Ex-press secretary Psaki is a poster-child for the belief among partisan Democrats that any challenge to their political power is by definition beyond the bounds of reasonable opinion.
Sunday morning on NBC, former Biden White House Communications Director Jen Psaki, now a host on MSNBC, made an extraordinary and inflammatory demand.
Looking ahead to the GOP Convention in Milwaukee that begins on Monday, she claimed that «Unless the programming changes, the rhetoric and how the programming is set up is not actually calming the tone, or restoring civility.»
She then issued a veiled threat: «We’ll see if that programming changes but if it stays the same, that is escalating it. It is not a civil approach to a convention.»
First of all, what is she even talking about?
The «programming» that Psaki seems to think is so unacceptably lacking in civility consists of four themes: ‘Make America Wealthy Again’, ‘Make America Safe Once Again’, ‘Make America Strong Once Again’, and on the final day, ‘Make America Great Once Again.’
How on earth is any of that «escalating» the situation she was commenting on — the attempted assassination of President Trump? It is a preposterous thing for Psaki to have said.
How does she know what «the rhetoric» will be? Is Psaki secretly writing the remarks of the Republican speakers?
Let’s assume no bad faith on her part. But let’s also be clear what her ludicrous statements unintentionally reveal: the belief among partisan Democrats that any challenge to their political power is by definition beyond the bounds of reasonable opinion.
And an eerie echo from history tells us why.
On October 12th, 1984, a terror organization, the Irish Republican Army, tried to assassinate British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
