Democratic strategist Rahm Emanuel famously said, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.” Well, in the age of liberal influencers, the new ethos is never to let a tragedy go to waste, no matter how heartbreaking, if it can somehow be twisted and used to smear Republicans.
That’s what’s happening right now across social media as viral video after viral video distorts the tragic story of a pregnant woman named Adriana Smith for cynical partisan purposes. Her heartbreaking situation made national news after Smith suffered from a medical episode and was declared brain-dead while nine weeks pregnant. Rather than take her off life support, doctors have kept her on it so the baby may continue to gestate and hopefully be born alive. Social media influencers have claimed that Adriana’s “corpse” is being forced by Georgia’s abortion laws to be a “baby incubator” and that she is being “held hostage against her family’s wishes.”
