As Legal Insurrection has extensively documented for well over a decade now, Operation Demoralize is a very real thing for the mainstream media, something they crank up every election cycle but with an even heavier emphasis put on it during presidential election years.
On a recent LI podcast, here’s how Professor Jacobson explained it:
“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…. 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.”
Not surprisingly, Operation Demoralize has been in full swing since Democrats forced Joe Biden out of the race last month and installed Kamala Harris as their nominee, with coverage of Harris being overwhelmingly positive while coverage of GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump has of course been overwhelmingly negative.
We’ve seen this on full display at the Democrat National Convention, with reporters who are covering it gushing about the “electricity” and “energy” in the air over Harris which, as ABC News senior national correspondent Terry Moran explained, was something they needed in order “to fight” against Trump in the weeks ahead:
I’ve seen a lot of roll calls; I’ve never seen anything like that. I tell you, it was the best party I’ve been to in a while, but I don’t go to many parties. It was the best party they had. And the significance of that is the energy they will need to fight.I talked to a lot of delegates and they say the same thing: “Yes, this is a great time but we got to go back into the trenches and carry this into the ground game, into raising money in order to win. What they know is going to be a fiercely fought election.
Moran’s colleague, Jonathan Karl – who is the author of an anti-Trump book, went even further in a segment he did with former Bill Clinton senior advisor turned ABC News anchor/host George Stephanopoulos:
“George, this was an electrifying night for delegates here and for Democrats across the country. And, look, it is exceedingly rare to see something genuinely new at one of these national political conventions. But the organizers pulled that off when you saw Kamala Harris simultaneously direct — address a packed convention hall in Milwaukee where Republicans had rallied last month and here in Chicago and the messaging, that there was something new in the messaging as well as — as Barack Obama particularly tried to address Americans who are sick and tired of our deeply divided politics, doing that while simultaneously issuing a brutal takedown on Donald Trump. But also trying to appeal to the people, what Obama called the regular folks who have turned out. And, George, that part of the messaging has been backed up here in Chicago every single night and will continue tonight and tomorrow by featuring Republican speakers. Last night, the Republican mayor of Mesa, Arizona and even former Trump White House press secretary, Stephanie Grisham.”
Laura Barrón-López, a White House correspondent for PBS News Hour, was similarly giddy:
Not surprisingly, CNN journalists Jake Tapper, Dana Bash, and Abby Phillip were feeling it, too:
ABBY PHILLIP: I think the theme of tonight is 2008 energy. That’s what one Biden adviser told me on the air earlier today. With Barack Obama and Michelle Obama coming, they wanted to, they need to amp this place up to kind of capture for that feeling that a lot of people last felt back in 2008 when they were about to do something historic.
CBS News senior White House correspondent Weijia Jiang, covering a related DNC event in Milwaukee, was on the same wavelength:
“Norah, we might be 90 miles away from you in Chicago, but the electricity and the energy that you guys are talking about, we can feel it in this room at the form right here in Milwaukee,” touted CBS senior White House correspondent Weijia Jiang. “And those bracelets are shining bright here, as well.”
Obviously, the talking points have gone out. “Give up, Republicans! There’s so much unity and electricity and energy at the DNC, y’all don’t have a chance” seems to be what’s being said if you read between the lines. While we can’t ignore it, it needs to be recognized for what it is: propaganda designed to drag Democrats over the finish line in November by effectively suppressing the Republican vote by way of dampening enthusiasm.
But as Prof. Jacobson explained, fretting GOPers need to shake it off and carry on:
“Shake out of it and get yourself together. There are legitimate concerns that people need to address, but this hyperbole and this hair-on-fire reaction is ridiculous. So carry on.”
Indeed.
— Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym “Sister Toldjah” and can be reached via Twitter. —
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