Democrats accuse anyone who criticizes US corruption as Putin lovers and Insurrectionist supporters

old trick. Covering their own asses.

https://jonathanturley.org/2023/02/12/is-the-red-scare-going-blue-democrats-accuse-government-critics-of-being-putin-lovers-and-supporting-insurrectionists/

Below is my column in the New York Post on the growing attacks on those who are challenging the alleged abuses by the FBI and the censorship system on social media.

Here is the column:

“The Democratic Party [is] the bedfellow of international communism.” Those words from Sen. Joe McCarthy captured the gist of the Red Scare and the use of blacklists and personal attacks to silence critics. The Democrats this week appear to have taken up the same cudgel in labeling opponents and critics Russian sympathizers and fellow travelers in opposing government involvement in a massive censorship system.

The Red Scare is back and it is going blue.

I testified this week in Congress on the Twitter Files and how they suggest what I have called “censorship by surrogate” or proxy.

The files show dozens of FBI and government employees actively seeking the censorship of citizens and others for their viewpoints. In my testimony, I warned that this was reminiscent of the McCarthy period where the FBI played a role in the establishment of blacklists for socialists, communists, and others. I encouraged Congress not to repeat its failures from the 1950s by turning a blind eye to such abuse.

This view was amplified by former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, who became persona non grata for her anti-war sentiments in Congress. She was later labeled a “Russian asset” by Hillary Clinton, who has refused to support that scurrilous claim against a former member.

For years, the Democrats pushed a Russian collusion theory that collapsed. It was later disclosed that the Clinton campaign hid and then lied about funding the infamous Steele Dossier. Nevertheless, people like Carter Page were falsely accused of being Russian agents and critics of the investigation labeled as Russian apologists. Ironically, the FBI was warned that the dossier appeared to be the result of Russian disinformation and relied on a presumed Russian agent.

If anything, my warning of McCarthy-like attacks and measures seemed to be taken more as a suggestion than an admonition by some. Soon after the end of the hearing, MSNBC contributor and former Sen. Claire McCaskill appeared on MSNBC to denounce the member witnesses (Sen. Chuck Grassley, Sen. Ron Johnson, and former Rep. Gabbard) as “Putin apologists” and Putin lovers.

She exclaimed, “I mean, look at this, I mean, all three of those politicians are Putin apologists. I mean, Tulsi Gabbard loves Putin.” (For the record, she also attacked me as not being “a real lawyer.”)[/b]

I've heard it said that the devil is an accuser. Apparently, the Democrats like to accuse their enemies as well.

The Left has the Narrative down - both in this Alternate Reality and in other events, past, present, and of course, future. They spin the events as unfolding, IGNORING what the CIA/State Department has done with ignoring Minsk accords, setting up weapons labs, installing a Potemkin government in Eww Crane...and then harping on how BAD that Putin is, how DARE he "invade."

His restrained use of force to initially work a police action, cleansing the region of Azov Nazis...is that he's weak. He blew up Russia's own pipeline, and the Leftist idiots all smile and nod. He blew up that dam...I guess to wash out his own and Wagner's armies.

And now...Fat Vicky got a bribe to the head of Wagner, who was supposed to incite that popular arising that the Left just KNOWS Russia will have...because, of course, Russians hate good jobs, good clothing, cars, money, freedom. They like what Davos promises, what the Soviet subjects had for 70 years.

So, that Russian...Prig-something...apparently took a Nuland bribe, turned his army around, marched towards Moscow...and NO, the Russian regulars didn't join; the people didn't join; Putin didn't do anything stupid.

Because Putin is not stupid and, for better or worse, he has the support of his nation.

That was why it ended so fast. The Prig saw he was marching straight into a firing squad, and as soon as he could, he negotiated his own exile to Belarus.

But that's the folly of the Left...they believe their own lies.