The Democrats’ twin messages to voters this midterm season are: Republicans are putting our democracy at risk, and former President Donald Trump is the most dangerous enemy America has ever faced. While both messages are propaganda promoted by a party that lost its moral compass once Trump arrived in Washington, if lies are repeated often enough, they will eventually resonate with voters.
In case you’ve ever wondered whether Democrats understand that deliberately manipulating the news to serve their political interests is wrong, the leftist Sam Harris, a neuroscientist, author, and self-described atheist, conceded in a shockingly honest interview last week that they do.
Harris went even further than most on the far Left are willing to go and explained why this tactic is not only necessary but justified.
It all begins with a collective case of severe “Trump Derangement Syndrome.” The Left’s portrayal of Trump as a dangerous man who, according to Harris, is “capable of anything” and is “a black hole of selfishness” whose very “presence” is “like a once in a lifetime moral emergency,” is presented as a proven fact. With a straight face, he claimed, “My criticism of Trump is totally nonpartisan.”
So Harris began with a false premise, a delusion, and used it to justify all the subversion that follows.
He argued that Democrats could not allow the New York Post’s bombshell story about Hunter Biden’s laptop to derail their chances of taking down Trump a second time because of the “existential threat” Trump poses. It was therefore totally appropriate for Big Tech and the major media outlets to conspire to suppress what Harris considers “just a nuclear bomb of an October surprise.”
Make no mistake: What Harris is advocating here is election interference. A Media Research Center poll conducted after the election found that 16% of voters would have voted differently had the laptop story not been suppressed. Enough to change the result of the election? Most likely.
But they did it to “protect America,” according to Harris. Therefore, the end justifies the means.
Finally, Harris cuts to the chase: “The way I would frame it is, I don’t care what’s in Hunter Biden’s [laptop]. … Hunter Biden literally could have had the corpses of children in his basement. I would not have cared. … It’s Hunter Biden, right? … It’s not Joe Biden. But even if Joe, like even whatever scope of Joe Biden’s corruption is … if we could just go down that rabbit hole endlessly and understand that [Biden] is getting kickbacks from Hunter Biden’s deals in Ukraine or whatever else, right, or China, it is infinitesimal compared to the corruption we know Trump is involved in.”
Harris just provided us with a remarkably frank summary of the Left’s position. Based on the irrational assumption that Trump is a corrupt, amoral fraud, Democrats have been willing to go to extreme and undemocratic lengths to shut him down. It started with their collaboration with the intelligence community to frame Trump as an agent of Russia and derail his 2016 presidential campaign and subsequent presidency.
When that didn’t work, House Democrats contrived two impeachments.
But that still wasn’t enough. They had to make sure he didn’t win the White House again in 2020, so they suppressed the laptop story, which revealed the president’s alleged knowledge of and possible involvement in his son’s business deals with Ukraine and China.
And now they’re doing everything they can to keep Trump out of the Oval Office for good. The FBI ransacked his Mar-a-Lago home over an alleged violation of the law that was not enforced against other politicians who broke it, such as Hillary Clinton. And the Justice Department is fighting efforts to make public its reasons for doing so.
All of this is somehow “warranted” because Democrats had no other choice but to subvert democracy to save the people from this fiend, right?
Thank you, Dr. Harris, for putting it all into perspective for us.
Elizabeth Stauffer is a contributor to the Washington Examiner and the Western Journal. Her articles have appeared on many websites, including MSN, RedState, Newsmax, the Federalist, and RealClearPolitics. Please follow her on Twitter or LinkedIn.
