enough Republicans to vote against the nomination to sink it.
Mr. Kavanaugh’s qualification were impeccable, particularly in view of the standard by which the qualification of Supreme Court nominees are judged today. He attended Yale for both his undergraduate and law degrees; he clerked at the Supreme Court for the justice he was nominated to succeed, and he had held coveted positions in the federal government, at both the Department of Justice and the White House. His family life was the model to which many Americans aspire; he was married to his first and only wife, and they had two daughters. By all accounts, he was a doting father who spent time with his daughters. He coached both daughters’ basketball teams and was involved in the community. Moreover, many of the law clerks he had hired throughout his judgeship on the court of appeals were women and they reportedly admired him.
By what means could such a man be disqualified? It became evident early on that Mr. Kavanaugh could not be defeated on the merits. The dark forces, enemies of liberty, resorted to that old, odious, foreign, dark art of character assassination at which they are best. Salacious rumors began to circulate that an anonymous woman had sent a letter to a Democrat member of the Judiciary Committee, which was considering the nomination, claiming that Mr. Kavanaugh had assaulted her at a party thirty-six years earlier when they were both teenagers. When Mr. Kavanaugh was confronted with this grotesque allegation, he vehemently denied it and demanded a public hearing and an investigation by the FBI or another law enforcement agency.
But, these rumors are most lethal when the victim does not have an opportunity to defend himself. That requires spreading them on or near a weekend to allow them to catch fire over the weekend while the co-opted press has few, if any, good stories to on which to report. So it was for Mr. Kavanaugh the weekend of September 7. For days afterward, a picture of a woman in a wet suit and sunglasses was flaunted in the news as Mr. Kavanaugh’s accuser. Her name was not released, and she could not be readily identified. No one could question her or her story. The stain of her disgusting allegation was allowed to settle on Mr. Kavanaugh. As intended, the rumors caught like wild fire and, soon, Mr. Kavanaugh’s nomination was in peril. Through the co-opted press, the dark forces turned up the heat on Mr. Kavanaugh, mounting a pressure campaign on Republican senators to convince them that the nomination was not sustainable. Two Republican Senators that the dark forces believed they could win over with the least difficulty, Senator Susan Collins of Maine and Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, were among the first targets.
Republican senators, apparently untrained in this dark art, began to waiver in their support for Mr. Kavanaugh. Mr. Kavanaugh refused to yield. The dark forces upped the ante; several more women came forward with similar stories, claiming Mr. Kavanaugh had assaulted them at parties. The stories were as incredulous and repugnant as they were farcical. At least one of those accusers, when questioned by the Committee, admitted she had fabricated her allegations to “get attention.” She was in fact a left-wing activist much older than Mr. Kavanaugh; she conceded she did not know Mr. Kavanaugh.[1] None of it mattered, the putrid stench of the allegations remained.
The Judiciary Committee held public hearings to consider the nomination and decide whether there was enough votes to move it forward to the full Senate. If a majority of the committee does not vote to advance the nomination, it is dead. If the nomination advances to the full Senate but does not receive a majority of the Senators voting, it is dead. As expected at the hearing, Mr. Kavanaugh demonstrated his competence. Like Justice Neil Gorsuch at his own hearing the year before, Mr. Kavanaugh answered some questions in detail but was otherwise vague on the hot button issues that tended to trip nominees. He was unflappable.
The Committee next turned to the questions about Mr. Kavanaugh’s character. The last day of public hearings was reserved for questioning Mr. Kavanaugh and Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, a psychology professor whose name had now been released by the press as Mr. Kavanaugh’s initial accuser. At the hearing, for the first time since the accusations surfaced, the nation got a glimpse of Dr. Ford. She looked nothing like the picture of the woman in the wet suit that the co-opted press had flaunted in the preceding days. Much of her story defied logic. Why did she fail to tell anyone or come forward in the preceding thirty-six years? She conveniently claimed she had told her husband. Good luck getting to the truth there. Mr. Kavanaugh had worked in prominent positions at the White House and the Department of Justice and had undergone thorough background investigations and sat through public hearings in connection with his nomination to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit whence a number of Supreme Court justices hailed. It was an open secret that he could move up to the Supreme Court from there. Why had she not come forward then? No explanation was given.
