November 2, 2024
The idea that Donald Trump or one of his Republican allies might take office is so scary to the left that they've taken to calling them being elected via the democratic process a "threat to democracy." Never mind the contradiction there -- it's more the hyperbole that counts. It's gotten...

The idea that Donald Trump or one of his Republican allies might take office is so scary to the left that they’ve taken to calling them being elected via the democratic process a “threat to democracy.”

Never mind the contradiction there — it’s more the hyperbole that counts.

It’s gotten so bad that when one notable Trump supporter and ally made a joke about it during the Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland on Wednesday, Democrats lost their marbles and pretended it was real.

In comments made during the opening day of the conference in the outskirts of Washington, Human Events senior editor Jack Posobiec — very clearly not in a serious tone — told attendees, “Welcome to the end of democracy!”

“We’re here to overthrow it completely. We didn’t get all the way there on Jan. 6, but we will endeavor to get rid of it and replace it with this right here,” he continued, holding his fist in the air.

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Mediaite, which reported this seriously and called Posobiec an “[a]lt-right conspiracy theorist” (at least when it comes to the matter of Posobiec being a member of the “alt-right,” this is a case of Inigo Montoya Syndrome: “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means”), noted that he went on to say, somewhat more seriously, that “all glory is not to government, all glory to God.”

“All right! Amen!” former White House adviser and Trump campaign manager Steve Bannon could be heard saying in the background:

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That’s one post with the clip from a social media account calling itself “Republican Accountability,” which — despite the fact that Posobiec’s sarcasm is more evident than a “Saturday Night Live” sketch — said this is proof “Trump’s Republican Party openly wants to end democracy. We must stop them.”

Nor was this account alone in hand-wringing about the Posobiec clip:

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Professional social media hyperventilator Ryan Shead also chimed in.

“This is not a test, these people are planning Insurrection 2.0, that’s why they went with Trump again,” he posted. “No one else would be the catalyst they need.

“It’s pick-a-side time. Which side will it be?”

To quote Charlie Brown: “Don’t you know sarcasm when you hear it?”

If anyone heard this spoken at the cadence and pitch that it was — and knew about the febrile talk about how democratically electing Donald Trump or his allies represents the “end of democracy” — and thought this was a serious threat by Posobiec, I’d offer to sell you the Brooklyn Bridge. However, I fear that, after offering to wire me the money, you’d get New York State Attorney General Letitia James to sue me for business fraud. Because, yes, you are that stupid and you are that strident.

These are not the only prominent anti-Trump influencers who fell for this, either — or, at least, pretended to fall for it because it allowed them to make a prefabricated argument about how CPAC is now a gathering of the “far right,” “alt-right,” “nativist right,” or whatever term they’re using to describe conservatism in radioactive terms these days.

The fact that anyone did, and then kept the post up, should be deeply embarrassing to them and to their supporters.

The fact that it doesn’t seem to be — and the fact that this is still being taken seriously by media outlets — indicates just how much stupidity the left will tolerate to smear anyone even remotely associated with Donald Trump, no matter if it makes them look like the idiots in the process.


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C. Douglas Golden is a writer who splits his time between the United States and Southeast Asia. Specializing in political commentary and world affairs, he’s written for Conservative Tribune and The Western Journal since 2014.

C. Douglas Golden is a writer who splits his time between the United States and Southeast Asia. Specializing in political commentary and world affairs, he’s written for Conservative Tribune and The Western Journal since 2014. Aside from politics, he enjoys spending time with his wife, literature (especially British comic novels and modern Japanese lit), indie rock, coffee, Formula One and football (of both American and world varieties).

Birthplace

Morristown, New Jersey

Education

Catholic University of America

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English, Spanish

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American Politics, World Politics, Culture