"Worst of the Worst" Is a Lie - The Gaslighting Campaign

[Luis Gonzalez]

"Worst of the Worst" Is a Lie


The immigration debate is saturated with a phrase that sounds tough, precise, and morally clean: “worst of the worst.” It is repeated by politicians, echoed by media, and treated as settled fact. But it is not policy. It is not doctrine. It is not even accurate.

In this piece, The Last Wire dissects how that phrase was stripped from its original context and repurposed as political anesthesia. Trump’s enforcement position was never limited to violent criminals alone. It was broad, explicit, and consistently stated. The “worst of the worst” framing emerged later as narrative insulation, a way to soften reality for friendly audiences and create plausible denial for critics.

This essay tracks how language is laundered, how selective quoting becomes institutional habit, and how voters are told to forget what they heard with their own ears. If you want to understand how modern political messaging works, not in theory but in practice, this is required reading.

Read: Worst of the Worst Is a Lie

[DefiantMassRINO]

Trump's tuna boats have snagged some dolphins in their nets.

[Smokin Joe]

Some great points, there!

We must be ever vigilant against the cherry picked (partial) quote!

The insidiousness of massaging language through media usage (especially) yields sentences like:

There is no magical force field separating criminals from the broader illegal population.

But they are all illegal, hence, "criminals" (QED).

Even the best authors find themselves conforming, without intent to do so.

An even more insidious perfusion of narrative is to be found in almost any mention of natural processes that can be blamed on "Climate Change", with the assumption that it is human caused. There are decades of alleged scientific papers and articles and even textbooks perfused with this rot, and it will be as hard to get rid of as Marx in social thought, despite repeated refutation (in the case of Marx, repeated failures leading to 100 million + deaths).

Those of us in the know are sensitized to this garbage. It makes reading left-leaning diatribes painful, such as the common AWFULs ranting into their phone in the sanctum sanctorum of their vehicles (or some other poor slob's vehicle), and the supportive posts (sadly not parody) that follow.

I find my eyes straying more from the screen toward the mass of bound volumes I possess, and the little voice in my head says "There are a few up there you haven't read yet..."