The 47th President of the United States was inaugurated yesterday in the nation’s capital. The often-used phrase of the peaceful transfer of power indeed occurred. However, in the wake of the transfer, eyebrows were raised when the former president, under the cloak of darkness, used his power to pardon his family and political friends. Most notably, Biden pardoned all his family members involved in the unethical deals between countries in a pay-for-play scheme. Although Biden vehemently denied his pardon was an acknowledgment of guilt, most people do not believe him.
Besides his family, Biden included Anthony Fauci and General Mark Milly, the members of the Select Committee on the January 6th investigation, as part of his last-minute pardons. All those pardoned were questionable characters who did Biden’s bidding, and they will never face the consequences of their actions. Biden left office the way he came in, a man who used his office to enrich himself and protect his political allies. What most people don’t know is the reckless use of pardons has shot the whole Democratic Party in the foot, possibly taking years to forget.
With the changing of the guard, all is now in the regrettably past. Instead of pardoning his political allies and family members, President Trump used his power to let go over 1500 of those arrested under the guise of the insurrection of January 6th. While giving pardons to those arrested for protesting in Washington, Trump said what everyone knows. Those Antifa who protested in Seattle and Portland during the summer of 2020 were never brought up on any charges, even though they caused much chaos and damage. Hopefully, the country will finally turn the page on January 6th.
The guard’s change was also evident in Trump’s words during his inaugural address. After three years, when the Biden Administration painstakingly kept God out of all its communication and rhetoric, Trump can again use the name of God and religion often in the public square. Bringing religion back without the fear of reprisal is liberating in itself when coupled with a promise of free speech defended by the new administration.
The new sheriff comes with sanity. President Trump vowed that the Federal government’s power would only recognize two genders: male and female. Citizens, under penalty of law, will no longer have to use pronouns that are never intended to describe a human person, let alone his or her gender.
Trump continued to outline the country’s return by vowing that the use of lawfare against political opponents would never happen again. He told the crowd in the Rotunda of the Capital that there has never been a president more persecuted than himself in our history. And there was a good reason. Society revered past leaders, but Biden blew up that tradition.
One of the biggest challenges of a free society is keeping the legal system free of corruption and manipulation. The blind Lady of Justice is not a modern theme but an ancient teaching from the scripture. “I charged your judges at that time, ‘Listen to complaints among your relatives, and administer true justice to both parties even if one of them is a resident alien. In rendering judgment, do not consider who a person is; give ear to the lowly and to the great alike, fearing no one, for the judgment is God’s.”
This will be Trump’s most significant challenge because strewn across the country are judges who have been so politicized that they have taken on the “God complex” by ignoring tradition and law and independently ruling as if they are the arbiters of justice. The new administration should make fixing the legal system a top priority.
With all the work that needs to be done to restore our Republic, the change of guard offers much hope. Things are returning to normal. Just ask those J6 hostages who have been pardoned. Nor will we have to comment on Biden or his administration again.
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