You know, when Bill Clinton was president, I noticed that he had an utter disregard for the truth.  Of course, that’s not unusual in a president.  LBJ didn’t get the nickname “Bull Johnson” for nothing, and Harry Truman once said of Richard Nixon, “If he ever caught himself telling the truth, he’d have to tell a lie right away to keep his hand in.”  The difference with Bill Clinton was that, before him, the media actually objected to lies by presidents from either Party.  Bill Clinton’s disregard for the truth was what I like to call, “a moveable truth,” meaning he’d change what he claimed was true from day to day to suit conditions.  To paraphrase those annoying Geico commercials, “Politicians lie.  It’s what they do.”  We used to expect more from the media, but the media changed.  When Il Duce Obama was president, he was protected by the media.  I remember one day when a reporter actually dared to yell a tough question at the Duce, and the other reporters chased him out of the White House.  That was bad enough, but at least the media didn’t make up or repeat lies.  Until Donald Trump came along.  In the great old movie, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence, the newspaper editor says, “When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.”  He meant, when the public is invested in a long-held belief about someone, the facts cease to be important.  But it’s a lot different when the media creates the legend.  That’s the deal with Trump.  The Left created legends that fit their agenda, so they print the legends.  In order to combat Trump, the Left has concocted a series of legends about Trump, which they have peddled as truth, and which seemingly have managed to drive Trump from office.

1.  Russian Collusion – In 2016, the Left claimed that the Russians committed election fraud to elect Trump.  That’s a lie they’ve been telling for years now, but by repeating it, they convinced almost half the people it was true.  And, of course, being immune to irony, in 2020, the Left says there’s no such thing as election fraud.  Right now we’re dealing with evidence of out-and-out fraud by Democrats in a number of States.  The Left says,  “Nothing to see here,  ignore the man behind the curtain who’s falsifying votes, these are not the ballots you’re looking for.”  The problem with the Democrats is not that they don’t know what they’re doing is illegal, it’s that they believe their own “Russia elected Trump” bullcrap, and under that belief, they see their cheating simply as a way to make things “fair.” General Patton’s aide once told him, “Sometimes the men can’t tell when you’re acting.”  Patton replied, “It’s not important for them to know, it’s only important for me to know.” Clearly, the Democrats can’t tell their Russian fraud shit from Shinola.  Democrats lie, and the media swears to it.

2.  Trump is a Fascist dictator – This one really gets me.  Dictators typically come from nothing, rise to power, and grow rich at public expense.  In Trump, you have a man who stepped out of his privileged life into the filthy, dirty world of politics.  A man who hired and fired tens of thousands of people.  He never had to ask permission for anything he did or wanted.  He left that world for a world where he had to sell himself to enough people to get elected.  Once elected, he had to tolerate, convince, court, flatter, and cajole a bunch of pig politicians, many of whom opposed him from the start, and few of whom ever gave him the respect and the support he deserved, and I’m talking about the Republicans.  Trump worked to advance his policies through the Congress. Everything he did, he did through the system created by the politicians.  He didn’t announce “I have a pen and a phone” like Il Duce Obama, and rule by unconstitutional decree.
They challenged every thing he did in court.  Most of his actions were upheld, and when they weren’t, he complied with the rulings and tried something else.  And every step of the way, we had to hear political A-holes like Schumer and Pelosi, and media A-holes like Joe Scarborough, Don Lemon, and the rest lecture us that “Trump is an existential threat to democracy.”  Many people believe that crap, but here are the facts.  Every time the Left tells you Trump is a Fascist threatening democracy, they expose themselves with their next breath.  Who tries to bar any dissent on college campuses – the Left.  Who threatens to illegally add new States to the Union to grab control of the government – the Left.  Who promises to end the electoral college – the Left.  Who promises to pack the Supreme Court, to turn it into a political institution – the Left.  Who’s threatening to blackball anyone who’s worked for Trump, and prevent them from working again – the Left.  Who’s promising the urban terrorists of Black Lives Matter and Antifa they will defund the police – the Left. Never forget.  Every time the Left tells you Trump, or any Republican, is a Fascist threat to democracy, the Left takes another step toward ending our democracy themselves.

3.  Trump Mishandled the Wuhan Crisis – The Left has managed to get more than half the people to believe this legend.  The Wuhan virus attacked every country on Earth, and every country took unacceptable losses, no matter what they did to try to stop it.  No elected leader and no medical expert, anywhere in the world, has been able to magically make the virus go away.  Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden alleged Trump “did nothing about the virus.”  He might have missed it, being locked in his basement, but the corrupt media knows better.  Donald Trump got the entire government and private industry mobilized to produce all the equipment the States needed, and he cut miles of red tape with his Operation Warp Speed, which has at least two different highly effective Wuhan virus vaccines ready to go.  When Trump said vaccines would be ready before the end of the year, they said it was impossible.  Trump made it happen.  The vaccines will be available, and the media will never admit we have Donald Trump to thank for that.

All this highlights what really is the existential threat to our democracy.  Politicians and elections come and go, but if you permit the media to create a false narrative, and permit the social media teenage mutant billionaires decide what you may see and what you may tell others, we are through.