By DEXTER DUGGAN
Although many of the Hollywood fantasyland’s stars give their best to boost the national Democratic Party’s unhinged agenda, and not only during its election-year convention, Donald Trump’s Republican National Convention awarded starring roles to ordinary Americans and their goals.
Notably for pro-lifers, saving preborn babies from butchery was treated by Trump’s virtual convention planners as the praiseworthy effort it is, not something best hushed up down in the basement. For how many years had Republican leadership sought pro-lifers’ votes while treating their courage as almost too embarrassing to be around? No longer.
Anyway, the basement’s already full with Dem Joe Biden, his eldercare necessities, his written reminders to himself about who and where he is, his decades-old memories, and his flimsy rationalizations about combining being a Catholic with running a never-ending abattoir.
What a change Trump made by, as it were, bringing pro-lifers in from the cold last January when he showed up in person in that Washington, D.C., chill to address the open-air national March for Life.
Center stage during the Republicans’ August 24-27 convention displayed pro-life luminaries who hadn’t sought that role but showed they could assume the mantle.
When Planned Parenthood manager Abby Johnson walked away in disgust from her Texas clinic in 2009, seeking to take a healing path instead, she never would have imagined that 11 years later she’d be speaking to the nation from an RNC platform in defense of preborn babies, their mothers, and clinic workers who, like herself, walk away.
Just over a year and a half ago, Kentucky high school student Nicholas Sandmann was just one of the Covington kids waiting outside the Lincoln Memorial for a bus ride back home after being in the 2019 March for Life. But he gained this 2020 national stage after being victimized in a flash by ferocious left-wing dominant media seething against a teen-ager’s beliefs.
Chen Guangcheng was the self-taught “barefoot lawyer” in rural China, fighting against the Communist Party’s horrific one-child policy and for workers’ rights in this new century, when persecution by that iron-fisted dictatorship drove him to the United States. Now he told the RNC, “We need to support, vote, and fight for President Trump for the sake of the world.”
Cissie Graham Lynch, daughter of evangelist Franklin Graham and granddaughter of Billy Graham, was raised by a more famous family than the previous three people. But her RNC appearance helped make the point that believers who want to be active in the public square have no friend in a Democratic administration.
She endorsed Trump’s reelection while recalling that the Barack Obama-Joe Biden administration persecuted traditional religious believers, while a potential Biden-Kamala Harris administration would be very hostile, too.
Here you have Biden, who’s scared to be Catholic, and Harris, who’s not scared to be anti-Catholic. Pretty well sums up what Democratic leadership has become.
As California attorney general, Harris had her agents raid the residence of pro-life investigative journalist David Daleiden while she set him up for ruinous prosecution in court because her Planned Parenthood puppet-masters were shuddering over being exposed by him for profiting off selling the body parts of aborted babies. A ghastly practice, but fine with left-wing Democrats whose camp faithless Joe Biden joined.
As a U.S. senator, Harris treated membership in the Knights of Columbus as something to be deplored because its members are expected to subscribe to traditional moral beliefs.
This is the merciless type of administration the Democrats would bring the nation anew in 2021, but they’re scared to call attention now by blaring about it during their recently concluded virtual national convention. Nor did they want to touch the topic of widespread rioters, arsonists, and looters with a free hand in Democrat political zones.
Conservative GOP political consultant Constantin Querard told The Wanderer on August 25: “There is never enough room to accommodate everyone who wants to speak at the convention, so pay more attention to who is there than who isn’t. The Democrats will rarely give the stage to their more liberal members. Someone like Bernie Sanders only gets on because he has so many delegates, he can’t be denied.
“Conventions are sales pitches, and the Democrats are not going to put on a four-day festival of defunding the police, abortion on demand, gun confiscation, shutting down charter schools, and grown men using the girls’ restrooms anytime they want to, no matter how much of their actual ideology that represents,” Querard said.
The attorney general of a different state, 34-year-old black conservative Republican Daniel Cameron, of Kentucky, must have left RNC viewers in awe at how directly he dressed down Biden.
Here was this young, energetic black legal specialist explicitly rejecting old, confused white man Biden’s bigotries about how blacks must vote and think.
“I also think about Joe Biden,” said Cameron, “who says ‘If you aren’t voting for me, you ain’t black,’ who argued that Republicans would put us back in chains, who said there is no diversity of thought in the black community. Mr. Vice President, look at me. I am black; we are not all the same, sir. I am not in chains. My mind is my own…Joe Biden is a backwards thinker.”
The Washington Examiner posted on August 26 that South Dakota’s conservative Republican governor, Kristi Noem, told the RNC of “the simple and radical explication that our nation is not divided between right and left but rather those who can either afford these riots and shutdowns or profit off of them and those who cannot.”
The elite can flee to some other manor and aren’t seeing their neighborhood small businesses starved for customers or burned down, but ordinary people are. And, the Examiner article said, “those looking to riot and protest their way into the new ideological bourgeoisie are those looking to distinguish themselves from the poor folks who have to care about material things instead of raised fists and perfect pronouns.”
