Posted on 12/01/2022 9:38:34 AM PST by MtnClimber
The relentless attacks on Elon Musk since he purchased Twitter should be familiar to most Americans. It’s exactly what Democrats and their media and corporate allies did to demonize Donald Trump.
The McCarthyite formula is simple: Claim you are defending high-minded principles (Democracy! The rule of law! Civil discourse!) to justify efforts to delegitimize someone you’ve identified as a political opponent.
Democrats denied Trump’s presidency from day one; Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden themselves declared for years that he had stolen the 2016 election. In the name of election integrity, Democrats turned a bogus conspiracy theory cooked up by Clinton’s campaign about Russian collusion into years of official investigations that undermined and tainted Trump. When Special Counsel Robert Mueller proved that a lie, Democrats immediately seized on a few innocuous sentences in a Trump phone call with a foreign leader to launch just the third presidential impeachment in U.S. history.
Those events are well-known, but ponder them for a moment. This was a soft coup, a nonviolent version of Jan. 6 that was far more dangerous than the Capitol riot.
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The ongoing attacks against Musk are following the same playbook. The man once hailed by liberals as a genius for developing electric vehicles is now Public Enemy No. 1 because he says Twitter should allow more free speech. Ponder that as well: Musk’s enemies are casting him as a threat to the country because of his commitment to one of America’s most cherished freedoms.
Progressives have abandoned their longstanding anti-corporate stance to argue that an unelected, unaccountable company must aggressively censor the vox populi. We saw the same dizzying turnabout in Russiagate, where the left abandoned its historic defense of Russia to cast dealings with that nation as un-American (making Joe McCarthy their new “Uncle Joe”).
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Not surprising that the left sucks up to communist China so much. Censorship and attacking freedom are in their DNA.
But, McCarthy was right. A bad example of demonization to use.
I guess getting in tune with reality is “Trumpification”
When they’re done with Trump, they’ll go to work on DeSantis. Then Musk, then Jim Jordan, Tom Cotton , etc,, etc. An argument for supporting Trump is to ask “where does it end? Where do we take a stand?”
I quit reading at McCarthyite. It shows this writer is clueless about history. McCarthy was right. We would be much better off if people had listened to him, and not his attackers.
Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America’s Enemies
https://www.amazon.com/Blacklisted-History-Senator-McCarthy-Americas/dp/1400081068
“The McCarthyite formula”
McCarthy was right; the irony is that this is being done by the very people McCarthy was fighting against (and who have subsequently demonized him).
I agree about McCarthy
He was JFK’s mentor.
EXACTLY!!!!!!!!!!!
All these pansies who suggest Trump is too mean and we should pick someone else are falling for The Media narrative that Trump is too mean and we should pick someone else.
Do they think The Media will STOP?
Do they think the media will like DeSantis (or ANY GOP candidate) ??
If they do, then they are (incredibly, stupidly) assuming The Media will treat the next contestant any better than they treated Tummp... BUT AT LEAST TRUMP FIGTHS BACK
And we watched as they stole an election and ignored all the evidence.
Elon created SkyNet.
He is playing both sides of the fence.
That is not true, and that is not how the uniparty works. There are places in America that will always vote red and the uniparty is happy with that. They are happy with Republicans who espouse conservative philosophies. What they have no tolerance for is those conservatives who aren't "true conservatives" who have a habit of voting for their constituents or the people or the country rather than going along with the DEAL.
Like Ryan or McConnell. The press loves RINOs like that.
Case in point: RINO Mitt Romney. In 2012, they kissed up to him in the primaries in order to destroy all the conservative candidates, then trashed him in the general election.
Remember how the left blasted milquetoast republicans like Romney when he got in their way? Anyone who thinks they’ll stop after Trump is crazy or naive.
My first thought when the row between Cook and Musk broke was Elon will be a MAGA superstar if he brings all those Chinese manufactured phones back to Texas.
But in swing states Democrats will demonize DeSantis as lustily as they ever did Trump. Remember Bush/Cheney? Kavanaugh? Barrett? The only one to fight back, and win, was Trump. Can DeSantis? That’s the question for some. And although DeSantis currently is being supported by RINOs to weaken Trump if they ultimately see him as a threat to their power they’ll dump him too since they would rather reap the rewards of their position than be in power.
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