I had to chuckle when Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate (now Governor- elect) Abigail Spanberger recently used an arsonist analogy during an interview with PBS, in a tortured comparison between Donald Trump and a firebug.
Spanberger was responding to the PBS reporter's question, asking whether, as governor, Spanberger could work with President Trump to create jobs for Virginians. Spanberger answered, “I think that you don’t work with the arsonist who burns down the house to rebuild it. And, in this particular case, the individual who’s responsible for an absolute attack on the federal workforce is not the right person to help rebuild our economy.”
It is ironic that she referenced arson in her comments about Trump, only hours after her opponent's campaign bus went up in flames.
Now, I am not aware that the unfortunate immolation of Winsome Earle-Sears’ campaign bus was due to arson or that its source has yet been determined. Reportedly, the bus driver was the only person on board at the time of the fire. However, I did find it… interesting that the campaign bus of Lt. Gov. Earle-Sears, who was reportedly closing in on Ms. Spanberger in the polls at the time, just happened to ignite days before Election Day. Call me a conspiracy theorist if you must. It’s an occupational hazard. Too many years spent investigating real conspiracies.
As for Ms. Spanberger comparing President Trump to an arsonist, well, there’s nothing like a little rhetorical restraint when providing an answer to a policy question. Now that the worst has come to pass with Ms. Spanberger’s election, she may, in fact, have to work with the Trump administration in a few months on issues like employment. But then, Democrats aren't exactly known for measured, thoughtful pronouncements these days. (See, for example, my last column discussing the three "leading lights" of the Party of the Jackass and their “fight the oligarchy” rants.)
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And when Election Day actually arrived, what did we see? Oh my. Bomb threats were called in to (at least) seven polling locations in the state of New Jersey, site of the hotly disputed gubernatorial contest between Democratic candidate Mikie Sherrill and Republican candidate Jack Ciattarelli, in which Ciattarelli had hoped to return the state’s governorship to Republican control.
Nothing says desperation in a Democrat campaign like bomb threats. Yes, yes. I know. We have to wait for law enforcement to do its thing and identify the culprits before we assign blame to any particular political party. I'm just saying I would bet my next two months' salary on it being Democratic operatives playing games. Conservatives in modern times rarely engage in such tactics. Violence is almost exclusively the purview of the Party of the Jackass. See the “Summer of Love” of 2020 following the death of violent convicted felon George Floyd, who died of heart failure while resisting arrest and with fentanyl flooding his system. Or the incessant Antifa riots in places like Portland and Seattle. Or the anti-ICE riots of more recent vintage. All coming from the left.
But I actually took the bomb threats as a positive omen for Mr. Ciattarelli pulling out a win in that state's contest, as an indication the Democrats saw a bad outcome approaching.
I did have a flicker of hope for Ms. Earle-Sears winning here in Virginia when I saw the Democrats drag Barack Obama down to stump for Abigail Spanberger and the homicide-fantasizing Democratic candidate for Attorney General, Jay Jones. I laughed out loud when Barack Obama said the Republicans represented "dark times," when he was promoting candidate Jones, who literally texted a colleague that he wished someone would put two bullets in the head of a Republican political opponent due to their policy differences.
Then there's the issue of the famously racialist Obama plumping for the white liberal Abigail Spanberger over the black immigrant Winsome Earle-Sears. How does that square with Barack's worldview of advancing blacks in politics?
One thing our country must come to grips with very soon is the upsurge in violence as a form of political expression. As noted above, the vast majority of this violence is coming from the left. Polls show violence is considered acceptable by a shockingly large number of those who identify as liberal, with a quarter of those who call themselves “very liberal” saying political violence can be justified, as opposed to just three percent of those identified as “very conservative” saying the same.
And just yesterday, we had the story of Democratic candidate for the Helena, Montana City Commission, Haley McKnight, leaving a horrifying voice mail message for Republican Senator Tim Sheehy, saying, “I hope that you die like a dog in the street.” The minute-long audio clip by Ms. McKnight almost gives Jay Jones a run for his money in outrageous messaging.
The present era harkens back to the bitterness our country saw in the years before the Civil War commenced. Let’s hope we find a different path forward in the coming years. Alas, now that my state has an Attorney General-elect in Jay Jones, who fantasizes about killing his Republican opponents and wishes cops would die, I am not optimistic.
William F. Marshall has been an intelligence analyst and investigator in the government, private, and non-profit sectors for 39 years. He is a senior investigator for Judicial Watch, Inc., and has been a contributor to Townhall, American Thinker, Epoch Times, The Federalist, American Greatness, and other publications. His work has been featured on CBS News 48 Hours and NBC News Dateline. (The views expressed are the author’s alone, and not necessarily those of Judicial Watch.)
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