Meanwhile, left-wing CNN was beyond being satirized. All summer Americans have been able to make fun of various outlets’ reporters describing the riots as “mostly peaceful.” But CNN managed to toss another log on this fire when it pictured an arson blaze amid unrest in Kenosha, Wis., with a chyron saying, “Fiery but mostly peaceful protests after police shooting.”
Social media took note of such journalistic irresponsibility. One pertinent reaction was: “It’s not even funny. Months of enabling violence and destruction by ignoring and downplaying it, thereby eliminating any pressure on politicians to take action.”
Well, Trump tried to take action but his offers of federal intervention usually were rejected by local Dem politicians adrift in the fantasy — quickly seconded by dominant media — that it wasn’t Marxists and Antifa causing the problems, but law enforcement’s presence.
On August 25 CNN’s Don Lemon acknowledged the rioting was hurting Democrats in the polls and called on Biden to say something.
An article at The Hill political site on August 26 quoted Lemon: “It’s showing up in the polling. It’s showing up in focus groups. It is the only thing right now that is sticking. The riots and the protests have become indistinguishable.”
Biden apparently grasped that if even left-wing Lemon was worried, he’d better say something. So he stuck his head up from his basement and said he didn’t think rioting was good.
The New York Post posted on August 26 that Biden tweeted, “Needless violence won’t heal us.” Hmm, does that leave the basement window open far enough to say that needful violence still would be okay?
Even though CNN had to pay out some unrevealed hefty sum as punishment to Kentuckian Sandmann for its defamation committed just over a year and a half ago, CNN analyst Joe Lockhart, of all people, still couldn’t bear to look at Sandmann’s face speaking at the RNC.
Lockhart tweeted, “I’m watching tonight because it’s important. But I don’t have to watch this snot-nose entitled kid from Kentucky.”
True, there are some brats for whom that description could be fitting. But Catholic-educated, polite, soft-spoken, pro-life Nicholas Sandmann? Or are those the humane attributes that a media biggie like Lockhart can’t stand? Even though Lockhart’s own biographical information shows him graduating from Georgetown, a place that used to be more Catholic.
Lockhart isn’t just any media motormouth. He had been President Bill Clinton’s White House press secretary for a bit, as well as being in the professional company of other national Democrat politicians more likely to have imbibed from the D.C. swamp than the healing waters of a clear conscience. The swamp waters that Biden has swum in for decades. Just look at all the moss clogging up his conscience.
Arizona conservative Republican congressman and Catholic Paul Gosar tweeted that Lockhart was just mad because CNN pays Sandmann more money than himself.
Former Trump White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders tweeted, “What no one should have to watch is CNN — the network you work for — viciously attack an innocent kid. For all the talk from Dems about empathy and compassion, they sure have a hard time showing it.”
Among other responses was the tweet by investigative journalist Sara A. Carter, not one of the media mob, who lamented: “Too bad there’s so many entitled adults on @CNN that have nothing better to do than insult young, good-hearted American kids that love their country and God.”
Perhaps Lockhart felt galled because Sandmann said it all too truly in his RNC talk about dominant media’s cultivation of left-wing fake narratives, one of which was done on him:
“Because the truth was not important. Advancing their anti-Christian, anti-conservative, anti-Donald Trump narrative was all that mattered. And if advancing their narrative ruined the reputation and future of a teenager from Covington, Ky., well, so be it. That would teach him not to wear a MAGA hat.”
In fabricating their fantasies, dominant media disabled their ability to think and reason in so many ways. When Trump proudly watched five new American citizens pledge their allegiance at the White House on the second night of the RNC, the journos were flummoxed. Why, Trump hates foreigners, Trump hates immigrants. How can this be?
These media came up with all their crazy tales to damage the president after the initial D.C. insiders’ plot to kick Trump out of the White House before he barely could unpack his bags had failed.
Because the outgoing Obama administration secretly tried to destroy the new Trump administration — which, of course, was done at the highest levels of government — what would ordinary Jane and Joe Pro-Lifer on Oak Lane face from a weaponized new Biden-Harris administration that had been told by their Planned Parenthood masters to take care of these pests, like Harris did to Daleiden? While complicit media smirk.
Meanwhile, the Post Millennial website on August 24 wasn’t alone in noting that mobs had moved from downtowns to tree-lined neighborhoods. People had stayed at home to avoid the coronavirus, but the violence virus could come out looking for them.
More of America hoped to avoid the threat if the mayhem was in the larger, Democrat-run liberal cities, but when Kenosha, Wis., at around 100,000 population, was in uproar and blazes in late August, whose town could feel safe from the militancy of left-wing extremists that Biden feared to alienate?
With riots from coast to coast, the Dems knew what was really important, though.
NBC News posted on August 12, “After her selection as Biden’s running mate…, Harris made immediate waves when she announced her chief of staff would be Karine Jean-Pierre — an out lesbian, a former Obama White House staffer and a spokesperson for the progressive group MoveOn.”
With America in flames, the Dems’ emphasis was indulging the fires of lust.
Due to deadlines, this was written on the third night of the GOP’s four-day production, so Trump doing the closer may yield yet a bigger event. But Republicans so far could be proud of their message of hope, values, and patriotism, as contrasted with the sorry spectacle the Democrats wrought the previous week, despite the Hollywood resources they could call on.
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