Commentary

Part of my job in keeping tabs on what leftist newspapers are palming off on their readers is the need to do due diligence on opinion writers I don’t recognize. It’s important to know something about their background.

Most papers will give you a bit of that at the end of their column.  My commentary today concerns Paul Waldman, whose column, “Trump’s Arizona project shows the dire threat to American democracy,” in the Washington Post caught my eye.  He obviously received the Democrat Party’s talking points.

As an Arizonan, who is proud of what the former president did in his four years in office, my curiosity led me to begin reading the piece before checking out Waldman’s credentials.

“Those of us who sit up nights worrying about the next few years,” he began, “not that our favored candidates might lose, but that the stage is set for a collapse of our democracy – can easily be accused of getting too worked up over minor problems and the utterances of a few kooks.

“But if you look at a place like Arizona – where the fate of U.S. democracy could well be decided – it’s hard not to feel afraid.”

STOP! STOP! Who is this guy who sits up at night worrying about the collapse of our democracy?  Not me.  Maybe paranoid Democrats.  I put my cursor on the byline, Paul Waldman.  It didn’t tell me much.  The notation that he “worked for an advisory group,” lead me to do a little research on him.

The Internet site stated he is “a liberal/progressive American op-ed columnist” who worked for the George Soros-backed leftist entity Media Matters for five years. You can understand why the Post identified it simply as an “advisory group.”

In 2020, while referencing an article stating that Donald Trump was “the first white president,” Waldman proposed that Trump, drawing on decades of rhetoric which amplifies “whiteness and locus of oppression,” has utilized his white identity into a foundational aspect of his presidency.

Okay, now that I know he’s a partisan hack, how will the fate of democracy be decided in Arizona?

He wrote of Trump’s Saturday night rally for the faithful in Florence. The left-leaning Arizona Republic reported that about 15,000 supporters were on hand.

Waldman wrote of Trump’s “own litany of lies and conspiracy theories” before referring to him as “a pathetic loser trying to convince a dwindling cadre of fans he was still relevant.”  Right out of the Democrat playbook – Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals.

Rule #5: Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.  There’s no defense.  It’s irrational. It’s infuriating.  Rule #12:  Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it. Cut off the support network.

Trump supporters have become accustomed to being ridiculed by the media ever since they were referred to as “deplorables” by Hillary Clinton.  And the media has paid for it as the latest Gallup trust survey revealed that newspaper reporters and TV reporters were ranked at 17 and 14 percent, respectively by Americans.

Waldman easily transitioned from his Trump hate into a slap at those who support him.  What Trump had to say didn’t matter.  “What mattered,” Waldman wrote, “was the parade of Arizona politicians who came to pay tribute to him, one more deranged than the next, each there because they hope they can ride Trump’s support to their own positions of power.”

He claims Trump is supporting candidates “who will be in a position to steal the 2024 election for him,” while conceding “there’s still no doubt he controls the party.”

By now you are aware that Trump is only the left’s latest target in their fabrication of the democracy’s demise.  They’re even attacking their own – Senators Manchin and Sinema – for not supporting the voter reform bill.

Evia Diaz, the Arizona Republic’s lightweight editorial columnist, went so far Wednesday as to accuse Senator Sinema of killing the legacy of Martin Luther King, for her devoted preservation of the filibuster and failure to help pass the voting rights legislation.

In a letter to the editor of the Republic, Jerry Wilkerson of Tucson, stooped to ridicule Sinema, too, referring to her as “Our obstructionist, dotish and inept senior Senator, the flaky cartoonish character from Arizona, who has killed the most significant overhaul of U.S. elections in a generation.”

In the meantime, fear not for our democracy.  There are simply too many clear-headed Americans who aren’t buying the left’s scare tactics.

WATCH FOR IT – My look at Biden’s first year and Wednesday’s long-suffering press conference.

Now, more than ever … may God continuer to bless the United States of America.