New in PJ Media:
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.
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࿗Infidel࿘ says
I do hope that Mitch McConnell is gone. As it is, he won’t be Senate leader of the GOP after the current Congress, and I hope that someone more MAGA (which McConnell just denounced) than him gets elected leader. Maybe Rick Scott, but better still, a Josh Hawley or even a Tom Cotton
On the House side, I do hope that enough real conservatives get elected, and fewer Ken Bucks, so that this time, the Republicans can elect Jim Jordan as speaker. Mike Johnson, while not as bad as Kevin McCarthy, has still turned out to be disastrous for the party
As far as their calls go, the Dems won’t stop unless and until there’s a backlash. No point calling on them to do squat. Peter Doocey raised that w/ KJP a day after the second attempt on Trump, and she accused him of statements that are highly dangerous and inflammatory. These people are itching for a civil war, and like the thugs in Hamas & Hizbullah, will regret it once it happens
40 rounds says
The civil war thing might be correct but I fear the right will be prosecuted and the left will be exonerated much like the summer of love when so many antifa and blm types walked away scot free
James Lincoln says
࿗Infidel࿘ says,
“I do hope that Mitch McConnell is gone.”
Yes, a pathetic RINO.
Ditch Mitch!!!
OLD GUY says
Kamala Harris is a loser and a sore one at that. The really sad part is the Democratic Party will fight Trump on everything, it’s as important to put Republicans in the House of Representatives and Congress as it is the White House. Let’s bring the America back for the American citizens not just the wealthy and elite.