Just as federal and state authorities were dealing with a second attack on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Texas, failed far-left Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton appeared on MSNBC’s Morning Joe to say Americans must stop “demonizing” each other.
Most of said demonizing is from the “Right,” she averred, whereupon she attacked “white men” of a “certain religion.”
That non-demonization came two days after failed far-left Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris likened President Trump to “communist dictators.” It was something of a strange critique given that she formerly thought he was a Nazi and a fascist.
Whatever the case, Clinton’s limp call for rhetorical peace comes after years of far-left Democrats’ demonizing Trump, notably during his winning campaign against Harris, and months of demonizing ICE as Nazis and the Gestapo.
And those doing the demonizing weren’t just crackpots on TikTok. They were elected officials.
Clinton’s Interview
Clinton’s call for intelligent debate to begin again came after host Joe Scarborough, a former Republican, recalled the time he told a party colleague that he liked the former senator and secretary of state.
That opened the door for Clinton.
“We have got to stop demonizing each other,” she said, going on to continue demonizing:
Now, I think most of that right now in our country’s history is coming, you know, from the Right, coming from people who want to dominate.
Detailing the many imperfections of the nation that made her a multimillionairess, Clinton said:
We haven’t gotten to the more perfect union, and we fought a civil war over part of it. And people have been protesting, you know, for hundreds of years that things were not as they should be given our ideals and how we should be, moving toward them.
That’s because evil white Christian men want to “turn the clock back,” a familiar refrain from the far Left for decades.
Continued Clinton:
I think that’s what makes us so special as a country and the idea that you could turn the clock back and try to recreate a world that never was, dominated by, you know, let’s say it, white men of a certain persuasion, a certain religion, a certain point of view, a certain ideology. It’s just doing such damage to what we should be aiming for.
So as Clinton importuned her audience not to demonize, she demonized white Christian men.
Demonizing Trump
On Monday, Harris did her best not to demonize Trump. Peddling her new book, 107 Days, she called Trump a “tyrant.”
“Communist dictators — that’s what we’re dealing with right now in Donald Trump,” the Word Salad Queen claimed on Rachel Maddow’s failing program.
Harris’ shift in describing Trump’s putative ideology is remarkable given what she said during her bazillion dollar, failed campaign.
“Donald Trump is out for unchecked power,” she said:
He wants a military like Adolf Hitler had, who will be loyal to him, not our Constitution.
He is unhinged, unstable, and given a second term, there would be no one to stop him from pursuing his worst impulses.
When CNN’s Anderson Cooper asked Harris whether she believed Trump is a fascist, she was ready with her answer. “Yes, I do,” she said.
Yet, apropos of today’s shooting, most far-left Democrats don’t agree. In April, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker all but called Trump a Nazi.
“What I feel, anyway, is that the dangers that my family experienced in Ukraine, the dangers that we saw in, you know, Nazi Germany, especially in the earliest days of Nazi Germany, are the dangers that we need to react to now,” Pritzker averred:
If we don’t, things will get much, much worse. And so we’ve got to raise alarm bells to everybody. It’s a five-alarm fire everyone. It’s time to step out of your comfort zone, and step out into the streets.
Democrats are also given to claims that “we are at war” with Trump and that “we [need to] hit the streets and fight back” against him.
Former President Joe Biden repeatedly called Trump “a threat to democracy,” while U.S. Representative Dan Goldman of New York said “he has to be eliminated.”
Demonizing ICE
And ICE has come in for a steady stream of comparisons to the Nazis and their Gestapo secret police. That might explain today’s murders at an ICE facility in Dallas, and the 1,000-percent increase in violence against ICE and other federal agents.
As The New American reported last month, an unhinged far-left Democratic U.S. Representative John Larson of California called ICE the “SS and Gestapo.” The SS was Adolf Hitler’s Schutzstaffel.
Democratic Representative Delia Ramirez of Illinois, an anchor baby of Guatemalan illegals, called ICE a “terrorist organization.” Far-left Democratic immigrant Representative Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) said that ICE is a “terrorist force.” Doug Halter, Democratic Deputy Mayor of Ventura, California, agreed. Halter accused ICE of a “terrorism attack on our citizens, on our community, on our residents, our friends, our family, our neighbors, our workers, our employers” — because agents arrest illegal aliens.
Another elected Democrat, Cynthia Gonzalez, the vice mayor of Cudahy, California, urged the 18th Street and Florencia 13 gangs to attack ICE agents.
Nothing New
Yet the attacks on ICE are nothing new. They’ve been going on for years.
When Harris — who rose to political prominence after serving in several unique positions under former California House Speaker Willie Brown — was misrepresenting Californians as their U.S. senator, she viciously attacked ICE during a committee hearing.
She repeatedly pushed then-acting ICE Director Ronald Vitiello into likening ICE agents to Ku Klux Klansmen. Vitiello refused. She asked him:
Are you aware of the perception of many about how the power and the discretion at ICE is being used to enforce the laws and do you see any parallels?
When Vitiello refused to “see any parallels” between ICE and the Klan, Harris asked how he could head ICE and “be unaware of how your agency is perceived by certain communities.”
Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo called ICE officers “thugs” and threatened to prosecute them for doing their jobs in New York.
Happily, though, the Democratic Party’s former presidential nominee has said the demonization must end. Although most of it is, she averred, “from the Right.”
