Perhaps the dumbest aspect of the Trump era was the penchant for the mainstream media and the broader left to deny objective reality just to own the orange man. This from reedstate.com.
Who can forget their attempts to make fun of the former president when he mentioned that coyotes facilitate human smuggling for the drug cartels. “Haha, he thinks wild dogs smuggle humans,” they squealed on their cable news hits. Did they really not know what a coyote was in that context? Or were they just being purposely obtuse? I think we know the answer to that.
A similar situation arose last year, when President Trump suggested that California needed to focus on clearing undergrowth in forests — in order to prevent the devastating forest fires that have ravaged the state. In response, teeth were gnashed because the only acceptable explanation to the left was to blame the destruction on “climate change.”
Here’s an example, via the activist site Climate Power.
Instead of acknowledging the near-universally accepted truth that the wildfires are fueled by climate change, Trump has been repeating a false claim that the solution to the fires that have burned 4.9 million acres across the West is better forest management.
Of course, anyone with any common sense knew that Trump was right. There was no evidence that climate change was the cause of the fires, which had become exponentially worse only in the recent past.
Well, President Trump gets to add another thing to his list of things he was lambasted for, but turned out to be right about.
California will spend $500 million to thin forests to prevent fires
https://t.co/X7ZhN4yMIa— stephiegal (@stephiegal) June 19, 2021
This is long overdue. When you look at the historical trends of California fires, it was clear that a lack of proper forest management and suppressing of natural burns had caused the last half-decade of carnage. Now that Trump is out of office, California can admit he was right without having to admit he was right. It’s all very convenient, but it’s also deeply cynical. How many people suffered because Democrats wanted to play politics with forest fires? Never mind that in some cases, the fires were man-made, which meant that blaming climate change was even more farcical in those instances.
In the end, Trump was right and his detractors were wrong, again. But they were not wrong by chance. And their lack of proper action was likely gross negligence.
And this, I believe, introduces the accusation of criminality. Let’s address the facts: Seemingly intelligent people who are responsible for some aspect of public safety intentionally disregard and disagree with sound advice for the purpose of political gain. The result is then death and destruction. Is this not a description of illegality? Intent would perhaps be a tough sell in a court of law, however, criminal nonetheless.
Again, these unindicted “criminals” lied and brought about death and catastrophic loss–people’s lives, homes, personal property, and livelihood–for the purpose of avoiding having to agree that a Republican president was right. The progressive liberal left are not mentally well and should therefore forfeit any leadership authority.
