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Leftists: We Want Michael Moore As Our Leader

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Salon, the Left’s favorite online repository, is now positing that the leader of their movement is not President Barack Obama, or Hillary Clinton, or Bernie Sanders, but instead, filmmaker Michael Moore.

Why Moore?

As Penn State professor Sophia A. McClennen writes, because Moore got the 2016 election right, and possesses the “substance, compassion and wit we need to counteract one of the dumbest, meanest, most egotistical presidents our nation has ever seen. He is the perfect foil for a reality TV president.”

And how did Moore get the 2016 election right, according to McClennen?

Five ways: releasing his short film “Where to Invade Next,” which McClennen lovingly notes “combines a fiercely optimistic patriotism with a sharp, unflinching attack on the evils of American exceptionalism — and it does it all without shooting a single frame in the United States.”

Yup, targeting that evil American exceptionalism would undoubtedly make Moore the leader of the left.

McClennen writes, “As we head into a Trump kakistocracy that promises austerity for us and privilege for them, the message of Moore’s film will be more important than ever.” According to another article by McClennen, she calls the Trump Administration a kakistocracy because it means “government by the worst element of a society. A kakistocracy is a government by the least qualified or most unprincipled citizens. Trump plans to bring us the worst of both.”

McClennen’s second way Moore got it right? His efforts to focus on the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, including an online open letter to Governor Rick Snyder and writing “10 Things They Won’t Tell You About the Flint Water Tragedy, but I Will.” McClennen delightedly terms Moore’s actions as calling for a “revolution,” adding, “Moore’s fight to hold politicians accountable for the suffering they cause citizens will be a much-needed call to action in the months to come.”

Thirdly, McClennen notes Moore predicted Trump would win the election, saying the Democratic oligarchy was “living in a bubble that comes with an adjoining echo chamber.” Fourth, McClennen points to Moore’s movie “Michael Moore in TrumpLand,” released one week before the election in an attempt to exhort Trump supporters to switch their votes to Hillary Clinton. She claims, “Moore worked to humanize Trump supporters as well as Clinton herself. His message was clear: Without a sense of our common humanity our democracy is doomed.”

McClennen may have missed that Trump voters stuck by their man.

If the GOP is lucky, McClennen will get her wish, and the Democratic Party will turn even farther left with Moore leading them off the political cliff.

Finally, McClennen cites Moore’s list, released the day after Trump’s victory, which offered five things Democrats should do, which included: “Take over the Democratic Party and return it to the people. They have failed us miserably.” He followed on Dec. 27, by posting on Facebook “5 Things You Can Do Right Now About Donald J. Trump.”

McClennen chortles, “On top of his five-point lists, Moore is often blasting Trump on Twitter, refusing to let the blowhard go unchallenged on social media. He also tried to encourage electors to dump Trump.”

That did really well, too.

If the GOP is lucky, McClennen will get her wish, and the Democratic Party will turn even farther left with Moore leading them off the political cliff. An accomplished liar, Moore can lead the petulant children of the Left just as the Pied Piper of Hamelin did: far, far away.

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