The Democratic Party and left-wing media told Americans not to believe their lying eyes, but they didn’t listen. The 2024 election will be remembered as a rejection of Democratic campaign rhetoric that tried to mislead the American people.
Two major events this election shone a glaring light on the hypocrisy and lies of the Democratic campaign apparatus.
The June 27 presidential debate between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump was the first event to open the eyes of the public to major deceptions of the Democratic Party.
For three and a half years, the Democrats told the American public the gaffes and physical impediments they saw from Biden were not a sign of mental decline. White House Press Secretary Karine Jean Pierre labeled these claims “cheap fakes” and “disinformation.”
The media fell in line and parroted those talking points all the way up to the June 27 debate.
“This version of Biden is the best Biden ever, in fact, I think he’s better than he’s ever been,” MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough said in March 2024.
The first debate completely shattered that depiction of the president. Americans witnessed one of the worst debate performances in recent memory. Biden’s mental faculties were undeniably compromised, and the American people realized the truth.
This event opened an inquiry into other lies that the Democratic apparatus could be spreading. After all, if they could lie about something so important for so long, they were probably lying about other things too.
While the media claimed the economy was thriving, the cost of living shot up 20%. Harris said the border was secure while the U.S. Border Patrol statistics say that, between April 2020 and April 2021, catch-and-release encounters at the border increased 900%. Biden said he was working for the American people, and yet a 2024 Gallup poll found that over half of Americans believe they are worse off now than four years ago, the highest rate since the Great Recession in 2009.
According to a different Gallup poll, the months following the first presidential debate have marked record lows in American trust for mass media institutions, most of which heavily donate to left-wing organizations, 69% of Americans say they have either “no trust at all” or “not very much confidence” in mass media organizations.
Even after Biden dropped out of the race and was replaced on the ticket by his Vice President Kamala Harris, trust in the administration had been irredeemably damaged.
After the June presidential debate, an assassination attempt on Donald Trump failed July 13 in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Not only did Trump’s defiant response inspire his supporters to fight for his campaign, it undercut the Democratic rhetorical attacks.
For years on end, Democrats in politics and the media have called Trump “Hitler,” a “fascist,” and “the end of democracy.” The American people have made the connection between this extreme rhetoric and the attempted violence.
After the assassination attempt, Democrats called en masse for Trump to tone down his rhetoric, blamed him for raising political tensions, and then immediately reverted to their own violent rhetoric.
The public then began to view Trump as a man with a serious target on his back. Our ability to vote him into office was being threatened by gunmen, the media, questionable election rules, and political prosecutions. For a political party who champions the values of democracy, it became difficult for people to trust that the Democrats believed what they claimed to stand for.
On Nov. 5, over 75 million Americans firmly rejected the Democratic Party, demonstrating their belief that Donald Trump is not the Hitler the Left claimed him to be.
Americans hate being told not to believe their lying eyes. The 2024 election will be remembered as a rejection of how the Democratic Party and its institutions tried to deceive us.
Luke Miller is a sophomore studying political economy.
