I think maybe it is time for Dems to add to their messaging that they are the true party of law and order in America.
While Trump and the right-wing noise machine with Fox in the lead have been just as loud, repetitive and deceptive as Putin’s propaganda factory in trying to tear the FBI down, Democrats like Adam Schiff, who wrote today’s memo showing the FBI did everything by the book in getting FISA warrants on Carter Page, are restoring its credibility.
DEMS defend the honour and professionalism of a law-enforcement agency that is duty-bound to stay out of the political sphere and so cannot defend itself, while REPUBLICANS, in concert with a hostile foreign power, attack it.
There’s no way the GOP should be able to continue their traditional claim of being the party of law and order unchallenged. Not while Devin Nunes abuses his power as head of the House Intelligence Committee to cherry-pick classified info for anti-FBI propaganda memos. Not while Trump attacks the FBI for being corrupt. Not while the right-wing noise machine absurdly blames the Parkland massacre on the FBI being too busy investigating the Trump-Russia connection.
That GOP “law and order” branding needs to be exposed as a total scam being delivered by a cabal of crooks… the size of the cabal is yet to be proven by Mueller, but the broadsides against the FBI have “consciousness of guilt” written all over them—and so, serve as evidence themselves.
It’s the crooks who try to discredit the cops.
I remember, after James Comey delivered the disastrous letter about Hillary’s emails shortly before the election, no Dems attacked the FBI itself. Even here on Daily Kos, we certainly castigated Comey himself, and rogue elements within the FBI. But not the FBI itself. Even though that letter arguably gave Trump the election.
We had too much respect for the FBI to do that.
The GOP and its propagandists locally and in Moscow, on the other hand, talk as if they want to destroy it entirely. Because they do, if that is what it takes to keep their criminal asses out of jail.
Through actions such as Schiff’s today, the Democratic Party is proving itself to be the true party of law and order in the USA.
Put that out there in a big way, Dems!
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