TRUMP HATERS BECOME WHAT THEY FEAR
Derangement Syndrome Reaches a New Low
It was obvious to anyone paying attention that the elites were never going to let Donald Trump have another crack at the White House. And that they, meaning Democrats, Wall Street, legacy media, insider operatives and DC’s political law-firms believed nothing was too sketchy to end Literal Hitler’s residency on Pennsylvania Ave, even if it left millions of American voters wondering what actually happened.
Russia collusion, Ukraine impeachment, constant smear campaigns orchestrated by media with help from retired spooks and hysterical academics were Trump-removal gambits that traumatized the nation while preventing their target from fully governing. But even with never-ending distractions, Trump had the country in reasonably good shape (until COVID) — which was perhaps the most dangerous thing he could do. Peace and prosperity, God forbid.
Allowing him another four years was never going to happen. If you doubt the lengths to which otherwise sane and decent people would go to end The Trump Era behold yesterday’s psychotic reveal from Sam Harris, a respected American thinker.
It landed in my Twitter timeline and I gasped as I hit the replay button. It was as close to an election-rigging justification we have had so far. No, I’m not suggesting Harris personally tampered with the 20/20 election but rather that his hatred, perfectly exposes the elites casus belli for the undeclared but ongoing war against Trump.
According to Harris, rhetorically, investigating even the deaths of children was less important than keeping Orange Man Bad out of the White House. It is a reference to legacy media and Big Tech’s election interference in the form of hiding the Hunter Biden laptop story from voters.
Harris’ comments illustrate the get Trump at any cost mindset that seems to have overtaken all of America’s democratic pillars, including the courts and the FBI.
Prior to succumbing to a super-sized case of Trump Derangement Syndrome, Harris was one of the country’s most interesting public intellectuals, a lefty willing to criticize dumb ideas. But his hysterical hatred of Trump has badly tarnished him. What he says in this recent interview could be a career-ender, in my view. Harris is totally exposed and not even aware of how dangerous is his own anti-democratic thinking. That he has been right and courageous on many tough issues makes this all the more bizarre.
As I’ve said many times on my podcast, my take on Trump is that he is a massively flawed human, with extreme narcissistic tendencies and a history of dodgy business deals. This is not an unusual profile for most of our elected overseers, these days. The difference; most of our pols get rich while they are in office, grifting off insider stock deals and favours to donors. Who better to expose and eliminate the DC swamp than a NYC developer who’d made a fortune swimming around in his own.
Given what his enemies allege, getting rid of Trump fairly and democratically should have been a slam dunk but they are still at it as the now widely criticized raid on Mar -a-Lago suggests.
In the meantime, democracy itself was being dismantled brick by brick but not by Trump. Anyone who questioned Joe Biden’s win was slandered and de-platformed. Merely publicly spitballing a stolen election was treated by the media as an assault on America.
Gad Saad appeared on an earlier episode of my podcast explaining how Harris seemed to lose his mind over Trump and it is well worth a listen. They used to be friends.
So, back to the not-stolen-election. If smart, otherwise rational people like Harris were driven mad by Donald Trump, is it a stretch to question the validity of the election? It was riddled with new procedural quirks, including non verifiable mail-in ballots that provided opportunities for a steal. If the elite and its media had convinced themselves that Trump was an existential threat who would start a nuclear war and rescind all civil rights, was it not a civic duty to do whatever it took to save the world? Why would that not include election fraud?
And never forget — it’s not like the Dems haven’t cheated before.
And if you haven’t read Time Magazine’s round-up of collusion against a Trump win, you should. It reports in plain site what has mostly been denied for two years.
This is the inside story of the conspiracy to save the 2020 election, based on access to the group’s inner workings, never-before-seen documents and interviews with dozens of those involved from across the political spectrum. It is the story of an unprecedented, creative and determined campaign whose success also reveals how close the nation came to disaster. “Every attempt to interfere with the proper outcome of the election was defeated,” says Ian Bassin, co-founder of Protect Democracy, a nonpartisan rule-of-law advocacy group. “But it’s massively important for the country to understand that it didn’t happen accidentally. The system didn’t work magically. Democracy is not self-executing.”
That’s why the participants want the secret history of the 2020 election told, even though it sounds like a paranoid fever dream–a well-funded cabal of powerful people, ranging across industries and ideologies, working together behind the scenes to influence perceptions, change rules and laws, steer media coverage and control the flow of information. They were not rigging the election; they were fortifying it. And they believe the public needs to understand the system’s fragility in order to ensure that democracy in America endures.
Their work touched every aspect of the election. They got states to change voting systems and laws and helped secure hundreds of millions in public and private funding. They fended off voter-suppression lawsuits, recruited armies of poll workers and got millions of people to vote by mail for the first time. They successfully pressured social media companies to take a harder line against disinformation and used data-driven strategies to fight viral smears. They executed national public-awareness campaigns that helped Americans understand how the vote count would unfold over days or weeks, preventing Trump’s conspiracy theories and false claims of victory from getting more traction. After Election Day, they monitored every pressure point to ensure that Trump could not overturn the result. “The untold story of the election is the thousands of people of both parties who accomplished the triumph of American democracy at its very foundation,” says Norm Eisen, a prominent lawyer and former Obama Administration official who recruited Republicans and Democrats to the board of the Voter Protection Program.
So, there was a secret election history, a conspiracy even. But how far did it go? Were machines rigged? Were ballots stuffed and fake signatures ignored? The truth is, we will never know because the people charged with looking for it think like Sam Harris.
Media and Big Tech refuse to platform a mainstream discussion. They convinced themselves that manipulating the system to ensure Trump lost was a victory for Democracy itself; that working together to defeat the will of millions of American voters saved the 2020 election. You see, in the age of Orange Man Bad, democracy is only working if your candidate is elected.
To follow Sam Harris’ train of thought; why inform the voters of Biden family corruption and depravity when you can keep the country safe for democracy by doing whatever it takes to make Joe Biden president.
Wow, just wow. And the other guy says, "fuck the kids in the basement." I want to throw up.
Harris was a hero in my left liberal progressive days. When I encountered his recent words I was left speechless. Shell-shocked. How could a well educated & celebrated critical thinker possibly think dead children in Hunter Biden's basement (a horrible metaphor that nonetheless underscores a wretched life in reality) was less damning than the Trump University scandal? Where does such monstrous thinking come from? Are there even any handles we can grasp that help us understand it? Just when I think there is nothing left liberal progressives can say or do to outstrip the last exercise in delusional thinking along comes the latest installment. Trying to unravel this Gordian knot in order to understand how & why these people think the way they do often leaves me feeling my brain is going to blow up. It's a tangled knot fueled by a hatred so intense it melts all reasonable dialogue, any ability to reflect critically on one's own worldview. In some crazy way this position that one occupies some moral high ground is all tangled up with a righteous hatred which comes from I do not know where. I'm reminded of Robespierre who truly was the most righteous in the land & look where that landed France! Thank you for once again giving words, or trying to give words that help untangle the Gordian knot of left liberal progressive delusional thinking but must confess I am as confused by it now as I was 10 years ago when I awoke. How does one even begin to dialogue when blocked by such frightening (a personification of evil that batters one's inner spirit) anger fed by hatred that comes from a place beyond my ken. Desmet's mass formation psychosis theory helped but even that fails to explain this most recent version of delusional thinking. Grateful you & other "conspiracy theorists" & purveyors of "misinformation" bring such a refreshing (free of self-righteousness, anger & hatred), sane, reasonable approach to our current contrived socio-cultural crisis