Terry McAuliffe, a Lying Hack to the End
His smears against Youngkin grow more desperate.
by George Neumayr
October 27, 2021, 11:39 PM
We don’t have time to be wasting on these phony trumped-up culture wars, this fake outrage that right-wing media peddles to juice their ratings,” complained Barack Obama last week as he campaigned for Terry McAuliffe. In other words, the problem in our politics, according to Obama, is not the left’s accelerating cultural revolution but the public resistance to it.
Obama’s self-serving political analysis also implies that Democrats concern themselves with big problems while the Republicans focus on small ones. What a laughable assertion, given the frivolousness of the Biden-led Democrats. They take no interest in the fundamental duties of government, such as securing the border, even as they invent imaginary ones for it. The Biden administration has spent more energy on the promotion of critical race theory and transgenderism than on stopping inflation or protecting our troops. The core functions of government leave the Democrats cold. What animates them is left-wing virtue-signaling — flying the Black Lives Matter flag atop U.S. embassies, observing “International Pronouns Day,” and the like.
Terry McAuliffe embodies this flaky streak in the Democratic Party. His campaign to defeat Glenn Youngkin in the Virginia governor’s race rests on the most tired and insubstantial left-wing claims. In the waning days of the campaign, McAuliffe is desperately trying to cast the innocuous Youngkin as a Trumpian deplorable and extremist.
On Tuesday, Joe Biden joined McAuliffe in this feeble demagoguery at a campaign appearance in Northern Virginia. Notably, they both praised Ralph Northam, Virginia’s governor whose “blackface” scandal is now conveniently forgotten, before launching into their smears against Youngkin. Biden, who once said that Mitt Romney was going to put blacks “back in chains,” called Youngkin an extremist in a “fleece vest.”
That rhetoric sounds familiar. In 2020, Biden, casting Republican opposition to left-wing policies as racist, said, “The Bull Connors of today don’t stand in the street with fire hoses and dogs. They wear nice suits. They wield their power rolling back rights, punishing the poor, denying access to health care and quality education, and turning away refugees and asylum seekers.” Anyone inclined to take this rhetoric seriously should keep in mind that mere support for voter identification laws is equivalent to “Jim Crow” in Biden’s eyes.
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