Protest Spin

The Wall Street Journal wasn’t particularly sympathetic to the cause in the wake of the recent D.C demonstrations .  All of a sudden, they had fallen in line with the detractors, adopting the same set of adjectives.  Where we once had “voting irregularities”, and hundreds of affidavits attesting to it, we now have “unproven” allegations, “false” accusations, and the old Trump standby: “lies”.  Instead of showing the public that these claims are being taken seriously, a matter that was addressed when it was Gore doping the accusing, the 80 Million Trump supporters are being told that there’s nothing here people, you lost, go home. After four years of relentless attacks on a duly elected president, our elected officials are telling us to shut up and just accept a loss, something the other side has never actually done. And the piling on continues. Many of you are not a fan of Tucker Carlson, but I think he got it right.  Trump was still full of his swaggering, incendiary bravado, but he certainly didn’t instruct the crowd to breach the Capitol.  Like all marches in DC, he called for the crowd to march to the Capitol to protest at the site where the flawed election was being ratified.  No more.  Did it get out of hand? It sure did. But no more out of hand than the riots in Portland, New York City and Kenosha.  I didn’t see the city burn and businesses looted.  The “people’s house was violated”, they screamed.  Yes it was.  By the people, we the people.  And video shows repeated examples of the Capitol Police opening barricades and stepping aside.  And by barricades, I mean bike racks.  And it’s not your house, Nancy, not the aristocracy’s house, not the house of the elite, despite the exclusive hair salon and private gyms. It belongs to the people that you brushed off and disenfranchised, chose to ignore and belittle. Even Anderson Cooper, an elitist of the Vanderbilt dynasty, mocked the protesters on CNN, suggesting that they will “go back to the Olive Garden and to the Holiday Inn they’re staying at, or the Garden Marriott…..”   The unfortunate aftermath will be more demagoguery, mostly directed at threats to Democrat power such as senators Hawley and Cruz.  It’s going to be an ugly four years, but this style of ugliness has not been brought on by Trump alone, rather by a power hungry Democrat cabal and their complicit media.