ANALYSIS/OPINION:
Following the tumultuous 2020 presidential election, Americans have been reassured that politics isn’t rigged. Whether it is or isn’t, politics ain’t what it used to be. Convention is shifting on the boundaries of fairness.
More than two months on, befuddlement still overshadows the events surrounding the Nov. 3 election that put Democrat Joe Biden in the White House and Republican Donald Trump out on the street. An eye-opening after-action report in Time magazine last week helps lift the veil on the mystery. “The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election” by reporter Molly Ball describes the Trump ouster as the work of “a well-funded cabal of powerful people, ranging across industries and ideologies, working together behind the scenes to influence perceptions, change rules and laws, steer media coverage and control the flow of information.”
However, what’s most remarkable about the media campaign is its hypocrisy. It’s doubtful Alexei Navalny would be a hero maybe not even a free man in the “Free World.”
In 2007, Mr. Navalny made a video that compared people from the Caucasus to insects. To fight “infestation,” Mr. Navalny recommended not a “fly swatter,” but a handgun.
Mr. Navalny supported nationalist marches in the past (such as the 2006 “Russian March.”) He has called for stopping subsidies to the North Caucasus republics. The
New York Timesreported that he had spoken alongside “neo-Nazis and skinheads.” He’s called immigration far more important than Russia’s conflict with Ukraine.
Time magazine. Never mind that Trump is the least authoritarian American president in probably a century and the most transparent American president ever – writer Molly Ball claims in an article titled “The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election” that a huge effort was undertaken “fortifying,” but not “rigging” the election. The American system of government hardly needed to be protected from Trump, who, throughout his four years in office gave away his presidential pay and barely had control over the federal Leviathan, filled as it is with disloyal left-wingers and careerist Democrats. The same cannot be said of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris who view the government as a massive gravy train and a means of imposing one-party rule on the country and cleansing it of undesirables like conservatives and other patriots. Biden and Harris were fine with the deadly race riots that swept the country after drug-addicted career criminal Geo
Well, at least theyâve admitted it.
No, not to stuffing ballot boxes in Philly or Detroit or Milwaukee, but to conspiring and colluding to do everything in their power â including changing the rules â to beat Donald Trump. For leftists, desperate times called for desperate measures. And it took every ounce of collusion between Democrats and their fellow travelers in Big Media, Big Tech, Big Ed, Big Labor, Big Sport, Big Pharma, Big Academia, Wall Street, Hollywood, and a host of others for Borderless Joe Biden to beat Donald John Trump and his 74 million
legit votes.
Hopefully, that paragraph wonât get us banned by the free-speech fraidy cats. Besides, the title of the incriminating Time magazine article admits as much: âThe Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election.â