By Adam Walker
Wednesday, August 03, 2016
While I will never pull the lever for a Donald Trump or
Pantsuit presidency, I may be beginning to understand some of what motivates a
Trump voter. The hypocrisy of the Obama administration, the Clinton campaign,
and just about every mainstream media outlet in America was laid bare this week
for anyone with a memory or the ability to conduct an honest Google search.
Just as the Democratic convention in Philadelphia was
being gaveled in last week, leaders of that party were exposed, through the
hostile act of Russian cyber-espionage (and their partners at Wikileaks), to
have worked to ensure Clinton had the backing of the Democratic National
Committee throughout her fight with Bernie Sanders for the party’s nomination.
While the now-marooned inhabitants of Bernieland were appalled at this, anyone
without a Pollyanna view of politics really wasn’t that surprised the DNC of
2016 was hell-bent on catapulting a Pantsuit through the glass ceiling.
After clutching their pearls over Russia’s actions, the
Left and the mainstream media grew weak in the knees and fainted at the thought
of those terrible Russkies. Unfortunately, they completely missed the fainting
couch on their way down. The entire American Left hit its head on the floor and
now has amnesia about having passively enabled a rising Russia over the last
several years.
What Obama’s
Russia Policy Hath Wrought
The Left’s litany of denial on Russian ascendency has
been laundry-listed by many a conservative media outlet this week, but I feel
obligated to hit a couple of the highlights. The Obama administration prided
itself on believing every other country would see the light of Barack Obama’s
halo in 2008 and change their ways, especially Russia. Upon assuming office,
they offered Russia a diplomatic “reset,” because why not?
After paring down our alliances in Eastern Europe and our
leading role in NATO with several measures aimed at appeasing Vlad the Putin (a
policy Obama is finally reversing), Obama was caught on hot mic telling Putin’s
fluffer Dimitri Medvedev that he’d have “more flexibility” to negotiate after
the 2012 election.
Then came everyone on the Left’s favorite moment of the
2012 presidential debates, when Obama hit opponent Mitt Romney with that siiiiiick burn about
getting his foreign policy from the 1980s when Romney dared to suggest Russia
was our primary geopolitical foe. Obama’s “burn” and the media’s rush to laud
it was confirmation for many and a harbinger for some that the majority of the
Left had no idea what the word “geopolitical” meant and that an unchecked
Russia was beginning to destabilize the present world order.
Obama’s reelection was soon followed by an arbitrary red
line in Syria that left a power vacuum in the Middle East Russia was thrilled
to fill, and by Russia’s not-so-peaceful takeover of pieces of Ukraine. Never
mind that a Russian missile system brought down a passenger jet carrying 283
souls, either, this was all just a small glitch in the Pax Obama Matrix.
Somewhere in there, Oliver Stone’s latest hero “fled” to Russia after selling
out the American intelligence community. It was merely a coincidence that
Moscow is where Edward Snowden landed, and Moscow has reaped the most benefits
from his betrayal.
Now That Russia
Threatens Democrats, It Matters
Throughout the last four years, the vast majority of the
Left and their friends in the media have downplayed the growing threat posed by
Russia and Obama’s feckless foreign policy as a whole. Why? Well, you don’t
want to talk foreign policy and its failures when Obama’s one-time chief
Pantsuited diplomat is running for his third term. But there is one way the
Left can finally call Russia a threat to America, and that is if they find out
the Russians are responsible for an attack on—wait for it—the Democratic Party!
Yes, now that our government has identified Russia as
responsible for the cyber-attacks against the DNC, Russia is being recognized
for the actual geopolitical foe Romney called them. While they carved up
Ukraine, sheltered Snowden, destroyed any semblance of a Russian free press,
exploited a Syrian civil war that has killed hundreds of thousands of innocent
people, incited a refugee crisis that is pushing the European Union to its
limits, and flexed their thuggish muscles wherever and whenever possible, it
was not until they threatened the election of America’s first Pantsuit that
Russia finally became a geopolitical foe in the eyes of America’s Left.
While Trump is no foe of Russia, such a naked example of
hypocrisy (and there are plenty more beyond Obama’s Russian mismanagement)
likely motivates many of his voters. Yet in that motivation lies more
hypocrisy—you cannot be enraged at Obama’s handling of Russia, then turn around
and vote for Trump, who has endorsed their cyber-espionage, praised Putin and
his ilk, and even shared advisors with him.
In short, 2016 is absolutely awful, and that’s why I’m
voting for SMOD.
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