Tuesday's Absurdity of the Day: Leftists and Their Media Supporters Turn Bully Tactics Towards Sinema
By now you’ve probably all seen the films of Arizona Democrat Sen. Krysten Sinema being harassed and frankly assaulted in the women’s restroom at Arizona State University - where she’s been a teacher for 18 years - over the weekend. The protesters who were allowed to assault her with impunity by campus police were attacking her for not being willing to sign onto the Biden/AOC/Sanders/Pelosi plan to destroy the U.S. economy for a generation.
This action has very predictably led some in the corrupt news media to praise the protesters for assaulting Sinema, just as they praised protesters for publicly harassing and assaulting members of the Trump administration and GOP members of congress:
So, the radicals are now moving to rid their party - the Democrats - of the heretics. It’s like the Salem witch trials all over again, only without the bonfires and stakes.
Yet.
Another rank absurdity in the media that caught my eye this morning was contained in this piece by the reliable Democrat propaganda agents at Politico:
Here’s the key passage:
“She’s trying to be a moderate, because Arizona is a moderate state and the way you get elected here — or at least the way you have in the past — is to not be challenged in a primary and get your ass to the middle to try to keep enough swing voters in your camp,” said David Doak, a retired longtime Democratic strategist and ad maker living in Arizona. “Given the polarization — the leftists are more left now and the right-ists are more crazy now — your calculation needs to be different … Her calculation, I think, is off.”
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Ok, now, read that statement from a retired Democrat “strategist” carefully: His contention is that, because the political extremes in the parties are farther apart now than they have historically been in AZ, Sinema’s calculation of tacking to the political middle in order to attract as many voters as possible is “off.” How it is “off,” though, he does not explain.
But that’s not important. See, the Politico writer’s job with this piece was to construct a story that would support the prevailing Democrat narrative that Sinema is the problem, not the Biden/AOC/Sanders/Pelosi economy-destroying bill she’s holding up. That’s not an easy narrative to drive; hence, he had to go latch onto whatever quotes from whatever sources he could find, no matter how absurd or obscure they happen to be.
Think about that quote above: What would this “strategist” have Sinema do? Tack to the left of Hugo Chavez and isolate herself as the extremists’ senator? That would be a ridiculous move on her part, an absolute certain prescription for being a one-term senator. After all, even though the Democrat extremists have indeed moved farther and farther to the left, the overwhelming majority of the state’s voters - and voters in most states - still occupy the middle of the political spectrum.
The middle is where the votes are, and that’s why Sinema has been careful to get there and stay there since her election. That’s reality, but it’s a reality that does not support the preferred narrative of the Democrat Party right now.
Thus, Politico goes and finds some old retired “strategist” to provide a quote supporting the narrative, because any “strategist” who is still working wouldn’t want his or her name associated with such a rank absurdity.
So, where does this all end? Nick Searcy summed it up best in a tweet:
That is all.
President Trump said Public Enemy NUmber One. And the propaganda medial mill just keep proving him right.