The Democrats claim to want to ‘return to civility.’ But when did they practice it? If you are going to return to something don’t you have to have gone there first? Larry Elder has written a piece that makes this point.
After Biden’s election, Biden, Democrats, and the media are urging a “return to civility.” But when did the Democrats practice the civility to which they seek to return? Follow me as we stroll down memory lane:
H/T Larry Elder
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- Barry Goldwater accepted the 1964 Republican nomination. California’s Democratic Gov. Pat Brown said, “The stench of fascism is in the air.” Democrat civility…
- Former Rep. William Clay Sr., D-Mo., said President Ronald Reagan was “trying to replace the Bill of Rights with fascist precepts lifted verbatim from ‘Mein Kampf.'” Democrat civility…
- Coretta Scott King, in 1980, said, “I am scared that if Ronald Reagan gets into office, we are going to see more of the Ku Klux Klan and a resurgence of the Nazi Party.” Democrat civility…
- After Republicans took control of the House in the mid-’90s. Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., compared the newly conservative-majority House to “the Duma and the Reichstag…” referring to the legislature set up by Czar Nicholas II of Russia and the parliament of the German Weimar Republic that brought Hitler to power. Democrat civility…
- About President George Herbert Walker Bush… Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., said: “I believe (Bush) is a racist for many, many reasons. … (He’s) a mean-spirited man who has no care or concern about what happens to the African American community. … I truly believe that.” Democrat civility…
- About the Republican-controlled House… Longtime Harlem Democratic Rep. Charlie Rangel, in 1994, said: “It’s not ‘s—-‘ or ‘n——-‘ anymore. (Republicans) say, ‘Let’s cut taxes.'” A decade later, Rangel said, “George (W.) Bush is our Bull Connor,” referring to the Birmingham, Alabama, Democrat segregationist superintendent of public safety who sicced dogs and turned fire hoses on civil rights workers. Democrat civility…
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- Donna Brazile, Al Gore’s presidential campaign manager, in 1999, said: Republicans have a “white boy attitude, (which means) ‘I must exclude, denigrate and leave behind.’ They don’t see it or think about it. It’s a culture.” The following year, Brazile said: “The Republicans bring out Colin Powell and (Rep.) J.C. Watts, (R-Okla.), because they have no program, no policy. … They’d rather take pictures with Black children than feed them.” Democrat civility…
- About President George W. Bush, former Vice President Al Gore said: “(Bush’s) executive branch has made it a practice to try and control and intimidate news organizations, from PBS to CBS to Newsweek. … And every day, they unleash squadrons of digital brownshirts to harass and hector any journalist who is critical of the President.” Digital “brownshirts”? Democrat civility…
- About George W. Bush, George Soros, the billionaire Democratic donor, said: “The Bush administration and the Nazi and communist regimes all engaged in the politics of fear. … Indeed, the Bush administration has been able to improve on the techniques used by the Nazi and communist propaganda machines.” Democrat civility…
- Former NAACP Chairman Julian Bond, in a 2006 speech at historically Black Fayetteville State University said, “The Republican Party would have the American flag and the swastika flying side by side.” Democrat civility…
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- Former Gov. Howard Dean, chairman of the Democratic National Committee in 2005, described the contest between Democrats and Republicans as “a struggle between good and evil. And we’re the good.” Three years later, Dean referred to the GOP as “the white party.” Democrat civility…
- After Hurricane Katrina, Democratic Missouri Senate candidate Claire McCaskill said George W. Bush “let people die on rooftops in New Orleans because they were poor and because they were Black.” Democrat civility…
- Feminist super lawyer Gloria Allred, in 2001, referred to Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice as “Uncle Tom types.” Democrat civility…
- Then-Sen. Hillary Clinton, in 2006, said, “The (Republican-controlled) House of Representatives … has been run like a plantation. And you know what I’m talking about.” Democrat civility…
- Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Democratic National Committee chairwoman in 2011, said “Republicans … want to literally drag us all the way back to Jim Crow laws.” Democrat civility…
Again, exactly when did Democrats practice the “civility” to which they wish to return? From the 1960s to today incivility has had a home there and its leaders have something in common. And again, thank you to Larry Elder for his compilation of this list.
Larry Elder is a bestselling author and nationally syndicated radio talk show host.
