Who's the Real Tyrant: Biden or Trump?
Lately, media hysteria has been, well, hysterical. The cause of the current meltdown? The prospect that Donald J. Trump might be restored to the White House.
The New York Times weighed in with, Why a Second Trump Presidency May Be More Radical Than His First. The Washington Post offered, A Trump Dictatorship is Increasingly Inevitable. We Should Stop Pretending. Talking heads on cable nodded their assent.
In this whirlwind of fear-mongering, no outlet could outdo the Atlantic. The magazine owned by Laurene Powell Jobs, widow of Apple tech visionary Steve Jobs, issued a special edition called If Trump Wins, with not one, not two, but TWENTY-FOUR articles venting about the dark consequences of a Trump victory. The editor’s note was called “A Warning.” Some of my favorite titles included “Trump Will Abandon NATO,” “Four More Years of Unchecked Misogyny,” “The Climate Can’t Afford Another Trump Presidency,” and perhaps, my favorite, “Corruption Unbound.” How delightfully self-unaware to tag Trump for corruption when, thanks to Alex Marlow’s new book, we have the receipts for Biden’s larceny.
The thread in all these pieces is that Trump is a tyrant, that his election to the presidency would be a threat to democracy, because he’s corrupt! Transferred from print bird-cage liner to yammering cable noise, this talk of tyranny was so ubiquitous that Trump happily trolled the hysterical ones by observing that he would only be a dictator for one day, to close the border and “drill, drill, drill.” This prompted President Biden to have a rare funny moment, saying, “Thank God, only one day.”
But the truth is this is a classic example of far-left radicals projecting onto right-wing conservatives their own sins. Like magicians waving their red flags in our direction, they seek to distract our attention to their own misdeeds by blaming others.
I love the satire Andrew Klavan posted on all this at the Daily Wire. He imaged a group of oceanographers showing up at something called The Atlantic expecting to discuss sea life biology and baffled when their host turned into a baying Democrat.
Speaking to a room of confused oceanographers who had shown up at the wrong meeting, Miss Hysterical said, “If Donald Trump is re-elected, he will move to prosecute his political opponents, silence those who disagree with him on social media, use the FBI to raid the homes of dissenters in the dead of night, and sentence protestors to extraordinarily long terms in prison for misdemeanors clearly incited by federal agents.”
The oceanographers, who had come expecting to see the Atlantic, pointed out that Democrats were already doing all those dictatorial things to Trump and his supporters. Miss Hysterical responded, “Yes, but that’s different because Democrats are good people who can be counted on to sexualize children, demonize whites, degrade blacks, hate Jews and rationalize the unimaginable atrocities of Islamist terrorists in the name of an insane academic ideology, so when they violate every tenet of good American governance, it’s okay. By the way, this is the Atlantic magazine, not the ocean.”
The record of the tyranny hypocrisy — much like Hillary Clinton’s shameful claim that Trump conspired with Russia to influence the 2016 election (instead of acknowledging she paid for the false dossier meant to bolster the hoax), or the two impeachment efforts Democrats (and Mitt Romney, oh wait, is that the same thing?) — waged to undermine President Trump’s effectiveness — is almost too tedious to recap. But for the record:
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