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The Brew: Will We Choose the Logos or the Antichrist?

By John Zmirak Published on March 5, 2025

Last night, President Donald J. Trump gave an historic speech that marked out the new dividing line of American politics: between common sense, the Logos of the Natural Law that God wrote on each human heart, and the post-Christian, anti-Christian new gospel of woke resentment and rage that has colonized so many hearts in Western countries. Look for my detailed analysis of his remarks on immigration, DEI, the Ukraine war, and other crucial issues early tomorrow.

But for now, let’s look at a few other developments in the news.

Should Trump Pardon Derek Chauvin?

Normally I’m not shy about saying what I think. I came out for Pat Buchanan in 1992, opposed the Iraq War in 2002, and was one of the first people in America to publicly defend Nicholas Sandmann, Mark Judge, Kyle Rittenhouse, Jake Gardner, Sidney Powell, Ashley Babbitt, and the rest of the nonviolent January 6 protestors. But even I have my limits.

Having watched the footage of the George Floyd arrest and the riots that erupted after it, I kept silent about Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who now rots in prison on dubious evidence after a politicized show trial.

I haven’t had the same nerve as brave souls like Ann Coulter, who has been saying for years that Chauvin was railroaded. Now Ben Shapiro is saying it and Elon Musk is echoing it, so I’ll man up too and say that it’s time we all take a long, hard look at this case — in which a cop was scapegoated as part of a national racial panic that was clearly engineered, resulting in riots that cost billions of dollars and claimed two dozen American lives.

Watch Shapiro make the case and check out the thread for the missing reasonable doubt:

Of course, even if Trump takes this provocative step in the interests of justice, Chauvin will probably stay in prison for the rest of his life (and possibly get murdered there) thanks to state convictions which riot-sniffing Minnesota Governor Tim Walz will certainly leave in place. Given that Trump’s gesture wouldn’t set Chauvin free, it’s dubious whether Trump will spend any political capital on an essentially symbolic gesture.

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Free Tina Peters

Another case in which bogus state charges keep an innocent person in prison is that of Tina Peters — who sits in a Colorado prison right now for doing her job as an election official, documenting vote fraud. But the Trump administration is intervening admirably in her case, which is one of worst examples of lawfare to afflict Trump supporters during the lawless Biden years. As The Federalist summed it up:

Tina Peters served as the elected county clerk for Mesa County, Colorado, where she oversaw that county’s elections. She ardently believes President Donald Trump was the victim of election theft in 2020.

In an effort to discover how this could have happened, Peters teamed up with individuals associated with MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, also a believer that Trump had the election stolen from him. Tina Peters’ opponents falsely alleged she illegally colluded with Lindell’s associate, Conan Hayes, to steal and misuse the ID badge of a Mesa County employee named Gerald Wood to access the county’s election system and to save a copy of the hard drive before a new system was installed.

Indeed, Democrat Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold and Democrat Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser colluded to bring a 10-count indictment against Peters. Griswold and Weiser are two highly partisan Democrat activists who led the failed effort to throw Trump off the Colorado ballot, leading to a ruling that got reversed 9-0 by the Supreme Court. The two seized the opportunity to up their own political profiles by deploying Robert Shapiro, first attorney general for Special Prosecutions, and Janet Drake, a senior assistant attorney general in the Special Prosecutions Unit, which reports directly to the Colorado attorney general, to spearhead the effort to overcharge and railroad Peters. …

Peters is 69 years old. She has no criminal record and has experienced tragedy. Her son was a Navy SEAL killed serving his country. Peters will likely never again serve as a county clerk and thus never can engage in the same conduct that brought her to court. Yet Judge Barrett harped on about how, if Peters could do the same thing again, she would. Peters told the judge that she had never broken the law with malice; rather, her sole intent was to root out any fraud that had occurred.

Judge Barrett ended the proceedings with a shocking sentence: nine years’ imprisonment, followed by three years of parole. Nine years. Think of the magnitude of that sentence. Peters altered no election results. Not one vote was changed because of her actions. The judge pointed out that she likely would receive credit for good behavior.

But the judge added a vindictive wrinkle that cut down on the potential for good-behavior credit. He ordered that Peters serve the first year in the Mesa County jail consecutive to her sentence in state prison. County jails house all the population together. There is no minimum security for non-violent offenders like Peters.

Read The Stream’s coverage of this appalling miscarriage of justice here.

Now the U.S. Department of Justice led by Attorney General Pam Bondi has intervened in the case:

Let’s speak up, and pray, to advocate Tina’s swift release from prison.

Oscar Winner Endorses Human Trafficking and Pimping

Elizabeth Yore, who fights to protect migrant children from getting sex trafficked, called out Mikey Madison, the actress at Sunday’s Academy Awards ceremony who used the euphemism “sex worker” to praise those exploited sexually for profit, and those who profit from them.

And this is one of the many reasons I faithfully skip the Oscars, every year.

The Stakes in the Ukraine War

Sometimes it takes a European to recognize the threat on that continent’s doorstep:

Along The Stream…

Later this morning, Jim Tonkowich asks what we Christians can learn about Lent from the virtuous pagan, Socrates.

After that, don’t miss Part 1 of this powerful six-part series on the genius of Western civilization and the crucial role the Gospel played in ensuring freedom, justice, and even material progress.

 

John Zmirak is a senior editor at  The Stream and author or coauthor of 14 books, including The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism. His newest book is No Second Amendment, No First.