I was at the Trump rally last Thursday night and listened to his interview with Tucker Carlson. When the subject of Liz Cheney came up, Trump said that the main reason he didn’t like Liz was that she was a “radical war hawk” who always wanted to go to war with people. Then he added:
“Let’s put her with a rifle, standing there with nine barrels shooting at her. Okay? Let’s see how she feels about it, you know, when the guns are trained on her face. You know they’re all war hawks when they’re sitting in Washington in a nice building saying, &ldsuo;Oh, gee, well, let’s send, let’s send 10,000 troops right into the mouth of the enemy.’”
Liz Cheney then responds the next day, writing on X:
“This is how dictators destroy free nations. They threaten those who speak against them with death. We cannot entrust our country and our freedom to a petty, vindictive, cruel, unstable man who wants to be a tyrant.”
And this was followed by others in the media condemning Trump for suggesting that Liz Cheney should face a firing squad.
First, Liz and these hate-mongers are leaving out one detail of the picture Trump was painting. Besides facing rifles pointed at her, he gives her a rifle, too. This is a battlefield situation, not a firing squad. But to include that would dilute the hate you are trying to inculcate, wouldn’t it?
Second, I don’t think there was anything inappropriate about what Trump said. It is a mark of his decency that he would suggest that anyone contemplating sending our soldiers into a war situation should visualize themselves staring down the enemy and should then decide if they think the cause is worth it. I like it that he thinks that way.
However, my response to Liz Cheney would be more aggressive than many that I have heard.
“No,” I would say, “Let me tell you what dictators do. They twist the words of their opponents in order to stir up hatred against them.”
There has been a lot of talk recently about the need to tone down the rhetoric, saying that Democrats should not be calling Trump a “threat to democracy.” But my problem with that reasoning is that I think that the pro-censorship progressives and the judicial-persecution Democrats are actually a threat to democracy, and I think it should be okay for me to say it. The truly despicable rhetoric includes the lies that are told with the object of stirring up hatred. And this, coming from the keypad of Liz Cheney, is a prime example. Along with that we have the false Charlottesville narrative pushed by Biden, the claims that Trump wants to do away with the Constitution, that he has said he will be a dictator, or that he wants to put his opponents in jail the way they are doing to him. Go ahead and accuse him of being a threat, but stick to the truth when you try to support your narrative.
Do you agree? Disagree? I welcome your comments.
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