Tuesday, May 7, 2024

Gary Bauer: The Intolerant Left

Michelle Kosinski, a former CNN reporter, has been out of the spotlight for several years. But she's back in the news now. Sadly, it's not for a great work of investigative journalism. Instead, she is making news for putting the left's gross intolerance on full display.


It turns out that Kosinski recently attended a dinner with some "well-educated and successful" couples. But she came away feeling "haunted" after discovering that they were "closeted" Trump supporters.


In her mind, they were worse than conservatives. She called them "MAGAts." This is classic Nazism. The Nazis regularly referred to Jews as "vermin" and "parasites."


I want you to notice something: Her hatred wasn't directed at Donald Trump. She thinks people who support the MAGA agenda are "maggots."


Well, what is the agenda of the MAGA movement?


It wants America to be great. It wants our foreign policy to put America's interests first. It wants our borders to be secure. It wants our founding fathers to be honored. It wants religious liberty to be respected. It wants to protect American jobs and workers.


Yet in Kosinski's fevered mind, anyone supporting those normal conservative values is a "maggot."


We must understand that this isn't about Donald Trump. The left's hatred and insanity won't disappear if Trump would just go away.


Just how insane is the left?


Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) is demanding that the Justice Department investigate Trump supporters. Why? She thinks there's a whole bunch of "MAGAts" who are "training up in the hills somewhere . . . planning on a civil war" if Trump loses.


Really? What percentage of the 75 million people who voted for Trump are "up in the hills somewhere" training for war?


The only people I see running around training for war, spreading hate, and burning things all happen to be members of the progressive coalition!


But wait. . . There's more leftist insanity!


Tara Setmayer, a former Republican staffer on Capitol Hill who now works for the Lincoln Project, was on MSNBC commenting on Trump's possible vice presidential running mates.


Her contribution to national unity was to say that they needed to learn history. She accused them of being "despicable hypocrites" and "enablers" of the "malignancy of Trumpism." 


But Setmayer wasn't done.


She went on to call Trump's potential running mates "Vichy Republicans," comparing them to the Vichy French, who cooperated with the Nazis in World War II. Setmayer added, "And for the historians out there, they will appreciate what happened to the Vichys during World War II."

 

In case you're not a historian or a student of history, more than 10,000 Vichy were executed.


If anyone associated with the right had said anything remotely like the statements by Kosinski, Waters, and Setmayer, the entire left-wing media and political establishment would be in complete meltdown. Joe Biden would be addressing the nation, warning about "semi-fascist threats to democracy."


But leftist dehumanization of conservatives, baseless demands for investigations, and disgusting calls for the mass murder of conservatives are totally ignored.