Worse still, Dr. Ford conveniently could not recall at whose house the alleged party was held, the general location of the house, or how she got there. She produced the name of four people that she claimed attended the party, one of them a friend of hers. All four people said they do not recall any such party. More embarrassingly, one of them, Dr. Ford’s friend, testified under oath that she had been pressured to corroborate Dr. Ford’s story (by whom she did not say) but that, in fact, she did not attend any such party and she does not know Mr. Kavanaugh. Under normal circumstances, that would end the matter. But these are not normal circumstances. Not with the co-opted press in America the reporters and news figures of which immediately following Dr. Ford’s incredible testimony labeled Dr. Ford “credible.” And not with the dark forces who are committed to do anything for power, no matter how dirty or immoral.
With his nomination severely weakened and in danger of failing, Mr. Kavanaugh reportedly was urged by President Trump to fight for his nomination, demonstrate to the Senate that he was not going to quit, and convince the American people that he did not do that for which he stood accused. He knew he had to make a last stand to defend his good name. Later in the afternoon when his turn at last came, he came out fighting. Tarred, embarrassed and, at times, tearful, he denounced the sham that had become the nomination process and admonished the Democrat senators for participating in the dark art. He pushed back against those who had attempted to sully his good name and force his withdrawal. His irreverent opening remarks and testimony earned him the public support of Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina who chastised his Democrat colleagues.[2] Mr. Kavanaugh began his opening remarks as follows:
“Less than two weeks ago, Dr. Ford publicly accused me of committing wrongdoing at an event more than 36 years ago when we were both in high school. I denied the allegation immediately, categorically and unequivocally. All four people allegedly at the event, including Dr. Ford’s longtime friend, Ms. Keyser, have said they recall no such event. Her longtime friend, Ms. Keyser, said under penalty of felony that she does not know me and does not believe she ever saw me at a party ever. Here’s the quote from Ms. Keyser’s attorney’s letter. “Simply put, Ms. Keyser does not know Mr. Kavanaugh and she has no recollection of ever being at a party or gathering where he was present with or without Dr. Ford.” Think about that fact.
The day after the allegation appeared, I told this committee that I wanted a hearing as soon as possible to clear my name. I demanded a hearing for the very next day. Unfortunately, it took the committee 10 days to get to this hearing. In those 10 long days, as was predictable and as I predicted, my family and my name have been totally and permanently destroyed by vicious and false additional accusations. The 10-day delay has been harmful to me and my family, to the Supreme Court and to the country. When this allegation first arose, I welcomed any kind of investigation. Senate, F.B.I. or otherwise. The committee now has conducted a thorough investigation, and I’ve cooperated fully.
I know that any kind of investigation, Senate, F.B.I., Montgomery County police, whatever will clear me. Listen to the people I know. Listen to the people that have known me my whole life. Listen to the people that I’ve grown up with and worked with and played with and coached with and dated and taught and gone to games with and had beers with. And listen to the witnesses who allegedly were at this event 36 years ago. Listen to Ms. Keyser. She does not know me. I was not at the party described by Dr. Ford. This confirmation process has become a national disgrace. The Constitution gives the Senate an important role in the confirmation process. But you have replaced “advice and consent” with “search and destroy.”
Since my nomination in July, there’s been a frenzy on the left to come up with something, anything to block my confirmation. Shortly after I was nominated, the Democratic Senate leader said he would “oppose me with everything he’s got.” A Democratic senator on this committee publicly referred to me as evil. Evil. Think about that word. And said that those that supported me were “complicit and evil.” Another Democratic senator on this committee said, “Judge Kavanaugh is your worst nightmare.” A former head of the Democratic National Committee said, “Judge Kavanaugh will threaten the lives of millions of Americans for decades to come.”
