Yes, Democrats, It’s a Mob, by
David Harsanvi, 10/12/18. The Daily Signal.
Former
Attorney General Eric Holder believes that Michelle Obama was wrong when she
famously advised, “When they go low, we go high.” Rather, he told Democrats at
a gathering in Georgia, “When they go low, we kick them.”
If
Holder had been honest, he would have said, “When they win a presidency via the
constitutionally mandated route and the duly elected president nominates a
Supreme Court justice with a 12-year exceptional record on the bench and then
the duly elected Senate follows all the rules and precedents set by
Democrats—offering numerous hearings and investigations along the way—and
confirms that nominee, we kick them, because we’re frustrated.”
There’s
nothing wrong with “fighting” in politics. We don’t need to be hypersensitive
about every metaphorical overindulgence (unless it’s Donald Trump; then we must
take it literally, seriously, and hysterically). But the problem is that
Democrats have a bad habit of acting as if every political setback they
experience is caused by some act of criminality. This instigates a lot of
people to act like a bunch of children—or worse.
When
Democrats lose the House, it’s because of mythical unilateral gerrymandering or
mythical mass voter suppression. When they lose the Senate, it’s because the
system suddenly became an antiquated relic of the 1700s.
When
they lose the Supreme Court, there is a “legitimacy crisis.” When they lost the
2000 election, it was because it had been stolen by the Supreme Court. When
they lost in 2004, George W. Bush had rigged the election in Ohio. When they
lost in 2016, omnipotent Russians and the unfair Electoral College had snatched
the office from its preordained owner.
And
every legislative action that fails to comport with liberal thinking is to them
an apocalyptic event and the end of “democracy.”
If
all of this were true, the question would be: Why aren’t more people joining a
mob? If your government is stealing your country, why wouldn’t you embrace
boorishness or even violence?
“You
cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand
for, what you care about,” Hillary Clinton recently explained, egging on one of
those mobs. If you allow politics to become a stand-in for religion, the
apostates don’t deserve decency. “Civility can start again,” Clinton went on to
helpfully inform us, when Democrats run Congress.
Of
course, it’s easy to embrace fake magnanimity when you hold power. Michelle
Obama’s “when they go low, we go high” came during her 2016 speech at the
Democratic National Convention, and it was aimed at “Trumpian” rhetoric when
nearly everyone in power believed that Clinton would triumph.
Obama
offered her axiom after liberals had spent eight years trying to use executive
power to coerce, demean, and morally micromanage the “Deplorables”, yet those
clingy God-loving gun nuts stubbornly refused to accept the progressive
reinvention of patriotism.
They
went low all the time. It was Joe Biden, not Trump, who accused Republicans and
their presidential candidate, a man who had dutifully engaged in civic life for
quite some time, of betting against America.
Yet
Democrats still act perplexed by the backlash. Even now the mob within their
ranks is being cast, predictably, as a conservative fiction. “Republicans Seize
On ‘Angry Mob’ Mantra To Keep Their Midterm Base Fired Up,” says NPR. CNN
insists that it’s a normal, everyday demonstration of free expression to chase
politicians’ wives out of public places. You may not use the word “mob” in
their presence.
No,
it’s not the Parisian mob. Not yet. It’s more like one of those illiberal
campus mobs that attempt, often successfully, to shut down debate. A mob is a
disorderly crowd of people who have the intent of causing trouble or violence.
So,
for example, that means people who interrupt lawful proceedings or people who
wildly bang on the Supreme Court doors when a vote doesn’t go their way or
people who surround politicians (and their families) and chase them out of
restaurants or people who join groups that smear other Americans without
evidence—those who try to undermine the rule of law through intimidation.
As a
First Amendment absolutist, I say yell at politicians in public spaces all you
like. That just means you’re a buffoon. But once you surround people and
restrict their movements, you are engaging in more than incivility. Those
actions will almost surely compound and become dangerous. And should I even
mention that if any of this were directed at Democrats, the nation would be
plunged into an overwrought discussion about the importance of civility in
American life?
“This
is what happens,” Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, said this week. If you act as if
every traditionally conservative policy position and legal appointment to the
court portends the Fourth Reich, this is indeed what happens. For now, though,
partisan incivility isn’t really a mainstream problem. But some Democrats seem
to want to change this.
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In a Cult, the victims
are brainwashed into believing that their “Prophet” is the sole interpreter of
“God’s Will”. The victims become helpless, compliant and disoriented. Those who suffer brutality often escape. Others are kidnapped by their relatives from
their cult compounds. It takes months of
counseling to de-program them to re-enter society. We are currently confronting
Democrat cult victims with facts and they continue to refuse to recognize that
what they are being told just isn’t true in the real world. If they recognize
they have been duped, they will eventually leave the cult.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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