This article was provided exclusively to the New York Analysis of Policy and Government by Judge John Wilson, (ret.)
If there is one socialist democrat who cannot keep a secret, it is New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio Cortes. Early in November, she issued this tweet – “Is anyone archiving these Trump sycophants for when they try to downplay or deny their complicity in the future?”
It didn’t take long for her fellow leftists to respond. Thanks to AOC’s question, the nation learned about the “Trump Accountability Project” – an effort, in the group’s own words, to “make sure those members of the Trump administration responsible for loosening the guardrails of our democracy are not rewarded with book deals, TV contracts, or six-figure salaries in the private sector based on that experience.”
Predictably, as described by the Federalist, “(t)he New York representative’s tweet received backlash from conservatives, with some comparing her suggestion to the actions of previous authoritarian socialist and communist regimes.”
Also predictably, the “Trump Accountability Project” privatized its list, and now claims that “in the spirit of the President-elect’s call to build a more united country, this project will no longer be active.”
Yet, the list still exists, and in a now-deleted response to AOC’s request, former Obama campaign staffer Michael Simon answered, “Yes we are…every Administration staffer, campaign staffer, bundler, lawyer who represented them- everyone.” Further, as noted by the Federalist, “(f)ollowing Simon’s tweet, others such as former national press secretary for the Democratic National Committee and former senior spokesman for the Obama presidential campaign Hari Sevugan as well as a former staffer for the Buttigieg Campaign Emily Abrams posted about the project, encouraging people to join their movement.”
The list makers have their supporters in the media. Jennifer Rubin of the Washington Post tweeted that “(a)ny R(epublican) now promoting rejection of an election or calling to not to follow the will of voters or making baseless allegations of fraud should never serve in office, join a corporate board, find a faculty position or be accepted into ‘polite’ society. We have a list.”
Another former Obama staffer, Scott Dworkin tweeted that “Trump’s entire legal team shouldn’t be allowed to practice law ever again.” Not to be left out of the list making and expose of Trump supporters, according to Fox News, in August, “Debra Messing has joined her ‘Will & Grace’ co-star Eric McCormack in calling for the names of Trump supporters in Hollywood who’ll be attending an upcoming fundraiser for President Trump to be outed.”
Hmmm…who else in history made lists of their enemies and retaliated against them after a transition of power?
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While not known for making specific lists of his enemies, Mao Zedong may have been more ruthless than Stalin when it came to eliminating those he believed did not fully agree with his attempts to remake China. In the late 1950’s, “when he sensed that revolutionary fervor in China was waning, Mao proclaimed the Cultural Revolution. Gangs of Red Guards — young men and women between 14 and 21 — roamed the cities targeting revisionists and other enemies of the state, especially teachers.
“Professors were dressed in grotesque clothes and dunce caps, their faces smeared with ink. They were then forced to get down on all fours and bark like dogs. Some were beaten to death, some even eaten — all for the promulgation of Maoism. A reluctant Mao finally called in the Red Army to put down the marauding Red Guards when they began attacking Communist Party members, but not before 1 million Chinese died.”
Yet, this history has not stopped many on the left from quoting, and openly admiring Mao. Current CNN commentator Van Jones famously resigned from the Obama Administration after Glenn Beck exposed his radical past, including the fact that “(i)n 1994, Mr. Jones was one of the founders of STORM, a Marxist-Leninist group whose hero was Chinese Communist dictator Mao Tse Tung.”
Even former Vice President Joe Biden has quoted Mao – when asked why he picked Kamala Harris as his running mate, he said “women hold up half the sky.” As reported in National Review, “Biden’s reference…is in fact a well-known proclamation that Mao made to promote women leaving the home amid the Cultural Revolution in China. It was then widely used as propaganda during the ‘Great Leap Forward.’”
Then there is the example of Fidel Castro. When he came to power in Cuba in 1959, promising reform, “(w)ithin months, Castro was imposing radical economic reforms. Members of the old government went before summary courts, and at least 582 were shot by firing squads over two years. Independent newspapers were closed and in the early years, homosexuals were herded into camps for ‘re-education.’”
Maybe you think these comparisons between Communist dictators and the words of Democratic party elected officials are “over the top” hyperbole. If so, listen to the words of David Atkins, a California member of the Democratic National Committee – “No seriously…how ‘do’ you deprogram 75 million people? Where do you start? Fox? Facebook?
Democrats are telling us what they plan to do under any Biden Administration – they are openly planning reprisals against members and supporters of the Trump Administration, and some form of re-education. Why are we not listening, and taking them at their word?
Illustration: Joseph Stalin (Pixabay)