I understand the passions of the moment. But I would say to those senators: Your words have meaning. Millions of Americans listened carefully to you. Given comments like those, is it any surprise that people have been willing to do anything to make any physical threat against my family? To send any violent email to my wife, to make any kind of allegation against me, and against my friends, to blow me up and take me down.
You sowed the wind for decades to come. I fear that the whole country will reap the whirlwinds. The behavior of several of the Democratic members of this committee at my hearing a few weeks ago was an embarrassment. But at least it was just a good old-fashioned attempt at Borking. Those efforts didn’t work.
When I did at least O.K. enough at the hearings that it looks like I might actually get confirmed, a new tactic was needed. Some of you were lying in wait and had it ready. This first allegation was held in secret for weeks by a Democratic member of this committee and by staff. It would be needed only if you couldn’t take me out on the merits. When it was needed, this allegation was unleashed and publicly deployed over Dr. Ford’s wishes.
And then, and then, as no doubt was expected, if not planned, came a long series of false last-minute smears designed to scare me and drive me out of the process before any hearing occurred. Crazy stuff. Gangs, illegitimate children, fights on boats in Rhode Island. All nonsense. Reported breathlessly and often uncritically by the media. This has destroyed my family and my good name. A good name built up through decades of very hard work and public service at the highest levels of the American government.
This whole two-week effort has been a calculated and orchestrated political hit, fueled with apparent pent-up anger about President Trump and the 2016 election, fear that has been unfairly stoked about my judicial record, revenge on behalf of the Clintons and millions of dollars in money from outside left-wing opposition groups.
This is a circus. The consequences will extend long past my nomination. The consequences will be with us for decades. This grotesque and coordinated character assassination will dissuade confident and good people of all political persuasions from serving our country. And as we all know in the United States political system of the early 2000s, what goes around comes around.”[3]
Mr. Kavanaugh’s opening statement is too lengthy to reprint here, but his description of events is sufficient to allow all to see how the dark art of sinking a nomination or candidacy for public office works in practice. Even if our memory of these events six years ago fails, one only has to look at the work of these dark forces against Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson in 2024 and against President Trump today and over the last eight years to see how disgusting, insidious, and wicked they are. The Consul Regent has discussed the smear campaign against Mr. Robinson at length in his treatise, The Lynching of Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson.[4] But it is worth reviewing the smear campaign against President Trump which began during his first run for President in 2016 and continues today.
In 2016, seeing Mr. Trump’s campaign for President of the United States as a threat to their power, the dark forces set out to delegitimize and destroy him. Initially, they had laughed at his candidacy, believing that Americans would not take him seriously. But, after he won the Republican nomination for president, the dark forces went into serious attack mode. First, they smeared him as a womanizer, a serial cheater. Stories from the 1980s and 1990s about his extramarital affairs were retold repeatedly to cast doubt on his character and honesty. When Mr. Trump nonetheless continued to rise in the polls, the enemies of liberty strengthened their assault. They labeled him a racist; they published countless stories through the co-opted press detailing how his father, Fred Trump, discriminated against black people by refusing to rent to them as he built his real estate empire in Queens (New York). The alleged sins of the father, false or not, were being hung squarely around the neck of the son.
None of this eroded Mr. Trump’s support with voters. Harsher measures had to be conceived, in the estimation of the dark forces. They searched through their archives and beseeched their allies to search through theirs in hope of discovering anything they could use to sink Mr. Trump’s candidacy.
As experienced predators, they lie in wait. On October 7, 2016, one month before the presidential election, a time they deemed ideally suited for maximum damage, they released what became known as the Access Hollywood tapes, a video recording of Mr. Trump and a television host having a lewd conversation about women eleven years earlier.[5] As is typical of this dark art, the damaging information is released on or near a weekend, often on a Friday afternoon when the main news reporters and media personalities are getting away for the weekend. The weekend release deprives the victim of the ability to defend himself. The weekend news desks, with few newsworthy stories to feature work themselves into a frenzy, feeding on the damaging information. By the time the Sunday morning news programs are broadcasted, the candidacy of the victim becomes untenable. So it was for Mr. Trump the weekend of October 7, 2016.
