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Are You Noticing a Pattern Here?
It’s dismaying to me, to watch Republicans turn on Donald Trump when the left attacks him: “Yeah, well, I’m Republican, but I’m not a Trump supporter. He’s mean and racist and stuff. I saw it on the news.” Leftist propaganda is so ubiquitous that you don’t even notice it after a while.
News media, the educational establishment, the FBI, the CDC, every other government organization, social media, Hollywood, and so on and so forth — when all those people say that Trump is a unique threat to democracy and human rights, it almost starts to sound real, after a while. Until you recall that they said the same thing about fire-breathing radicals like Mitt Romney, George W. Bush, and every other successful Republican for as long as anyone can remember.
T. Becket Adams has an outstanding article up today (Right on Schedule, the Media Decide DeSantis is ‘Worse’ than Trump) on National Review, which illustrates — again — this obvious truth:
Amusingly enough, the shared animosity for Florida’s Republican governor has become increasingly deranged in proportion to DeSantis’s growing popularity with the conservative base. Curious! Another especially amusing aspect of the press’s growing anti-DeSantis chorus is this simple fact: They are trying in earnest — in the Year of Our Lord 2023 — to convince the public that the Florida executive poses a greater threat to our core democracy than even Trump does. Yes, the same people who spent four years trying to convince you that Trump posed a unique, once-in-a-lifetime threat to the republic are trying now to convince you that an even greater threat to the republic is now upon us. Just ignore the part where they do this bit every four years. Remember, it wasn’t so long ago that Mitt Romney, the sweetest, most wholesome presidential candidate you ever saw, was out there being accused of manslaughtering a woman diagnosed with cancer.
Believe It: A DeSantis Presidency Could Be Even Worse Than Trump,” warns the New Republic. “DeSantis fully intends to remake America the way he believes God would want it to be, and his knowledge of law and governmental structure allows him to do it on a scale, and with a precision, that Trump could only dream about.”
Elsewhere, Vanity Fair warns that DeSantis should not be “covered like just another Republican.”
They did it to Ronald Reagan, then George W. Bush, then Mitt Romney, then Donald Trump. If DeSantis wins the Republican nomination, they’ll do it to him next. When Vanity Fair warns that DeSantis should not be “covered like just another Republican,” what they mean is that DeSantis should be covered like just another Republican.
That’s my point. It really doesn’t matter who it is. All that matters is that that person is a Republican, so he is by definition evil.
Are you a Republican?
Are you paying attention here?
Who do you think Democrats really consider to be evil?
Think hard about that. It’s an important point. Take your time…
Published in General
Trump’s anti-elitism (against people who aren’t actually elite) was probably the best part about him. He saw, (though he did not fully communicate) that America is becoming a place of useless elites who don’t actually do very much but complain about the Americans who do work.