Most Democrats appear to be getting over final week’s thumping nicely sufficient, however a horrific fraction appear to have purchased into their leaders’ irresponsible, apocalyptic rhetoric — and so are damaging themselves, their households and even their youngsters.
The obvious case is Anthony Nephew, the Minnesota man who apparently killed his spouse, ex-partner and his two sons earlier than taking his personal life in response to Donald Trump’s victory.
Sure, he evidently had longstanding mental-health points; we’ll by no means understand how a lot of his closing disaster got here from marinating for years within the extremist, hateful rhetoric now frequent on the left.
However there’s some connection: Why else did Democrats from President Biden on down name for a reducing of the temperature after the primary try to assassinate Donald Trump?
Too dangerous the entire get together shortly turned again to “fascist” and “end of democracy,” to not point out “Nazi” and “garbage.”
And pushing outright lies about abortion, their different major concern this 12 months.
For the file, no state bans aborting an ectopic being pregnant. None of them criminalizes having a miscarriage, nor surgical procedure to save lots of the mom’s life. Each hospital in America is legally obliged to deal with a girl struggling problems after taking abortion capsules.
All the parents spreading misinformation on the contrary (together with, obscenely, well being professionals and so-called journalists) are, sickly, endangering the lives of weak girls.
But rank, hateful distortion is now routine for Democrats: Again in 2021, recall, Biden was raging about “Jim Crow 2.0,” the Georgia voting legislation that . . . has now seen two straight elections (2022 and 2024) with file turnout. (Main League Baseball nonetheless owes Atlanta an apology for pulling the All-Star Recreation over that.)
And the mainstream media’s lack of fundamental fact-checking requirements places gas on the hearth: Keep in mind, CBS Night Information led a nightly newscast the opposite week with the outright lie that Trump had threatened Liz Cheney’s life.
Panel after panel on CNN (not MSNBC) options contributors foaming on the mouth at how individuals voted for a “convicted felon” who “says he’ll be a dictator and use the armed forces against his domestic opponents” — all bogus speaking factors about Trump.
Most people tunes all of it out — that’s why Trump nonetheless received the nationwide fashionable vote.
However some nonetheless consider it, and now are emoting on social media about how they’ve now reduce off all ties with their “MAGA” mother and father, youngsters or no matter.
You’re household, and you’ll’t discover one thing agreeable to speak about?
Add in, too, the liberal mothers that Bethany Mandel rightly scourged in Saturday’s Put up: “real people, and unfortunately, real parents, who have decided to inflict severe emotional distress upon their children as some kind of political virtual signal” by needlessly inflicting Trump-is-Hitler propaganda on their children.
The unhinged hate takes all method of kinds: On “The View” final week, Whoopi Goldberg significantly introduced, “Your grocery bills are what they are because the folks that own the groceries are pigs.”
Kamala Harris and Joe Biden know higher: That’s why they’re shifting on as leaders do after any misplaced election — Biden, even with an enormous smile.
And all of the Democratic operatives who went together with the marketing campaign of hate, concern and lies understand it too: They made their bucks doing their greatest to attempt to win regardless of having no actual points, utilizing ways which have turn out to be routine for his or her get together — and assured that a lot of the press would play alongside.
Certainly, most Democrats nonetheless consider that Trump colluded with Russia to win in 2016 — although the whole Russiagate fable in the long run rested solely on tales made up underneath an “opposition research” contract from the Hillary Clinton marketing campaign.
The New York Instances and Washington Put up break up a Pulitzer Prize for amplifying that disinformation.
Not like the so-called “disinformation experts” who demand an unlimited censorship equipment to supposedly purify our “information spaces,” we consider in free speech, together with the liberty to inform outright lies (topic, after all, to libel legal guidelines and associated penalties).
The perfect reply, the solely sensible reply, to unfaithful speech is true speech.
However that true speech can and should embody calling “Shame.”
So disgrace on Biden, Harris, the Obamas, CBS, the Instances and all the remainder: For nothing however short-term partisan ends, you’ve been sickening the minds of excellent individuals whose solely mistake is to belief you.
It’s a tragic factor certainly that so a lot of our leaders suppose nothing of poisoning the American thoughts.
