{"id":70086,"date":"2021-07-25T15:32:07","date_gmt":"2021-07-25T20:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=70086"},"modified":"2021-07-25T15:32:07","modified_gmt":"2021-07-25T20:32:07","slug":"70086","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=70086","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Democrats condemn Trump\u2019s \u2018Big Lie\u2019 but keep telling ones even worse ones themselves<\/a><\/p>\n

Did you know that black people are not going to be allowed to vote in America anymore? At least in states controlled by Republicans? Sounds a bit unlikely, but that\u2019s a conclusion you might have come to if you took seriously what President Joe Biden said in Philadelphia Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Biden\u00a0decried Republicans\u2019 proposed changes<\/a>\u00a0to election laws as \u201cthe 21st-century Jim Crow assault\u201d that tries \u201cto suppress and subvert the right to vote in fair and free elections, an assault on democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is, to be polite, unhinged nonsense.<\/p>\n

Biden is old enough to remember what real Jim Crow voter suppression was like. It meant zero black people voting in places like Mississippi. It meant threats and violence against black people who tried to register to vote. It meant unfair application of literacy tests and poll taxes.<\/p>\n

Requiring voters to present photo ID is nothing like this: Large majorities think it\u2019s reasonable.<\/p>\n

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And measures such as reducing the number of pre-election voting days in Georgia (there are zero in Biden\u2019s Delaware) or ending pandemic-inspired measures like drive-through voting in Harris County, Texas, are not the same. Not even close.<\/p>\n

Early in his speech, Biden denounced \u201cthe big lie,\u201d a reference to Donald Trump\u2019s claims that he actually won the 2020 election. But Biden\u2019s Jim Crow charge is an even clearer instance of the big lie \u2014 and a more dangerous one \u2014 since it\u2019s unlikely to be fact-checked by most media.<\/p>\n

If you want people to condemn a big lie, don\u2019t tell one yourself.<\/p>\n

In his criticism of Trump, Biden invoked a long-standing norm of American politics.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn America, if you lose, you accept the results. You follow the Constitution. You try again. You don\u2019t call the facts \u2018fake\u2019 and then try to bring down the American experiment just because you\u2019re unhappy.\u201d He spoke these words, apparently unaware that they could be applied to him and his own party.<\/p>\n

You might not understand this if your only news sources are The New York Times and CNN.<\/p>\n

But if you try to look at it, as Darryl Cooper\u00a0does in the leftist Glenn Greenwald\u2019s Substack<\/a>, you might recall that Hillary Clinton and other Democrats did not accept the results of the 2016 election and spent months advancing the Russia-collusion hoax to delegitimize and end the Trump presidency.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe now know,\u201d Cooper wrote, \u201cthat the FBI and other intelligence agencies conducted covert surveillance against members of the Trump campaign based on evidence manufactured by political operatives working for the Clinton campaign, both before and after the election.\u201d<\/p>\n

He went on: \u201cWe know that those involved with the investigation knew that accusations of collusion were part of a campaign approved by Hillary Clinton .\u2009.\u2009. to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by the Russian security service.\u201d<\/p>\n

As Cooper noted, for months, many Trump supporters worried that there might be substance to the Russia-collusion charges. Democrats insisted there was. News media like the Times and CNN ignored or ridiculed efforts by the likes of House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes to show there was nothing there.<\/p>\n

Nunes was right, as became apparent when special counsel Robert Mueller admitted in his report that he had no evidence of collusion. But the Times and other papers didn\u2019t return the Pulitzers they won for their Russia-collusion stories.<\/p>\n

The Times\u2019 executive editor, Dean Baquet, acknowledged in an angry newsroom meeting: \u201cThe day Bob Mueller walked off the witness stand .\u2009.\u2009. our readers who want Donald Trump to go away suddenly thought, \u2018Holy s-\u200a-\u200a-, Bob Mueller is not going to do it.\u2019\u200a\u201d As a result, \u201cWe\u2019re a little tiny bit flat-footed. I mean, that\u2019s what happens when a story looks a certain way for two years.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cA little tiny bit flat-footed,\u201d translated into English, means \u201cdead wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n

Have Baquet or other news media leaders confessed error for their misjudgments? Have any Democrats who pursued the Russia-collusion hoax like Inspector Javert confessed error? Not that I\u2019ve seen.<\/p>\n

Democrats who want to restore respect for the electoral process need to stop calling harmless changes in election laws \u201cvoter suppression\u201d and a return to Jim Crow.<\/p>\n

They and their media protectors need to apologize for their years-long campaign to delegitimize Donald Trump\u2019s presidency by advancing a baseless hoax.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Democrats condemn Trump\u2019s \u2018Big Lie\u2019 but keep telling ones even worse ones themselves Did you know that black people are not going to be allowed to vote in America anymore? At least in states controlled by Republicans? Sounds a bit unlikely, but that\u2019s a conclusion you might have come to if you took seriously what … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deceit","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70087,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70086\/revisions\/70087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}