For nearly a month now, pretty much every college campus in the country has made it clear that &#8220;decolonization&#8221; means &#8220;kill whitey.&#8221; It&#8217;s long been obvious that this is always what the Left meant by &#8220;decolonization,&#8221; as I outlined a few weeks ago. But after Hamas&#8217; attack on Israel, activist groups have made it explicit. They want similar murders to happen in this country. They don&#8217;t view their enemies as human, and they want them exterminated.
For its part, the establishment Left didn&#8217;t join in on these calls for violence, at least not directly. But that all changed yesterday, when the online outlet Salon — which passes for mainstream among Leftists — published an <a href="https://www.salon.com/2023/11/02/maga-and-christian-nationalism-bigger-to-america-than-hamas-could-ever-be/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">op-ed</a> from a journalist named Brian Karem. In no uncertain terms, the point of this op-ed is to justify the murder of the conservatives, and in particular conservative Christians. Karem&#8217;s piece is entitled, &#8220;MAGA and Christian nationalism: Bigger threat to America than Hamas could ever be.&#8221;
This article went viral the other day. Elon Musk tweeted about it a few times. It caused a lot of outrage. What a lot of people are missing is that this op-ed is just the latest iteration of a long line of Brian Karem op-eds in Salon that accuse conservatives of being terrorists. In fact, just a month ago, Karem <a href="https://www.salon.com/2023/10/12/hamas-and-the-are-both-terrorist-groups--its-just-a-matter-of-degree/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> a piece in Salon entitled, &#8220;Hamas and the GOP are both terrorist groups — it&#8217;s just a matter of degree.&#8221;
In that article, Karem asserted, &#8220;There is little or no difference between most of the GOP leadership, including Jim Jordan and Donald Trump, and the leaders of Hamas. Both groups will do anything they can to win. Both groups have engaged in atrocities. Both groups continue to lie. Both groups use human beings as hostages. Both groups are extremely dangerous. Both groups threaten the world’s internal and external peace. The fact is, many Americans viscerally understand this: Donald Trump and his followers are terrorists.&#8221;
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As melodramatic and deranged as that op-ed was, no one paid any attention to it whatsoever. So this week, Karem basically rewrote the same article, except he added a little more bite to it this time around. Before I get any further into specifics of the unhinged screeds of Brian Karem, it&#8217;s important to emphasize a couple of things. First of all, Karem is not an intern, or a random troll or anything like that. He&#8217;s the former senior White House Correspondent for Playboy, and for years he&#8217;s been a credentialed member of the White House press pool. This is one of the most coveted positions among mainstream journalists. Back when we had journalistic standards, it used to mean something to be a White House correspondent. But we don&#8217;t have journalistic standards anymore, and so Brian Karem is free to publish op-eds saying that his domestic political opponents are worse than Hamas terrorists who kill civilians, while retaining his White House press credentials.
The other important point to emphasize is that, while I&#8217;m going to refer to Karem&#8217;s writing specifically, he&#8217;s far from the only prominent figure on the Left who feels this way. First of all, whatever editors still work at Salon had to approve his pieces and publish them. But more to the point, the leaders of the Democratic Party have been demonizing their political opponents for years, in ways that aren&#8217;t that dissimilar to what Karem is doing.
It was just a year ago that Joe Biden all but <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHfbuwBifbU" target="_blank" rel="noopener">declared war</a> on &#8220;MAGA Republicans,&#8221; calling them a threat to democracy for disagreeing with him. Let’s relive that moment together: 
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There&#8217;s Joe Biden, standing in front of the Marines with the blood-red backdrop, shaking his fists and telling the country that democracy means voting for Joe Biden. Everyone who doesn&#8217;t vote for Joe Biden, by contrast, is a terrorist.
We saw that kind of rhetoric constantly last year. Around the same time as Joe Biden&#8217;s diatribe about MAGA Republicans, various outlets, including The Daily Beast, <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/dont-act-surprised-we-knew-the-right-was-stoking-violence" target="_blank" rel="noopener">labeled</a> me a &#8220;stochastic terrorist.&#8221; They used the same term to describe &#8220;Libs of TikTok&#8221; and many others. That&#8217;s a term that means nothing but sounds vaguely intelligent, so you hear it all the time now. It also have very clear implications. Everyone instinctively agrees that terrorists should be killed. They’re a threat to the country. So when you call someone a terrorist, well it’s not hard to connect the dots.
But this Salon piece stands out for how blatant and flagrant it is. Here&#8217;s how the piece begins: &#8220;The House of Representatives, now run by [Mike] Johnson, offers a discount version of the apocalyptic orgasm the holy rollers have dreamed of for years. They’ve renewed the Inquisition and seem determined to convert the U.S. into a theocracy run by people who will thump you with the Bible, but haven’t read much of it.&#8221;
At this point, you&#8217;re probably wondering: Where has that happened? What is he talking about? Where have Republicans done anything that could be remotely compared to the Inquisition? In what way is Mike Johnson ushering in a theocracy? Has he proposed making church attendance compulsory? Has he tried to pass a law forbidding the practice of non-Christian religions? Has he burned any atheists at the stake recently? As far as I know, the answer is “No” on all accounts.
It appears that he has earned the label of theocrat simply because he is a Christian with conservative political views. That might not seem like a big deal to you if you&#8217;re a well-adjusted, sane person, but the Left-wing media, of course, is comprised of people who are neither of those things. For a long time now, Brian Karem specifically has viewed Christians who hold conservative political views as demonic. Here he was in the White House Rose Garden just a couple of years ago, during the Trump presidency, explaining that conservatives are &#8220;eager for demonic possession&#8221;:
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VIDEO FLASHBACK: This insane article was written by the same radical leftwing clown that almost got into a physical altercation at a Trump press event.
Brian Karem is not a journalist, he is a hyper-partisan, unhinged activist.
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I’m not exactly sure what “eager for demonic possession” is even supposed to mean, to be honest. At the time, a handful of commentators chastised Brian Karem for acting out. They praised Sebastian Gorka for putting him in his place. But in reality, Karem&#8217;s outburst was a revealing moment. He was echoing an increasingly common view on the Left, which is that conservatives — and in particular Christians — need to be eliminated. They need to be exorcised.
This is a view that wasn&#8217;t widely advertised a couple of years ago, but you see all over the place now. A couple of days ago, for example, Rolling Stone ran a detailed <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/mike-johnson-alliance-defending-freedom-anti-lgbtq-1234865340/">hit piece</a> on Johnson, focusing on his work at Alliance Defending Freedom for nearly a decade. In that capacity, Johnson advanced legal positions that are completely consistent with his faith. He opposed sodomy. He rejected the Supreme Court ruling that legalized gay marriage. And he wrote an <a href="https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-times-kfile/134019997/">op-ed</a> predicting — correctly — that the so-called LGBTQ movement, left unchallenged, will be the “the dark harbinger of chaos and sexual anarchy that could doom even the strongest republic.”
You can disagree with Mike Johnson&#8217;s views, but there&#8217;s no denying that every single one of them is consistent with a Christian worldview. He was also undeniably correct in his prediction, as recent events have shown. In fact, his views are completely consistent with the Democratic Party&#8217;s platform circa 2006. The 2008 version of Barack Obama wouldn&#8217;t take issue with any of it. And yet — back when most people thought like this, across the political spectrum —  we were not living, as the media now predicts, in a theocratic dystopian wasteland.
Karem&#8217;s piece doesn&#8217;t grapple with any of this. Instead, in something of a manic rage, Karem goes on to ramble about everything from Israel bombing a refugee camp in Gaza, to artificial intelligence, to the dangers of climate change: &#8220;That is our world today. It took an asteroid the size of a modern city to wipe out the dinosaurs. People, being smarter than dinosaurs, have figured out how to destroy everything all by ourselves. Climate change is slowly creeping up on us and we are killing each other at an increasing rate. It took a Category 5 hurricane to kill 40-odd people in Acapulco last week. We killed that many in two mass shootings in the U.S. in about the same amount of time — and spared the property. Pogo was right: We have met the enemy and he is us.&#8221;
Keep in mind that when the Left talks about &#8220;mass shootings,&#8221; they love to imply it&#8217;s always MAGA Republicans doing the shooting. They get a lot of mileage out of that. But in the overwhelming number of cases — including one of the shootings that Karem appears to be referencing there — these mass shootings are taking place in overwhelmingly black neighborhoods. According to authorities, more than a dozen people were <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/31/us/chicago-mass-shooting-halloween-suspect-charged/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shot</a> by a felon at a Halloween party in Chicago just a couple of days ago. That&#8217;s not the result of Christianity, or Christian nationalism, or Trump supporters. Maybe the reason the media buries any mention of these mass shootings in black communities is that, if they covered them, then everyone would realize what an absurd and counterfactual talking point this is.
But even if you accept everything Karem says — even if you suspend reality for a second, and agree that MAGA Republicans are somehow doing all the mass shootings — it still wouldn&#8217;t come close to supporting his thesis, which is that conservatives are a terrorist group that&#8217;s more dangerous to Americans than Hamas. There are well over 200 million Christians in this country. If you polled those Christians, you would find 0% support for murdering nonbelievers. There would not be any enthusiasm for gunning down elderly women at bus stops.
By contrast, the founding charter of Hamas calls for genocide. Every single militant of Hamas wants to murder non-Muslims and in particular Jews. And, as we&#8217;ve learned recently, some of these militants <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/hamas-militants-potentially-crossing-southern-border-us-officials/story?id=104236095" target="_blank" rel="noopener">could easily be entering</a> this country through the southern border.
Brian Karem knows that, and so do his editors, and so does the rest of the media. The reason there will be no condemnation from anyone — from the Left-wing media, to the White House press corps, to the Biden administration — is that they understand what he is really getting at here. He&#8217;s not really trying to make any meaningful point about Hamas, or artificial intelligence, or climate change. He&#8217;s trying to communicate the same message that Joe Biden did one year ago, except he&#8217;s putting a finer point on it — that many on the Left want their political opponents to die. They don&#8217;t just want them to lose elections. They don&#8217;t just want to censor them. They want to dehumanize them. Criminalize them. And worse.
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Florida Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ron-desantis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ron DeSantis</a> defended supporters of former President Donald Trump during an interview this week after former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said this week that they needed &#8220;deprogramming&#8221; as she compared them to a &#8220;cult.&#8221;
Clinton made the <a href="https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/4241678-hillary-clinton-maga-cult-members-need-deprogramming/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">remarks</a> during an interview on CNN where she said that &#8220;MAGA extremists&#8221; were &#8220;taking their marching orders from Donald Trump.&#8221;
DeSantis responded during an interview on CNBC&#8217;s &#8220;Squawk Box&#8221; Friday morning when asked by host Joe Kernen about Clinton&#8217;s remarks.
&#8220;Hillary Clinton just said something like, maybe that cult needs [to] go to some re-education training or something just to get out of the Trump cult &#8212; but you see what you’re up against and how difficult it is,&#8221; said Kernen.
&#8220;I don’t, I reject that,&#8221; DeSantis responded. &#8220;I mean, look, these are patriotic Americans. They want to see the country do well.&#8221;
Kernen asked how DeSantis planned on winning the former president&#8217;s supporters over if he starts attacking Trump on the campaign trail.
&#8220;These folks get it. They want to see the country do well,&#8221; DeSantis said. &#8220;Some people will be with Trump no matter what. But I think the bulk of the people are people that appreciate what he did. They also understand that he has got limitations in terms of his electability. He would be a lame duck on day one. If he could even get elected, I think he’d have major problems with personnel. And of course, he didn’t deliver on his core promises to drain the swamp or to have Mexico pay for the border wall or to eliminate the debt.&#8221;
&#8220;He added 7.8 trillion to the debt,&#8221; DeSantis concluded. &#8220;So, that’s all fair game. We’re going to be able to make that case.&#8221;
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DeSantis Defends MAGA After Clinton Calls For ‘Deprogramming’ Of ‘Cult’: ‘These Are Patriotic Americans’

