Circular Logic

I'm right because you are wrong and you are wrong because I am right.

Over on PJ Media, Charlie Martin writes about the “Trump MUST be wrong” media, a media that approaches everything about Trump from the angle of “If Trump said it, it must be wrong!”

I would put another spin on it.

As it turns out, “Trump must be wrong” is a Swiss Army knife phrase the Democrats and their allies in the media use differently depending on the situation. It is usually one of these three:

• A declaration, as in “Trump must be wrong because he is absolutely, unequivocally incorrect.”

• A self-affirmation: as in “We are right because Trump must be wrong.”

• A question: as in “Trump must be wrong because we can’t be, right?”

If I ranked those by intended usage and interpretation, I would give the first about 10% (because Trump does say wrong things sometimes), the second about 20% (because the media uses Trump as a gauge of their “correctness”) and the last one garners the remaining 70% (because for them to be legitimate, they must find ways to make Trump wrong).

A large part of our issues in America can be laid at the feet of the media.

Not because of what they did (and continue to do) to Trump and his supporters, because they use this Swiss Army knife on everything with which they disagree or in which they find one scintilla of opposition.

The jokes that we need to create more conspiracy theories because we are rapidly running out and that the “far right” should just be called the right because of our proven accuracy over time are, unfortunately, not jokes.

I recall an obscure article about public opinion organizations working for the Democrat Party during the Biden aborted campaign and then the Harris campaign complaining they couldn’t focus group certain positions and actions the candidates and the party supported because people in the focus groups did not believe what they were being told was real! There were similar complaints from Democrat and independent polling firms who found that when the public was made aware of policy outcomes and things Democrats supported (like transgender “gender affirming” surgeries for little kids), some of the people in the selected poll samples 1) thought what they were told was simply too ridiculous to be real, or 2) they had never heard of those things (that were real), or 3) they were getting massively punked.

Such responses would have set off alarm bells when the party leadership was told that people simply did not believe what they were being told was real, but it did not (even though they were real), or they would have reacted and made a course correction.

But the Democrats were so deep ion their own crap and so cocksure of their own righteousness, they blamed the pollsters and eventually, the people, for not seeing how right and brilliant they were. If people expressed any doubt that a transgender woman was the same as a biological female, you were a bigot and therefore, a Trumper.

Over time, Democrats have developed an operating system based in circular logic. In a way, the development hit the fast track when Obama ran and they decided that if anyone opposed Obama, they were a racist and that racism was the only reason to oppose him. What resulted came into full flower during the 2024 campaign as is a way of thinking with no basis in fact, truth, or reality, only that they are right because Democrats believe Trumpers are wrong and Trumpers are wrong simply because Democrats believe they are right.

Of course, this is something that is extremely dangerous when Democrats are in power, but it also has the potential to keep them out of power (if they don’t change and come back to reality).

I for one, hope they never change.