Thursday, March 28, 2024

"ANTI-INTERVENTIONIST" MAGA COMMENTATORS ARE BEING AWFULLY POLITE ABOUT PRO-INTERVENTION JOE LIEBERMAN

Commentators frequently tell us that right-wingers in the era of Donald Trump have abandoned internationalism and interventionism in favor of "America first" isolationism. The Trump-era right, we're told, hates "globalists" -- which is sometimes a euphemism for "Jews" and sometimes just a reference to whoever gets America into wars (for instance, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney).

We know this, and we also know that Trump-era right-wingers are extremely rude, in imitation of the master. We know that they won't be polite when Joe Biden dies, or the Clintons, or Nancy Pelosi, or Jimmy Carter. They hate these people and won't be shy about saying so. They won't decide that's it's wrong to speak ill of the dead.

So why is the allegedly anti-interventionist pro-Trump right being so nice in the aftermath of Joe Lieberman's death? Why is no one denouncing him as an evil Democrat globalist?

I guess I understand why Roger Stone is being nice: Lieberman first won his Senate seat by defeating Lowell Weicker, an antagonist of Stone's beloved Richard Nixon.


Stone supported Lieberman back then, but that doesn't fully explain the kind words -- Stone did political work for George W. Bush and now despises him.

The rest of MAGA Nation seems to have nothing at all to say about Lieberman, good or bad. There's nothing new about Lieberman at the Infowars site, or at Alex Jones's Twitter. Marjorie Taylor Greene's two Twitter accounts say nothing about Lieberman. (The person she's mourning right now is a New York City cop who was killed on Monday, because denouncing crime in "Democrat" cities is consistent with her brand.) There's nothing about Lieberman in Donald Trump's Truth Social feed or Donald Trump Jr.'s Twitter feed. Meanwhile, random pro-Trump right-wingers are posting the kinds of comments and memes you'd have expected to see if Lieberman had died in the pre-Trump era:


Gosh, if I didn't know any better, I'd guess that opposition to interventionism and globalism doesn't really mean all that much to Trumpists, except to the extent that it's a useful stick to beat Democrats (and anti-Trump Republicans) with. They don't really care that Lieberman supported an interventionist foreign policy -- to them, he's a guy who drove Democrats nuts, so he shouldn't be criticized.

Trump and his high-profile backers know that they might look a bit hypocritical if they actually said nice things about Lieberman. But anti-interventionism is clearly not very important to anyone in MAGA Nation. What's most important is whether you're an enemy of MAGA Nation's #1 enemy, which is the Democratic Party. Joe Lieberman passed that test easily.
Posted by Steve M. at 12:58 PM

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