Democrat response to opposition is insults

 Douglas Murray:

It is a bold move to insult half of the country. That is what Hilary Clinton did six years ago with her denunciation of the “basket of deplorables.” But “deplorables” is so last season. Joe Biden, the Democrats and their media cheerleaders have decided to go one better. They seem to have decided that the best way to win the hearts and minds of the American public is dismiss half of us as “fascist.”

Or to give credit to President Biden, merely semi-fascist.

Last week the President said “What we’re seeing now is either the beginning or the death knell of an extreme MAGA philosophy. It’s not just Trump, it’s the entire philosophy that underpins the — I’m going to say something: It’s like semi-fascism.”

It isn´t by any means clear what “semi-fascism” means. Just like a woman can´t be a little bit pregnant so I would think that someone can´t be semi-fascist. You´re either a fascist or you´re not. “Semi” is a weaselly way to avoid going the whole way with the accusation. But others didn´t show such restraint.

When she was asked about the comments, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre went further. From the White House briefing podium she said that MAGA Republicans are an “extreme threat to democracy, to our freedom, to our rights.” It is “one of the most extreme agendas we have seen” she declared.

As ever the Democrat media was happy to take this even further. One MSNBC contributor declared: “We are watching right now a very radical and extreme Republican party mirror what we have seen in other places like Nazi Germany . . . We have seen this playbook before. We have seen a ruling party try to use things like propaganda, try to silence the free press, try to restrict what women can do.” The President is “ringing the bell that we need to check in, pay attention because this is a very dangerous line that the Republican party is under full embrace of autocratic ways and means.”

Almost every thing in that statement is morally disgusting and historically illiterate. Was the problem with the Nazis really that they tried to restrict what women can do? As for more recent times, which party is it that has tried to silence the free press? The Republicans or the Democrats? Why the Democrats of course, with the assistance of Twitter, Facebook and now – it turns out – the FBI. So if such behavior is fascist why aren´t all these entities being described as fascist too?

Perhaps because this season´s must-have political accessory seems to be a delight in trying to piss off Republicans. Consider another MSNBC contributor – Ja’han Jones. Responding to Biden´s fascist comments Jones said that the comments were not only smart but “funny.” Because it is obviously hilarious to insult your fellow countrymen.

And that is what comments like this are doing. When he ran for office Joe Biden used to talk about the importance of uniting this country. But unifying the country seems to be the last thing on his mind now. Today his chief aim seems to be to divide us. Presumably because he thinks it will serve him well in the mid-terms and rile up his voter base.
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Many Democrats seem blind to their own conduct and that of their supporters.  Like many politicians, they tend to exaggerate their own cases.