Yep People really have to quit thinking this a new thing. This is literally what the Dems have always done. They just got more blatant bec they'd assumed they'd won forever. It's amazing how effectively media buried the truth pre net. It's also utterly depressing it worked as well as it did. Even most in the right I've met assume anifta and such is new. Maybe 1-8/9 even know the name "weathermen" this is conservatives mind. So just imagine how much worse it must be for leftists.
One of the interesting contrasts over the last 4 years, has been relief that a lot of people are leaving the leftists, and frustration that they think this behavior on the part of the left's leadership is
new.
The Democrats are the party that defended the traitors who gave nuclear weapons technology to the soviet union, that said not to back the Chinese nationalists against Mao, that wouldn't put the Maoists down before they went nuclear. Jane Fonda literally went to Hanoi during the Vietnam war and broadcast to American soldiers that they should surrender, yet was never arrested and convicted of treason for this.
Walter Cronkite, the most trusted man in TV news, admitted after he retired he was actively trying to dupe the American people. He and the majority of the media establishment conducted a campaign of lies to make America thing the Vietnam war was futile, unwanted by the South Vietnamese, and unwinnable.
The Democrats, media, and much of academia pushed the idea that Reagan's willingness to present strength rather than weakness to the USSR would result in global nuclear war. A decade later, they all insisted that the USSR had been collapsing anyways, and Reagan was just lucky enough to be in the White House at the key time when it all started going down.
In the 90's, Clinton refused more than once to take Osama Bin Laden out when he was presented to him more or less on a silver platter. He also repeatedly deployed American forces to regional conflicts, then pulled them out as soon as things got hot, creating the 'paper tiger' impression that so many terrorist groups and tin-pot dictators use to defy American power.
Obama literally shipped pallets of cash to the Iranians, said a thug who was killed trying to kill a 'white hispanic' is what 'his son would have looked like,' if he'd had one, and let Hillary Clinton sell off a huge chunk of American Uranium to the Russians, just years before the Democrat party
finally decided that they hated the Russians, 25 years after the Cold War ended.
Then there's the decades-long villification of the pro-life movement, deliberate deception about facts regarding gun ownership and crime rates, their standardized political tactics of smearing, and endless fascination with dictators. Not to mention using welfare programs to tear the family apart and make people dependent vote-serfs.
The leadership of the political left and Democrat party have
always been authoritarian would-be tyrants, just with
very good PR until more recently. It's frustrating how many people have been duped by them over the years.