Ron Johnson on 9/11

The original purpose of 9-11 trutherism — the belief that America attacked itself on that awful day — was a leftist one. The purpose was to take the blame off of Muslims and put it on bigoted Islamophobic Republicans. This served the political purposes of liberals at the time. In the same way that the original purpose of JFK assassination conspiracy theories was to shift the blame from a communist to the CIA, which was on the warpath against communism at the time.

It’s easy to forget the original context of these stupid ideas. Sen. Ron Johnson seems to have forgotten completely. Or maybe he just doesn’t care. Apparently things have changed, and now these theories somehow serve the purposes of what passes for conservatism.

Remember World Trade Center building 7? Supposedly the deep state planted bombs in the building to destroy it, covering it up by the overall destruction of the attack. Does it matter that no one could have known in advance that the planes hitting the WTC would have caused building 7 to be damaged and catch on fire, thus providing the cover for the bombs? That obvious question alone proves the falsehood of the claim. A child could understand it, but not Ron Johnson.

Tucker Carlson was always talking about how liberals lack the self-awareness to understand their own corrupt motives. It’s amazing how many on the right these days seem to lack the self-awareness to understand when and why they have come to adopt liberal beliefs.