I & I Editorial BoardWhat is it with Democrats and their fake supporters, fake accents, fake backgrounds, fake accomplishments? Is it because they think voters are that shallow and stupid? Or because they don’t want anyone to know how incredibly out of touch they are with regular Americans?
This week, to cite just the most recent example, a group of “Republicans for Talarico” disbanded after it turned out that they were actually just a bunch of lifelong Democrats in disguise, but not before MS NOW gave them some free airtime.
“The people that [Talarico] had come out and say that they were on his team have been proven to be basically Democrat, liberal activists that have been supporting Democrat candidates for 10-plus years,” Republican National Committee Chairman Joe Gruters told Fox News Digital.
The Talarico campaign distanced itself from these folks after their cover was blown. But everything about Talarico is as fake, from his Christianity to his barbecue photo op.
Around the same time, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, last seen trying out a fake southern accent at an event in Memphis, was trying to pretend that she’s not a crazy leftist despite being a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, which wants to defund the military, close prisons, open the borders, eliminate the Senate, the presidency and the Supreme Court, and nationalize various industries.
When ABC News’ Jonathan Karl asked about her past statements, she laughed that “woke 1 was crazy,” and blamed COVID because “I think that, you know, during lockdown, of course, rhetoric in that time is not rhetoric that we would use today.”
When asked in July by Fox News specifically about the DSA’s call to abolish the Senate, she responded with a word salad for the ages.
Even the DSA’s “workers deserve more” pitch is a ruse. As the New York Times was forced to admit, the DSA’s leadership and voting base is made up almost entirely of well-educated, entitled, white elitists. (Only 4% of its members hold a blue-collar job.)
The list goes on.
Zohran Mamdani – whose mother is a Bollywood film director and father a tenured Columbia professor — pretended to be a child of a poor immigrant family.
“Dr.” Abdul El-Sayed calls himself a physician but has never held a medical license, completed a medical residency, or sat for board exams to practice clinical medicine.
When Graham Platner was acting as if he knew nothing about his Nazi tattoo, he was playing the role of an oyster farmer — it was described as “a key part of the 41-year-old candidate’s biography” — until it came to light that his mother was his only customer.
“Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz lied about serving in the war, his National Guard retirement rank, using IVF in the conception of his children, his 1995 DUI conviction, the length of time he kept children out of school pursuant to COVID-19, ad infinitum,” wrote David Catron in AMAC.
Walz also exaggerated his coaching credentials (which were easily debunked) and his experience with firearms (undermined by his comic mishandling of a shotgun).
Kamala Harris pretended to have worked at McDonald’s to grant herself working-class cred and faked accents depending on her audience. And who can forget Hillary Clinton’s cringeworthy attempts to fit in? She once told churchgoers in Selma, Alabama, that “I ain’t no ways tired.”
Are there Republicans who’ve doctored their resumes? Sure. But faking your past, or your views, or the sound of your voice seems to be a job requirement for Democratic politicians these days.
Our best guess is that Democrats are more likely than Republicans to do this because for most Democrats, their only interest is getting and keeping government power. They love government and want to control its every lever. And if that means pretending to be a normie for the rube voters, so be it.
But, shucks, whadda we know? We’re just a buncha gosh-darn banjo-pickin’ hillbillies from yonder flyover country.
— Written by the I&I Editorial Board
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Johnny Kampis
I&I writes: “What is it with Democrats and their fake supporters, fake accents, fake backgrounds, fake accomplishments? Is it because they think voters are that shallow and stupid?” My opinion:
Just look at the Blue States. Look at Virginian, California, New York and Illinois. Look at Minnesota, Wisconsin, Maryland and Washington.
The Democrats are always elected. But the succeeding paragraph refers to your wondering if their voters are “…shallow and stupid.”
They are both. They are shallow for having elected their blue anvils of government and they are stupid for having re-elected them.