Sarah Hoyt agrees with you, and so do I.
https://accordingtohoyt.com/2022/12/07/our-trump-card/#comment-891039

accordingtohoyt says: December 7, 2022 at 6:13 pm
I’ve been a little …. well, goose over my grave, because before the demonstration so many people insisted I go. NEW people here.
I’m almost sure if I had I’d be dead, somehow. Or someone who looked like me. I mean, they have lousy targeting.

Trump’s biggest mistake by far, IMO, was not realizing that he would be walking into a trap if his rally happened anywhere close to the Capitol.

Anyone with any political acumen, or even normally suspicious minds, should have predicted that something would be done by the Democrats to turn the rally / protest against Trump, even if it is hard even now to realize the depths of depravity of the Pelosi Plan.

The left WILL find drama and if there is none to be found, they WILL manufacturer it. Steel dosier?

Mac: Very true. Nixon Derangement Syndrome had people on both sides of the political fence taking so much stuff as the objective truth about Nixon. He’s vilified for inconsequential stuff he may have done. Read Geoff Shepard’s books for insight into reality.

Mac: Again. Spot on about the media. If they treated the pro-life with even any amount of objectivity I think the overall view would drastically improve. If they covered them as fawningly as they cover the pro-abortion people, the pro-life stance would dominate. I always find it so… frustrating that the media writes as if American abortion laws were so out of touch with the rest of the world.

Yes, and as I’m sure you know you can go back a bit further: Nixon DS, Reagan DS. Neither of those was as widespread as these later ones, but psychologically they were the same. I can remember some really loony conversations from each era. And am sorry to say I shared NDS for a while. People really believed that Nixon was a fascist preparing concentration camps for hippies. I had changed my political mind by Reagan’s time so I was spared that.

I was thinking that, too. Coincidentally, yesterday I ran across a book review I wrote twenty years ago. The book was about MLK and the civil rights movement and noted how important the assistance of the media was to its success. I ended the review by speculating in some detail about what would have happened if the media et al had treated the civil rights movement as it has treated the anti-abortion movement. It might well have failed.

So yeah, I’m sure protests by Trump supporters would be spun across the board as potential insurrection, terrorism, etc.

Is there such a thing out there? I confess I’ve stopped reading leftists, for the reasons others cite: they have become wholly detached from rational argument.

However, I will say this: The notion that they could not possibly be mistaken is not unique to the left. I see it everywhere; even here. It’s a human trait, alas. I’ve been conscious of this since my teens, probably because I find myself disagreeing with almost everyone.

Back then (late 60s) my teachers all told us to “question everything.” Well, I did. And they were NOT pleased. The reaction was effectively “No us, you idiot.”

in the era of the mid 00s, when the nutroots were getting underway, he was an authority, the reverse of the one eyed man trope, his oneliners were as reckless as jason leopold who thought to pen enron to the bushes, then time passed and tom white, turned out to be a critic of the iraq war, never mind, about that, since then, leopold has turned out some reasonably good work

also there was this notion he floated they were going to indict porter goss, for something, the punchline was his successor michael hayden, turned out to be crooked as the day is long, to the present day,

And reactions…saw no ridicule?

SORRY, but why should I care what Josh Marshall writes on (Twitter) X..?

If not, they have been derelict in their civic duty. They lack the “virtue” that is necessary for a Republic. In consequence, we have lost the Republic, at least temporarily.

Thanks, Democrats! I pray that you will learn your lesson, and receive an appropriate comeuppance!

Absolutely. And it will continue, even if Trump disappeared tomorrow. There’s already rambling of DeSantis Derangement Syndrome. It’s relatively low key. Since Trump dominates all the media attention. But it’s there