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Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) expressed his frustration with keyboard warriors who have slammed conservative Republicans legislators like him from a distance and called them RINOs, saying, “You want to come at me and call me a RINO, you can kiss my a**.”
Roy <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhgLDqS59TU">spoke</a> with radio host Steve Deace during the challenge that ultimately ousted Rep. Kevin McCarthy as House Speaker. Deace, pointing out that some social media users had called Roy a &#8220;RINO&#8221; for not endorsing the move to oust McCarthy, declared he was fed-up with the internecine warfare in the GOP, saying, “I’m about to just ‘Get thee to a nunnery’ and just go full-on Billy Graham and you all, I don’t care. &#8230; This is a joke. It’s rudderless and it seems as if we want to sell each other talking points rather than actually produce some form of substantive whatsoever. Tell me I’m wrong.”
“Some of our brothers and sisters – particularly in the, you know, MAGA camp, I think – particularly enjoy the circular firing squad,” Roy asserted. “You wanna come out me and call me a RINO? You can kiss my a**. Look, I’ve spent a lifetime fighting for limited government conservatism. I have laid it all on the line. I have not seen my family for two days in the last 30 days. You go around talking your big game and you thumping your chest on Twitter? Yeah. Come to my office, come have a debate, mother.”
“I’m not gonna go to a nunnery, because godda**it, there were people who are buried over in Normandy who deserve us to stand up for what they fought for!” he continued. “So that’s what I’m gonna do. And all of you f***ers out there who are out there saying what you’re saying out on social media, you stick it! I’m gonna go down to the floor and do my job and I’m gonna stand up for the people who fought for this country.”
“Like, I respect what Gaetz and my four, five, six brothers are doing right now because they want to change things,” he said. “I respect friends of mine who went to the mic, who are your heroes out there, ladies and gentlemen, who are taking a different position because we’re trying to figure out how to navigate through a world in which Democrats control the Senate, the Republican conference in the Senate is garbage, the House Republican Conference has a variety of views from all over the country with 221. But if people wanna play this out in real time and deal with this every single minute and every single day on social media, don’t think that that’s somehow going to change the game, because what we gotta do is we have to actually define the fight.”
Roy followed up with comments when he <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoM5ttn_des">spoke</a> to The Blaze’s Dana Loesch. “Part of what frustrates me, Dana, is when you get pundits — my reaction there wasn’t really to Matt,” he clarified. “It wasn’t to any of my friends who had a good faith belief that we weren’t getting the job done through the speaker, and they called the question. So, now we gotta go choose another speaker. I didn’t agree with the play call, but I don’t fault them for it.”
Roy then pointed out the realities of trying to get things done in Washington, D.C. “I do fault the pundits who are spinning people up with lies, saying, ‘Chip Roy supports giving all the money in the world to Ukraine; he’s selling out,” he said. “Why? Because I made a statement that said we should consider attaching H.R. 2, border security, to any Ukraine deal. Yeah, I don’t think we ought to be giving a blank check to Ukraine, or frankly, any more money at all to Ukraine, but I am going to try to play the leverage to try to secure the border of the United States. I’m paid to be smart and try to figure out how to get this done. So look, that is what I was frustrated about.”
“Look, I should not have used the language that I used–” he said before Loesch interjected, “Oh, no, no. I’m not gonna have you come and apologize and do all that stuff, Congressman. You know what? You were, you were mad on behalf of the American people. And what you were expressing is what– is the frustration of people all over this country because, you know, at the end of the day, whoever the speaker is, isn’t gonna change inflation. It’s not gonna change what’s happening at the border. We just want to get stuff done. We know who you are; we know that if anyone’s saying that Chip Roy’s a RINO those people have not been paying attention to what you are doing. You’ve fought a lot; you’ve put your reputation on the line.”

