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These days, you can never tell. The old party lines are breaking down. Stalwart Republican Dick Cheney has endorsed Kamala Harris. So has his daughter Liz and another former Republican member of Congress, Adam Kinzinger. Meanwhile, a scion of the most celebrated Democrat family in the world, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is going with Trump. So is Tulsi Gabbard, who once ran for president of the United States herself as a Democrat. Elon Musk, who a few years ago called Trump a “dumb**s,” appeared with him on the campaign trail.
In this atmosphere, it cannot be taken for granted that even pillars of the Republican and Democrat establishments are actually going to vote for their designated candidates. That’s why it was a bit surprising, and refreshing, that two of those Republican pillars, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-La.) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) excoriated Kamala Harris for calling Trump a “fascist” and thereby bringing the already hysterical public discourse to a new boiling point. It would have been just as believable if McConnell in particular, a quintessential Washington insider who has clashed with Trump more than once, had endorsed Harris’ inflammatory rhetoric.
Fox News reported Friday that McConnell and Johnson said in a statement that “labeling a political opponent as a ‘fascist’ risks inviting yet another would-be assassin to try robbing voters of their choice before Election Day.”
That is undoubtedly true, although if there is a new attempt on Trump’s life, Harris and her media sycophants will simply blame the victim again. By this time, this is a tried-and-true strategy. Old Joe Biden set the standard for the left’s strident rhetoric against Trump when he proclaimed, in his famous red-and-black speech on Sept. 1, 2022, that “Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic.”
Then later, after both attempts on Trump’s life, Old Joe and his henchmen blamed Trump’s rhetoric for the overheated atmosphere. The establishment media happily plays along, so Kamala knows that she has nothing to lose by trotting out this tired playbook again.
And so when Fox asked the Harris campaign about the warning from McConnell and Johnson, Harris just doubled down, saying: “Well, listen, we all must speak out against any form of political violence, and I’m very clear about that. No one should be the subject of violence. But the American people deserve to be presented with facts and the truth. And the fact and the truth is that some of the people closest to Donald Trump when he was president, generals, including most recently, John Kelly, a four-star marine general, have been very clear about the danger and the threat that Donald Trump poses to America and the fact that he is unfit to serve. And the American People deserve to hear that and know about that.” In other words, Trump is a fascist, and she is going to keep claiming this, no matter what.
Johnson and McConnell did their best to compel Harris to take some responsibility and do the decent thing: “Vice President Harris may want the American people to entrust her with the sacred duty of executive authority. But first, she must abandon the base and irresponsible rhetoric that endangers both American lives and institutions.” That raises a piquant question: does the hard left even care about “base and irresponsible rhetoric that endangers both American lives and institutions”? Or are they only interested in securing and maintaining power, no matter what doing so requires them to do?
Johnson and McConnell added: “We have both been briefed on the ongoing and persistent threats to former President Donald Trump by adversaries to the United States, and we call on the Vice President to take these threats seriously, stop escalating the threat environment, and help ensure President Trump has the necessary resources to be protected from those threats.”
They must know that there is absolutely no chance that Harris will heed their advice. For her to do so would require a level of decency and mutual respect that has long since vanished from American politics.
Indeed, Harris has to escalate the threat environment. That’s how she fires up her base. She certainly can’t run on the Biden-Harris regime’s abysmal record, and her handlers know it, so they have thrown everything behind a strategy of smearing Trump as an imminent threat to freedom, democracy, and all that it’s good. McConnell and Johnson ought to be grateful that Harris is contenting herself to comparing Trump with Hitler, rather than saying he is straight-up Lucifer.
McConnell and Johnson decried the fact that “in the weeks since that second sobering reminder, the Democratic nominee for President of the United States has only fanned the flames beneath a boiling cauldron of political animus.” They might have noted that even the fact that there have been two assassination attempts against Trump during this election season and there could easily be another one any day now is testimony to how much the left has poisoned the political discourse.
But ultimately, it doesn’t matter what they wrote. Harris will pay no attention and continue crying wolf. We can only hope that the object of her incandescent hatred won’t get hurt, but there is no guarantee.
Speak for yourself you crazy old Bat. She belongs in a Mental Institution not the Oval Office
there isn’t a cocktail of medications combined with electroshock therapy that would cure kumala’s brain rot!
Fascism is a national socialist political philosophy. All socialist philosophies value the society above the value of the individual. Communism is an international socialist political philosophy, which in addition to the devaluation of individual human freedom, also seeks to eliminate national, ethnic, and religious identity.
In Europe, Fascism was traditionally considered right wing and Communism left wing. In the United States, since they are both socialist philosophies, they are both left wing. US Constitutionalism, which places the freedom of the individual above the individual’s value to society is right wing.
The Democrats and the media use the word “fascist” seek to equate an individual, in this case Donald Trump, with the human rights abuses of national socialist philosophies. The word fascist, however, doesn’t describe Mr. Trumps behavior at all, as we have had the experience of 4 years of his Presidency during which the government wasn’t used to limit any individual’s freedom.
“Fascist” or even more accurately, “Stalinist” describes the behavior of the Democrats, some of whom even proudly declare themselves Democratic Socialists (which is an oxymoron). They have misused law enforcement and the courts to target him and the media to lie about him, which is truly fascist behavior.
I don’t know about you American citizens, but I am past getting tired of listening to our elected leaders make speeches
and writing letters to deaf and blind Democrat know it alls! First up-find out who’s really running the country (it sure
ain’t ‘ole Joe). And if you know or find out-make NOISE, keep making NOISE! Enough with this shame Presidency!
Do the same with Kamala- she is sure as Hell ain’t gonna run this BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY!!!
The folks who are the fascists are the ones calling Trump and the MAGA crowd fascists.
But that is how it always goes.
Hopefully, enough people are tired of the Left crying “WOLF!”
I guess we will find out in a week.
of all the many rinos in washington , mc connell and johnson are sailing close to the wind alongside cheney and co . both democrats and republicans are no friends to ordinary americans , j6 was a case in point . americans are in the slammer for no more than what amounted to jay walking . yet i didnt hear too many republicans kicking up a stink about the manifestly immoral outcome of the sham trials .meanwhile ANTIFA and BLM walk and that folks tells you all you need to know about what america is , a fascist authoritarian cesspool . and even if trump gets in not much will change because his second term [ if there is one ] will be the same as his first . all out warfare perpetrated by the democrats and their brownshirt stormtroopers . if they cant rule they will make sure it will be impossible for anyone else to run the country . just read kimberly strassels book [ resistance at all costs ] to be informed as to what you can expect only worse .
There was no ARMED insurrection in 2021, unless you call arming your government with Hollywood producers to create an imagined violent insurrection by the party whom you wish to deny of their rightful desire for investigation of fraudulent election behaviour on your part. The only weapons of warfare were possessed by and used by Democrat party government officials…yet Kamala wrongly accused Trump of bringing an armed mob…”if they can’t dazzle you with brilliant Hollywood productions then they will try to baffle you with ongoing media bullscat.” Lies lies and more damnable lies: Democrat communists.