From Authoritarian to Weird
Contributed by Josiah Davidson
The political attack dogs on the Left have shifted gears. Unsubstantiated rage fueled screes labeling Trump, and consequently 74 million Americans, as Hitlerian Fascists have been the norm for nearly 8 years. But the Left, blinking through their tantrum induced tears, have come to grips with the fact that this approach is no longer tenable. Trump was president already, and he did not grow a funny mustache and kill Jews. Far from being dictatorial, Trump has been described by many political pundits as a weak president. His ability to unite his party and exercise executive authority was demonstrably outmatched by both Biden and Obama. But beyond the blatant fallaciousness of this comparison, is the fact that it set the logical groundwork for the attempted assassination of the former president. If Trump was comparable to Hitler, it would be an act of unmatched heroism to sacrifice one’s own life to save the world from the scourge of another Riech.
By virtue of this premise, Trump was shot in the head. But he is not Hitler, and as such, Crooks, Trump's would-be assassin, was unceremoniously shot to pieces. Far from gaining the laurels that would be warranted had the Left’s assertions been voracious, Crooks was ridden off as a lunatic. But he was not a lunatic. A victim of the Left's mind washing maybe, but not a lunatic. Crooks' decision was politically cogent given the underlying premise articulated by the Left.
Now the Left is switching tactics. While the defining moment in Biden’s political collapse was the debate, Trump's picturesque composure and remarkable bravery after the failed assassination attempt secured them in their decision. Biden’s campaign, which was based entirely on the idea that Trump was an existential Hitlerian threat to democracy, blew up. And because Biden’s brain is undergoing the same process, the Democrats decided it was time to reset. And reset they did. Kamala Harris, while not entirely dismissing the idea that Trump might still secretly be Hitler, has switched to labeling the Right as weird. This is the new Left wing talking point. Republican ideals are stupid and fringe – none of the cool kids are doing it. The ideals in question being, of course, nothing more than patriotism, family values, and traditional virtue.
This is an obviously weak attack. The Biden administration itself looks like it was compiled from a list of applicants denied admittance into a mental institute because of an excess of untreatable madness. Besides this attack being a prima facie case of unadulterated hypocrisy, it is in keeping with the Democrats’ broader philosophy. They are seeking to push what has historically been deemed healthy behavior to the social fringes. The natural traditional expressions of robust masculinity and femininity are directly attacked to procure a ‘new normal’ oozing with a cold contempt of all things traditional or natural. The Left is openly battling against the intellectual groundwork that has undergirded American society since its founding. Thus, in reshaping our national orientation, they are pushing a new set of political and social philosophies into the center of the American political orbit. Instead of being grounded in nature and virtue, we find the Left substituting these tenets for relativism and acceptance.
To that end, I say let the Left call us weird. If our society has been so altered from its foundation that these words have lost their meaning, then, while ardently fighting for a return to reality, we must accept that if virtue, nature, and reality are weird, we too can be found in their company.