Surely, you’ve talked to a die-hard Trump supporter. They’re everywhere, and it’s not just because Biden is bumbling and stumbling. Of course, they will vote for DeSantis or Haley (anyone but a Democrat), but Trump has their hearts. The 2024 primaries are well away, and right now 56% of Republicans would vote for Trump (source: Morning Consult). Most of this support is policy-based, but the heart of it is his base and their desire for vindication.
Just because the MAGA crowd isn’t as articulate as George Will doesn’t make them crackpots. They sound angry because they’re patriots. They hate Biden because he’s not defending truth, justice and the American way. They now know Democrats and Big Media tampered with an election, because liberal reporters keep confirming the Big Cons; three anti-Trump schemes executed by a cabal of financiers, lawyers and media.
The Laptop Cover-Up
Much of today’s GOP fury stems from the “cover-up” to protect Joe Biden from a story broken by the New York Post about “incriminating emails” on son Hunter’s laptop. Days before the election, Biden did not need swing voters aware of his involvement as senator and vice president in his son’s pay-to-play schemes. Legacy media refuted the Post (NPR: “assertions don’t amount to much”), Big Tech suppressed “sharing” of the story on social media, and Biden acolytes blamed Russia.
Now, after the election, Republicans have the truth. The cover-up did help Biden, because 82% of swing-state Biden voters were unaware of the “laptop” story, and 17% say THAT INFORMATION would have changed their vote (source: Media Research Center). A grand jury is now investigating Hunter, and Joe looks less “presidential” every day. Last week, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) told White House and Big Tech officials to preserve every Hunter Biden record, pending a 2023 investigation.
The New York Times now admits, “prosecutors examined emails between Mr. Biden and others about foreign business activity, authenticated by people with the investigation.” Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey now admits blocking the story was a “total mistake.” Oh, and those 50 former “intelligence officers” and their letter claiming (without intel) Hunter’s laptop was “Russian disinformation” – James Clapper now “stands by the statement [made] at the time.” There was a cover-up, and Republicans should be angry.
2020 Election Tampering
Numerous polls report most Republicans still “feel” something was not right before or after Election Day. Multiple GOP autopsies explain why: Democrats sued states to change ballot laws, infiltrated bureaucracies to change counting processes, and flooded precincts with money to buy “harvested” ballots. In the “dark money” universe, Mark Zuckerberg’s $420 million buys a lot of votes. This tampering was gleefully reported by Time magazine’s Molly Ball (once Biden was safely elected) as the “inside story of the conspiracy to save the 2020 election.”
Ball’s story was “based on access to the group’s inner workings, never-before-seen documents, and interviews with dozens of those involved from across the political spectrum.” She found “a well-funded cabal of powerful people, ranging across industries and ideologies, working together behind the scenes to change rules and laws, steer media coverage, and control the flow of information.” The conspirators “touched every aspect of the election.”
The cabal paid “hundreds of millions in public and private funding” to get “states to change voting systems and laws.” Their lawyers “fended off” election-integrity lawsuits. Their “armies of poll workers got millions of people to vote by mail for the first time.” Their leaders “pressured social media companies to take a harder line against” pro-Trump commentary. Their bet – which paid off – was that a transition to 100 million mail-in votes would aid Democrats more than Republicans.
Outing the scheme doesn’t de-legitimize President Biden (Trump tried and lost in court), but it does legitimize election-integrity laws in thirty-six states (as of December 2021) and validate the suspicions of Republicans. Above all, the Nixon arrogance (admitting an election-tampering scheme) confirms to Trump’s base Democrats are too dumb and immoral to lead we the people.
The Coup D’Etat Hand-Wringing
Most Republicans were embarrassed by the “Stop The Steal” protests and appalled by the rioters – those hundreds of crackpots who broke into the capitol, disrupted the government, and committed acts of vandalism. However, very few believe January 6 was an organized coup d’etat or that Pelosi needed 20,000 soldiers to protect her from another “insurrection.” The Democrat search for deadly GOP fascists increasingly looks more political than patriotic.
The New York Times reported January 6 as “an existential threat from a movement that is willing to use violence to achieve its ends.” The New York Post reported hundreds of arrestees un-charged for months, awaiting trial in solitary confinement. Fox News reported the “five killed” includes one unarmed protestor (Ashli Babbitt) shot by a capitol officer, one from natural causes (Officer Brian Sicknick), and three trampled by the crowd. Two sides to one coin, right?
Thanks to Project Veritas, maybe reporters from the Times did not witness the darkest day in US history on January 6, because their national security reporter, Matthew Rosenberg, tells a different tale over drinks. And, when confronted and cornered, he told Project Veritas that he “stands by” what he blabbed to their cameras. Check it out.
On the danger: “It was like, me and two other colleagues who were there and we were just having fun! I know I’m supposed to be traumatized – all these colleagues who were in the building and are like ‘Oh my God it was so scary!’ I’m like, ‘f-ck off!’”
On The Times objectivity: “It’s not the kind of place I can tell somebody to man up, but I kind of want to be like, ‘Dude, come on. Like, you were not in any danger.’ It’s a tug of war between the reasonable people and some of the craziest leftist sh-t.”
On Democrat spin: “The left’s overreaction was so over the top, making it too big a deal that gave the opening for the right to be like ‘nothing happened here,’ but nobody wants to hear that.”
Let’s put this in context. Nobody in Pearl Harbor on December 7 – a date which will live in infamy – said later that “we were just having fun (and) not in any danger.” Rosenberg is prescient to note the left gave an “opening for the right” to ignore the crimes that did take place. By persisting with the “insurrection” narrative, Speaker Pelosi is just firing up Trump’s base.
They Have Their Own “Big Lie” Theory
Trump supporters are quick to note Biden lied about bringing “competence” to the office and restoring “decency” and “normalcy” to government. They don’t believe Trump would have lost without pro-Biden media coverage and last-minute changes to state election laws. They “know” Trump won 74 million votes and “want” proof that Biden won 81 million. They cite many polls showing Biden losing to Trump in 2024, and growing numbers (47% of all voters) who want Trump to run again (source: The Hill).
Trump supporters see a “conspiracy” on the left: high gas prices to coerce support for the Green New Deal, defunding police departments to placate Black Lives Matter, open borders to add likely Democrats, siccing the DOJ on moms to appease “woke” teacher unions, mandating masks for thee but not for me. The die-hard Trump voters know he’s not Eisenhower (respected) or Reagan (beloved), but they know he’s the enemy of far-left Democrats.
And – – the enemy of their enemy is their friend.
