BY TYLER O'NEIL | PJ MEDIA
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In a lengthy and revealing Twitter
thread, Darryl Cooper, host of The MartyrMade Podcast, recounted his
understanding of the “Boomer-tier Trump supporters who believe the 2020
election was fraudulent,” the perspective of “most of the people at the Capitol
on 1/6.” He did not endorse the Capitol riot or the claims that the election
had been stolen, but he did highlight how so many Trump supporters reach that
conclusion.
How did the very people who pride themselves on their
pocket Constitutions end up storming the Capitol on January 6? The story goes
back to the 2016 election.
First, Cooper noted that “The FBI spied on the 2016 Trump
campaign using evidence manufactured by the Clinton campaign,” namely the
Steele dossier, which FBI officials knew was fake and uncorroborated. Those
involved in the Russiagate scandal — FBI Director James Comey, CIA Director
James Brennan, Democrats like Adam Schiff — “were on TV saying they’d seen
clear evidence of collusion w/Russia, while admitting under oath behind closed
doors that they hadn’t.”
While many Trump supporters at first “were worried there
must be some collusion, because every media & intel agency wouldn’t make it
up out of nothing,” when the truth of the story came out, “people expected a
reckoning, and [they] shed many illusions about their government when it didn’t
happen.”
“The [Department of Justice], press, & gov’t
destroyed lives and actively subverted an elected admin,” Cooper related. This
massive public betrayal led “people whose political identity was largely
defined by a naive belief in what they learned in Civic class” to “see the
outline of a Regime that crossed all institutional boundaries.”
“It’s hard to describe to people on the left (who are
used to thinking of gov’t as a conspiracy… Watergate, COINTELPRO, WMD, etc) how
shocking & disillusioning this was for people who encourage their sons to
enlist in the Army, and hate ppl who don’t stand for the Anthem,” Cooper added.
Many Trump supporters “don’t know for certain whether
ballots were faked in November 2020, but they know for absolute certain that
the press, the FBI, etc would lie to them if” it happened. “They watched the
press behave like animals for four years. Tens of millions of people will
always see Kavanaugh as a gang rapist, based on nothing, because of CNN. And
CNN seems proud of that. They led a lynch mob against a high school kid. They
cheered on a summer of riots.”
Then Democratic officials took advantage of the COVID-19
pandemic to change voting procedures. “After the collusion scam, the fake
impeachment, Trump ppl expected shenanigans by now,” Cooper argued. “Then you
get the Hunter [Biden] laptop scandal. Big Tech ran a full-on censorship
campaign against a major newspaper to protect a political candidate.”
Cooper tellingly contrast the Hunter Biden laptop story
with the Steele dossier.
“Stories about Trump being pissed on by Russian
prostitutes and blackmailed by Putin were promoted as fact, and the only
evidence was a document paid for by his opposition and disavowed by its source.
The NY Post was banned for reporting on true information,” he noted.
“The reaction of Trump ppl to all this was not, ‘no
fair!’ That’s how they felt about Romney’s ‘binders of women’ in 2012. This is
different. Now they see, correctly, that every institution is captured by ppl
who will use any means to exclude them from the political process,” Cooper
argued. “And yet they showed up in record numbers to vote. He got 13m more
votes than in 2016, 10m more than Clinton got! As election night dragged on,
they allowed themselves some hope. But when the four critical swing states (and
only those states) went dark at midnight, they knew.”
Cooper noted that many “grifters and media scam artists”
sold Trump supporters “conspiracy theories” after the election, but the legacy
media and Big Tech made things worse. “Everything about the election was
strange – the changes to procedure, unprecedented mail-in voting, the delays,
etc – but rather than admit that and make everything transparent, they banned
discussion of it.”
“If everything about the election dispute was the same,
except the parties were reversed, suspicions about the outcome would’ve been
Taken Very Seriously. See 2016 for proof,” Cooper argued.
To recap, Trump supporters saw an entrenched bureaucracy
subvert Trump’s administration from day 1, with the support of an extremely
hostile legacy media. They saw the media demonize conservatives at every turn,
from Brett Kavanaugh to Nick Sandmann to Amy Coney Barrett. They saw Democrats
and the media wink at political violence during the Black Lives Matter and
antifa riots last year.
Then, in the 2020 election, they saw the Democrat-media
complex collude to pull the levers behind the scenes by changing election
rules and funneling money into blue areas. They saw Big Tech and the legacy
media work overtime to bury the legitimate Hunter Biden story, and they saw Big
Tech work to silence all questions about the legitimacy of mail-in voting.
None of this is to justify the rioters who physically
attacked the Capitol, who deserve to be condemned and prosecuted in the same
manner as antifa and Black Lives Matter rioters who burned businesses to the
ground and attacked federal courthouses. The Capitol riot was a disgrace, though it was not an “insurrection,” and even though many
of those at the Capitol on January 6 truly were peaceful protesters.
Yet the Capitol riot represented the outcry of Americans
who lost all hope in the electoral process, the U.S. government’s dedication to
justice, and the media’s dedication to the truth. During the Trump years, many
conservatives became so disillusioned with the system that they started
thinking there was a Regime that used outright lies to undermine Trump and
silence the will of the people.
After the Capitol riot, the signs may have only gotten
worse. Now, the legacy media is denying that Marxist critical race theory (CRT)
is a threat to the education of children. The Biden administration is pushing
CRT in education, in the military, and throughout society. The Biden efforts
against “extremism” in the military and against “domestic
terrorism” in America seem targeted at conservatives — and Facebook has started its
own campaign against “extremism,” eerily echoing the
administration.
Meanwhile, companies and institutions are going “Woke”
with alacrity. It’s not just Hollywood pushing every leftist agenda in films
and television, anymore. Not only does the legacy media continue to deny any
concerns about the 2020 election, but it is echoing Democrats’ absurd rhetoric
condemning election integrity laws as “Jim Crow on Steroids,” and corporations
are following suit. Major League Baseball pulled the All-Star Game out of Georgia because of a
mild election integrity law that imposed far fewer voter restrictions than
Biden’s home state of Delaware.
Corporate PACs are blacklisting Republicans who voted to contest the 2020
election, despite the fact that these same Republicans condemned the Capitol
riot and despite the fact that Democrats contested the election 4 years before and suggested that there should be “uprisings
all over the country” in 2020.
I have vociferously opposed political violence, and the
Democrats’ horrific double standard on the Capitol riot is beyond the pale.
Democrats act as though the Capitol riot represented a 9/11-level threat. Biden called it “the worst attack on our democracy
since the Civil War.” Yet Democrats treated the thugs who burned down buildings
(occasionally with people inside) during the George Floyd riots with kid
gloves, condemning police for supposedly overreacting to “peaceful protests.”
These horrendous lies and double standards are the last
things that Republicans who have lost their faith in the fairness of elections,
in the justice of the government, and in the modicum of truth they still
expected from the media need to see. Oftentimes, it feels as though every
institution in America is ganging up to crush conservatives under its boot.
If this relentless assault on conservative values does
not stop, it will awaken a sleeping giant. I fervently pray that the backlash
will take place at school board meetings, city council meetings, and the ballot
box, rather than in acts of political violence like the Capitol riot. My fellow
conservatives cannot afford to prove the Left’s heinous lies about our
“extremism” correct. No, we have to win by following the rules of the game —
but I sincerely fear that the Left is doing everything it can to pound us down
until we do something we cannot take back.
