Have you ever heard of Operation Demoralize? If you have been a reader here for a while, you may know what I’m talking about.
It happens every election cycle, particularly presidential elections. I’ve written about it since 2011, we even have a tag for it, named, you guessed it, Operation Demoralize. The phenomenon describes how a swarming hostile dishonest media is able to create a narrative of doom for Republicans, that all hope is lost, to demoralize Republicans into giving up weeks and months before an election.
On September 9, 2012, as the media declared that Romney already had lost, I wrote, Operation Demoralize is working just as planned:
It’s November 7. Barack Obama has won. The Republican presidential strategy has failed. The media is jubilant. The right-blogosphere is going through a serious introspection. The left-blogosphere is dancing on our graves and shoving it down our throats. Four years of fighting the Obama agenda was for nothing.Oh, I’m sorry. Let me correct that. It’s September 9, not November 7. The rest of the paragraph above can remain as originally written.Operation Demoralize is working just as planned.
I wrote again about a version of Operation Demoralize the day before the 2016 election, Operation Demoralize Is in Full Swing:
… to read the headlines, it’s over. Trump is done. Turn out the lights, write the obituaries, the election is history.This is the same tactic always used….I think Hillary is the favorite going into Election Day because the electoral map favors Democrats. But don’t think that the premature celebrations are honest or legitimate – they are just narratives intended to demoralize Trump voters.
This tweet from Melissa Chen in June 2020 summed it up nicely
Feeling exhausted & demoralized?They want you to think you’re all alone, swimming against the tide. You’re not.That’s the goal – to break your will, to train your attention on the inane and frivolous, to siphon it away from issues of existential gravity, of global import.
“The media swarms and lies. Tells you it’s over, wants you to give up. Happens every single time.”
That’s a long wind up to my ‘hot take’ for today, a segment from our full podcast, Media’s Operation Demoralize and Kamala’s Basement Strategy – Episode 5: Legal Insurrection Podcast.
What is going on is something we have referred to in the past as Operation Demoralize.I believe that Republicans and Trump supporters, based on the feedback I’m getting, are getting very demoralized over the adeptness of the Democrats and the media at creating a completely fictitious narrative. Within two weeks, [Kamala] went from the worst vice president ever to the future of the country.And the swarming effect of the media, I think people don’t appreciate as much because everybody thinks, well, we’ve got a more free and open internet, conservatives have websites. Just look at a website called Memeorandum, on each of these points that are negative for Republicans, you have dozens and dozens of left-leaning and mainstream websites creating this narrative. And it’s getting people very demoralized because they don’t see the opposite.The only thing I can say is, and if you go to our website, we have a tag called Operation Demoralize because it happens every single election.They create a narrative that it’s over, that the Democrat’s going to win, that it’s hopeless for Republicans to do anything, that the public is moving against [you]. And we know from election results that’s not true.So I would warn people that we are in the midst of Operation Demoralize by the Democrats and the media.And a lot of conservative commenters are picking up on that unknowingly. They are, you know, pulling their hair out at how inconsequential the Republican efforts are in social media, at how poorly the selection of Vance was, at how all these other things as the VP nominee.All I can say is, I warn you, this is Operation Demoralize and they’re very good at it, and it seems to be working. And in order to achieve that, they have to create a fictitious history of Kamala Harris, which is what they’re doing.
What is the antidote for Operation Demoralize?
It’s working harder, unemotionally analyzing what you are doing right and what you are doing wrong, correcting course where needed, but not throwing up your hands and commencing a circular firing squad.
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