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Ever since the election, Democrats have been in a quandary. Should they be civil toward Trump and try to work with him, as virtually every defeated party has behaved toward the victors since the beginning of the American republic? Or should they keep up the pretense that Trump is a mortal danger to “our democracy” and a new Hitler in the making? Now one prominent leftist has seen through the façade.

The problem with the latter course is that war is exhausting, and a spirit of cooperation could help bind up the nation’s wounds; however, to drop the fearmongering about Trump would also expose the Democrats as having been liars all along. And that’s exactly what they are, but they don’t want to go around broadcasting that fact.

The Daily Caller reported last Friday that popular radio personality Charlamagne Tha God is rethinking his earlier assumption that Trump was a “fascist” in light of the Democrats’ conciliatory behavior since the election. If they don’t believe their campaign rhetoric, why should he? On his “The Brilliant Idiots” podcast, Charlamagne said: “I never called Donald Trump a fascist based off anything I heard from Democrats. I said that because of things I heard come out of Donald Trump’s mouth, right? But guess what? I don’t even know if I believe it anymore. But only because of how they’re acting. I’m like, well god**n, maybe it ain’t that much of a threat.”

At that point, Charlamagne’s cohost Andrew Schulz chimed in helpfully: “Exactly. They lied to you.” Of course they did. That’s what they always do. They not only lied about Trump; they lied about COVID, they lied about Biden’s fitness to hold office, they lied about Hunter’s laptop, they’re still lying about climate change, and about myriad other matters as well. The devil, said Jesus, is the father of lies (John 8:44), and Old Scratch might as well be chairman of the Democratic National Committee as well, as the phrase “truthful Democrat” is as magnificent and apposite an example of an oxymoron as was ever uttered by mortal man.

Charlamagne went on to explain that he wasn’t exactly sure now whether or not Trump was really a “fascist,” and hastened to reassure the fascists in his audience that he was not guilty of wrongthink that would cause him to be cast into the outer darkness, where men weep and gnash their teeth and vote for Trump: “That don’t change my vote,” he insisted. “I still would’ve voted for the vice president.”

Yet troublesome unwoke thoughts are still assailing Charlamagne. He was annoyed with Barack Obama for “laughing and giggling with Trump” during Jimmy Carter’s funeral, and who wouldn’t be? After all, would Obama have held a friendly chat with Adolf Hitler? Charlamagne said, according to the Caller, that “Obama’s behavior revealed the performative nature of politics,” and there was no doubt about that.

Charlamagne fumed: “After you went so hard calling somebody a threat to democracy and calling somebody a fascist and now you just chummy chummy with the man? You told us he was a threat to democracy. To me, that’s just terrible political optics … after you’ve used such crazy-a** rhetoric against him.”

That’s right, Mr. God. (Or is it Mr. Tha God?) All the hysteria from Obama and others about how Trump was “a wannabe king” and “wannabe dictator” was just campaign rhetoric and nothing more, raw red meat for the sophisticated urban blue rubes. It’s good to see that you’re catching on, and we hope that many other leftists will do so as well.

In the meantime, however, the damage that has been done to the political discourse and the national unity may well be irreparable. A significant percentage of people who voted for Kamala Harris are desperately afraid that Hitler is going to be sworn in as president on Monday, and that shortly thereafter he will begin his reign of terror.

These thoroughly indoctrinated people will be putting pressure on their elected officials to go scorched-earth with the Trump administration, fighting it every step of the way. Fox News reported last Wednesday that “by a 58-point margin, voters think Democrats should look for opportunities to work with the president-elect as opposed to resisting his agenda and causing division (78% compromise, 20% resist).” That 20%, however, thinks that to work with Trump would be like working with Jack the Ripper. It is going to be a long time, if ever, before they go back to accepting the principle that someone may disagree with them without becoming evil incarnate. And that’s thanks to the friends and allies of Charlamagne Tha God.