Just as in 2016, the Democrats and the Press Think We're Stupid

American Thinker.com ^ | June 20, 2020 | J.B. Shurk

[Kaslin]

Do you remember how Democrats were openly scheming to help nominate Donald Trump during the 2016 Republican primary? Paul Krugman wrote a Labor Day column back in 2015 defending Trump from Jeb Bush and praising his economic platform. Jimmy Carter told the British Parliament the following February that he preferred a President Trump to a President Cruz because Trump would be a pragmatic and non-ideological leader. A Democratic National Committee email released by WikiLeaks later that year revealed that the Clinton campaign and the DNC were colluding to ensure that Trump won the nomination. An attached memorandum outlined how important it was to Democratic leadership that Trump, Ted Cruz, or Ben Carson face Hillary in the general election: "We need to be elevating the Pied Piper candidates so that they are leaders of the pack and tell the press to [take] them seriously." The "press" dutifully complied, running headline after headline in the New York Times and Washington Post and on CNN ("Clinton, Trump trade insults as rhetoric heats up between front-runners," CNN blared in September of 2015!) creating a narrative even before the Iowa caucuses that the election was essentially between Clinton and Trump, and leaving the original Republican frontrunner, Jeb Bush, clamoring for the occasional clap.

They got what they wanted but were horrified to discover that the "Trump Train" could no longer be slowed down or derailed after his nomination. The morning after President-Elect Trump delivered his victory speech, Krugman was predicting economic catastrophe that would last a thousand years, Carter was calling the election illegitimate, and Hillary and the Democrats were concocting a Russian conspiracy theory in an attempt to hide her humiliation (among other things). Talk about backfire!

[snarkytart]

It did backfire. The soft coup failed and has been exposed now. Trump got the economy rolling and didn’t get us into needless endless wars. So they saw that he didn’t explode and take himself down, and they couldn’t take him down illegitimately. So now this is what we see with the protesting and the rioting, and basically threatening voters with violence. This is all a desperate act. And believe me the majority of people don’t agree with it. That’s what the media complex and corporate complex of the left want you to think, trying to gaslight you into thinking that you’re in the minority and everyone’s on their side. Don’t fall for it.

[SunkenCiv]

Do you remember how Democrats were openly scheming to help nominate Donald Trump during the 2016 Republican primary? Paul Krugman wrote a Labor Day column back in 2015 defending Trump from Jeb Bush and praising his economic platform. Jimmy Carter told the British Parliament the following February that he preferred a President Trump to a President Cruz because Trump would be a pragmatic and non-ideological leader. A Democratic National Committee email released by WikiLeaks later that year revealed that the Clinton campaign and the DNC were colluding to ensure that Trump won the nomination. An attached memorandum outlined how important it was to Democratic leadership that Trump, Ted Cruz, or Ben Carson face Hillary in the general election: "We need to be elevating the Pied Piper candidates so that they are leaders of the pack and tell the press to [take] them seriously." The "press" dutifully complied, running headline after headline in the New York Times and Washington Post and on CNN ("Clinton, Trump trade insults as rhetoric heats up between front-runners," CNN blared in September of 2015!) creating a narrative even before the Iowa caucuses that the election was essentially between Clinton and Trump, and leaving the original Republican frontrunner, Jeb Bush, clamoring for the occasional clap.

The koolaid-drinkers regurgitate whatever they're told. Whatever their party boss says, they are in immediate agreement. The people are not stupid, only Democrats are. They haven't yet figured out that to their masters they are expendable.

Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.

Frontpage Interview with Dr. Theodore Dalrymple: Our Culture, What’s Left Of It interviewed by Jamie Glazov [August 31, 2005]

[shanover]

This is not scientific but many women voters are way less liberal identified as a voter and I see many unashamed conservative,moderate and “I vote” status. There are a great deal of women who are horrified of this upside down society and are sickened by it. Most are not running to Joe and the DNC.

[elbook]

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