The Real Threat to Democracy: Biden Reportedly Wants to Put His Political Opponents in Jail
The result would be mutually assured destruction.
by E. Donald Elliott
April 5, 2022, 1:18 AM
The oldest trick in the political book is to accuse your opponents of doing what you are actually doing yourself. This old trick persists because it works. Gullible people hear the accusation and excuse the reality when it actually happens because “they all do it.” For example, the Kremlin accuses Ukraine of atrocities while Putin’s troops are actually committing them. The technique of accusing your opponent of what you are doing is variously attributed to Saul Alinsky in his handbook for radicals or to Marx, Lenin, or Hitler’s propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels. Regardless of who said it, it works.
President Joe Biden and his followers are past masters at using this technique. For example, prior to the 2020 election, Biden bragged about interfering in the justice system of Ukraine by threatening to withhold $1 billion in U.S. aid unless they fired a prosecutor who was investigating Burisma, a company on whose board his son Hunter served. How to defang that prior to the election? Accuse former President Donald Trump of doing something similar — asking Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to “dig up dirt” on Biden.
Any thinking person should take with a big grain of salt the drumbeat of accusations by Biden supporters that Trump is somehow a “threat to democracy.” Prior to the 2020 election, an erstwhile friend of mine in Florida told me that he was voting for Biden because “Trump wanted to put all of his political opponents in jail.” One searches the internet in vain for any reported case of the Trump administration trying to put any of its political opponents in jail. But my friend believed it because he had heard it repeated over and over. As Adolf Hitler reportedly said, “What good fortune for governments that the people do not think.”
On the other hand, the Democrats have put, or tried to put, numerous prominent Trump supporters in jail, including Paul Manafort, Roger Stone, and Steve Bannon, who was recently indicted.
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