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Former Secretary of State <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hillary-clinton" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hillary Clinton</a> has determined that this summer is excessively hot — and rather than the earth’s tilt coupled with the time of year, it’s “MAGA Republicans” who are at fault.
Clinton shared a graphic from the Center for American Progress, which showed a series of headlines about heatwaves and record high temperatures across the country along with the caption, &#8220;MAGA Republicans are pouring fuel on the climate crisis fire.&#8221; Clinton added her own thoughts as well, tweeting, &#8220;Hot enough for you? Thank a MAGA Republican. Or better yet, vote them out of office.&#8221;
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Hot enough for you? 
Thank a MAGA Republican. 
Or better yet, vote them out of office. <a href="https://t.co/0MFC6rPq6o">https://t.co/0MFC6rPq6o</a>
&mdash; Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) <a href="https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1683819246042710018?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 25, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The implication, of course, was that &#8220;MAGA Republicans&#8221; were directly causing the earth&#8217;s temperature to rise by standing in the way of the Left&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrats-are-coming-for-everything-gas-stoves-light-bulbs-and-now-gas-stations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">increasingly intrusive</a> demands in the name of reducing global temperatures.
Critics quickly began to mock Clinton, some noting that unless it was particularly convenient for Democrats, most insisted that <a href="https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/hot-planet/dont-be-fooled-weather-is-not-climate/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">climate and weather</a> were not the same.
&#8220;MAGA Republicans are powerful enough to control the seasons apparently, and without them we&#8217;d have no summer,&#8221; syndicated radio host Dana Loesch commented.
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MAGA Republicans are powerful enough to control the seasons apparently, and without them we&#39;d have no summer <a href="https://t.co/NdB1ZvWFil">https://t.co/NdB1ZvWFil</a>
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The Daily Wire host Matt Walsh weighed in as well, saying, &#8220;They are now directly blaming &#8216;MAGA Republicans&#8217; for the temperature outside. The Democrat Party has fallen fully into a state of primitive superstition. They have all the scientific credibility of an Aztec priest in the year 1450.&#8221;
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They are now directly blaming “MAGA Republicans” for the temperature outside. 
The Democrat Party has fallen fully into a state of primitive superstition. They have all the scientific credibility of an Aztec priest in the year 1450. <a href="https://t.co/qh3WXYshAD">https://t.co/qh3WXYshAD</a>
&mdash; Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1683834029252935681?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 25, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;If you elect Democrats the weather will improve,&#8221; Seth Dillon <a href="https://twitter.com/SethDillon/status/1683883353940930585" target="_blank" rel="noopener">added</a>.
&#8220;China permits two new coal plants each week. If you’re angry about climate change, thank a Communist. Or politicians like the Clintons who take their cash,&#8221; former CIA agent Bryan Dean Wright observed.
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China permits two new coal plants each week.
If you’re angry about climate change, thank a Communist. Or politicians like the Clintons who take their cash. <a href="https://t.co/08ttmOa57g">https://t.co/08ttmOa57g</a>
&mdash; BDW (@BryanDeanWright) <a href="https://twitter.com/BryanDeanWright/status/1683886253207605248?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 25, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Politicizing summer is the dumbest, most desperate and embarrassing of all the dumb, desperate and embarrassing things,&#8221; Doug Powers <a href="https://twitter.com/ThePowersThatBe/status/1683884129987833856" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
&#8220;The almost (too bad!) democrat president encouraging her emotionally unstable followers to blame their political opponents for the weather,&#8221; radio host Buck Sexton replied.
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The almost (too bad!) democrat president encouraging her emotionally unstable followers to blame their political opponents for the weather <a href="https://t.co/SCb7ugyh4R">https://t.co/SCb7ugyh4R</a>
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A number pointed out the fact that comparatively speaking, the United States accounted for less than <a href="https://www.statista.com/topics/3185/us-greenhouse-gas-emissions/#:~:text=The%20United%20States%20is%20one,U.S.%20accounted%20for%2014%20percent.">15%</a> of global emissions while China accounted for nearly twice that, at <a href="https://www.statista.com/statistics/1037051/china-global-carbon-emission-share/">27%</a>.

