Posted on 11/21/2016 3:55:41 AM PST by Kaslin
Last week the left tried to Bork Steve Bannon, a key Trump campaign aide and proposed “chief White House strategist and senior counselor” and until August executive chairman of Breitbart News, by linking him to the alt-right. The Trumpist response to the attack was haul out Breitbart journalists and others to deny that Bannon and Breitbart had anything to do with the alt-right. Then the NeverTrumpers got into the act to say that while Bannon was innocent of the charges there was no doubt that Breitbart was playing with fire where the alt-right was concerned.
I think that the Trump people should have taken the opportunity to change the narrative. It should have turned the story back onto the left. If the alt-right is beyond the fringe, then what about the left? Is the racist La Raza beyond the respectable left fringe? Or racist Black Lives Matter? Or the racist Nation of Islam? Or radical MoveOn.org? Or socialist ANSWER? Somehow there doesn’t seem to be any group on the left that embarrasses the mainstream left.
And what about the left protesting the results of a presidential election? How fringe and extremist is that?
Moreover, the Trumpists should say, only we have the key that keeps the alt-right in its cage, because we have built a populist electoral coalition that is, for now, willing to be patient while a President Trump makes America great again. So the alt-right is marginalized, for now.
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Alt-Right, the ultimate phantom bogeyman. The term is extremely elastic. It can cover hard core Constitutionalists or it can cover the White Race or anyone whoever had a skeptical word about a Clinton or Hussein. It can be anyone who has not cursed Donald Trump in the previous week.
There is no way to “push back” against an epithet. That term and a cloud of definitional usage is entirely dependent on the MSM that includes the newly sanitized Social Media. If we don’t get some alternate alternate media going like Gap and such we will totally lose control of rapid communication. If the poohbahs at FB and Twitter don’t see the error of their ways by losing much of their market to non censored media then we are reduced to snail mail. Telephones are not terribly useful for reaching a lot of people immediately and how long is it before the telcos get into the censorship business if Twitter and FB show that there are no serious economic consequences?
We’re not pushing the CTRL-LEFT meme nearly hard enough.
Good points and I’ve been doing just that. I’m Also explaining how since the MSM has lost its credibility and many go elsewhere for news, now they are trying to discredit alternative news sources thru ‘shaming’. They used shaming as a means to try and shut down conversation before the election on Trump voters creating closet voters. Now they are trying to use character assassination to shut down alternative news sources since we’ve refused to be force fed malarkey.
But, thanks to Harry Reid. The number of votes required has changed. So, approval should not be an issue.
Agreed. It is not enough to defend Bannon. We should shame those who would attempt to Bork him.
Exactly. Remember how they character assassinated the ‘Tea Party’.
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bork
[bôrk]
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US
informal
obstruct (someone, especially a candidate for public office) through systematic defamation or vilification:
“is fear of borking scaring people from public office?”
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