On Saturday, June 12, former President Donald Trump released a statement that, in tone, will have his opponents rolling their eyes.
“Have you noticed that they are now admitting I was right about everything they lied about before the election?”
“They” of course are the eye-rollers, not only those the former President delighted in calling dispensers of “fake news” but also their clients, toadies, and enablers.
Not for the first time, I wonder whether they all are readers of “Pride and Prejudice.”
I am thinking of that passage towards the end of the novel where Lizzy confesses her love for Mr. Darcy to her sister Jane.
Jane is horrified. “Oh, Lizzy! It cannot be. I know how much you dislike him.”
“That is all to be forgot,” Lizzy replies. “In such cases as these, a good memory is unpardonable. This is that last time I shall ever remember it myself.”
So it is with the reporters at CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, Politico, the entire Democratic side of Congress, not to mention woke members of our intelligence services, the DOJ, military men with a rank of colonel or higher, members of any teacher’s union and of course anyone who has been graduated from or teaches at any Ivy or near-Ivy institution of so-called higher education, not to mention the NeverTrump sorority and time-servers in HR departments across the country.
To save time, let’s call this wretched multitude The Committee.
Hydrochloroquine
Here is his list (an incomplete list, by the way) of things that they admit now but lied about then:— Hydroxychloroquine works
Remember the pain and anguish that accompanied President Trump’s announcement that he was taking the drug?
It was about the same time that the press went to town claiming that the president had recommended people inject or drink bleach.
My favorite episode in that little melodrama involved an Arizona couple.
A man in his sixties died after he and his wife ingested chloroquine phosphate, fish tank cleaner.
The media were all over that, claiming the president was responsible for the death.
Forget about the fact that hydroxychloroquine is not the same as chloroquine phosphate.
But that’s just a bonus.
Department of small blessings: it has been gratifying to see all of those smarmy reporters, and the organizations they work for, do the right thing and acknowledge their error and actually apologize to Donald Trump.
Just kidding.
They skidded right over it, taking a page from the end of Wittgenstein’s “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus”: “Wovon mann nicht sprechen kann darüber muss muß schweigen” “What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence.”
Origin of the Virus
— The Virus came from a Chinese labTrump raised that possibility very early on in the Wuhan scourge.
The Committee lambasted him for that.
Senior Committee spokesman CNN weighed in repeatedly to throw cold water on the contention.
Oh, the “US intel community,” eh?
I am sure you are suitably impressed by that lawless fount of partisan misinformation.
Initially, Times oozed contempt for the idea that the virus might have come from the Wuhan virology lab.
It was, they said, a “fringe conspiracy theory.”
“Oh, but the Times doesn’t decide who gets a Pulitzer. The Pulitzer Committee does.”
More Lies
And so it goes with the other items on Donald Trump’s list.— “Hunter Biden’s laptop was real.” Yes it was.
— Remember the “Russian bounties”: Russia was supposed to have put bounties of the heads of U.S. soldiers and Trump did nothing about it.
Joe Biden is taking credit now for the COVID vaccines. But he literally had nothing to do with the creation or manufacture of the vaccines or with the logistical achievement of setting up a distribution network for their delivery.
And so on, from the uselessness—worse, the disaster—of lockdowns as a response to the virus to the bane of “critical race theory” and the dismantling of Trump’s successful border security initiatives.
The Committee has lied, lied, lied about Trump.
Ambition Exposed
You might think this is just politics as usual.It is not.
It is the infernal work of a self-engorging clique that more and more controls the levers of power and the spigots of information.
Their object is partly to push the “woke” agenda of identity politics but, deep down, their unalterable goal is the acquisition, deployment, and retention of power.
They are not well-meaning people who happen to disagree with us.
They are mandarin apparatchiks who seek to compass our destruction.
Donald Trump brought them out of the woodwork and exposed their ambition to public scrutiny.
That is the real reason they hate him.
We forget this at our peril.