King Felipe of Spain Attend Audiences At Zarzuela Palace

Hillary Clinton Says MAGA Republicans Are The Reason Summer Is Hot

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A major donor to former President Donald Trump identified himself as the small aircraft owner that entered a no-fly zone over Washington, D.C., on Sunday and later crashed in southwest Virginia, leaving one crew member and three passengers dead.
Residents throughout the Washington, D.C., area reportedly heard a loud sonic boom after F-16 jets from Joint Base Andrews scrambled to respond to a Cessna Citation jet owned by Florida businessman and prominent &#8220;MAGA&#8221; donor John Rumpel.
Rumpel, 75, owner of Encore Motors of Melbourne Inc., <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/06/04/sonic-boom-washington-virginia-maryland/">told</a> The Washington Post that his &#8220;entire family,&#8221; including his daughter, Adina Azarian, his two-year-old grandchild, and her nanny, were on board the jet when it crashed into a sparsely populated area near Montebello, Virginia.
&#8220;We know nothing about the crash,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We are talking to the FAA now — I&#8217;ve got to keep the line clear.&#8221;
&#8220;I don&#8217;t think they&#8217;ve found the wreckage yet,&#8221; Rumpel <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/04/us/sonic-boom-washington-dc-maryland.html">told</a> the New York Times. &#8220;It descended at 20,000 feet a minute, and nobody could survive a crash from that speed.&#8221;
Virginia state police <a href="https://wjla.com/news/local/sonic-boom-annapolis-bowie-washington-dc-virginia-maryland-dmv-department-of-defense-dod-authorized-flight-andrews-air-force-twitter-trending-social-media-residents-house-shook-loud-sound-plane-us-capitol-emergency-management" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> local media that authorities found no survivors at the crash site.
US aviation officials on Monday were investigating the fatal crash of an &#8220;unresponsive&#8221; private jet. Authorities reportedly attempted to contact its pilot after the aircraft approached areas around the nation&#8217;s capital, including the White House.
North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) officials said it was not immediately known why the pilot did not respond to attention flares or why the plane later crashed.
&#8220;During this event, the NORAD aircraft also used flares — which may have been visible to the public — in an attempt to draw attention from the pilot,&#8221; the statement said. &#8220;Flares are employed with highest regard for safety of the intercepted aircraft and people on the ground. Flares burn out quickly and completely and there is no danger to the people on the ground when dispensed.&#8221;
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said the aircraft departed from Elizabethton Municipal Airport in Elizabethton, Tennessee, and was bound for Long Island MacArthur Airport in New York, but eventually crashed about 150 miles southwest of D.C., in the Shenandoah Valley.
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Rumpel reportedly said his family was returning to their home in East Hampton on Long Island after visiting his house in North Carolina, departing from an airport in East Tennessee.
Rumpel had been a staunch Trump supporter and has <a href="https://www.the-sun.com/news/8286552/prominent-maga-donors-entire-family-plane-crash-dc-area/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> donated approximately $250,000 to the former president&#8217;s campaign in 2020.
Rumpel&#8217;s wife, Barabara, served on Trump&#8217;s 2nd Amendment Coalition, representing the NRA women&#8217;s leadership forum.
The National Transportation Safety Board will reportedly handle the investigation into the crash and is expected to release a preliminary report in approximately three weeks.

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Prominent MAGA Donor Says ‘Entire Family’ Killed In Virginia Plane Crash

Prominent MAGA Donor Says 'Entire Family' Killed In Virginia Plane Crash

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Democrats attempt to smear anybody who goes against their agenda as a &#8220;MAGA&#8221; extremist — even if those individuals are liberal members of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/supreme-court" target="_blank" rel="noopener">United States Supreme Court</a>.
For example, this week, the Supreme Court released a unanimous 9 &#8211; 0 decision against the Environmental Protection Agency and the Biden administration, thereby drastically cutting back the federal government&#8217;s overreach. So, what did Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) do? Well, he threw them all under the bus with a warning to Americans.
&#8220;This MAGA Supreme Court is continuing to erode our country’s environmental laws,&#8221; Schumer tweeted. &#8220;Make no mistake—this ruling will mean more polluted water, and more destruction of wetlands. We’ll keep fighting to protect our waters.&#8221;
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This MAGA Supreme Court is continuing to erode our country’s environmental laws.
Make no mistake—this ruling will mean more polluted water, and more destruction of wetlands.
We’ll keep fighting to protect our waters. <a href="https://t.co/wlp1LTvZJB">https://t.co/wlp1LTvZJB</a>
&mdash; Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenSchumer/status/1661764643692462082?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 25, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Dan McLaughlin of National Review summed up how ludicrous Schumer&#8217;s claim was.
&#8220;Unanimous SCOTUS decision written by George W. Bush appointee. Outcome joined by GHW Bush appointee, 2d GW Bush appointee, 2 Obama appointees, &amp; a Biden appointee. The 3 Dems joined a concurring opinion written by a Trump appointee,&#8221; he tweeted. &#8220;Chuck Schumer: That&#8217;s so MAGA!&#8221;
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Unanimous SCOTUS decision written by George W. Bush appointee. Outcome joined by GHW Bush appointee, 2d GW Bush appointee, 2 Obama appointees, &amp; a Biden appointee. The 3 Dems joined a concurring opinion written by a Trump appointee.
Chuck Schumer: That&#39;s so MAGA! <a href="https://t.co/oL6Ugjfvu3">https://t.co/oL6Ugjfvu3</a>
&mdash; Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) <a href="https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1661786325735944228?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 25, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Four of the justices — the three liberals and Justice Brett Kavanugh — disagreed over the limits the EPA is afforded by Congress.
&#8220;All nine justices rejected the standard proposed by the EPA,&#8221; he further explained. &#8220;The 5-4 split was over less expansive readings of the statute.&#8221;
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All nine justices rejected the standard proposed by the EPA. The 5-4 split was over less expansive readings of the statute. <a href="https://t.co/1Oi9L9AGj8">https://t.co/1Oi9L9AGj8</a>
&mdash; Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) <a href="https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1661877784174632961?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 25, 2023</a></blockquote>
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For his part, Kavanaugh <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/25/us/supreme-court-epa-water-pollution.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>, “By narrowing the act’s coverage of wetlands to only adjoining wetlands, the court’s new test will leave some long-regulated adjacent wetlands no longer covered by the Clean Water Act, with significant repercussions for water quality and flood control throughout the United States.&#8221;
Readers should keep in mind that Kavanaugh is one of the justices who Schumer threatened in 2020.
&#8220;I want to tell you Gorsuch, I want to tell you Kavanaugh — you have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price,&#8221; he said in front of a raging crowd at the Supreme Court building in D.C.  &#8220;You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.&#8221;
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Wow:
Chuck Schumer to Justices Gorsuch &amp; Kavanaugh:
“You have released the whirlwind &amp; you will pay the price.”
“You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these decisions”
Can you imagine the media outrage if McConnell said this about RBG?
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&mdash; Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) <a href="https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1235290061568192518?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 4, 2020</a></blockquote>
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So Schumer has a long history of revving up his base with fear-mongering and demagoguery. This is exactly his goal in labeling the High Court a &#8220;MAGA Supreme Court.&#8221; He, and other Democrats, want the American people to believe that it is somehow &#8220;<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/law/2023/may/21/supreme-court-expansion-democrats" target="_blank" rel="noopener">illegitimate</a>&#8221; and dangerous.
Despite his qualms about former President Donald Trump&#8217;s supposed undermining of norms and democracy, he does not hesitate to sow distrust of any institution that stands in his party&#8217;s way for power.
Schumer is one of the party&#8217;s top leaders. There is no appeasing the Left — they will always paint you in the worst light possible so that they can gain more power.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire. 

