Dems disinformation blunders
If you worked really hard, you might be able to come up with an idea as unappealing as a government disinformation board. Voters already distrust the government and are especially concerned about its excessive intrusion and unchecked regulatory power.
If you worked even harder, you might find as bad a person to lead it as Nina Jankowicz, a self-styled "disinformation expert" whose real specialty seems to be spreading disinformation to support her left-wing views.
If you tried hard to justify this mess, you might come up with a defender as ineffective as Alejandro Mayorkas, the secretary of homeland security. The secretary, already in deep trouble because of the porous southern border, faced a hostile Senate hearing and admitted he knew nothing about Ms. Jankowicz's dismal history of ideological fulminations and partisan statements. He refused to say whose bright idea it was to hire her—only that he was clueless about her background. Still, Mayorkas refused to apologize, refused to replace her and refused to back down from creating this ill-conceived (and ill-defined) board.
If you did all these things, as the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has, you would be committing political malpractice. You would be mocking the Constitution's fundamental protection of free speech, encoded in the First Amendment. Although a few ideologues might applaud you, you would hear only groans from moderate Democrats running for reelection. This ill-conceived board would lash them, at their peril, to a high-profile effort to monitor private speech, conducted by a very unpopular administration. That's dangerous constitutionally and incompetent politically.
Just how bad are Jankowicz's views? Judge for yourself.
Hunter Biden's laptop, she announced publicly, was a fake: "We should view it as a Trump campaign product." In a Tweet, she repeated claims that "the laptop is a Russian influence [operation]."
She promoted the author of the now-discredited Steele dossier as a resource to combat disinformation.
She supports critical race theory and considers its opponents "disinformers." "Critical race theory has become one of those hot-button issues that the Republicans and other disinformers, who are engaged in disinformation for profit, frankly...have seized on," she said in October. "But it's no different than any of the other hot-button issues that have allowed disinformation to flourish.... It's weaponizing people's emotion."
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She comes across as a liberal kook which probably makes her perfect for the job in the view of the administration. Wll liberal "fact-checkers" cover her pronouncements?
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