The Problem of Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud
The great Dan Bongino likes to say something to the effect of, “conservatives think liberals are good people with bad ideas, liberals think conservatives are just evil people.” Prior to Donald Trump coming on the scene, they were fairly able to keep what they really thought about conservatives under wraps. But Donald Trump changed all of that, and quick. Now, with the very real prospect of losing power in November, liberals are just letting it all hang out. In the age of MAGA Republicans, all bets seem to be very much off.
It is pretty routine to turn on CNN, or its trashier cousin MSNBC, and hear people who think they are famous to anyone else outside the mom’s basement hot pocket crowd, blather on about how Republicans and conservatives should be covered differently, that fairness and objectivity don’t apply to people who, well really aren’t even people. So, it is perfectly ok to dox them, go after their families, and basically destroy their lives because they deserve it. They don’t possess the sophistication and intellect of liberals, after all, they go to Walmart for God’s sakes. But when the President of the United States says it, and says it with all the vitriol, all the contempt and distain, all the hatred his addled mind can muster, it tends to change things. And last week, at a campaign event, President Joe Biden called Republicans and conservatives, roughly half of the citizens of the United States, fascists. That’s right, not misguided, not incorrect, not wrong, fascists.
Many people likened it to Hillary Clinton’s “basket of deplorables” comment during the 2016
presidential election. But that was different. Conservatives began to refer to themselves as “deplorables.” T-shirts were quickly printed up, and it became a badge of honor. Calling people fascists ups the game. It implies dark things. Joe Biden seemed to give up the secret to how the Democrat party thinks in terms of relating to Republicans and conservatives. The White House didn’t flinch. In fact, they explained that, why yes, Republicans are fascists and here’s why. White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre carefully explained it, as if she were reciting facts. “What MAGA Republicans have done…You look at the definition of fascism and you think about what they’re doing in attacking our democracy, what they’re doing in taking away our freedoms, taking away our rights, our voting rights. That is what that is.”
Fast forward to this coming Thursday. President Joe Biden, you know, the guy who just got done calling 74 million Americans “semi-fascists,” will give a speech in Philadelphia on…wait for it….the “continuing battle for the soul of the nation.” Wait what? What about last week when he called everyone who didn’t agree with him fascists? Oh that? Well, yeah, Republicans are fascists, but don’t worry about that. That was so last week. It begs the question; will conservatives and Republicans be called fascists again? Probably, but in a kinder gentler way. You know, in a way that will unite the country.
Democrats are in a panic. They have the most unpopular president in the modern era. He has created 40-year high inflation, soaring gas and food prices, numerous crises abroad, and they are twisting themselves into pretzels, so they don’t not have to pal around with him on the campaign trail and try to defend the mess. Calling Republicans fascists is really all they have. Fascism is a funny thing. During the summer of 2020, Black Lives Matter and people who called themselves “Antifa,” short for antifascists, were the most fascistic people around. They beat and destroyed anyone and anything they disliked or disagreed with. The Internet is overrun with them. Whenever you say something they don’t like, they just cancel you. Get you thrown off social media, if you own a business, they try to destroy it. They might even try to get you fired. All in a day’s work for those noble “anti-fascists.” In reality, they are the most fascistic people out there.
Joe Biden must be working up to lecturing us on battling for the soul of the nation. On Tuesday, in Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania, he gave a speech about crime and gun control. Some highlights of the speech included, the fact that “right-wing” Americans are shooting at law enforcement, Republicans say political violence is “necessary” and “appropriate,” and that, “there is a mass shooting every day in this country.” These must be the same “right-wing” Americans who vandalized the Seminole County GOP headquarters over the weekend and spray-painted expletives and the word “fascists” on the front window. No? Well, if it was someone else, wonder where they got the idea from? Rhetoric and passions are always inflamed at election time. But this time, something is different. Is the end goal of Democrats and the left to somehow dehumanize Republicans and conservatives because it is easier to justify violence against them? A quick perusal of Twitter will let you know in no uncertain terms what the left really thinks about conservatives and Republicans. We are pretty much at dehumanizing. What comes after that?
While most Americans know that there is a good chance Joe Biden doesn’t remember from one day to the next what he is talking about, and the fact that he will give a speech about the soul of the nation just a mere 48 hours after accusing Republicans of shooting at law enforcement will not faze him in the least. Maybe we need to start really listening to what the media and Democrats say. Read between the lines and try to go beneath the surface of whatever insanity they happen to be spewing. That is where they will tell you what they really mean.