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WASHINGTON, DC – JANUARY 24: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) speaks during a news conference about abortion rights outside the U.S. Capitol January 24, 2023 in Washington, DC. The group of Senate Democrats held the news conference to mark the 50th anniversary of the now-overturned Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision.

Huh? Chuck Schumer Slams ‘MAGA Supreme Court’ After A Unanimous Decision

Huh? Chuck Schumer Slams 'MAGA Supreme Court' After A Unanimous Decision

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Welp, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">President Joe Biden</a>’s phony baloney 2024 Right-wing pivot is here. 
Biden&#8217;s about-face on critical issues ahead of his re-election bid has been evident ever since he helped deep-six Washington, D.C.&#8217;s soft-on-crime overhaul. It was a shrewd move that isolated his far-Left colleagues and blunted GOP attacks that blame Biden and his party for the crime wave plaguing the nation.
In recent weeks though, Biden has taken his political reversal to a whole new level. Now, Biden claims Republicans are the ones who are weak on border security and want to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/say-what-biden-claims-it-is-republicans-who-want-to-defund-police" target="_blank" rel="noopener">defund the police</a>. It&#8217;s hard to say if voters will buy it, but the media probably will.
Biden’s 2024 play is obvious. He&#8217;ll malign whomever the Republican nominee is as an &#8220;ultra-MAGA extremist.&#8221; You can hear him now: &#8220;If it weren’t for these MAGA Republicans, I could get stuff done with reasonable GOPers, like I did on gun reform and the Inflation Reduction Act.&#8221;
Biden tweeted Wednesday that, “MAGA House Republicans put out extreme budget proposals that would eliminate funding for over 2,000 border patrol agents – undermining our ability to combat drug trafficking.”
Never mind that the tweet is <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-republicans-call-cutting-border-patrol-agents-1789250">entirely false.</a> Worse, Biden thinks that the problem with illegal immigration appears to be that it isn’t orderly enough. As long as border crossers come in “legally” while requesting asylum, Biden&#8217;s just fine with adding entire cities&#8217; worth of foreign nationals to the U.S. population. In his mind, the problem with the border isn&#8217;t that it&#8217;s a sieve, it&#8217;s just a matter of paperwork. And those folks pouring over from Mexico? They&#8217;re not illegal immigrants, they&#8217;re “legal asylum seekers.”
“My budget keeps our borders secure while expanding legal pathways for migrants seeking asylum,” he added. 
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MAGA House Republicans put out extreme budget proposals that would eliminate funding for over 2,000 border patrol agents – undermining our ability to combat drug trafficking.
My budget keeps our borders secure while expanding legal pathways for migrants seeking asylum. <a href="https://t.co/a90LrwAxyF">pic.twitter.com/a90LrwAxyF</a>
&mdash; President Biden (@POTUS) <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1638222897620692995?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 21, 2023</a></blockquote>
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How about this bit of stirring oratory that someone wrote for Scranton Joe: “The greatness of a nation isn&#8217;t just measured by the strength of its army, the vastness of its geography, or the size of its economy.&#8221;
“It&#8217;s also measured in the vitality of its culture. A democratic culture – forged in the ability to speak and think freely.”
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The greatness of a nation isn&#39;t just measured by the strength of its army, the vastness of its geography, or the size of its economy.
It&#39;s also measured in the vitality of its culture.
A democratic culture – forged in the ability to speak and think freely.
&mdash; President Biden (@POTUS) <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1638382635704627200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 22, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Protecting America&#8217;s borders and culture? All he needs to do is throw in &#8220;language&#8221; and he&#8217;ll sound like Michael Savage.
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This is the same guy who in early March <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/03/14/biden-claims-republicans-in-congress-pushing-defunding-the-police/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>, &#8220;MAGA Republicans are calling for defunding the police department and defunding the FBI now.&#8221;
“That&#8217;s a good one,” he added. “I like that.&#8221;
Anybody who has been paying attention knows this all entirely backwards. The president — as he has done his entire career — is shifting his magniloquence based on what is politically expedient.
Biden has to run for re-election as a moderate if he wants to have any chance of winning. But protean politics is no problem for him. He admitted as much way back in 1974. 
“I don’t think the issues mean a great deal in terms of whether you win or lose,” he <a href="https://www.washingtonian.com/1974/06/01/joe-biden-kitty-kelley-1974-profile-death-and-the-all-american-boy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in an interview with The Washingtonian. “I think the issues are merely a vehicle to portray your intellectual capacity to the voters &#8230; a vehicle by which the voters will determine your honesty and candor. The central issue of my campaign … was to convince the people that I was intelligent and to convince them that I was honest.”
You&#8217;ll note his goal was not to actually be smart and trustworthy, just to “convince” voters he was. Biden&#8217;s latest attempt to trick voters into thinking he&#8217;s a different guy is just proof that after all these years, he hasn&#8217;t changed a bit.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Welp, Biden’s Phony Baloney Right-Wing Pivot Is Here

