For months we’ve heard that Donald J. Trump is the modern reincarnation of Adolf Hitler. From the cattle corral of The View, to MSNBC’s Morning Joe’s propagandist screeds, the legacy media complex spent the last several months of the presidential election cycle ranting about the end of civilization should Trump win.
Hollywood and legacy media stumped for Kamala Harris, Biden’s backstabbing DEI hire, who was simply installed by Democrat Party leadership in a “let them eat cake” moment without modern parallel. Except, perhaps, in Soviet Russia, communist China, or Cuba. Nancy Pelosi drove the killing strike into the addled Caesar, too befuddled to comprehend his end. Kamala then embarked on a bacchanal of spending, burning through a billion dollars — tens of millions going to cajole Beyonce, Oprah, and a collection of booty shakers to lend their phantom gravitas to her campaign of meaningless platitudes and hopeless explanations. All to no avail.
Meanwhile, Trump was characterized as an existential threat to democracy (though America is actually a republic). They lambasted him as a felon, fascist, and a totalitarian bent on arresting women for fornication, and/or using the military to install him as an emperor. Basically, all the worst parts of A Handmaid’s Tale. All of this despite four years of exemplary governance during Trump’s first term. The electoral process wasn’t abolished, nor did he refuse to leave office, even knowing the 2020 election had likely been rigged. The media has facilitated every lie, promoted the baseless accusations of DOJ and NYC’s perverse legal assaults, and provided fawning interviews, top cover, and puff pieces for Trump’s political rivals.
Beaten and bruised, the foppish hosts of Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough and comrade Mika Brzezinski, trundled off to Mar-a-Lago for a “reset.” They were met with harsh criticism from their left wing base—savaged on social media for “humanizing Trump.” Clearly, the rapprochement is a desperate attempt to stem the stampede of viewership, and beg leave of the victorious Trump to partake in his table scraps. It’s a comeuppance for which Scarborough and Brzezinski are long overdue. Doubtless the lessons of humility will escape them, because their motives are merely mercantile.
However, there is a much broader “reset” afoot, a retrenchment, like a hermit crab withdrawing into the safer recesses of its shell. What America has witnessed over the last four years isn’t a Democrat party swamped by radical leftists and Godless Marxists. What we’ve all observed was simply an unmasking. Ideologically, the Democrat party of JFK is exactly the same as the Democrat party of Joe Biden and Barack Hussein Obama. The phrase, popularized by former Democrat celebrities, “I didn’t leave the party, the party left me,” is, at best, an admission of naiveté. Doubtless, in some cases, a clear evolution of thought has taken place. Tulsi Gabbard is an example of political evolution.
The total repudiation of Democrats via Trump’s sweeping victory has signaled to the party that the political battle space wasn’t as prepped for assault, or as well understood, as once thought. The party’s hubris and aggression was drawn to the fore as the heady elixir of new vistas of power teased their statist passions through COVID lockdowns, and forced injections of an experimental serum. The Biden administration, intoxicated by bending the masses to their will, embarked on wildly totalitarian policies.
DEI was expanded to envelop the entire federal apparatus, making racism and gender identity public policy. Accountability was surely a puritanical notion of the past, as civil rights gave way to equity and national security was pawned to the military-industrial complex—no stranger to the spoils of Democrat sponsored globalism. Democrats have always favored conflicts that diminish American influence, treasure, and resources in favor of world-wide totalitarianism. Democrat warmongering, until recently, has been asymmetric. In the guise of doves, they sought the advantage of foreign collectivist or socialist powers with whom they find common cause.
Whether funneling billions to the world’s greatest sponsor of terrorism—Iran—or leaving billions in equipment, arms, and material to be parceled out to stone age religious zealots in Afghanistan, the Democrat Party is a hawk on conflict.
The weakening of the civil society by attacking education, journalism, the law, religion, and the family has brought Democrats into close alliance with social Marxists who seek centralization of government. It’s no coincidence the modern party of race hate and gender confusion was the same party that opposed the abolition of slavery and the imposition of Jim Crow laws in the South. Democrats have always been the mortal enemies of liberty, and have instigated the unstable, like John Wilkes Booth, to violently attack their political opponents.
As Trump and his legal team can attest, the spirit of the KKK lives on in DOJ and state prosecutors who are politically radicalized, just like Democrat hate groups of old. Trump is an abolitionist of sorts. He’s passionately committed to civil liberties, the concept of equality under the law, and opposes the ideological progeny of Jim Crow—the tyranny of equity.
Today’s Democrat, like AOC removing her pronouns from social media, may revert to tried and true tradecraft, hiding who and what they really are under the shroud of empathy and behind swirling clouds of euphemism. But, at the level of ideology, they’re always going to be proto-totalitarians waiting for their opportunity to crush and control with whip and bridle.