Rita Panahi: Famous Democrats just don’t get it
Trying to explain to Trump-deranged fanatics why the president got the highest vote of any Republican candidate in history is like trying to explain advanced trigonometry to toddlers, writes Rita Panahi.
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Scratch a Leftie and find a totalitarian.
It hasn’t taken long for the Democrats to start making lists and seeking retribution on their political opponents.
The unofficial leader of The Squad — the quartet of socialists with a disproportionate level of influence on the party — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was compared to communist leader Joseph Stalin after encouraging the Democrats to create a list of Trump supporters who may “deny their complicity in the future”.
A former Barack Obama staffer, Michael Simon, then confirmed that such a list had already been created.
Meanwhile, the man who served as secretary of labour in Bill Clinton’s administration, Robert Reich, tweeted that “a truth and reconciliation commission” must be set up to “comfort those who have been harmed” and to name those who had “enabled” Trump.
This is how crazy people talk.
And, there was no shortage of high profile wackadoodles calling for “a truth and reconciliation commission” from actress Jamie Lee Curtis to MSNBC host Chris Hayes.
Enter former Fox News and NBC anchor Megyn Kelly who tried to warn her profoundly clueless colleagues about the perils of misrepresenting half the country.
“Half of the country has been demonised as awful for four years just for supporting their president who was falsely accused of Russian collaboration, wrongly impeached and attacked relentlessly by the Left and a dishonest media,” Kelly tweeted.
Sadly, all she got for her trouble was a torrent of abuse and obtuse protestations that only served to prove her original point.
Now, Kelly is far from a Trump enthusiast and had several heated interactions with the president during the 2016 campaign but she is a rarity in the media in not wallowing in victimhood.
Again, her calm reasoning fell on deaf ears: “I am trying to explain the mindset of the right half of the country, which I happen to understand, unlike most in the media,” she wrote.
“You may find it helpful, you may not. But the notion that I should make it all about me and Trump’s comments (about me) is absurd. I moved past it long ago.”
She tried to explain to tennis great Martina Navratilova why characterising tens of millions of people as racist, including record numbers of Republican black and Hispanic voters, is neither helpful nor accurate.
Kelly posted: ‘Martina, the vitriol went well beyond Trump - some 70 million people have been called vile, bigots, racists and xenophobes and are now being threatened with being put on target ‘lists’ as punishment for supporting him. They’ve been demonised by the very people now sanctimoniously demanding ‘civility.’”
She shouldn’t have bothered.
Trying to rationally explain to Trump-deranged fanatics why the president got the highest vote of any Republican candidate in history is like trying to explain advanced trigonometry to toddlers.
The US media would be infinitely more trusted and respected if they had more Megyn Kellys covering the news than the Leftist activists masquerading as journalists.
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