Welp, Biden's Phony Baloney Right-Wing Pivot Is Here

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Since its inception, the Make America Great Again movement has enjoyed a remarkable level of unity and loyalty. As its architect Donald Trump once put it, he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and still not lose the support of the 30-40% of Republican voters dedicated to him. But as the ugly debacle of choosing a GOP speaker of the House enters its third day, we are seeing something that we haven’t before, a genuine schism in Trump World.
At issue, of course, is whether Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) will continue to reside in the speaker’s office he has already moved into. The 20 bloody-minded objectors who oppose him, led by Reps. Matt Gaetz (FL), Lauren Boebert (CO), and Chip Roy (TX) aren’t just MAGA types, they are, as Joe Biden might say, “Ultra MAGA,” and lined up against them is not only the vast majority of GOP-elected officials, but Trump himself.
This is new. There have been some matters of disagreement in the past between followers of the 45th president, divisions on Ukraine come to mind, but nothing like this. The basic narrative of MAGA has been that to his most ardent devotees, Trump can do no wrong and that more traditional Republicans are too afraid of voter backlash to openly defy him. And yet, on Tuesday it was Boebert openly defying Trump and even clapping back at him on the floor of the House, practically boasting that Trump’s phone calls urging her and her allies to “knock it off” with their opposition fell upon deaf ears.
It is useful to lay out exactly who from the universe of MAGA is on each side of the debate over McCarthy’s future. As noted above, the objectors to a person are strong Trump supporters, but so too are the media and social media figures aligned against McCarthy. Staunch Trumpers such as Lou Dobbs and Todd Starnes, along with many others are, albeit respectfully, remain unmoved by Trump’s calls to support McCarthy. 
On the other side, aligned with the less Trumpy wing of the party is Trump himself, but also MAGA warriors like Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), Jim Banks (R-IN), and Jim Jordan (R-OH). Conservative media figures like Fox News’ Sean Hannity and Breitbart’s Joel Pollak are also on team McCarthy. The important question becomes, can we discern and define these two factions, and are they permanent or is this a temporary schism limited to the issue of McCarthy.
Some, such as Commentary’s Noah Rothman have suggested that the objectors and their ilk are essentially anti-institutionalists and there seems to be something to this. While some of them clearly have personal animosity towards McCarthy, their real argument is that they want leadership in general to have less control of governance. The real division here is between those in the MAGA movement who believe the right leader (read “Trump”) can make our institutions of government work and those who believe that wholesale change to the system (read “burn it all down”) is needed. 
Finally, there are the American people. It is hard to know to what extent average folks who don’t spend all day venting on Twitter even care about these procedural battles or if they will impact their support for Trump in this, his third, run for the White House. Trump has not exactly gone to the mattresses for McCarthy; he isn’t threatening the objectors, but there is no denying that he appears weakened as he fails to control what has been the heart of his caucus. 
In the end, draining the swamp, as Trump has long promised to do, is different than burning it all down, and these competing impulses may indeed play out as a permanent ideological division for the MAGA movement. Can the movement itself survive this schism? That is, arguably for the first time since Trump descended the golden escalator, an open question. 
It is possible that when the speakership debacle is done and settled the wounds will heal quickly for the Mar-a-Lago set, as everyone rallies around Trump’s flag, but it is also possible that MAGA withers, that new faces like Ron DeSantis capture the zeitgeist of the new Right and move in the direction of a post-MAGA populism.
Whatever the outcome, Trump World today is very different from the Trump World that existed before the speaker battle. The sometimes angry, sometimes merry band of red-hat-wearing rally goers are having their first serious spat, whether the lines are in stone or in sand, they have been drawn, the battle has been joined and the future of MAGA and Trump hangs in the balance.
David Marcus is a political columnist and author of &#8220;Charade: The Covid Lies That Crushed A Nation.&#8221; Follow him on Twitter: @BlueBoxDave
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Bette Midler got slammed by social media users Friday after she suggested that MAGA women should move to Iran if they want a country run by &#8220;men and religion.&#8221;
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/bette-midler" target="_blank" rel="noopener">76-year-old</a> activist and actress shared the post on <a href="https://twitter.com/BetteMidler/status/1588517688795602944?s=20&amp;t=ddLkN7eEHlITxU_E8glmrg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter</a> with her 2.1 million followers ahead of the 2022 midterm elections in which polls show that Republicans are expected to make gains against the Democrats.
&#8220;Hey MAGA women, if you want a country run by men and religion, move to Iran,&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bette-midler-gets-attacked-as-a-terf-after-saying-women-are-being-erased-due-to-terms-like-birthing-people-people-with-vaginas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Midler&#8217;s</a> tweet read.
Reading through the comments, many people on Twitter were not happy with it and called the &#8220;Hocus Pocus&#8221; star out as a &#8220;bully,&#8221; &#8220;hateful,&#8221; &#8220;sexist,&#8221; and more.
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&#8220;You truly have no idea how women are treated over there so your comparison is disgusting,&#8221; one person tweeted. &#8220;My husband did 3 tours in the middle east, he can shed some light on the atrocities that occur to women.&#8221;
&#8220;Hey Bette if you want bully people into voting the way you want you feel free to move,&#8221; another shared.
Another wrote, &#8220;Uh. Considering the Iranian women fighting and risking their lives to change things I feel like this is a really bad take.&#8221;
&#8220;Bette, I&#8217;ve been a fan of yours since I was a little girl, and I still am, but these tweets are so alienating,&#8221; another person shared. &#8220;Do you ever even try to consider why people might believe differently than you do? Maybe try having a conversation with one of these &#8216;maga women&#8217; you are sneering at.&#8221;
One person tweeted, &#8220;Guess you haven’t been paying attention! A lot of maga women are running for office. So how about you moving to Iran. They feel the same way you do about people who disagree politically. You would fit in.&#8221;
One commenter simply stated, &#8220;Stay classy.&#8221;
&#8220;If this were the other team, it&#8217;d be denounced as sexist, racist, xenophobic, Islamophobic, etc,&#8221; another person explained.
Another noted that the actress, who proudly calls herself a feminist, should be supporting Iran women.
&#8220;Hey Feminist, why aren&#8217;t you supporting the women of Iran?&#8221; the person wrote. &#8220;Those are truly oppressed women, yet they are standing alone.&#8221;
&#8220;Iran is based on Islamic principles,&#8221; another concluded. &#8220;MAGA wants to keep our country based on Christian principles. There is a wide difference between these principles. No comparison.&#8221;
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‘Stay Classy’: Bette Midler Slammed After Suggesting MAGA Women ‘Move To Iran’

