As President Reagan might say: “There they go again.”
The “they” in this instance is … yet again … the New York Times.
As the Republican Party prepares to renominate the former president, the Times headlines their latest projection this way, in capital letters of course:
DONALD TRUMP IS UNFIT TO LEAD
Then the Times editorial board is off and running in Projection Land — that special political haven where Joe and his friends at the Times accuse Trump and Republicans of what they themselves have been about.
Where to start?
Here. The Times says:
A once great political party now serves the interests of one man, a man as demonstrably unsuited for the office of president as any to run in the long history of the Republic, a man whose values, temperament, ideas and language are directly opposed to so much of what has made this country great.
Really? If the GOP is as great as the Times claims? Then why, pray tell, does a little research show that the paper has endorsed Democratic presidential candidates 29 times, versus 14 times for Republicans?
Note well that it says this:
The Republican Party once pursued electoral power in service to solutions for such problems, to building “the shining city on a hill,” as Ronald Reagan liked to say. Its vision of the United States — embodied in principled public servants like George H.W. Bush, John McCain and Mitt Romney — was rooted in the values of freedom, sacrifice, individual responsibility and the common good.
Not mentioned? The Times endorsed Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale over Reagan, Michael Dukakis and Bill Clinton over Bush, and Obama over McCain and Mitt Romney. In a classic bit of self-unawareness, the Times is essentially saying that Bush, McCain, and Romney were in fact “principled public servants” — or the Times would have endorsed them at the time. But, of course, the Times support went to their opponents — just like it is going to Joe Biden’s opponent — Trump — this time.
The Times says:
Mr. Trump has shown a character unworthy of the responsibilities of the presidency. He has demonstrated an utter lack of respect for the Constitution, the rule of law and the American people.
Really? It is Joe Biden, not Donald Trump, who has unleashed a weaponized government on his leading opponent. It is Joe Biden who has made “lawfare” a staple of the Democratic Party. Under Biden’s leadership, Trump has become the first presidential opponent in history to be repeatedly targeted by Biden’s own Justice Department, not to mention Democrat prosecutorial apparatchiks in New York and Georgia. New York Attorney General Letitia James, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, and Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis have one and all followed Biden’s corrupt addiction to using their respective offices to target Biden’s leading opponent.
A greater corruption of presidential power would be hard to imagine. Yet there is the New York Times cheering the corruption onward.
And all of that is before the repeated corruption of a corrupt Joe Biden using his public offices to corruptly enrich his family to the tune of millions.
And all of that is before Biden’s historic weakness that has resulted in Russia’s Putin invading Ukraine and Hamas invading Israel. Which never happened in the Trump presidency.
In short, the Times, through its own record of deliberately misleading the American public about former Trump and his record, is at it again.
Again, from President Reagan: There they go again.
Donald Trump is more than fit to lead America back to greatness.
And millions of Americans know it.
