The left’s ongoing campaign to denigrate Trump supporters
By: David Limbaugh
This seed by David Limbaugh is exactly right. The despotic Christian hating far progressive left has been trying to destroy Trumps supporters and voters as much of not more than they targeted him personally. Their malicious and vicious cancel culture and denigrating of Trumps Christian conservative base is the big lie.
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If the first week of leftist insanity gushing from President Joe Biden’s executive pen doesn’t vindicate Donald Trump’s supporters in full measure, I don’t know what could. Scratch that. There is much more to come.
Trump supporters have long touted the former president’s impressive policy achievements as proof they were wise in supporting him and correct that an outsider could get results.
We’ve learned in the past few months who is running this country: the media, the social media oligarchy, cancel culture and leftist dark money being poured into the system. These forces have weaponized identity politics and empowered the Democratic Party to regain control and move this country leftward at warp speed, which means destroying prosperity and jobs.
Trump haters have been salivating for years over an opportunity to finally bring him crashing down in disgrace, and take his allegedly evil supporters along with him — never to rise again and impede their progressive agenda.
They tried for Trump’s entire term to overturn the results of the 2016 election. They engaged in a coordinated effort to undo what the voters had done, corrupting our security agencies and our government institutions to lead a soft, sophisticated coup that makes Jan. 6 look like amateur hour.
With assists from the media and the rest of the leftist political and cultural establishment, these forces escaped accountability and proceed as cavalierly as ever, as if nothing ever happened. In a particularly in-your-face move, these bullies have designated one of the central players in the coup, Rep. Eric Swalwell, to be an impeachment manager in their post-term impeachment gambit.
This Trump-hating cabal is convinced it finally hit pay dirt with the events of Jan. 6. With ferocious intensity, they’re pushing the narrative that Trump himself incited an insurrection to violently overturn the government.
Feel free to debate Trump’s culpability in all this (and ignore his express words calling for a peaceful march), but you should take a moment to reflect on this bad-faith attempt to tie rank-and-file Trump supporters to this event and viciously depict all of them as radical white supremacists.
The overwhelming majority of Trump supporters have consistently condemned violence no matter the source. They did not and would not support the storming of the Capitol. No matter how vociferously the left claims otherwise, the millions of Trump supporters are still America-loving, Constitution-respecting, rule of law-advocating patriots. Despite the left’s best efforts, Jan. 6 does not discredit Trump supporters. This is not merely a technical point, because Trump haters want to vilify all of us both as a matter of pride and to render us impotent as a political movement.
As part of this, they seek to malign the millions of Christian Trump supporters as having sold their souls and betrayed their faith. Certain prominent Trump haters have viciously and personally denounced the Christian right. Meanwhile, they have little to say of Biden’s already unveiled leftist extremism and his dedication to a godless, pro-death agenda.
These Trump-loathing Christian bashers speciously complain about our poor witness for having supported Trump. But what of their own witness in categorically slandering Christian Trump supporters who, in good conscience, supported him for the good of the nation — and still have no apologies for doing so, especially considering the undeniable alternative?
In his recent piece, New York Times columnist Thomas Edsall cites the book “Taking America Back for God,” by college professors Andrew Whitehead and Samuel Perry, who describe Christian nationalism as including “assumptions of nativism, white supremacy, patriarchy and heteronormativity, along with divine sanction for authoritarian control and militarism.”
Edsall cites another recent book, “The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism,” by Katherine Stewart, in which she describes the Christian right as “a political movement” and says “its ultimate goal is power. It does not seek to add another voice to America’s pluralistic democracy, but to replace our foundational democratic principles and institutions with a state grounded on a particular version of Christianity.”
According to Perry, “The Capitol insurrection was as Christian nationalist as it gets.” Perry points to “the use of sacred symbols during the insurrection such as the cross, Christian flag, Jesus saves sign, etc.” and “the language of the prayers offered by the insurrectionists,” presumably to show all Christian Trump supporters are white revolutionary anarchists.