‘Stay Classy’: Bette Midler Slammed After Suggesting MAGA Women 'Move To Iran'

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On September 1, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">President Joe Biden</a> gave a prime-time address warning the United States that &#8220;MAGA forces&#8221; around the country were posing imminent threats to democracy.
The speech was widely decried as authoritarian and despotic. The U.S. had never seen anything like it. Pundits were convinced that the White House would never try something so out of touch again.
We were wrong.
On Wednesday, the White House announced that Biden would be giving a speech for the Democratic National Committee focusing on Trump supporters and the threats posed by Republicans should they win midterm elections next week. The event will take place at the historic Union Station in D.C.
&#8220;He has been clear democracy is under assault and we cannot pretend otherwise,&#8221; White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said of the president on Wednesday. &#8220;The president will continue to call attention to the threat to democratic integrity and to public safety posed by those who deny the documented truth about election results and those who seek to undermine public faith in our system of government.&#8221;
KJP also threw in a new twist — &#8220;Ultra MAGA Republicans&#8221; no longer exist. That supposedly fascistic wing of the GOP is now called &#8220;Mega MAGA Republican.&#8221;
&#8220;Unfortunately, we have seen mega MAGA Republican officials who don’t believe in the rule of law,&#8221; she claimed. &#8220;They refuse to accept the results of free and fair elections and they fan the flames of political violence through what they praise and what they refuse to condemn. It remains important for the president to state strongly and unequivocally that violence has no place in our democracy.&#8221;
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KJP: “Mega MAGA Republicans do not believe in the rule of law. They refuse to accept the results of elections and they fan the flames of political violence.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/W4Pw4gUhI4">pic.twitter.com/W4Pw4gUhI4</a>
&mdash; Townhall.com (@townhallcom) <a href="https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1587865447927582721?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 2, 2022</a></blockquote>
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What KJP does not say is that she herself is an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-threat-to-democracy-bidens-new-election-denying-press-secretary-meets-the-lefts-definition" target="_blank" rel="noopener">election denier</a>, having cast doubt on both the 2016 presidential election as well as the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial election.
The press secretary also claims that the GOP has encouraged violence — yet appears unaware that less than three weeks after Biden asked all Americans to help defend against so-called Republican &#8220;extremism,&#8221; an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-man-killed-a-teenager-for-being-a-republican-extremist-police-say-is-the-president-still-responsible-for-political-violence" target="_blank" rel="noopener">18-year-old named Cayler Ellingson</a> was killed by a nutcase in North Dakota who told police he murdered the teenager because he was a &#8220;Republican extremist,&#8221; according to authorities.
It is probable that Biden will attempt to connect the suspected Pelosi attacker — a drugged-out nudist, hippie, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-suspect-who-attacked-paul-pelosi-is-an-illegal-immigrant-report-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">illegal alien</a>, who had <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-neighbor-veers-from-media-narrative-when-asked-about-politics-of-pelosis-alleged-attacker" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lived in a California commune</a>, and who has supposedly posted QAnon-related messaging and other conspiracy theories in recent months — to Republicans who deny the election.
But there is zero evidence to suggest that that weirdo was inspired by Republican talking points. In fact, it seems that he is just a nutcase attracted to the fringe of both parties.
This brings us to the real reason for the speech.
Biden knows that his party is going to get shellacked in the midterms. Polls indicate that Republicans will surely win back the House by a healthy margin and could even secure the Senate by <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2022/senate/elections-map-rcp-projection.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a tally of GOP 54 to Democrats 46</a>.
The American people are fed up with wokeism, Democratic policies, and the D.C. establishment. Biden and his gang have been unable to convince voters that the economy isn&#8217;t so bad, that crime isn&#8217;t really a problem, or that abortion should be the main concern at the ballot box.
So, instead, Biden will again try to denigrate half the country as threats to democracy. Fearmongering is the Left&#8217;s only option. In the words of Yogi Berra, it&#8217;s deja vu all over again.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-soul-of-joe-bidens-america-is-dark-as-hell" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The ‘Soul’ Of Joe Biden’s America Is Dark As Hell</a>

Deja Vu All Over Again: Will Biden Speech Denigrate Half The Country As Threats To Democracy Wednesday Night?

