By CHRISTOPHER MANION
Still waiting for the dust to settle after the pre-inaugural farce? Well, it won’t. The Democrats bullhorn will be blasting Trump long after January 20. After all, it’s working.
Right now, as Joe Biden puts it, Democrats are a “one horse pony,” and “Blame Trump!” is their cattle call as long as Joe is tied to the saddle like a burnt-out buckaroo. What else have they got?
Oh, come on, really? “Announcing the Administration of Joe Biden!” Where’s the applause? There isn’t any. Catholic Joe’s agenda is as brain-dead as he is. To invoke the words of John Nance Garner, another former vice-president, Joe’s action plan is about as scintillating as “a bucket of warm spit.”
So what’s the only word that resonates in DC’s echo chamber? “Trump!” All others are like trees falling in a faraway forest. Nobody hears them, and nobody cares.
So it’s settled. The DC Hive (hat tip to Joe Sobran) will be blaring “Trump!! Trump!!” forever. Big Brother’s Ministry of Truth had to have its Emmanuel Goldstein, and without “Trump!” the worker bees in Bidenville’s version would be sitting by the side of the road.
Consider: How long would The Washington Post last if its pages were full of snits over Kamala’s bad Vogue cover, or Dr. Jill’s one hundredth visit to an impoverished kindergarten?
But wait, there’s more. Where would Nancy Pelosi be without Trump? You’d think she’d want to finish him off. She wants to impeach Trump again, doesn’t she?
But observe her stated reason. She wants to prevent him from running again in 2024. Behind that fatuous fraud lies a very real fear: If he does run, he might win. Sure, she has a bucketful of wrenches she can throw into the election machine: mass immigration, free citizenship for illegals, universal mail-in voting, no Voter ID…and she can propose countless new ones as well: voting online, lowering the voting age to 16, even giving members of favored minorities two votes instead of one. But Pelosi is right: He still might win. So the noise will continue full blast.
Pelosi has to keep “Trump!” alive, and well, and hated.
Otherwise, we might be discussing the fraud. Look at @SpeakerPelosi’s tweet on May 16, 2017: “Our election was hijacked,” she wrote then. “There is no question. Congress has a duty to #ProtectOurDemocracy & #FollowTheFacts.” What about the Big Steal? The Democrats were cheering the really rioting “mostly peaceful” leftists all summer long — and what about their lockdowns?
Well, that was then, and this is now. And the then and the now are subject to revision by means of the Memory Hole, which is a whole lot deeper than Joe Biden’s basement.
So instead of recounting the outrages (their name is Legion), let’s look at what the Left is doing inside their Cacophony Machine. There they are mounting a surprisingly effective and sophisticated strategy to divide three targeted communities: Republicans, pro-lifers, and Trump supporters. These groups overlap, to be sure, and as a disciplined and united coalition they are almost invincible. This week we address the Republicans.
Consider the GOP gains in the House last November — fourteen new pro-life Republicans! The GOP had momentum, and Nancy got a lot of heat for it from her own members. She’s got to make sure that 2022 isn’t an instant replay, not just of last November but of 1994 and 2010.
In those two off-year elections, the last two Democrat presidents lost big-time after controlling the House and Senate for the first two years of their tenure. In 1994, two years into the Clinton administration, Republicans gained 54 seats in the House and eight in the Senate. In 2010, two years into Obama, Republicans gained 63 seats in the House and six in the Senate.
If that happens again, Pelosi’s toast.
Divide, Conquer,
And Divide Again
Nancy D’Alesandro grew up in Baltimore, where she learned about politics from her father and brother, both Baltimore mayors. Baltimore’s Mafia dons were never far away — in fact, FBI files just released reveal that President Kennedy once asked the FBI to investigate her father.
Nancy learned from that crowd how to intimidate, even threaten — a skill which she employs daily with her congressional colleagues. She’s also an able sower of dissension, and right now she’s targeting Republicans, doing the devil’s work while deflecting criticism by flaunting her status as a baptized Catholic.
But why would the GOP be such an easy target?
Bear in mind that not every Republican has the same strength of spine as Donald Trump or Jesse Helms. These two figures come to mind as the only two politicians in recent history who could not only survive media assassination attempts, but actually grew stronger because of them.
Not their colleagues. There, many Republicans still want the media to be nice to them. Many a GOP member trembles at the prospect of a smear job from The Washington Post. This is true even after Donald Trump has spent the past five years exposing “media professionals” as the lazy lightweight lapdogs of the Democrat Left.
Cowardice dies hard.
So the current noise plays a critical part in the effort to keep Republicans on the defensive, knocked back on their heels if not actually knocked down. That circus will not subside, because the media conglomerates have nothing worth saying about Joe Biden’s administration and its agenda. Without exception, it constitutes an endless, boring replay of the usual platitudes. Yes, Joe’s agenda is radical and dangerous, but it’s intellectually vapid. Tyranny usually is.
On January 10, Biden said that “[o]ur priority will be Black, Latino, Asian, and Native American owned small businesses, women-owned businesses, and finally having equal access to resources needed to reopen and rebuild.”
His vulgar racism went unnoticed, as usual. Why bother?
Tough Times To Come
This past Wednesday, ten House Republicans caved, as usual, and voted for impeachment. One of them, Liz Cheney, a member of the GOP House leadership, savagely attacked Trump. Finally, payback for the guy who leveled similar criticism at her father’s wars. Then House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy (R., Calif.) chimed in and blamed President Trump for the riots on Capitol Hill.
Oh, the irony. In badmouthing Trump, he kissed off his chances of being Speaker in a Republican Congress forever.
Why are Democrats pushing a futile impeachment effort?
Near-term, “Trump!” justifies everything. Down the Memory Hole go their scandals, the fraud, Hunter Biden, Joe’s China ties, Antifa’s real riots. Instead, Democrats have made Washington, D.C., look like Baghdad or Kabul, with thousands of troops locking it down to “prevent violence.”
A defiant Democrat Left is flexing its muscle. Nobody would show up for Biden’s inauguration anyway, so they make lemonade, signaling that Trump is dangerous and his supporters are literally the enemy, the nation’s capital is off limits, and the entire country is a war zone.
“We can shut you down at will!” And they didn’t have to abolish the Electoral College, pack the Supreme Court, overturn the Second Amendment, or have a Democrat in the WH or a Democrat majority in the Senate to do it.
This agitprop serves as a very effective cover story for their long-term political goal — fomenting the split in the GOP and exacerbating it through the 2022 elections. And it’s working. And with Democrats in charge at the White House, the House, and the Senate, this will be a tough two months.
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