Political violence has been around as long as politics. I grew up with it in Greece.

As a five-year-old, I remember looking across the street of a chic Athenian neighborhood, seeing the door of a black, chauffeur-driven car open and a bald man bending down in order to enter it. Then I heard one, two, three, four shots, and saw round, dark red holes form on his scalp. The screams that followed were from his daughter, who was watching his departure from a balcony above.

The name of the victim was Kalyvas, and he was undersecretary of some Greek ministry during the German occupation of 1941 to 1944. That meant he was a collaborator, according to the Stalin-led Communists in Greece. Others felt differently: that unless responsible and patriotic Greeks accepted government posts, the Germans would be ruling outright, with far worse results.

I saw far worse during the civil war that followed Greece’s liberation from the Axis powers. The royal gardens next to where we lived and where I daily played were suddenly covered with stinking, rotting corpses. Both sides were taking revenge, and it wasn’t pretty. The good guys won—with a little help from the Americans, thank God! It took more than 80 years for old wounds to heal; they only healed because those who fought during the civil war died and their old hatreds died with them.

In America, old hatreds between North and South have also died away. Some were still around when I attended the University of Virginia. Back then, Southern boys made fun of Yankees, but there was no hatred involved. My sympathies regarding the Late Unpleasantness were, of course, on the side of the Confederacy. 

In the wake of former FBI Director James Comey’s indictment, Democrats and the so-called neutral media are issuing dark warnings about how his arrest signals the end of democracy. These lefties and their sidekicks were around on Joe Biden’s watch but failed to notice that Trump, a former president, faced four separate indictments with 88 criminal charges. Trump advisers Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro were jailed for contempt of Congress, and my buddy Roger Stone—a sharp, London-tailored womanizer—was arrested at dawn in an over-the-top FBI raid.

Worst of all was the case of General Michael Flynn. A decent and patriotic veteran of the war in Afghanistan, General Flynn was charged with making false statements to the FBI. Flynn was up for national security adviser, and he would have been a good one, but Comey nailed him on calls Flynn had made to Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak, in order to prepare for his role. Comey made the calls out to be illegal; they were not. Flynn had to fight the charges on his own before Trump pardoned him; he lost his house, his savings, and his reputation. Comey should have been sent to jail for what he did to Flynn. Instead, he bragged about it.

Stone had a similar experience. In the predawn darkness, a heavily armed FBI SWAT team descended on his house and marched him and his wife outside in their pajamas—something Comey should have been subjected to but was not, unfortunately.

And let’s not forget the brave FBI agents who raided Mar-a-Lago, where they rifled through Melania’s underwear.

Now it should be Biden’s turn—but he is not mentally around for us to enjoy it. Needless to say, now that Democrat favorites like Comey, Letitia James, and Jack Smith are under investigation, anti-Trump pundits are screaming bloody murder. One, a former National Review “conservative” named David French, wrote in The New York Times, calls it a vindictive campaign to get revenge on Trump’s political enemies, “no matter the facts or the law.” For some strange reason, I don’t remember him complaining when a good soldier named Flynn was indicted on made-up charges by the Comey gang—in fact, he complained when the Justice Department dropped those charges.

The Russian collusion hoax was the Democrats’ attempt to overturn the 2016 election. Things weren’t always like this. I remember how Richard Nixon refused to question the Kennedy victory in 1960 despite real evidence of cheating. Even Al Gore, after the Supreme Court decided against him during the hotly contested 2000 election, accepted the Court’s decision and called for the country to unite behind Bush. Both Nixon and Gore knew holding a grudge would hurt the country.

Only Biden’s brood of fellow leftists couldn’t forgive Trump for winning in 2016. Now they’re squealing like pregnant penguins but I, for one, hope Trump sticks it to them. If I sound vengeful, I am not.  I truly believe it might teach the left a lesson: Once in power, be magnanimous. Do not do a Biden, because things can change and come back to bite you. Revenge is a two-headed monster and we never know which way it might go. ◆