Lee Smith uncorks a swing-for-the-fences blast that lands way up in the cheap seats.
A: Yes. Yes, they most certainly are—a war that they will start, but that Real Americans have no choice but to win. Onwards.
The propaganda campaign labeling Donald Trump as an aspiring dictator determined to use the military and national security apparatus against his political opponents is designed not to affect the upcoming election but rather to shape the post-election environment. It is the central piece of a narrative that, by characterizing Trump as a tyrant (indeed likening him to Hitler), establishes the conditions for violence — not just another attempt on Trump’s life, but political violence on a massive scale intended to destabilize the country.
As I write in my forthcoming book Disappearing the President, Democratic Party research and media reports show that many senior party officials and operatives are preparing for the possibility of a Trump victory. Accordingly, planning is focused on undermining the incoming president with enough violence to rock his administration. Prominent post-election scenarios forecast such widespread rioting that the newly elected president would be compelled to invoke the Insurrection Act. With some senior military officials refusing to follow Trump’s orders, according to the scenarios, the U.S. Armed Forces would split, leaving America on the edge of the abyss.
By vilifying Trump as a despotic madman who must be stopped before he can commence his reign of terror, the regime’s propaganda apparatus not only slanders Trump but also pre-emptively threatens the reputation, as well as the livelihood and perhaps the liberty, of current military personnel. The point is to push the military against Trump: When the time comes to act, will you stand for democracy or side with a tyrant who sees the military only as an instrument to advance his personal interests?
For instance, last week the Atlantic’s editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, quoted former Trump administration officials claiming that the Republican candidate is contemptuous of America’s armed forces and, according to Trump’s former chief of staff, John Kelly, wishes he could command the same respect that Hitler commanded from his general officers.
This is not the first time that Trump has been compared to Hitler or that Kelly, a retired Marine general, turned on his former commander-in-chief. Kelly was the key source for a story published before the 2020 election, also in the Atlantic and also by Jeffrey Goldberg, that alleged Trump had called American WWII soldiers buried in French cemeteries “suckers and losers.”
The veracity of Kelly’s latest revelation that Trump admires Hitler must of course be judged against the fact that he waited five years to disclose it, even if it is unlikely to have much effect on the current election cycle. The military, and veterans of the Global War on Terror in particular, overwhelmingly support the candidate opposed to waging endless and strategically pointless foreign wars. Moreover, Trump has weathered far more damaging fabrications — like the false allegations that he had been compromised by Russian intelligence — that only galvanized support for him.
The purpose of the Hitler narrative is not to alter the electoral preferences of left-wing media audiences already solidly in the anti-Trump column, but rather to justify taking extreme measures against the Republican candidate and the America First movement and ensure that the bulk of the military sides with the anti-Trump plot. Thus, it is best understood in the context of recent accounts promising, or urging, violence after the November vote.
Annnnd bingo, there it all is. You might think of this as a sort of companion-piece to tonight’s Eyrie offering, neither of which you want to miss a single word of. Read both of ‘em in their entirety, and then…just think about it while you’re loading mags.
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I admit to wishing for the war to start, so we can get on with it and restart America.
OTOH, I recall my Southern forebears and their desire for a war to rid theirselves of the northern thieves. Violence on a massive scale never works out the way you think it will. Be careful what you wish for.
Ayup, that really IS the problem, innit? Once things like civil wars get going, they have this unpleasant tendency to take on a life of their own, and by the time the shooting stops we all end up in a situation no one on either side imagined they would’ve.
I’m not in favor of starting it.
But once it starts, which is nearly a certainty, I’m all in favor of finishing it, even if registered Democommunists of all stripes are as extinct as the dinosaurs when it’s over.
O frabjous day!
Callou!
Callay!
It will fall on all of us to stand against these tyrants and their adherents, like it or not, there will come a time when we will have no good options for peace, either stand or kneel before them, the choice will be yours, but how will kneeling work out for ya? Personally id rather die on my feet than kneeling like a coward. Life will not be the same, hold those who caused this responsible. Most of us just want to be left alone, but these tyrants will not stop and none of us will be left alone.
“…like it or not, there will come a time…”
The question, the problem, when is that time? And when is that the time for enough people…
Most people don’t like the truth, and the truth is that people that are wealthy and well fed make “that time” way down the path to tyranny. That is normal and that is a problem, an unsolvable problem.
Early adopters will pay a high price.
I fully expect trump to win by a landslide. I fully expect the marxist deep state to steal it again. I’ll be surprised if they fear us enough to not steal it, but I will hold out hope that is the case.
It’s a simple question – What will you do when the election is stolen again?
“In the absence of orders or a coherent command structure, with all comms cut or compromised, find something communist, and kill it.
Lather. Rinse. Repeat.“
Whats that they say,
“finish your area study”