God knows today’s right indulges in plenty of absurdly overheated rhetoric, but can Democrats please quit proclaiming the end of democracy over every trivial affront?
The latest onset of fascism came when Sen. Alex Padilla burst into Homeland Security chief Kristi Noem’s LA presser Thursday and got tackled by Secret Service agents who didn’t recognize the crazy shouting man, then pulled out of the room in handcuffs.
Dems nationwide were shocked, shocked.
Here in New York Gov. Kathy Hochul claimed the takedown of the California senator “shocked the conscience”; mayoral frontrunner Andrew Cuomo called it part of Team Trump’s push to “silence opposition and undermine our democracy”; AOC demanded a “full investigation.”
Puh-leaze.
How do any of them want a Republican trying to hijack one of their events treated?
And if Noem was out to “silence” Padilla, why meet with him for 15 minutes afterward? It’s not because she feared finger-wagging from, say, Sen. Cory “Spartacus” Booker.
And all the hysteria ignores the simple fact that anyone who cares to can see for themselves on the video.
Just as, yes, they can see ample images of the LA rioting that Democrats and their media enablers insist is “mostly peaceful” — when they’re not denying there’s any violence at all.
Far too many on the left are used to closed conversations where no one will challenge this nonsense.
It may work for winning cheers at a rally, getting clueless rich folks to cut you campaign checks or group-wallowing on BlueSky, but outside your bubble it just looks pathetic.
And if telling a heckler “not now” is fascist, then every teacher in America should be wearing jackboots.
This story originally appeared on NYPost
