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Ecuador! Yoo Hoo! Something is in your Embassy.
-- Patricia Arquette (@PattyArquette) July 31, 2018
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people stay ignoring the fact that Julian Assange is a white supremacist. It boggles my mind. https://t.co/L8IBoikD06
-- Imani Gandy o-- (@AngryBlackLady) July 31, 2018
This is what has become of the so-called "Resistance," the astroturf political performance cooked up by David Brock and other Democratic Party manipulators in a ham-fisted attempt to harness the revolutionary spirit and enthusiasm of the Bernie Sanders movement and channel it toward bolstering the donkey head of America's two-headed one-party system. I often see it jokingly referred to on Twitter as #TheAssistance, because it seems like when it comes down to opposing Trump where it actually matters like his military expansionism, Orwellian surveillance powers or trying to imprison journalists, Trump's ostensible opposition on what is ostensibly the other side of the political aisle is always seen skipping merrily along with him, hand-in-hand. Assistance is certainly a far more accurate label.
Meanwhile whenever someone who actually opposes Trump voices support for Assange or WikiLeaks on any online forum, it isn't long before comments start flooding in about how Assange is a Russian agent, a rapist, a white supremacist, a pedophile, a fascist, and any other nonsense they can dream up to throw at him. Whenever one of them shows up in my notifications helping Trump manufacture consent for the fascistic agenda of imprisoning a journalist, all I want to say is "Dude. You dropped your MAGA hat."
Because they absolutely are supporting and facilitating Trump's agenda. It isn't an agenda that fits in with either the Fox News narrative or the MSNBC narrative, since Trump supporters are generally supportive of WikiLeaks these days while those who hate Trump generally despise it, but it's there clear as day whether it fits the partisan narratives or not. Clintonites (and an annoying number of progressives and leftists as well) have been manipulated into blaming WikiLeaks for Trump's presidency, which due to the raving hysteria that has been injected into the response to this fairly conventional Republican administration makes it easy to spin them as unforgivably evil, but whom does that hurt exactly? Certainly not the Trump administration, which is clearly pulling out all the stops to imprison Assange.
We can't shrug off Trump's attacks on the press. Ever. They're undemocratic and invite, even incite, violence. This bears repeating. It demands repeating. Last night @CNN's@Acosta faced down a hostile crowd. Support from his colleagues, competitors, and general public is a must.
-- Dan Rather (@DanRather) August 2, 2018
No, attacking and smearing a journalist (and Assange is most certainly a journalist per definition) whom this administration is actively targeting only serves this administration. All you're doing is lubricating the way for that great leap toward Orwellian dystopia by helping to get the public cheering for something which will make it easier for the US government to imprison journalists who expose government malfeasance. You're attacking Trump's enemies for him. You're cheering on Trump's depraved agenda, and encouraging others to cheer with you.
So by all means, mock them for this absurd behavior wherever you see it. Whenever you see someone who's still raging over Hillary Clinton's loss attacking WikiLeaks, ask them what turned them into such Trump fangirls. Ask them why they're helping their buddy Trump imprison dissident journalists. On social media, photoshop a MAGA hat onto their profile pic for them to help them better express their support their Based God Emperor.
If Democrats are going to help manufacture support for Donald Trump's agendas, let's at least make them own it.
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