In the Virginia race for Governor, the polls have been tightening as the Republican candidate shifts his focus from bland etherial government management issues and into culture war issues that people actually care about. To counter this progress, Democrats have focused less on issues and more on fear and personal smears, amplifying their attempts to focus the race as a referendum of the previous president who has been out of office for a year and on alleged dangers of racism that require Democrats in power to protect people from.
In service to this strategy, Democrats manufactured a white supremacist hoax to scare the electorate by playing on the “fine people” hoax – one of the most widely debunked hoaxes in history where a protest organized by conservatives was hijacked by a different group of racists. Groups like The Proud Boys smelled the hijacking and condemned it before it happened and forbid members from going but it was too late for all to get the memo and the protest between Democrats and Conservatives was crashed by terrorist Antifa members attacking people and a goofy march of racists who carried tiki torches and chanted “Jews will not replace us”. Following the debacle, Democrats and the corporate press invented a race hoax to smear the president by making the false claim that Trump called the racists “very fine people” despite him actually saying the opposite and condemning them several times, unprompted. The hoax was achieved by reporting Trump observing that there were “very fine people on both sides” of the Conservative and Democrat debate that comprised the original protest, but then editing out his following sentence from his remarks that went out of his way to clarify that he was not talking about racists of any kind and then condemned those groups. That was in 2017.
Now, in 2021, Democrats sought to rekindle the fear they successfully stoked with the 2017 hoax by having Democrat operatives dress like the 2017 race marchers, complete with tiki torches, and stand in front of the Republican candidate for Governors bus for photo ops in order to scare people into thinking that those wascally wacists are at it again and only an elected Democrat can keep us safe from them:
Charlie Olaf, McAuliffe’s social-media manager, wrote: “Disgusting reference to the 2017 Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville.”
Democratic strategist Max Burns claimed Youngkin’s campaign “counts white supremacists among its most enthusiastic supporters.”
The bet being made here was that the Charlottesville hoax was so successful that if the Democrats could suggest that the Republican candidate for governor in Virginia had a similar support base of people with bad views about race then that will terrify voters against that Republican.
The root of this tactic reveals how Democrats use fear of racism that isn’t actually prevalent as a way to trick vulnerable minds into voting them into power.
The fraud here also wasn’t just in putting the bait out there and trying to hook suckers that bit on it, either – part of the plan was to feign outrage over the bait they knew was fake in an attempt to create a larger buzz over the claim:
When the hoax was uncovered to have been orchestrated by the pro-war, anti-Trump Democrat group The Lincoln Project, the McAuliffe campaign finally “condemned the stunt” after they spent all day pushing it as proof of Youngkin’s racist ties.
After the uncovering, the main excuse was that the Lincoln Project was the sole party to blame and not the Democrats who helped push it – ignoring of course the ties and partnerships the Lincoln Project has with the Democrats in exactly these media stunts:
Corporate press to the rescue!
Corporate media outlets and their members that label themselves as journalists dutifully volunteered in spreading the false story without doing any acts of research, fact checking, or verification (eg: Journalism) and only some of them had the dignity to delete the lies when exposed.
MSNBC contributor Glenn Kirschner condemned the “blatant display of racism, hatred and intolerance,” urging Virginians to vote for McAuliffe, who represents a “kind, welcoming, diverse Virginia.”
Then there came the damage control spin. The first cover-up was to call the group “Republicans”, which is of course a total lie. It is true that the Lincoln Project was founded by *former* John McCain operative Republicans but the group is not just “anti-Trump” – it is a pro-war org that abandoned the Republican party completely when Trump shifted the platform away from the Bush Doctrine method of bombing and invasion that Biden has always supported and Democrats have followed into. The group endorses and campaigns for Democrats and against Republicans. It is in no way a Republican organization. Further: at least 3 of the people that were later identified as performers in the stunt are all Democrat party operatives that have never been Republicans or affiliated with any Republican organization.
Within 24 hours of the scandal, The Lincoln Project spokespeople were invited onto CNN not to be grilled on why they perpetrated such a cynical fraud and why they thought it was okay to attempt to fool voters in such an ugly lie – but to explain themselves in a piece so favorable to them, The Lincoln Project itself tweeted out the video as damage control:
Why does the corporate press help big government politicians in these ways? Edward Snowden tangentially explains with the observation that the “neo” factions of each party have merged:
Meanwhile, the grift of the Lincoln Project is failing every day, dying hour by hour, but remains alive with Democrat millions in support: