The Democrats are not taking the indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) well. At all.
The media have worked overtime to frame what the SPLC allegedly did — essentially sending money to extremist groups in order to keep them afloat so the SPLC could "combat hatred" — as merely paying informants to infiltrate said groups.
That argument doesn't hold up under scrutiny, of course. Law enforcement does that sort of investigative work, and the SPLC is anything but.
Democrats, on the other hand, are arguing this is a weaponization of government, as House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said, somehow managing to do so with a straight face. Senator Adam Schiff, on the other hand, said it's an attempt by the Trump administration to continue defending white supremacists.
Both of those arguments are hilarious, of course. For starters, the Democrats weaponized the government against not only President Trump, but parents, veterans, Catholics, and pro-lifers — all of whom they labeled either "white supremacists" or "domestic terrorists." The Biden administration weaponized the FACE Act in collaboration with abortion groups to throw pro-lifers behind bars fo years. Because in the Democrats' America, burning cities to the ground in a riot isn't a crime, but protesting outside an abortion clinic is.
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Some groups, like Moms for Liberty and Turning Point USA, were classified by the SPLC as "hate groups." The Family Research Council was listed as a hate group, too, and in 2012, Floyd Lee Corkins tried to shoot the place up.
With everything, of course, the Democrats' cries of "weaponization!" are projection. It's as simple as that. For years, the Left cited the SPLC as the gospel when it came to identifying hate groups; it didn't matter if the accusation was true or not. The Left gave the SPLC some blanket moral authority to declare any group they simply didn't like as a "hate group," and then Democrats cited the SPLC as if it were the authority on the issue.
Not too terribly long ago, Jamie Raskin was doing just that, citing the SPLC as vital in the Democrats' fight against white supremacy and attacking President Trump for undermining the corrupt, biased group.
Just four months ago, Jamie Raskin was lecturing America about how the SPLC needs to be relied upon to fight white supremacy —
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— and railing against Trump for wanting to "undermine” the work they do.
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"Now in other times, Democrats and Republicans alike would rely on the Southern Poverty Law Center to help us keep track of the movements of violent white supremacy in the country," Raksin said.
"The Southern Poverty Law Center's been a vigilant voice in civil society against radical white nationalist violence and extremism, neonazism, and other forces across the political spectrum that spread organized hate from any quarter," Raskin continued. "The President, however, wants to undermine civil society organizations and reduce our ability to defend ourselves against the virus of racial violence."
First and foremost, this proves the Democrats' need for racist boogeymen far outweighs the nation's supplies.
Read between the lines on this. Much in the same way that the Biden administration used abortion organizations to target pro-lifers and Christians, they used the SPLC to target any groups with whom they disagreed politically, under the guise of fighting "white supremacy." There's a reason Joe Biden made the argument that "white supremacy" was the biggest threat to national security and not the droves of unvetted illegal aliens spilling over our borders, including Chinese spies and Islamic terrorists.
The SPLC had a very broad umbrella for what it described as "hate," and that's by design. Including anyone who doesn't toe the Left's ideological line is why Moms for Liberty, TPUSA, and the Family Research Council — among others — were on their list of "hate groups." None of them did anything violent or dangerous, but were included solely because of ideology.
The SPLC did not include BLM, which burned cities to the ground, or Antifa, which harasses law enforcement and assaults journalists, in its list of hate groups, despite lengthy and well-documented histories of violence. As I always say, that's (D)ifferent.
Given the fact that the Democrats, including Susan Rice, J.B. Pritzker, and others were looking towards 2026 and beyond with an eye to punishing anyone and everyone who supported or worked with President Trump, it's safe to assume the SPLC would have played a major role in that weaponization. They would have listed whomever they wanted, whatever groups the Democrats wanted to destroy, and the Democrats would have had a roadmap to destroying all of their enemies. It's a scary thought.
But now the Trump administration is in the process of, hopefully, dismantling all of it, they're in full-blown panic mode.
