Miranda Devine: The left’s ‘Dignity Index’ is a – Latest News
The newest effort to neuter conservatives and power Republicans to give up comes from a deceptively titled gadget referred to as “The Dignity Index.”
The ruse is fronted by Kennedy relative Tim Shriver, who seems on Fox News within the guise of a completely cheap reasonable Democrat, the sort all of us want nonetheless existed.
His pitch is for politicians to deal with your opponents with respect, decrease the temperature of public debate and restore civility to public life.
Who might be in opposition to such laudable objectives?
But who does the pitch not remind you of?
Donald Trump, of course, along with his bare-knuckled, smash-mouth, macho belligerence.
Trump is the antithesis of the mild tone Shriver is making an attempt to elevate because the core advantage of management forward of the midterms.
But the dignity blather is simply a fancy approach of damning Trump for imply tweets.
“The way in which we lead is as important as the outcomes we seek,” Shriver informed Fox News’ Bret Baier Tuesday.
Hah!
There you’ve got it.
No, tone is not more important than outcomes.
Who — different than a radical leftist — would say it’s more important for Trump to be well mannered than to prevail over the thugs in Iran, or close the southern border and deport unlawful aliens, or stop taxpayer funding of transgender surgical procedures for youngsters, or ban boys from ladies’ sports activities, or finish the “diversity and equity” most cancers that undermined our navy, or crack down on Medicaid and Medicare fraud, or punish violent crime, or ditch the climate hoax that sabotaged our economic system, or cut taxes and ax waste to spice up the economic system, or patriotically embrace our flag and founding values.
Diversion tactic
These outcomes, supported by most Americans, are anathema to the left, in order that they have waged a full-scale struggle on Trump and his allies underneath the guise of restoring civility and defending norms.
For all its high ethical preening, the Dignity Index’s purpose is to border Trump — and any conservative who rejects leftist subversion of our approach of life — because the trigger for the division and disharmony within the nation. If solely we might simply speak properly to one another.
What that basically means is “shut up and stop complaining as we destroy the country.”
They need the genteel, pre-Trump Republican Party that performed by the principles and was by no means so discourteous as to call out Democrat madness like open borders and transgender surgical procedure for minors.
Those Republicans simply rolled over to cultural Marxism or made feeble makes an attempt to handle it.
They had been the managed opposition, flattered by their artful opponents as high-minded and virtuous only for being chumps, as Joe Biden favored to call the voters he swindled.
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Dems need to lull us into believing their radical activists, like Barack Obama and Abigail Spanberger, are dignified, old-school moderates who will usher in an period of civility all of us crave.
Instead, they weaponize our want for bipartisanship and comity into revolutionary destruction that can entrench their energy ceaselessly.
Look at the misleading gerrymandering tactic Spanberger pulled off this week.
One of the primary strikes of the just lately elected “moderate” governor of Virginia — and ex-CIA spy — was to current a deceptively framed redistricting plan to voters, which narrowly handed Tuesday after the Democrat aspect outspent their opponents by 3 to 1.
The new electoral map disenfranchises conservative voters in central Virginia and can give Democrats 4 extra left-leaning House seats in Washington forward of the midterms.
‘Virtuous’ energy grab
Spanberger dressed up her bare energy grab as a democratic advantage, saying the gerrymander was a obligatory “check on this president,” and we need more Democrats in Congress to carry Trump “accountable.”
Fraudulently posing as paragons of advantage whereas destroying norms and breaking all moral guidelines of habits in pursuit of energy is the Democrat playbook, and so they’ve been superb at fooling a lot of people for a long time — till Trump got here alongside.
Take the DOJ’s fraud indictments this week of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), essentially the most prestigious “civil rights” group within the nation, so influential that the FBI would cite its materials in investigations.
A clue that the SPLC was a covert Democrat oppo store was that so many of its targets had been mainstream Christian conservatives.
For occasion, Catholics who attend conventional Latin Mass had been focused by the FBI as potential violent home terrorists on the say-so of the SPLC’s “research.”
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Similarly, Moms for Liberty and the Family Research Council had been labeled “hate groups” by the SPLC, as unhealthy because the Ku Klux Klan, white supremacist and neo-Nazi organizations.
Charlie Kirk was singled out for defamation by the SPLC within the days earlier than his assassination.
None of it handed the sniff take a look at, but it surely incited crazies, justified partisan journalism, and gave the pretext of respectability to left-wing activists within the Biden FBI and DOJ so they may destroy the Democrats’ strongest opposition.
Wholesome grassroots conservative teams had been portrayed as violent far-right bigots.
Now the SPLC is charged with paying hundreds of thousands of {dollars} to the very hate teams, just like the KKK and neo-Nazis, it was based to fight.
“The SPLC was not dismantling the groups,” Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche mentioned Tuesday.
“It was as a substitute manufacturing the extremism it purports to oppose by paying sources to stoke racial hatred.
“It was doing the exact opposite of what it told its donors it was doing — not dismantling extremism but funding it.”
Yes, the SPLC has been race-baiting America, nurturing Nazis and fomenting hate to make hundreds of thousands of {dollars} in donations from helpful idiots like George and Amal Clooney and Tim Cook, to not point out the ever-present Soros darkish money.
The DOJ’s indictment in opposition to the SPLC alleges it bankrolled one of the leaders of the violent Charlottesville rally that Joe Biden claimed was his cause for operating for president in 2020.
The rally was very successfully weaponized in opposition to Trump in his first time period by selectively modifying his “very fine people” feedback to make it look as if he was praising neo-Nazis.
Biden’s White House reportedly met with SPLC officers a minimum of 11 occasions.
The DOJ’s investigation of the SPLC started during the Biden administration however was mysteriously dropped, Blanche mentioned.
Fancy that.
The SPLC was essentially the most virtuous of the Democrat NGOs, held up because the arbiter of all that was morally pure.
But with its demise comes a more delicate model, the Dignity Index.
It’s a Trojan horse to disarm Republicans earlier than the midterms.
Don’t be fooled again by the alluring siren tune of normalcy and dignity coming from the Dems in varied guises.
That was the promise of Joe Biden, and look how he labored out.