The glaring irony is that Christians are not the fascists in this equation. They do not support a Christian theocracy, though they believe they should have a voice along with other individuals and groups in society. They oppose authoritarianism and fascism, which is actually the calling card of the Trump-hating left, and they would never attempt to silence others who disagree with their politics or religion. They are not the victimizers in this war on speech but the victims of the very leftists who falsely accuse them.
Neither white supremacists nor any other kind of rioting misfits from the right represent anything but a minute fringe of the Trump movement. To suggest otherwise is grossly disingenuous.
Fellow Christians on the political right and fellow Trump supporters: Don’t be disheartened or defeated by these efforts to stereotype us as violent and authoritarian. It is just another one of the abominable lies these fascist forces are disseminating to dispirit and weaken us and thus greenlight their ongoing assault on our values and institutions.
David Limbaugh is a writer, author and attorney. His latest book is “Guilty by Reason of Insanity: Why the Democrats Must Not Win.” Follow him on Twitter @davidlimbaugh and his website at www.davidlimbaugh.com. To read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate webpage at www.creators.com.
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Is it any wonder that the once Grand Old Party of Abraham Lincoln is now known merely as the gop?
Trump supporters are doing a good job of denigrating themselves.
You are going to defend a person who tried to overthrow his own government. Its a free country, but of course there will be no unity with him and his supporters who do not reject what he has done.
If you want unity denounce Trump, denounce his conspiracy theories, and denounce the Republican politicians that keep Trumpism going. None of this is negotiable.
Why not secede from the republicans and form the MAGA party. Headquarters can be located in the state of Jefferson !!
As we've all been making very clear to you, it's not at all. No unity with treasonous Trumpist fascists. Never.
The Trumpist fascists invaded our Capitol attempting to overthrow our government in a violent coup. No unity with treasonous insurrectionists. Never. End of story.
Well an overwhelming majority of Trump voters continue to push the lie that the election was stolen which is what motivated those fascist pieces of shit who also support Trump and believe his lies to attack the capital. If it weren't for the backing of their fellow Republicans it is doubtful those white supremacist Trump supporters would have thought it was okay to attack the capital and attempt an insurrection.
Jesus Christ can be campaign manager of the party too, lol
Yet when four-fifths of your party support that faction, discipline becomes impossible. I would expect moderates to be ejected from leadership and/or the GOP before the insurrectionists are expunged. Unless or until the Republican Party faces and resolves this, we are entirely correct to understand the Republican Party as a party of insurrection. But the Democratic Party cannot endure a stand as completely principled as yours, Gsquared.
The ruling class is ALWAYS at war with itself. USUALLY, this is kept from the public eye. What was extraordinary about Trump's tenure is that seldom seen inner-ruling class antagonisms came into full view of the public. The US political system as a whole is in profound and CONTINUING crisis.
The GOP cannot expunge its insurrectionist faction, and the Democratic Party has no answer to it. Unity will shift the Democratic Party ever further right, and working-class support will 'bleed out.' Yet the Democratic Party cannot govern alone; if it shuns the GOP, there will be more, far better planned, and larger attacks on the Capitol.
In the face of bipartisan insistence that children return to school so that proletariat parents can work and make profit for the very corporations and interests represented by the two parties, working class anger and class awareness is arising in ways not seen in 6 decades. Pandemic threatens their very lives at a time when the corporate strategy effectively means -- 'make more profits for us or starve!'
As I say -- the US political system as a whole is in profound and CONTINUING crisis, and NO solution ANYWHERE is available.
More to the point, why would you not cede from the GOP when the GOP effectively cedes from the Union? You hang with the GOP because you see it as the best chance for a fascist regime under a personalist dictatorship in which dissent is prohibited in the name of loyalty and law and order. The GOP has already abandoned 295,000,000 US citizens. When fascist utopia and partisan loyalty trump allegiance to professed nationality, the CPU definitely needs attention.
No one is interested in "unity" with Trumpist fascists. There is nothing to negotiate.
Jew space lasers.
They don't need the left to do that. They do that all on their own the moment the red hat is worn.