Throughout the entire four years of his first term, Democrats continuously accused President Donald Trump of using dangerous rhetoric that could incite his supporters to commit violence upon Democrat lawmakers.
For instance, anytime he called out Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and her so-called “Squad,” he would be accused of putting targets on their backs and inspiring death threats.
Perhaps most notable were the claims that he incited supporters to stage what Democrats have falsely called an “insurrection” at the Capitol Building on January 6, 2021, for saying during his “Stop the Steal” rally speech: that “if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore.”
This was, of course, after he told the crowd “I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.”
That incitement charge was, in part, the basis for the Democrats’ second impeachment trial against Trump.
But Democrats, as we all know, are often guilty of the same things of which they’ve accused Republicans, as we saw over the summer with the two assassination attempts against Trump after years of Democrats and media figures calling him a dictator, a threat to democracy, an evil man who is supposedly worse than Hitler.
And now here we are not even three weeks into his second presidential term, and Democrats who remain humiliated by what happened in November are absolutely losing their minds as the DOGE under Elon Musk continues to fulfill the campaign pledge made by Trump to root out waste, fraud, and abuse in the federal government.
The dangerous frenzy-whipping is, unfortunately, escalating, with Democrats in the House and Senate now hurling accusations of a “coup” at Musk.
Like Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), who led the J6-era impeachment effort against Trump:
“We’ve got the wealthiest man in the world who cannot be president because he was born in apartheid South Africa, then made his way to Canada and then to America. He can’t be president, except if he can buy himself a de facto presidency by putting up hundreds of millions of dollars for Donald Trump.”[…]”So the people in Silicon Valley think that he wants to be, the monarch of a new techno feudal state. That’s why you’ve got Steve Bannon and other people on the right attacking Elon Musk. And Steve Bannon has said he is a truly evil person who should not be running the U.S. government. So at some point, we’ve got to wake up beyond party lines for all Americans to see what’s going on here in this rapidly expanding and accelerating coup.”
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And here’s what Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) alleged on a recent podcast:
“I’m very troubled by the type of policies that they are pursuing that when you add them up, looks and feels like a coup,” Wyden said, noting that Democrats had been trying to stop Trump and Musk where they could.“If I were to embrace it in a sentence apropos of ‘what the hell is going on here,’ is that Trump and Musk are ignoring the checks and balances of our republic, and for all practical purposes I’d call that a coup.”
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Senator Ron Wyden told me today it looks an awful lot like a coup – full Decoder coming Monday but it felt like we should get this clip out there
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He used similar rhetoric Monday during a Senate Democrat presser:
“It is clear that unqualified and unaccountable people have seized control of the flow of taxpayer funds and a trove of extremely sensitive data. They are seizing the tools you need for a coup,” he warned.
In addition to the “it’s a coup” and “we are at war,” rhetoric, we have other Democrats like Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), echoing the “this is not normal” talking point and urging supporters to “fight back”:
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It’s fascinating to hear all this talk of “unelected” anything allegedly running the government considering how beholden Democrats have been to George Soros and how they tried to downplay concerns over Joe Biden’s cognitive health for four years while his handlers including then-First Lady Jill Biden ran things behind the scenes:
All of that said, Warren and other Democrats are right about one thing: this indeed is not normal for Washington, DC, which has for decades embraced the status quo at the expense of the American taxpayer. That this is not normal is a welcome change, something that will become even more apparent as the DOGE continues to do the work Trump tasked it with doing.
-Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym “Sister Toldjah” and can be reached via Twitter/X.-
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