Hillary Clinton gav endnu et eksempel på den radikaliserede retorik, som det overlejrede magtapparat med dets medier ekselerer stadigt mere hysterisk, når emnet er den halvdel af befolkningen der stemmer på Trump. I en samtale med CNNs Christiane Amanpour – hvis groteske leflen for den korrupte tidligere Førstedame og Udenrigsminister bliver udeladt at min lille transskription – er folket statens fjende. Og som vi skal se nedenunder, er FBI helt enige og overvåger dem, som var de terrorister.
And we have very bitter battles over all kinds of things: Gun control, climate change and the economy and taxes… But there wasn’t this little tail of extremism wagging the dog of the Republican Party, as it is today. And sadly so many of those extremists, those MAGA extremists take their marching orders from Donald Trump [Amanpour slår bekræftende ud med armen] who has no credibility left by any measure. He is only in it for himself, he is now defending himself in civil actions, in criminal actions and when do they break with him?
Because, at some point, you know, maybe there needs to be a formal deprograming of the cult members, but something needs to happen.
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We have to defeat him! And we have to defeat those who are the election deniers as we did in 2020 and 2022. And we have to just be smarter about how we are trying to empower the right people inside the Republican Party.
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It’s a classic tale of an authoritarian populist who really has a grip on the emotional and psychological needs and desires of a portion of the population. And the base of the Republican Party for whatever combination of reasons – and it is emotional and psychological – sees in him, someone who speaks for them, and they are determined that they will continue to vote for him, attends his rallies, buys his merchandise, because for whatever reason, he and his very negative and nasty form of politics resonates with them.
Maybe they don’t like migrants? Maybe they don’t like gay people? Or black people or the woman who got a promotion at work, they didn’t get? Whatever the reason,
Make America Great Again was a bit for nostalgia, to return to a place where people could be in charge of their lives, feel empowered, say what they want [garbled]. And that was really attractive to a significant portion of the Republican base. So it is like a cult and somebody has to break that momentum.
And that is why I believe that Joe Biden will defeat him. And hopefully then that will be the end and the fever will break and then Republicans can try to get back to fighting about issues among themselves and electing people who are at least responsible and accountable.
Jonathan Turley er “…concerned by the continued reckless rhetoric from national leaders”
The media has long embraced the need to educate the public to accept its views. Former President Barack Obama joined a number of journalists in discussing how to reeducate the public. Obama denounced “anger-based journalism” while promoting an advocacy-journalism model in which the media shape the news for citizens who supposedly need help to properly frame ideas.
The fact that Amanpour elicited these comments only magnified the unease over the underlying intolerance for opposing viewpoints. In an interview with James Comey, Amanpour pressed Comey on why the FBI did not “shut down” President Donald Trump’s “hate speech” during the 2016 presidential election.
Comey correctly pushed back on Amanpour by noting that she was suggesting something grossly improper and unconstitutional: “That’s not a role for government to play. The beauty of this country is people can say what they want even if it’s misleading and it’s demagoguery.”
Neither CNN nor Amanpour ever addressed a CNN host suggesting the use of the FBI to shutdown political debate.
Retorikken har længe været således. CNNs Christiane Amanpour, hende ovenfor, sammenlignede Trump og tilhængere med Nazitysklands fremkomst og manede dramatisk et billede af Krystalnatten frem. Jennifer Rubin sagde på MSNBC at det Republikanske Parti skal brændes ned til grunden, grundet Trumps “enablers” og advarede om, at der ikke måtte efterlades “overlevende”. En venstreorienteret underskriftindsamling krævede alle jurister, der arbejdede for Trumps påstand om valgsvindel, skulle miste deres bestalling.
Det er ikke bare FBI folk, der udtrykker deres væmmelse over stanken fra mennesker, der handler i lavprisvarehuse, Clinton der kalder dem begrædelige og fortabte, Pelosi der kalder dem statens fjender, FBI og præsident Biden, der kalder dem hvide suppremascister, der endda udgør den største terrortrussel mod nationen. I den offentlige debat er Trumps tilhængere hvide supremascister, der reagerer med had i et ‘whitelash’ efter Obama-æraen, misogyne racister, der med åben mund slæber knoerne hen ad asfalten. General, Mark Miley, har sammenlignet Trumps tilhængere med nazister og u-ironisk set optøjerne ved Capitol 6 Januar, som Trumps forsøg på en Rigsdagsbrand.
