New York Post

Earth to mad Nadler

- By POST EDITORIAL BOARD

REP. Jerry Nadler (D-The Moon) made the Democratic position clear Thursday: If you’re not with us, you’re terrorists.

During his opening statement at the House hearing for Attorney General Merrick Garland, Nadler said there is no difference between the rioters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 and the parents who are angry about what is being taught in schools.

“This growth in extremist ideology is echoed in an epidemic of violence and intimidati­on directed at our healthcare profession­als, teachers, essential workers, schoolboar­d members and election workers,” Nadler said.

Nadler, a partisan loon who spent the past four years stirring up every conspiracy theory against President Trump, claimed there was a “broader pattern” here, including “the growing threats of violence against public servants.”

Yes, it is terrible when a sitting senator is harassed and followed into a bathroom . . .

Oh, he wasn’t talking about Krysten Sinema? The incident President Biden said was just “part of the process?” Huh.

We’re sure he was inspired by the climate-change activists who stormed the Department of the Interior last Thursday, breaking down the front door and attempting to occupy the building. He was calling on AOC and others to denounce them. No?

How about the fact that the letter the National School Boards Associatio­n sent to Garland asking for the FBI’s help, as reported by columnist Christophe­r Rufo, “cites only a single example of actual violence against a school official.” That the letter is, in fact, hyperventi­lating bunk, describing shouting as “violence” and people who disagree with school boards as “domestic terrorists.”

Turns out the White House knew about the letter before it was made public. Did the president order Garland to get the FBI involved?

It seems as if the Biden administra­tion is guilty of what it always accuses Republican­s of doing: politicizi­ng the Department of Justice and stifling free speech through intimidati­on.

Actually, we are sure Nadler is aware of all this. But he’s a dishonest, devious oaf who leverages lies into political gain.

It’s the Democratic Party platform now. They see an opportunit­y to harness the outrage over Jan. 6 as a brush to suppress all their opponents.

Disturbing­ly, the Dems and their social-media cronies repeatedly and casually abuse their power to enforce their ideology, rather than realize that perhaps the upswell of parental anger at teaching in schools is not the result of QAnon conspiraci­sts but, in fact, is born of genuine concern and a sense of disempower­ment over the future of their most precious charges.

Don’t like teachers telling all white kids that they are oppressors just because of the color of their skin? You’re an insurrecti­onist. Think maybe we need to start lifting COVID restrictio­ns because you’re vaccinated? You’re a white supremacis­t. Oppose Build Back Better? You’re an obstructio­nist, a fascist.

Don’t vote for Democrats? You’re an enemy of the state.

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