Let the Gaslighting Begin
by Tom Searl
August 27th, 2020Unless you spent all of yesterday in bed, you probably noticed that quite a few Democratic politicians managed to work up the gumption to do something none have them have been able to do for three months. That is, they managed to condemn the rioting and looting being perpetrated in many cities across our country.
It doesn’t take a professional political observer and commentator to figure out what’s going on. The Democrats, either the party or the Presidential campaign, got some kind of internal polling that told them this rioting, and their lack of response to it, was setting them up for a huge loss in November. And since they had failed to mention, much less condemn, the violence at their convention last week, and since both Trump and Pence were set to make their acceptance speeches where they were expected to hit the issue hard, it became imperative for them to reverse course immediately.
Additionally, the Democrat strategy till now was to place President Trump in a no-win scenario. If he did nothing to quell the violence, then they would accuse him of being the one who let it continue. If he did intervene, then they would accuse him of abusing his authority and creating a police state. President Trump disrupted this strategy, however, by forcefully stating that he would gladly deploy federal law enforcement to these areas, as long as it was at the request of the local authorities. This was not only appropriate given our federal system, but it also placed the ball squarely back in the Democrat’s court.
One prominent example of the Democrats sudden condemnation of the violence came from Muriel Bowser, Mayor of Washington D.C. In response to a viral video on Twitter of BLM groups harassing diners in D.C. restaurants, she said, “What I saw in those videos was highly inappropriate. It was likely against the law if it was on private property but more importantly, I don’t think it had anything to do with demands for social justice.â€
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https://theresurgent.com/2020/08/27/let-the-gaslighting-begin/
