Keeping America Skeered

“Get ’em skeered and keep the skeer on ’em.” — Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, CSA, on the importance of using fear to control the enemy and achieve victory. When President Trump announced that he was taking hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) to protect himself against contracting COVID-19, the Democrats and their mainstream media propaganda machine reacted with disbelief, horror, panic, and outrage. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) intoned that experts have warned about HCQ’s harmful effects and that the president is placing his health at grave risk because the drug is simply too dangerous to take. Joe Biden declared, “It’s like maybe if you inject Clorox into your blood it may cure you. C’mon, man! What is he doing? What in God’s name is he doing?” Pelosi and Biden were hardly alone. The progressive commentariat have been apoplectic at the idea of Trump taking HCQ, which, according to them, is “dangerous,” “not approved,” and “has not been proven” effective for either the treatment or prevention of COVID-19. What is going on here? Why are these people so upset? After condemning Trump as a traitor in the employ of the Russians, smearing him every hour of every day for the last three-plus years, praying to Gaia that he would fall into Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s carefully laid perjury trap, impeaching him, and continuing to demand his removal from office and the imprisonment of his staff and supporters, I would have thought that they would be delighted at the idea of Trump poisoning himself with a dangerous, unproven drug. I mean, wouldn’t it solve all their problems if Trump did them the favor of going the way of that poor guy whose wife fed him chloroquine-based fish tank cleaner? But instead of breaking out the champagne, confetti, and party hats, they are running around with their hair on fire as if some disaster has befallen them. Why? Can it be that, by taking HCQ, President Trump is demonstrating in the most dramatic and effective way possible that the drug can...