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As the old saying goes, politics ain&#8217;t beanbag.
The phrase comes from a 19th-century novel by writer Finley Peter Dunne. One of his characters, Mr. Dooley, an Irish American, often talks politics in his favorite Chicago bar. At one point, he says: &#8220;Sure, politics ain’t bean-bag. ‘Tis a man’s game, an’ women, childer, cripples an’ prohybitionists’d do well to keep out iv it.&#8221;
Politics has been a rough and tumble game all the way back to the beginning, sharp elbows and hardball at the same time. Even the Founding Fathers dabbled in personal attacks and disinformation to achieve their goals.
President Joe Biden knows all about the ugly side of politics and has played the blood sport for nearly half a century.
So it was beyond ironic when he said last week that his predecessor &#8220;made it all so personal.&#8221;
In an <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/president-joe-biden-60-minutes-interview-transcript-2022-09-18/">interview</a> on CBS&#8217; &#8220;60 Minutes,&#8221; Scott Pelley said to Biden: &#8220;Concerning politics, Mr. President, you were elected to the Senate in 1972. You were 29 years old. And in those days, it seemed that the parties worked together to move the country forward. And I think many Americans feel that that no longer happens, and, in fact, may be impossible now.&#8221;
Putting on his most avuncular mask, Biden said: &#8220;Well, I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s impossible. But it&#8211; it&#8211; it&#8217;s changed. What we do today, think about it, it&#8217;s all personal attacks. It&#8217;s about motive.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s not about, &#8216;I disagree with you on the &#8212; on the subject matter. And secondly, I think that &#8212; it&#8217;s &#8212; I think it&#8217;s fair to say that we&#8217;ve not had a president like the last president, who has made all of it so personal.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;ve had six Republican senators, I promised I&#8217;d never say their names and I won&#8217;t, come up to me in the last two years and say, &#8216;Joe, I agree with you, but if I &#8212; if I vote this way it&#8217;s gonna&#8217; &#8212; they&#8217;re gonna&#8217; primary me. I&#8217;m gonna&#8217; lose an election. It didn&#8217;t used to be that way. But it&#8217;s coming back a little bit. It&#8217;s coming back,&#8221; Biden said.
But Biden has been personally attacking nearly half of the country &#8212; the 74 million Americans who voted for former President Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election.
“You need to vote to literally save democracy again,” Biden said at an Aug. 25 rally in Rockville, Maryland. “Trump and the extreme MAGA Republicans have made their choice to go backwards, full of anger, violence, hate and division, but we’ve chosen a different path &#8212; forward.”
And earlier this month, Biden said: &#8220;MAGA forces are determined to take this country backwards, backwards to an America where there is no right to choose, no right to privacy, no right to contraception, no right to marry who you love.&#8221;
&#8220;Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our Republic,&#8221; he later added. &#8220;MAGA Republicans do not respect the Constitution. They do not believe in the rule of the law. They do not recognize the will of the people. They refuse to accept the results of a free election.&#8221;
That&#8217;s among the top talking points by Democrats these days as the country heads toward the mid-term elections in November. Even former President Bill Clinton has popped up again, saying, &#8220;democracy is fragile right now.&#8221;
The whole new narrative by Democrats amused Fox News host Laura Ingraham.
&#8220;These people have been personally hunting Donald Trump for what, five and a half years, and he&#8217;s worried about it getting personal,&#8221; she <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/transcript/ingraham-angle-bidens-60-minutes-int">said</a> on her show. &#8220;They called Romney every name in the book, Bush was a warmonger. These people invented the politics of personal destruction.&#8221;
And a guest on her show, John Ratcliffe, former director of national intelligence under Trump, echoed the same sentiment.
&#8220;It&#8217;s more than a little bit ironic, Laura, to hear them talking about threats to democracy. When you look at the last two years, under democratic rule, things have been about as undemocratic and about as personal as they can be, you know, parents are terrorists, Republicans are terrorists, Republican leadership or opposition leaders like Donald Trump must be rated or they must be arrested,&#8221; he said.
&#8220;The message is very clear: obey the state, do what we say, nobody is safe. So I think it&#8217;s very clear that when things are personal, it&#8217;s that democratic rule has been personal against anyone that would oppose what&#8217;s been happening,&#8221; Ratcliffe said.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.

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Former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said President Joe Biden is going after so-called &#8220;MAGA Republicans&#8221; to help Democrats win in the November midterms.
Appearing as a panelist on NBC&#8217;s &#8220;<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/video/full-mace-there-s-a-lot-of-pressure-on-republicans-to-have-an-impeachment-vote-on-president-biden-149215301515">Meet the Press</a>&#8221; Sunday, Psaki said that in the early stages of Biden&#8217;s presidency, the American people did not want him to attack former President Donald Trump and his supporters. But now that many of Biden&#8217;s major agenda items have been passed, he is taking a harder line in hopes of holding Democratic majorities in the House and Senate.
&#8220;You were there [at a time] when you didn&#8217;t say [Trump&#8217;s] name,&#8221; Todd began his interview with Psaki. &#8220;&#8216;Don&#8217;t say their names.&#8217; It&#8217;s like Beetlejuice, somehow it won&#8217;t show up if you don&#8217;t say their name. Now [Biden] leans into it more. Why?&#8221;
&#8220;There was a strategic decision made when he came into office that &#8216;that&#8217;s not what the public wanted,'&#8221; Psaki replied. &#8220;The public wanted a President who was going to &#8230; kind of expand the base of people who [are] interested in them. But now, it&#8217;s election season again, he did a lot of what he wanted to do, much of it in a bipartisan way, getting legislation done. And now the gloves are off. He&#8217;s got to maintain control of at least one house of Congress.&#8221;
Biden has stepped up his rhetoric over the summer, saying that Trump and his supporters in the Republican Party are motivated by &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/horribly-insulting-gop-gov-demands-biden-apologize-for-saying-some-republicans-motivated-by-semi-fascism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">semi-fascism</a>&#8221; at a donor event in August. He went on to brand them as threats to American democracy in his now-infamous &#8220;Soul of the Nation&#8221; address on September 1, which was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-slammed-across-political-spectrum-for-optics-of-divisive-speech-satanic-ghoul" target="_blank" rel="noopener">widely decried</a> as one of the most <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/grim-old-man-screaming-ben-shapiro-others-react-to-bidens-dark-speech-before-eerie-red-backdrop" target="_blank" rel="noopener">divisive political speeches</a> by an American president.
Biden&#8217;s heated rhetoric, however, might not help him or the Democratic Party retain control of Congress. An <a href="https://www.langerresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/1226a1MidtermPolitics.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ABC News/Washington Post poll</a> of likely voters released Sunday found that Republicans have a five-point advantage in the generic Congressional ballot in 2022, and former President Trump holds a two-point advantage in a hypothetical 2024 matchup among registered voters.
Last week, one of the nation&#8217;s leading independent pollsters pointed out that Biden&#8217;s divisive tone would likely make polling Trump supporters even more complicated, meaning pollsters could undercount Trump voters, and GOP turnout would be even higher than expected in 2022.
&#8220;Now [the] Biden administration has essentially classified ‘MAGA Republicans’ as a threat to democracy marshaling federal law enforcement to focus on them,&#8221; Trafalgar Group chief pollster <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/leading-pollster-gop-voters-will-be-virtually-impossible-to-poll-after-bidens-maga-republicans-attacks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Robert Cahaly</a> said in a Twitter thread. &#8220;This move has created a new type of voter that will be even harder to poll or even estimate.”
“I call this new group ‘submerged voters,’” Cahaly said. “They aren’t putting stickers on their cars, signs in their yards, posting their opinions, or even answering polls.  At this point I think it’s fair to say that Biden’s pursuit of and attacks on ‘MAGA Republicans’ has created an army of voters who will be virtually impossible to poll (even for us) and more difficult still to estimate.”
”The 2022 Republican turnout will likely be higher than any of the polls or models are showing,” he concluded. “All polls (including ours) will understate the impact of these ‘submerged voters.’”

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