Reactions to the Access Hollywood Tapes were swift. Prominent Americans, Democrats and Republicans alike, denounced Mr. Trump’s comments; some called on him to withdraw from the presidential race. Discussions were had in Republican circles about how to move forward with the presidential election without Mr. Trump. Mr. Trump was on the ropes.
The dark forces thought themselves victorious. They did not realize the extent of Mr. Trump’s resilience or his media handling skills. He did what few candidates in his position could do; he used the weekend press’s appetite for scoops, exclusive stories, to his advantage: he went into damage control and took charge of the narrative during the weekend and did not allow the story to catch fire over the weekend as normally occurs. On Saturday, October 8, before the Sunday news programs could put the final nail in his coffin, he released a video apologizing for his comments, which he termed “locker room banter,” and contrasted them to actual allegations of sexual misconduct by several women against the Democrat nominee’s husband, former President Bill Clinton. He astutely reasoned that no reasonable person would think mere words more harmful than actual, potentially-criminal, deeds. With this move, Mr. Trump had taken the wind out of the sail of the dark forces. A month later, he was elected the 45th President of the United States, shocking the media establishment and the world.
But, as aforesaid, the dark forces are loath to admit defeat. Borrowing a page from Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan who had organized the “Million Men’s March on Washington” in 1995, they organized and publicized through the co-opted press their own march on Washington, which they called “Women’s March on Washington.” They scheduled it for January 21, 2017, less than a day after President Trump’s inauguration. No other president had been similarly treated before they had a chance to govern. The stated purpose of the march was to protest Mr. Trump’s policy positions which they said they saw as misogynistic and a threat to women’s rights. Never mind that Mr. Trump was not yet in office at the time the march was organized, and he had not issued any formal policy positions. But, one must not let facts get in the way of these narratives. With their near total control of the media, the dark forces created one scandal after another for President Trump’s Administration, engulfing his presidency with chaos and investigation. Within months, he was alleged to have colluded with Russia to win the presidency, a false and dastardly allegation advanced to delegitimize him. The origin of the story, which gave rise to wiretapping of officials and aides close to President Trump and a full-blown FBI and special counsel investigation, was the campaign of the woman President Trump had defeated in the 2016 presidential election. As we later learned, the whole Russia collusion story was fabricated. But tens of millions of dollars of taxpayer money was spent investigating it.
Even after they succeeded in denying him a second consecutive term and kicking him out of office in 2020, they continually demanded that he be investigated and prosecuted. Mr. Trump’s persecution has been discussed at length by the Consul Regent in his treatise, Democrats’ Resistance to the Will of the American People.[6] We must never forget how badly the dark forces have assassinated his character and the fortitude he has demonstrated to overcome these dark forces and, last month, win a second term as President of the United States.
Remember Brett Kavanaugh. The Consul Regent has been thinking of this battle cry lately as we see this foreign dark art in practice again today by the enemies of liberty seeking to sink the nomination of President Trump’s nominees for his cabinet. Everyday the co-opted press publishes stories after stories attacking the qualification of the candidates and their character. Rumors are circulated about one perceived character flaw after another in each of these candidates. It seems that Republicans have forgotten that these nominees are not being attacked because of themselves but because they have been chosen by President Trump. The dark forces do not admit defeat; they could not sink President Trump’s campaign despite labeling him a racist, a misogynist, a demagogue, a threat to democracy, a strongman, unhinged, unfit to serve, unfit to set foot in the White House. It is clear that the dark forces, simply, are continuing the fight against Mr. Trump by other means; in other words, through his cabinet picks. To defeat his nominees is to defeat him. Republican senators must understand that and support the nominees publicly to demonstrate their own support for President Trump. Any Republican senator who threatens to vote against or who votes against a President Trump nominee effectively is on the side of the dark forces and against President Trump.
