In Spain, over the weekend, lefties from around the world gathered to show everyone just how ineffective left-wing governance is and why they should all lose, every last one of them.
That wasn’t the declared reason behind the gathering, mind you; asReutersnoted, the actual cause for the meeting was ” to brainstorm ways to halt the rise of authoritarianism and win back voters who have drifted rightwards.”
“Spearheaded by Spain’s Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, whose outspoken opposition to U.S. President Trump’s foreign policy has boosted his image, the summit was buoyed by hopes that the far-right surge may have peaked, with Trump’s polling numbers falling, Hungary’s Victor Orbán ousted after 16 years in government and the French far-right underperforming in last month’s municipal elections,” Reuters noted in its report on the Global Progressive Mobilization conference in Barcelona last weekend.
Right, except that American presidents in their second term always face poll numbers that fall, Orbán’s defeat had more to do with a fellow right-winger successfully contending that his Fidesz party was too corrupt and had too much power for too long, and France’s right wing failed to make inroads in major cities. This end to the “far-right surge” was celebrated by folks like South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, who presides over a racially fractured, failing state that cannot provide basic needs, and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who is fighting corrupt authoritarianism by, uh, being acorruptauthoritarian. But for the left!
However, no presence was as preposterous as Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota — the onetime vice-presidential candidate who, as Fox News’ Greg Gutfeld pointed out, is the only governor in these 50 states to lose his jurisdiction to pirates.
Walz, who will not be running for a third term in the governor’s mansion due to a metastasizing scandal involving entitlement fraud in the state’s Somali community, painted a grim picture of a nation where authoritarianism was running rampant because immigration laws were being enforced, some media outlets weren’t as reflexively liberal as they used to be, and theSupreme Court wasn’t in left-wing hands anymore.
“Back in the United States, we’re seeing an alarming consolidation of power,” Walz said, according toThe Hill.
“A massive paramilitary force terrorizing our communities … a methodical weakening of our free press, of the independent judiciary, of fair elections and all other institutions of accountability.”
“We’ve got a feeble-minded, trigger-happy president who plunged us into a war where no threat was present, with no clear objectives and no exit plan,” he continued. “We need to call that what it is: that’s fascism. Or at least it’s fascist-curious, as they would be.”
That’s only “fascism” underInigo MontoyaSyndrome, but never mind. This speech was as ridiculous as you might expect, and Gutfeld managed a brutal dissection of it on Monday, calling him “in effect, a traitor.”
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