The left despises the Trump White House. That will never change.
And the Trump admin was hit with a ruthless attack by Congressman Jeffries.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries took to the airwaves Thursday and decided the best defense is a wild offense. On MS NOW’s “The Briefing,” the New York Democrat labeled the Trump admin a pack of “extremists” and “radicals.”
That kind of talk lands with a thud when you line it up against what Vice President JD Vance actually said at the Republican midterm convention.
Vance told the crowd, “We’ve got to send a message this November that the country does not belong to the radicals. It does not belong to the bureaucrats. It does not belong to the highest bidder. This country was handed down to us by our parents and their parents before them. We received this national birthright, and we are going to fight for it by electing Republicans this November.”
Those words are straightforward. They talk about inheritance, duty, and keeping the nation out of the hands of people who treat it like a marketplace.
Yet the usual media chorus treated the speech as if Vance had just kicked over a beehive.
Jen Psaki, the former White House mouthpiece now hosting the MS NOW show, piled on.
“I mean, it’s so telling. It’s dark, it’s xenophobic, it’s so many things. What does it tell you that that is the message from the vice president of the United States, just over 50 days from an election?” she said.
Calling a defense of the American birthright “xenophobic” is the kind of stretch that only works if you start from the premise that patriotism itself is the problem.
Vance did not attack any ethnic group. He attacked the idea that unelected officials and well-connected donors get to run the place.
Jeffries kept the same script going. He claimed the Trump team has “no track record of accomplishment” and “no vision to actually solve the problems that the American people would like the Congress, the president and the vice president to solve.”
Then he added, “So, of course, he turns to trying to divide us further. The reality is, the extremists are the ones who are in control right now. The radicals are the ones who are part of the Trump cartel. They’ve been selling off the government to the highest bidder and unleashing this extraordinary level of corruption that we’ve seen in this country, which is why we’ve promised to begin to hold the crooks accountable starting on day one.”
Notice the pattern. Every time Republicans talk about taking the country back from distant elites, Democrats answer by insisting the real extremists are the people who just won the last election.
It is projection dressed up as analysis.
