Left redefines 'insurrection'

 Washington Examiner:

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When Jared Schmeck called into the NORAD Santa Tracker on Christmas Eve, as he does every year with his children, he was not expecting to be connected directly to the president nor did he know his call was being livestreamed by the White House. At the end of the brief conversation, however, after, Biden told him his children had to be in bed by 9 or Santa wouldn’t come, Schmeck said, “Merry Christmas, and let’s go Brandon!" The latter half of that sentence, of course, is a popular and amusing catchphrase disparaging Biden.

Was the statement juvenile? Yes. Uncivil? Sure. But was it an act of violence? Well, The Atlantic’s Ron Brownstein seems to think so. Asked about the call on CNN, Brownstein said, “I don’t think it is about incivility. I think it is fundamentally about insurrection.”

So it is now treason to insult a president. Funny — where was this idea in 2017?

“Insurrection” has become the Left’s popular catchphrase for the Capitol riot of Jan. 6. For the Left, the Capitol riot is not an isolated incident but just one manifestation of a much larger conspiracy to overthrow our constitutional republic — by armed violence if necessary.

The threat of this insurrection is so great that it keeps Vice President Kamala Harris up at night. Asked by CBS’s Margaret Brennan, “What do you see is the biggest national security challenge confronting the U.S.? What is the thing that worries you and keeps you up at night?” Harris responded, “Frankly, one of them is our democracy. … We are embarking on a new era where the threats to our nation take many forms, including the threat of autocracies taking over and having outsize influence around the world. And so I go back to our ... point about the need to fight for the integrity of our democracy.”

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The left does not handle criticism well.  They tend to exaggerate insults into mortal threats to the republic.  These are the same people who concocted and pushed the Russian collusion hoax in trying to overthrow the 2016 election.  They lack the credibility to even make such a suggestion about a flippant conversation that was of zero threat to anyone. 

The liberal media lost credibility with the Russian hoax and they lose it, even more, when they try to claim that "Let's go Brandon" is a mortal threat to Democracy.