It was seven years ago this month, April 2015, that two seemingly unrelated events set the United States on a path to its eventual downfall . . . a place we haven't quite gotten to yet.
Why do you think Donald Trump became the 2016 Republican front-runner and was eventually elected President? Because of his charm and charisma? Because of his inspiring rhetoric? Because of his fourteen points? No, it was because he got help from his eventual Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton (below). This is what she said in an e-mail about campaign strategy to the Democratic National Committee - written seven years ago this very day - that was later put out in October 2016 by WikiLeaks (admittedly, with a little help from their friends, their accomplices in the Kremlin):
The variety of [GOP presidential] candidates is a positive here, and many of the
lesser known can serve as a cudgel to move the more established candidates further to the right. In this scenario, we
don’t want to marginalize the more extreme candidates, but make them more "Pied Piper" candidates who actually
represent the mainstream of the Republican Party . . .. We need to be elevating the Pied Piper candidates so that they are leaders of the pack.
The Pied Piper candidates were Ted Cruz, Ben Carson, and another guy named . . . Donald Trump. So, the Hillary campaign legitimized Donald Trump by focusing more on him than on a nice guy like Jeb Bush. Really smart strategy, Hillary!
Trump may by the type to lead rats out of town, but he can also lead lemmings to their deaths.
Meanwhile, Martin O'Malley, the then-newly former governor of Maryland, was preparing to announce his 2016 presidential candidacy when suddenly Freddie Gray, a black man in Baltimore, where O'Malley had been mayor and had strengthened law enforcement tactics, was arrested for possessing a knife, which was perfectly legal. He ended up being beaten in police custody and died, and even though O'Malley hadn't been mayor in eight years, the media and also David Simon - the creator of the Baltimore-set police TV drama "The Wire" - somehow blamed O'Malley for Gray's death. This allowed a Washington press corps already skeptical of O'Malley and his viability as presidential candidate - the man was a protégé of the always laughable Gary Hart, for Pete's sakes! - to take him even less seriously than they already did. Olivia Nuzzi's coverage of O'Malley's presidential campaign announcement - which focused on anti-O'Malley protestors at the event - was so satirically biting you could almost hear her snicker while you were reading it.
Needless to say, the media's spin on Gray's death doomed O'Malley's chances to be a serious contender against Hillary for the Democratic presidential nomination, transferring that role to Bernie Sanders - who could not win the Democratic presidential nomination as an independent, and the press knew it. (That's why they didn't cover him; besides, they were too busy covering Trump.) Add that all together, and you had the trajectory of a flawed nominee-in-waiting being crowned the Democratic presidential candidate to take on Trump, and you got . . .
Well, you got economic and environmental policy rollbacks that benefitted the rich, three right-wing Supreme Court justices, withdrawals from various international agreements, an out-of-control pandemic, and . . . January 6.
And all because Hillary - and thanks to her efforts, the press - wanted to elevate Donald Trump and no one wanted to elevate Martin O'Malley.
Hillary Clinton, though, remains the chief villain here. She wanted Trump as an opponent, and she got more than she bargained for. And the sooner these Hillbots stop worshipping her and start seeing her as the destructive force she is, the better. 😠
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