Posted on 01/23/2025 4:47:59 AM PST by MtnClimber
Years of leftist hysterics and hollow attacks on Trump had desensitized voters, leaving the public weary, dismissive, and ultimately handing Trump a resounding 2024 victory.
Donald Trump won the 2024 election in part because the left’s hysterical style of attacking Trump no longer worked.
After a decade of this unhinged furor, it proved worthless in winning public support—and for two simple reasons.
One, after years of Russian collusion hoaxes, the laptop disinformation farce, and the warped lies about the “suckers” and “fine people on both sides”—the shrill left became predictable.
So, the bored public began tuning them out, switching channels, hitting the mute button, and pulling the plug.
Like the deleterious effects of inflation that eventually render a currency worthless, nonstop hectoring, hysterics, pontification, and distortion finally made all such criticisms of Trump mostly as valueless as 1930s German marks.
Second, the wearied public never heard reasoned counterarguments from the likes of a Rachel Maddow. Instead, on spec, she kept mouthing, “The walls are closing in” on Trump.
Joe Biden did not explain why his open border was a better idea than Trump’s closed one. He preferred mumbling about “semi-fascists!” and “ultra-MAGA!”
The Never Trumpers did not critique the Trump deficits. Instead, they hammered away that Trump was Hitler, or Mussolini, or Putin—or just a dangerous dictator or autocrat.
Angry retired generals never demonstrated why Trump was, in their view, an existential threat to democracy. Instead, they shouted nonstop in op-eds and interviews that he was a fascist, Nazi-like, no different from the guards at Auschwitz, a pathological liar, and should be summarily removed.
Worn-out voters began to understand these psychodramas were substitutes for substantive criticism or occasions for legitimate debate.
Indeed, the exhausted public finally concluded that the hysterics increased in direct proportion to the poverty of the charges.
(Excerpt) Read more at amgreatness.com ...
It is marxism that is an existential threat to our republic.
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I lost count of the number of times VDH used variations of the word “hysteria.” But he’s right! 🙂
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Still many American are stuck on stupid and stupid they will remain
Forgetting nothing, learning nothing, like zombies, leftists keep screaming banalities. But like addicts and their feel-good fixes, their hysterics only further turn off the public as they destroy themselves.
And the Left may soon wear out these epithets for use in politics.
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I love Hanson. I really like the American Greatness site.
I can’t help but agree that the left is destroying itself and hope it continues.
The left, the democrat party, the “walking dead” dinosaur media and all their globalist billionaire donors are enemies of the American people and the Constitution.
We are not done yet- 2026 and 2028 start now- we have to finish the job of voting these traitors into history as the very bad idea it all is.
And could someone please tell the rinos in Congress that they are supposed to be on our side...?
“January 20th 2025 was the day the TRUE irrelevance of the progessive liberal activist began”. they are merely going through the various stages of grief while the rest of us say “Oh Good Grief!”.
Typical liberal Democrat overreach strikes again!
“Still many American are stuck on stupid and stupid they will remain”
But enough useful idiots got tired of being useful idiots and stopped buying the crap being sold to them. That made the difference.
“Addicted, petty, and hysterical”
It beings to mind an old Chris Rock bit: ‘Whatever happened to “crazy?”’
The Left has gone even more bonkers than they were. They look and sound completely nuts. Meanwhile, Los Angeles burns...
Indeed the left are a threat and predictable.
Warning sign blinking
VDH is spot on. The left has forgotten how to make coherent arguments for their positions. All they can do is the same tactics of personal attacks and emotions with no real there there.
As if the fentanyl zombies are an allegory to the liberal soul.
The left is run by a bunch of old pothead hippies whose time has past. “Dude............”
The Left is dead because they simply cannot make the case that their policies are better, thus the histrionics.
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