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They Really are a Lynch Mob
Jeffrey Lord writing in the Spectator back in 2012 before Paul Ryan’s public spanking on national television:
Reagan’s point was that no matter the issue — it could have been the Reagan Doctrine one day or the confirmation of Reagan appointees the next day (on one occasion Biden smilingly told a nominee for an obscure government board, “by my definition you are a racist”) or something else the day after — Joe Biden was always there to play the role of the “smooth but pure demagogue” — the hot headed guy in the leftist political lynch mob brandishing the rope.
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He is to this moment the man Ronald Reagan believed would always appeal to Americans with the raw emotions of prejudice — using race, class-warfare, leftist foreign policy or anything else that was handy.
Joe Biden, Ronald Reagan concluded, was nothing more — or less — than a “smooth but pure demagogue.”
The Gipper called it as he saw it.
Some writing ages well and some doesn’t. This one seems written yesterday.
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I wholeheartedly agree.
Strangely, this post seems free of trolls.
I have been called a troll before…but I’m not sure that counts since it was by
an Arizona Democrata troll.Could be a steamtroller.
I might be accidentally trolling.
Saw that one coming from a mile away.
You have to provide your audience with what they’ve come to expect.
Ya hear me, Disney?
I hear that musical on the life of Xi is shaping up nicely.
He’s roommates with a tiger?
So he carries on the Democratic Party tradition of lynching. They really haven’t changed at all.