WorldNetDaily columnist Rachel Alexander is largely about spreading election-fraud falsehoods, but she’s also complaining that Republicans are being held accountable for spreading falsehoods about election fraud and that they aren’t fighting back enough. She complained in her Jan. 29 column:
There’s been a strange transformation on the left in recent years, as its rhetoric has turned from championing real issues to bashing the right and salivating over putting Donald Trump and his associates in prison. Since the internet and social media have opened up so many new channels of communication, the left is losing its former power over the flow of information and has become forced to debate issues on the merits. Despite still maintaining a stranglehold over education, the legal system, the MSM, large corporations and most of big tech, a new study found that teenage boys are the most conservative they have been in half a century.
In reaction, the left is trying to deflect and avoid real debates by tarnishing the right with lawfare since the left now dominates the legal system. When you can get a judge to twist the jury instructions, disallow legitimate evidence and witnesses based on bogus excuses and skew the jury pool by refusing to transfer the case outside of a heavily Democratic area like Washington, D.C., you can ensure victories every time.
The right allowed the left’s domination of the legal system to happen, because we were too busy going to church, raising families and participating in typical Judeo-Christian charitable work – instead of spending our free time volunteering on busybody state bar and judicial committees, hanging out with politically correct legal groups late at night drinking and networking.
In short, Alexander wants biased juries who will give Republicans a pass on their bad behavior. And her claim that Republicans engage in “typical Judeo-Christian charitable work” while Democrats are out drinking with “politically correct legal groups” is ridiculous. She continued her fantasy version of Democrats:
Unlike the right, the left never gets any satisfaction from watching people come to see the light like #WalkAway, or by giving a speech commending their leaders’ bold visions. They don’t even make a pretense of it anymore like they did last century (pretending Jimmy Carter had bold vision was a stretch). So in order to find some satisfaction, they have resorted to disguised fascist tactics, using the legal system to squelch free speech.
The average American, who doesn’t pay close attention to politics but still votes, can be easily swayed by this tactic since no one wants to be associated with a “criminal.” Polls show that support for Trump greatly decreases if voters are asked whether they’d vote for him if he were in prison.
[…]The left has successfully changed real political debate into a terrifying “gotcha” Orwellian era, the beginning of fascism. Turn to the MSM and it is endless coverage of Trump’s legal battles, as if there’s little else going on. Their leading pundits, like Ron Filipkowski, hysterically post round-the-clock about every minor proceeding in the lawsuits and prosecutions of Trump.
The Democratic Party should be honest and change its platform so that every plank states what it is really doing – take Trump and his associates down with lawfare, particularly through prosecution. Minor prongs are taking down his associates with lawfare.
Alexander began her Feb. 5 column by invoking her fantasy Democrats again, then lamenting that Republicans are acting too divisive:
The right, unlike the left, believes in individual choice instead of groupthink, so we don’t fall into line and blindly coalesce around our leaders as easily. There is quite a bit of healthy debate first. However, lately this has risen to such a frenzy that no MAGA leader is good enough for a fringe minority within MAGA. They are exemplifying the rule, “I may agree with you on 99% of issues, but I will put all my focus on slamming you over the 1% we disagree on.” And much of the time, the 1% is merely over process, not substantive disagreement on the merits of issues.
It’s easy to sit back as an armchair warrior and post away on social media, picking apart those who are putting themselves out in the fray and trying to make a change for the better. It takes very little effort to sit at home and criticize. When I was briefly sick last week, the only thing I could do was blast trolls on X since it was mindless and distracted me from feeling ill. I’ve long suspected the reason most people are rude in politics is because they’re taking out their anger from personal problems in a way that society finds far more acceptable, pretending their anger is about politics instead.
She then complained that Republicans had the opportunity to vote for people other than Donald Trump in the primaries:
We’re seeing this play out in the presidential primary this year. No major Democratic candidate is running against Biden (Robert Kennedy Jr. is running as an independent and shunned by the Democratic establishment). Whereas Trump, who is sort of like an incumbent too, faced not just several major challengers but Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, one of the most popular conservative Republicans with the base and likely to become president eventually.
We wasted millions of dollars on the primary making ourselves look bad, while the Democrats saved their money to beat us up in the general election. This wouldn’t have happened if so many in the base hadn’t turned against Trump over minor things like “mean tweets” and saying a few crude things about women.
These armchair critics never provide any real solutions; instead they propose wildly impossible, impractical recommendations off the top of their heads and push their fringy unknown friends as candidates. Anyone can tear others down, that’s easy. What’s really admirable are those who bring diverse conservatives together and get things accomplished.
Alexander offered no evidence that Trump is ” bring[ing] diverse conservatives together” to “get things accomplished.”