In early May of 1940, the British public had had enough of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, whose fecklessness at Munich two years earlier had allowed Hitler to dominate Europe. Not even the pleas of Winston Churchill, the then-First Lord of the Admiralty, for unity in the face of the enemy could save him. Conservative Member of Parliament Leo Amery summed up the public’s ire by quoting Oliver Cromwell in a fiery speech in the House of Commons: “You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!"

Last Sunday, our own beleaguered republic reached its own “Amery moment” with its leader. When he chose to broadly pardon his son Hunter Biden despite his repeated claims that he would not, President Biden once again revealed his utter contempt for the rule of law and the American people. As bitter as this pill is to swallow, it is the price we must pay to turn the page on his disastrous presidency.
In a just world, we would never have had to suffer through a Joe Biden presidency. The 2020 “October surprise” of Hunter Biden’s laptop should have killed his candidacy just as cleanly as his plagiarism did back in 1988. It took an unholy alliance of the deep state, the legacy press, and social media companies to guarantee that the truth would not come out in time to tip the election in Trump’s favor.
But try as he might, President Biden could not hide the truth forever. When questions kept coming up about the relationship between Hunter and the “Big Guy,” stalling and obfuscation became the order of the day. The president’s Department of Justice slow-walked tax evasion charges related to Hunter’s years working for the Ukrainian energy company Burisma and later offered him the sweetest of all plea deals. Only the testimony of IRS whistleblowers and the integrity of a federal judge stopped the truth from being buried.
Despite all the legal doublespeak and maneuvering, the American people know when ...