OPINION: 'Welcome To The End Of Democracy'

[RandySF]

“Welcome to the end of democracy. We are here to overthrow it completely.”

That’s how Jack Posobiec opened his remarks at CPAC. Posobiec continued, “We didn’t get all the way there on January 6, but we will endeavor to get rid of it and replace it with this right here,” he said, gesturing to the crowd and holding up his fist.” Posobiec was speaking on a panel with Steve Bannon, whose response to the comment was “Amen.”

Writing in his Substack, journalist Dan Rather pointed out both how little media attention Posobiec’s comments received and how, as far as he could tell, no Republican elected had denounced them or even been asked to react to them by the press. As much as the political media loves to cover CPAC, you’d think a comment like that might generate more interest and attention. Certainly, there’d be an uproar if someone on the left made this comment at Netroots Nation. But after years of watching reporters go into a feeding frenzy whenever a random lefty blogger would say something dumb, they have little interest in holding Republicans accountable in the same way.

Readers, of course, know my working thesis on MAGA Republicans: they don’t seek to win elections but take power by any means necessary. I always appreciate when folks on their side drop the pretense and speak honestly about what their actual agenda is. There isn’t much incentive for them to hide that fact. Their supporters know the deal, as does our base. As I pointed out above, they won’t receive much press scrutiny.



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