Leftists often claim that when someone of celebrity status appears with Donald Trump, it gives Trump "legitimacy." This is the common rationale they use to justify their insane cult-like behavior - Their habit of using mobs of mindless activist zombies in order to frighten people with status away from openly identifying as conservative. The truth is, the political left is a paper tiger, an astroturf movement with no power, blustering with false bravado.
In reality, celebrities do not give Trump legitimacy. His landslide election victory gives him legitimacy.
The radical left is a one trick pony, constantly repeating the same lies and exaggerations in the belief that if they lie long enough those lies will eventually become part of the popular zeitgeist. For example, a white sports star has a positive interaction with Trump and the progressive media conjures a narrative that he is alienating his minority team mates because shaking hands with Trump is the same as shaking hands with "racism."
This tiresome strategy is being used once again on New York Giants quarterback Jaxson Dart after he appeared on stage with Trump at a New York political rally. Leftist journalists assert that Dart shaking hands with Trump is the same as shaking hands with Hitler. The engineered controversy led to a couple of the QB's teammates expressing discomfort over the event.
Thankfully, the opinions of Dart's teammates are meaningless and he has every right to stand on stage with whoever he pleases. At present, it seems as though other Giants players understand that they don't have to align politically in order to play a football game.
Linebacker Abdul Carter (a Muslim) initially voiced discomfort with the optics of the event, according to multiple reports. Dart said he discussed the issue directly with Carter and brushed off any rumors about beef between the two players. For those who don't like Dart's promotional appearances, frankly they can shut up and stew in their salty snowflake juices about it.
The media, though, is never going to shut up about it because their job is to create controversy out of thin air.
Some outlets think Dart needs to be cancelled (as if the political left has any power to cancel anyone anymore). Sports media siteSB Nation claimsthat Dart's freedom to meet publicly with Trump does not mean he has the freedom to avoid "criticism" (persecution). It's the same incessant woke argument of "cancel culture vs consequence culture."
Their version of events displays an insufferable seething; something that might have been more familiar back in 2020. One has to wonder, do these people ever grow out of their childish delusions of grandeur? And the answer is no, no they do not. But we still examine such left-wing crash-outs because they give us insight into the thought processes of progressive authoritarians. As SB Nation asserts:
"Freedom is pretty great, isn’t it? Here in the United States we love to talk about freedom. The people who love to talk about it the most, who bathe in the idea of American exceptionalism, tend to be those who rarely (if ever) travel abroad. They love to speak about the world in platitudes, always through the lens that the God-loving USA is free, and nowhere else is. It’s a refrain the majority of Western foreigners find hilarious. Folks in the U.K? They’re free. Europe? Free as well. Australia, Canada, New Zealand — yeah, they’re free.
Source: ZeroHedge News
