Trump Derangement Syndrome is endangering American democracy
They say that truth is the first casualty of war. Maybe it is. It is certainly the first casualty of Democratic press coverage of Donald Trump when he is running for president.
"Trump escalates violent rhetoric, calling for Liz Cheney to be shot."
Gosh. Did he really? No, he didn't. But CNN wants you to think so, and they are happy to wheel out frantic NeverTrumpers like Jonah Goldberg to fulminate against the Bad Orange Man for threatening Cheney , one of the former president's most outspoken critics.
The trouble is, the full clip of Trump's appearance with Tucker Carlson shows beyond cavil that he was warning that Liz Cheney, like her father, is a war hawk who would happily send "10,000 troops" to fight and die for a pointless war.
The investor and recent convert to Trump Bill Ackman has assembled an inventory of distortions the media has spread about Trump. Take the baseless claim that he said the white supremacists who attended a 2017 rally were "very fine people" . The liberal press had a field day with that. Unfortunately for The Narrative, Trump did not call the white supremacists and neo-Nazis "very fine people". He said they ought to be "condemned totally".
A comedian at the Trump rally at Madison Square Garden last week referred to Puerto Rico as a "floating island of garbage." The liberal media tried to weaponise that remark, too, even though Trump was not even in the building when the bad joke was made.
That did not stop Joe Biden from describing Trump supporters as "garbage ". The reaction from Trump World was swift, hilarious, and politically devastating to the Harris campaign.
Trump arranged for a garbage truck to meet his plane in Green Bay, Wisconsin. He emerged from the plane clad in a neon orange and yellow maintenance vest. He then hopped into the cab of the truck whence he conducted a brief interview before being driven off to his rally, where he performed wearing the vest. The crowd loved it. So did the fellow who drove him around.
Back in 2016, Hillary Clinton's claim that half of Trump's supporters belonged in a " basket of deplorables" helped lose her the election.
The Harris campaign must be worried that calling Trump supporters "garbage" might have the same effect, because the White House attempted to edit Biden's remark, slyly converting "supporters," plural, into a single supporter by means of an apostrophe, "supporter's." The potentially illegal change in the official transcript was noticed, however, sparking a certain quota of hilarity along the way.
Experts are divided on whether calling Trump supporters "garbage" is worse than calling Trump and his supporters "fascists" and (as Hillary Clinton put it) "a clear and present danger" to "our democracy." There is general agreement, though, that none of the epithets is laudatory.
At this juncture, just a few days before the election, there are two pressing questions.
One is, how desperate must be the in-the-pocket propaganda press working for Harris that it would run chyrons during their coverage of the Madison Square Garden rally announcing that "Trump's MSG Rally Comes 85 Years After Pro-Nazi Rally at Famed Arena"?
The second question turns on the issue of "democracy". Harris says to "protect democracy" we must make her president. But remember how it is that she is even the candidate.
Back in July, when the Dems understood that Joe Biden was slipping far behind Donald Trump, they somehow managed to jettison Joe, the democratically nominated candidate, and airlift in Kamala Harris, whom no one had voted for.
Among other things, that sleight-of-hand demonstrated that the Dems were happy, in the name of "protecting democracy," to destroy it. As I have often observed, when they talk about "our democracy," what they mean is "their oligarchy".
What will happen when Trump wins on Tuesday? For one thing, the memo from on high that was issued after the 2020 election explaining that it was unpatriotic and probably illegal to complain about the outcome will be summarily cancelled. In its place will be a restoration of the 2016 memo outlining how whining about election results you don't like is your patriotic duty. Expect marches, protests, sky-screamers, and other such dubious attractions.
