Posts Tagged ‘Deroy Murdock’

Deroy Murdock Isn’t Having Your Critical Race Theory BS

Monday, May 24th, 2021

Deroy Murdock is less than impressed with Critical Race Theory:

Critical race theory may be the Democrat left’s filthiest, ugliest big lie. It defines America as inherently and irredeemably bigoted, denounces all whites as racial oppressors, and diminishes all blacks as racially oppressed victims.

Lies, lies, lies.

The third lie is the worst.

Black Lives Matter, the “diversity” police, and other “systemic racism”-mongers relentlessly claim that white privilege and white supremacy blockade black success. Blacks think, “Yes, we can.” The Democrat left replies: “No, you can’t.”

Last June, Seattle staged something called Interrupting Internalized Racial Superiority and Whiteness. This segregated brainwashing program for white municipal workers accused them of rendering people of color “unable to imagine a way forward that comes from a place of humanity and empowerment.”

So, blacks are paralyzed victims, as helpless as butterflies ensnared in a tarantula’s web of white racism.

< That Guy > Tarantulas do build webs, but typically not to ensnare pray. < /That Guy >

This frightful fantasy is concocted to leave blacks cold and scared—all the better to swaddle them in the warm, loving arms of the left. Ultimately, like every Democrat effort, this is about getting elected, retaining power, and controlling Americans as tightly as possible.

If this cleaves America like a log split by an ax, so be it. If whites must be vilified unfairly as bigots—to a man, woman, and child—who cares?

And if blacks feel not empowered but enfeebled within an alleged whirlpool of white hate, then too bad. The Democrat left’s insatiable thirst for political domination must be quenched, by all means necessary.

Snip.

These “anti-racist” racists are serving social cancer from huge, boiling cauldrons. They are ladling defeatism into the bowls of black people and sickening the entire nation with their evil stew.

They must be ridiculed, shunned, defunded, and dismantled.

Read the whole thing.

(Hat tip: Director Blue.)

Just How Badly Democrats Have Done Under Obama

Saturday, December 24th, 2016

You’ve read examples of this piece before, but Deroy Murdock offers up a particularly tasty example of the genre:

As Obama concludes his reign of error, his party is smaller, weaker, and more rickety than it has been since at least the 1940s. Behold the tremendous power that Democrats have frittered away — from January 2009 through the aftermath of Election Day 2016 — thanks to Obama and his ideas:

Democrats surrendered the White House to political neophyte Donald J. Trump.

U.S. Senate seats slipped from 55 to 46, down 16 percent.

U.S. House seats slid from 256 to 194, down 24 percent.

Democrats ran the U.S. Senate and House in 2009. Next year, they will control neither.

Governorships fell from 28 to 16, down 43 percent.

State legislatures (both chambers) plunged from 27 to 14, down 48 percent.

Trifectas (states with Democratic governors and both legislative chambers) cratered from 17 to 6, down 65 percent.

Since Franklin Delano Roosevelt, eight U.S. presidents have served at least two terms or bowed to their vice-presidents due to death or resignation. Among them, Obama ranks eighth in total state legislative seats that his party preserved during his tenure. Obama has supervised the net loss of 959 such Democratic positions, down 23.5 percent, according to Ballotpedia, which generated most of the data cited here. This far outpaces the 843 net seats that Republicans yielded under President Dwight David Eisenhower.

By this measure, Ronald Reagan is No. 1. While he was president, Republicans gained six statehouse seats.

In terms of boosting his party’s state-level strength, Obama is the worst president since World War II. Reagan is the best.

For even more shocking proof of Obama’s political toxicity across his entire tenure, compare the Democrats’ eight-year net loss of 959 statehouse seats (one post higher than in the graph above, thanks to a subsequently called race) with the Republicans’ net gain of 934 seats. Democrats can chant the soothing lie that this wholesale, multi-level rejection of their party stems from “structural racism,” the legacy of Jim Crow, the immortal tentacles of slavery, or whatever other analgesic excuse they can scrounge up. The same nation that they claim cannot outgrow its bigotry somehow elected and then reelected Obama, quite comfortably. Hillary Clinton is many things, but she is not black. “Racism” does not explain her defeat.

This deep-rooted repudiation is not of Obama himself, but of Obamaism, today’s Democratic gospel.

At home, Obamaism features economic stagnation, morbidly obese and equally dysfunctional government, racial and identity fetishism, and rampant political correctness. Overseas: Shame at American preeminence fuels flaccid “leadership from behind.”

All told, 1,043 federal and state-level Democrats lost or were denied power under Obama, largely because Americans grew disgusted by such outrages as a non-stimulating $831 billion “stimulus,” eight consecutive years of economic growth below 3 percent, an 88 percent increase in the national debt, the revocation of America’s triple-A bond rating, and Obamacare’s epic flop ($2.3 trillion to finance widespread insurance-policy cancellations, 20 bankruptcies among 24 state co-ops, early retirements for experienced but exasperated doctors, and much more). Also nauseating: federal nano-management of everything from dishwashers to third-grade lunches to a national school-shower policy.

Read the whole thing.

Rick Perry Speech Gets Rave Reviews at the Republican Leadership Conference (with video)

Monday, June 20th, 2011

Saturday Rick Perry gave his speech to the Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans, and he’s getting lots of rave reviews, further fueling speculation that he’ll make a Presidential run:

  • Here’s one from San Antonio.
  • Here’s one from the Philadelphia Inquirer.
  • Even the Statesman piece is mostly respectful.
  • He’s even attracting notice as far away as London, in the pages of England’s leading lefty newspaper, The Guardian.
  • Jay Root of the Texas Tribune puts in his two cents.
  • Carl M. Cannon on Real Clear Politics: “When he finished, the crowd rose to its feet and — in the loudest and most spontaneous demonstration of the three-day meeting — broke into a clapping chant, “‘Run, Rick, run! Run, Rick, run!'”
  • Roger Kimball praises his truth telling: “Conservatives do not win elections by pretending to be liberals.”
  • Reuters says he sounds like a candidate.
  • Perry aides say he’s still several weeks away from deciding.
  • You can judge the speech for yourself:

    You can see why liberals, in their frustration and inability to lay a glove on him, call him “Governor Goodhair”: He looks a lot younger than his actual age of 61.

    Other Perry news (several from Iconoclast’s weekend roundup:

  • Deroy Murdock is urging Perry to run.
  • Over at Real Clear Politics, Jonathan Gurwitz thinks he’s perfectly positioned to do so.
  • The Wall Street journal on Perry’s first 100 days.
  • Finally, just because this is a good place to stick it, here’s The Dallas Morning News on 50 things you need to know about Rick Perry.