Stop Making Me Defend Eric Swalwell!

/ Jack Marshall

I don’t know why I was so dense when I posted this story that it didn’t occur to me what was going on, especially after Hakeem Jeffries weirdly tweeted that Swalwell, as near to the bottom of the ethics barrel as a House member can be (but not alone there) was too disgusting to be a Democratic Governor but not so horrible that he couldn’t stay in Congress. I believe it’s because my brain just won’t process how Machiavellian, corrupt and dishonest the Democratic Party of 2026 (actually 2008 through 2026) has become. Maybe I can’t grasp that because so, so many otherwise good people in my life still embrace this indefensibly organization and its anti-Democracy, anti-“Truth Justice and The American Way” proto-totalitarian drift. Maybe it’s that Cognitive Dissonance Scale. The damn thing is pulling the Democrats up from the depths they deserve because people I have high in positive territory for other reasons—love, trust, loyalty, respect—are chained to the party like a luxury cruise ship to an anchor.

Heck, I don’t know how I missed it, but I did. (Commenter James Flood didn’t, I know) So once again I ask rhetorically, “What’s going on here?” to answer: This…

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10 thoughts on “Stop Making Me Defend Eric Swalwell!”

  2. Before we are defending Eric Swalwell a couple of thoughts:

    • Harvey Weinstein’s position in Hollywood was safe as long as he stayed being the goose laying the golden eggs; and he was a major donor to the Democrats. His misbehavior was well known in Hollywood. This is of course an example of the King’s pass. As soon as the King’s power waned it became convenient to throw him under the bus, while the women who did so sanctimoniously donned the mantle of righteousness under #metoo.
    • Justice Kavanaugh was accused of rape during his confirmation hearings for naked political reason without any basis in truth.

    The accusations against Eric Swalwell there may be comparable to both. The Democrats may be willing to throw him under the bus for naked electoral reasons. The Kavanaugh hearings convinced me that the Democrat Party has zero ethics when it is about defending their power and influence. However that does not mean that Eric Swalwell is innocent of what he is accused of. The Democrat Party has a history in protecting politicians and influential donors whenever this is political useful, none more than Bill Clinton during his impeachment trial.

    The only thing that Eric Swalwell needs for his defense is the truth. If he is innocent, then he does all men who have ever been falsely accused for sexual wrongdoing a service by fighting the accusations; I see this as a moral obligation on his part.

    President Trump should not have made an endorsement for one of the two Republican candidates, Steve Hilton, until after the jungle primary. It would have been a blast to have two Republican candidates take the top spot and run against each other for Governor.

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    • Did Trump ever endorse anyone in the Texas Senate race, as he promised to do?

      I was hoping he would bite the bullet and endorse Cornyn. The last thing we want is to run a candidate who can lose to a Democrat in Texas. The sun might stop in its orbit.

      Was Ann Richards the last Democrat elected statewide in Texas? I remember being really tickled when Bush beat her for governor. Later, now that I live in North Carolina, I could tell people that I had the distinction of having voted for Bush four times. A badge of honor in my opinion.

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  3. The Democratic Party has tried to use sexual misconduct as a tool of political power for so long I don’t even really know what to believe anymore. Did Swalwell cheat on his wife and do a bunch of other weird stuff with the consent of these women and now they want to bring him down because they hate him and want revenge

    Or, if this is true, the Democratic party has known about it for a long time and preferred to keep him on a leash because he does serve political purposes, but when he goes too far off, then he pays?

    There is so much bad faith everywhere that it seems impossible to figure out the truth. He’s a weird dude who shouldn’t have power anywhere, but I’m not certain about anything else.

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  4. I did wonder who in the democrat party he angered.

    Since the Clinton years, no deviant behavior has been off limits for the Democrats, so long as they’re useful.

    From Bill himself, to the appropriately named Anthony Weiner, there was the California dem rep who was involved in threesomes (it was a feature when she was running for election), the weird gay guy in San Fran, etc.

    They have no standards whatsoever, until they think they can get somebody that fits what they want better, or somebody crossed the line and didn’t support a pet group.

    I would think Swalwell has great recognition in California, but not sure how he was polling.

    He either did something so egregious even they can’t countenance it, or he’s on the outside of one of the favored groups they want to elevate.

    I tend to think the latter.

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  5. “Swalwell’s fall from grace . . .” That is the funniest thing I have read in a very long time. Swalwell and grace mentioned in the same breath – the jokes write themselves!

    Swalwell’s fall was because his candidacy threatened a loss for the Democrats in California. Could you imagine a debate between Swalwell and Steven Hilton? Hilton would mop the floor with him.

    jvb

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