Trump’s MAGA foot soldiers lose their minds and memories
“‘Don’t call us fascists,’ says the party that swooned over a fascist foreign leader at CPAC,” tweeted Lincoln Project founder Rick Wilson after Joe Biden’s speech calling out “MAGA Republicans.” The Conservative Political Action Conference crowd in Texas in early August gave Hungarian strongman Viktor Orbán a standing ovation.
Orbán gave a speech weeks before denouncing “race mixing” of European and non-Europeans. One of Orbán’s senior advisers resigned the next day, describing Orbán’s address as a “pure Nazi speech … worthy of Goebbels.” At CPAC, Orbán was a rock star.
Since Biden’s Thursday speech, the amnesia evident among Biden’s critics has risen to pandemic levels among people most offended by Biden’s speech: his targets. Also missing was any hint of self-reflection.
Why, why, President Trump never — well, not 99.9 percent of the time — ever attacked entire groups, argued former Trump press secretary Kayleigh McEnany.
“This is more hateful than the worst thing that Donald Trump ever said, and it’s being said about tens of millions of Republicans,” insisted Mollie Hemmingway, senior editor for The Federalist.
Left Twitter brought receipts.
Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley was incensed at Biden. “He basically called us bad people,” she complained.
Here, here are the people Trump summoned to Washington, D.C. and sent to the U.S. Capitol to “fight like hell” as his last resort when the fake electors coup plot which is under criminal investigation failed.
The Washington Post’s Greg Sargent satirically abbreviated the call-out and response (including by the media) in two tweets:
Biden: Trump and MAGA look at 1/6 rioters not as insurrectionists, but as patriots.
Trump: I will pardon all the 1/6 defendants. They are the victims here.
MAGA: The 1/6 rioters are political prisoners.
Media: That speech was out of bounds! Partisan!!
Biden: They’re trying to take over elections to overturn future popular vote outcomes.
MAGA Republicans: We are running for positions of control over elections on a vow to treat future Dem victories as illegitimate.
Media: That speech was divisive!!!
Finally, in case you missed it, Friday was John Harwood’s last day at CNN (now under new mismanagement). He used his last stand-up report to call facts facts without both-sidesing them. It was refreshing.
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