I keep reading bits and pieces of the right, principally wannabe Limbaugh replacement Erick Erickson, and I stop as soon as I spot a mistake, a false assumption, that sort of thing.
And I don’t bother to write about it. No time.
But today I have off. So here’s what I found with Erickson’s analysis of the Mar-a-Lago raid, which borrows from National Review’s Andy McCarthy, and so I presume the entire right is consumed with this silly theory:
Look, the left is, at this point, epistemically convinced Donald Trump plotted, planned, and organized the riot on January 6th. They truly believe there was a master plan to overthrow the government. They truly believe Trump is a threat to democracy.
When you believe all these things, you’re going to try to find that one smoking gun to stop Trump from running for office again.
They tried. They seemingly did not find it. They’ve had to fall back on their excuse about classified documents knowing a very compliant press won’t ask too many questions.
Here’s the thing: former Judge and current US AG Merrick Garland isn’t “of the left,” as they say. When President Barack Obama received a recommendation that Garland replace the recently-deceased Scalia on SCOTUS, it was from both sides of the aisle. He’s considered a centrist, not someone out on the left.
And that’s why I don’t bother with the rest of Erickson’s post. Simple matters of false fact invalidate the thrust of his post. OK, so I read it, but very quickly, as it’s demonstrative of Erickson’s own position of peril, left trying to justify fourth-raters like Trump, Hawley, Cruz, Gaetz, Greene, Boebert, and many other “officials” who should never have been permitted the honor of holding such offices. Their embarrassing lusts, lack of ethics, and credulousness (you can include Erickson’s own religious beliefs under that heading, I shan’t object) have proven the point.
Erickson’s trying to build a story that’ll hold the conservatives’ Doubting Thomases together. Sadly, it seems that every day brings a fresh blow against the integrity of his story. Maybe he should give up?
Well, that would move him from direct opposition to the “baby killers.” Such are the wages of bad logic.
