Leftist late-night host Jimmy Kimmel attacked Arnold Schwarzenegger Wednesday after the former California governor and movie star pointed out the GOP is the party of Lincoln.
When Schwarzenegger told the late-night host that he’s still a proud “traditional” Republican, the kind who honors the party that freed the slaves and gave them citizenship and the vote, Kimmel jumped in.
Kimmel: Are you still a Republican?
Schwarzenegger: Yeah, I’m a Republican, absolutely.
Kimmel: What does that even mean anymore?
Schwarzenegger: A traditional Republican is someone that admires the Republican Party for having freed the slaves.
Kimmel: Yeah, that was — they don’t get credit for that anymore, come on now.
Schwarzenegger: No, no, but this is the history. This is what I’m about.
Kimmel: Yeah, yeah.
Schwarzenegger: You know, that someone did — that has given the slaves American citizenship and giving them the rights to vote.
Kimmel: This sounds like all the opposite things that the Republican Party stands for now, though, doesn’t it?
That’s a cheap shot and it gets things backward.
To many conservatives, the Democrat Party is the one that is tightening its grip on ordinary Americans with the slow loss of freedom. The Democrats favor soaring tax rates and student-loan bailouts, letting the federal government take more of what workers earn and keep. Welfare programs help build voting blocs that depend on government checks.
Red tape favored by Democrats include climate mandates, DEI quotas, gun restrictions, campus speech codes, cancel culture, and corporate pressure campaigns.
And, of course, there’s the ballot box.
In Pennsylvania, Delaware County’s Democrat DA charged Jennifer Hill, a canvasser for the New Pennsylvania Project, a voter-registration outfit modeled on Stacey Abrams’ Georgia group. Prosecutors say she tried to put dead people on the rolls, including her own father and another person who died in her home. The DA warned that the case exposed loopholes in the state’s system. The group says it suspended Hill and halted some registration drives.
In New York City, Democrats passed a law in 2021 to let more than 800,000 noncitizens vote in local races, and former Mayor Eric Adams let it take effect. The RNC sued immediately. New York’s high court eventually sided with the Republicans who challenged the law, striking it down 6-1.
D.C. Democrats tried something similar. The House voted to block the capital’s noncitizen-voting law 260-162, and 42 Democrats crossed over to join the GOP. The House vote did not actually block the law. The resolution of disapproval was not considered in the Democratic-controlled Senate, so D.C.’s noncitizen voting law went into effect.
Then there’s former President Joe Biden. In January 2022, he suggested the midterms “could easily be illegitimate” if his party’s voting overhaul didn’t pass. Conservatives called that hypocrisy from the same people who blasted Georgia’s election-integrity law as “Jim Crow.”
So who stands for freedom?
Schwarzenegger pointed to Lincoln.
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