These enemies of liberty will continue to practice their dark art as long as they get positive results. It is up to each and every Republican senator to deny them any positive result. Disappointingly, they have already succeeded in forcing former Congressman Matt Gaetz to quit after the President had announced his intent to nominate him for Attorney General of the United States. As the Consul Regent foresaw, the dark forces will not stop at one nominee. No sooner than they had forced Mr. Gaetz’s withdrawal, they turned their fire on Pete Hegseth, President Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Defense, circulating one salacious rumor after another in an attempt to force him to withdraw. Suddenly, as if on cue, the co-opted press has published stories of an anonymous former female colleague of Mr. Hegseth who alleges that Mr. Hegseth groped her buttocks while they were out drinking. The co-opted press tells us that the accuser does not want to be named for fear of retribution. What honest and fair-minded person believes it is fair to assassinate someone’s character anonymously with lies, half-truths, and innuendos? As can be seen in all such smear campaigns, the stories multiply, almost entirely with anonymous sources and sources who want to “get attention.” Their aim, as it was for President Trump, for Mr. Kavanaugh, and for Lieutenant Governor Robinson, is to drown the nomination in scandal to force the nominee or candidate to quit.
The enemies of liberty, in coordination with the co-opted press, have similarly focused on Kash Patel, President Trump’s nominee for FBI Director. They have also attacked Robert Kennedy Jr., former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, and, to a degree, Pam Bondi, President Trump’s nominee for Attorney General following Mr. Gaetz’s withdrawal. The list of smear targets goes on and on. Let us hope that Mr. Hegseth, Mr. Patel, Ms. Gabbard, Mr. Kennedy, Ms. Bondi, and all of the smeared nominees remember Brett Kavanaugh. Let us hope that, like Justice Kavanaugh, they fight like hell to save their respective nomination and give Mr. Trump the administration he promised the American people during his presidential campaign and which the American people voted for him to have.
Mr. Hegseth, Mr. Patel, Mr. Kennedy, Ms. Gabbard, and all of the other nominees being maligned by the dark forces and the co-opted press must draw from the spirit of President Trump, pump their fist in the air, as Mr. Trump did after an assassin’s bullet nearly took his life in a field in Butler Pennsylvania, and shout: “Never surrender! Never give up!”
Correspondingly, President Trump must come out and forcefully deny those news stories citing anonymous sources close to him which claim that he is preparing to name a new nominee if a certain nominee should quit. Such stories were circulated with damaging effects when Matt Gaetz was the nominee for Attorney General and they are being circulated again today in connection with Mr. Hegseth’s nomination. If President Trump does not forcefully denounce such stories, he is helping his enemies destroy his presidency and his agenda before they even begin. The President’s show of support for Mr. Hegseth in his interview with NBC News today is a great start.
Republican senators also must denounce those stories in the press attributed to them anonymously which claim that such and such nominee does not have their support. Let us hope that all Republican senators recognize that they have won a majority in the Senate because the American people saw it fit to give President Trump a congressional majority to advance his mandate. Armed with that recognition, let us hope that Republican senators stand firm with President Trump and ALL of his nominees and deny the dark forces the results they seek. There can be no daylight between the Republican-led Senate and President Trump. The forces of liberty cannot afford to give an inch.
Remember Brett Kavanaugh!
-The Consul Regent
[1] https://www.yahoo.com/news/kavanaugh-accuser-admits-she-fabricated-184414094.html
[2] In all of his years of public service, Senator Graham’s defense of Mr. Kavanaugh was his finest hour. He was responsible for shutting down the spectacle that was Mr. Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing.
[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/26/us/politics/read-brett-kavanaughs-complete-opening-statement.html
[4] : https://theconsulregent.org/2024/09/22/the-lynching-of-lieutenant-governor-mark-robinson/
[5] The dark forces even have a name for the timing of such an ambush, an “October surprise.” So named because such releases cause loss of support so close to the election that the candidate, the victim of such an ambush, does not have time to recover and consequently lose the election.
[6] https://theconsulregent.org/2024/11/28/democrats-resistance-to-the-will-of-the-american-people/
The Consul Regent 