Hvis man vil studere hvor emotionelt forankret hadet er, kan man se Kieth Olberman vidoer, som han kræver dem udrenset fra samfundet, som de maddiker (som et ordspil på MAGA; maggats/maggots), samt alle Trump har udnævnt som dommere eller til sin regering retsforfulgt. Olbermanns vrede er et studie i sig selv, men det er værd at gøre sig klart, at det er et udtryk, der har en klangbund
“He, and his enablers, and his supporters, and his collaborators, and the Mike Lees and the William Barrs … and the Mike Pences, and the Rudy Giulianis and the Kyle Rittenhouses and the Amy Coney Barretts must be prosecuted and convicted and removed from our society while we try to rebuild it and to rebuild the world Trump has destroyed by turning it over to a virus,”
Newsweek skriver at FBI grundlæggende har kategoriseret Trumps tilhængere som en terrortrussel
From the president down, the Biden administration has presented Trump and MAGA as an existential threat to American democracy and talked up the risk of domestic terrorism and violence associated with the 2024 election campaign.
“Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans are a threat to the very soul of this country,” President Biden tweeted last September, the first time that he explicitly singled out the former president. “MAGA Republicans aim to question not only the legitimacy of past elections but elections being held now and into the future,” Biden said.
Biden’s Homeland Security Advisor Liz Sherwood-Randall said: “The use of violence to pursue political ends is a profound threat to our public safety and national security…it is a threat to our national identity, our values, our norms, our rule of law—our democracy.”
For Attorney General Merrick Garland: “Attacks by domestic terrorists are attacks on all of us collectively, aimed at rending the fabric of our democratic society and driving us apart.”
Though the FBI’s data shows a dip in the number of investigations since the slew of January 6 cases ended, FBI Director Christopher Wray still says that the breach of the Capitol building was “not an isolated event” and the threat is “not going away anytime soon.” In a joint report to Congress this June, the Bureau and the Department of Homeland Security say that “Threats from…DVEs [domestic violent extremists] have increased in the last two years, and any further increases in threats likely will correspond to potential flashpoints, such as high-profile elections and campaigns or contentious current events.”
The FBI and DHS report concludes: “Sociopolitical developments—such as narratives of fraud in the recent general election, the emboldening impact of the violent breach of the U.S. Capitol, conditions related to the COVID-19 pandemic, and conspiracy theories promoting violence—will almost certainly spur some domestic terrorists to try to engage in violence.”
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The threats listed in that paragraph are all clearly associated with America’s right and in particular with Trump’s MAGA supporters. Right after January 6, the FBI co-authored a restricted report (“Domestic Violent Extremists Emboldened in Aftermath of Capitol Breach, Elevated Domestic Terrorism Threat of Violence Likely Amid Political Transitions and Beyond”) in which it shifted the definition of AGAAVE (“anti-government, anti-authority violent extremism”) from “furtherance of ideological agendas” to “furtherance of political and/or social agendas.” For the first time, such groups could be so labeled because of their politics.
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But the FBI went further in October 2022 when it created a new subcategory—”AGAAVE-Other”—of those who were a threat but do not fit into its anarchist, militia or Sovereign Citizen groups. Introduced without any announcement, and reported here for the first time, the new classification is officially defined as “domestic violent extremists who cite anti-government or anti-authority motivations for violence or criminal activity not otherwise defined, such as individuals motivated by a desire to commit violence against those with a real or perceived association with a specific political party or faction of a specific political party.”
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Another senior intelligence official who requested anonymity told Newsweek, “We’ve crossed the Rubicon.” In emailed responses to questions, he said, “Trump’s army constitutes the greatest threat of violence domestically…politically…that’s the reality and the problem set. That’s what the FBI, as a law enforcement agency, has to deal with. But whether Trump and his supporters are a threat to national security, to the country, whether they represent a threat of civil war? That’s a trickier question. And that’s for the country to deal with, not the FBI.”
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The left sees these same numbers as proof that Donald Trump and his supporters are not just dangerous to democracy but also that the government isn’t doing enough. Michigan Senator Gary Peters, chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, consistently argues that the FBI is failing to fight the “full scope of white supremacist terrorist attacks.” Others argue that the FBI (and law enforcement in general) is too sympathetic to white supremacists, a view punctuated by an assumption made by many after January 6 that a disproportionate number of protesters and those arrested were veterans or members of law enforcement (an allegation that isn’t true when compared to their numbers in the general population).
Republikanere er jaget vildt, som Scott Adams forudsagde, efter Joe Biden blev præsident. Med FBIs stempling af den politiske opposition, som en terrorgruppe er Rubicon krydset.
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