What happened at the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6 was unprecedented and unacceptable. But Democrats seem to see it as an opportunity to vilify not just President Trump but every single person who has ever supported him.
First, let’s make one thing clear: Trump supporters were the ones who led the charge into the Capitol building, attacked law enforcement, and ransacked lawmakers’ offices. There is no evidence supporting claims to the contrary. But those men and women do not represent many of the millions of Republicans who voted for the president in 2016 and 2020.
Democrats would have you believe otherwise. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez argued last week that Republicans only “give a damn about white supremacy” and “preserving the social order and the mythology of whiteness.” Other congressional Democrats suggested Republican lawmakers were in on the plot to storm the Capitol. And this week, Rep. Steve Cohen went so far as to claim that the National Guard’s presence in Washington, D.C., ahead of Inauguration Day is concerning because the military arm is composed mostly of white males who are “more conservative.”
“The Guard is 90-some-odd percent, I believe, male. Only about 20% of white males voted for Biden. You gotta figure that in the guard, which is predominantly more conservative, and I see that on my social media … They’re probably not more than 25% of the people that are there protecting us who voted for Biden,” Cohen said Monday on CNN.
“The other 75% are in the class that would be the large class of folks who might want to do something. And there were military people and police who took oaths to defend the Constitution and to protect and defend who didn’t do it who were in the insurrection. So it does concern me,” he added.
This kind of rhetoric is reprehensible. To suggest that the men and women who give themselves up to the service of this nation would betray it for an outgoing president just because they might have voted for him is a serious accusation for which there is no evidence at all. Even Cohen was forced to admit as much when CNN’s Jim Sciutto pressed him for specifics.
“I’m curious, is there anything you’ve seen to substantiate just how broad this insider threat may be, if it exists?” Sciutto asked.
“Actually not, Jim. But you draw a circle of people who work for Trump and not for Biden as far as people who would be within the zone of folks who you would be suspect of. The suspect group is large,” Cohen replied.
But Cohen had no problem questioning the National Guard’s loyalty because he, like so many other Democrats, likes to push the narrative that anyone associated with Trump is a monster. There can be no in between, according to people like Cohen — either you supported Trump’s election and should be held responsible for his misconduct, or you’re one of the good guys on the side of the leftists. Never mind the fact that millions voted for Trump not because they loved the guy but because they hated the alternative even more.
Cohen, Ocasio-Cortez, and every other Democrat attempting to use the tragedy on Jan. 6 as leverage against Republican voters should think twice before smearing an entire group of people. It’s this exact kind of thing that helped fuel Trump’s rise in the first place.
