Frontpage Mag – Right Report https://right.report There's a thin line between ringing alarm bells and fearmongering. Mon, 14 Oct 2024 00:34:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 https://right.report/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/cropped-Favicon-32x32.png Frontpage Mag – Right Report https://right.report 32 32 237554330 Bringing Out Obama Is Hurting Kamala More Than Helping Her https://right.report/bringing-out-obama-is-hurting-kamala-more-than-helping-her/ https://right.report/bringing-out-obama-is-hurting-kamala-more-than-helping-her/#respond Mon, 14 Oct 2024 00:34:22 +0000 https://right.report/bringing-out-obama-is-hurting-kamala-more-than-helping-her/ Obama acts like he’s the secret weapon for political campaigns. He hides out during primaries, operating from behind the scenes, then waits until the final weeks and shows up with promises to save the day.

But former presidents, no matter how popular, have a limited public lifespan. It’s why they’re only brought out so often. Their political instincts are out of sync, they’re old and the public no longer cares about them.

Since Kamala’s campaign is full of Obama vets, they decided to bring out Barry. But so far Barry has done more harm than good.

The idea was to use Obama to take all sorts of shots at Trump, and he was doing that, and solidify Kamala’s black male vote.

That last part went badly when Obama accused black men of sexism for not fully backing Kamala. The backlash did not take long to arrive.

A former Bernie Sanders campaign adviser slammed former President Barack Obama Thursday for calling out black men who do not support Vice President Kamala Harris.

“Why are Black men being lectured to?” former Democratic Ohio state Sen. Nina Turner said on CNN. “Why are black men being belittled?”

The former national co-chair of the Bernie Sanders 2020 presidential campaign said that Obama was “wrong.”

“Now, a lot of love for former President Obama, but for him to single out black men is wrong, and some of the black men that I have talked to have their reasons why they want to vote a different way, and even if some of us may not like that, we have to respect it,” she said.

Actor Wendell Pierce said Obama’s words sent an “Awful message.”

“The party has to stop scapegoating Black men. Black men aren’t the problem. White men and white women are,” Pierce said in a post on social platform X. […]

]]> https://right.report/bringing-out-obama-is-hurting-kamala-more-than-helping-her/feed/ 0 227476 All America’s Problems Are Leftist Problems https://right.report/all-americas-problems-are-leftist-problems/ https://right.report/all-americas-problems-are-leftist-problems/#respond Wed, 09 Oct 2024 13:20:39 +0000 https://right.report/all-americas-problems-are-leftist-problems/ The problem with solving problems is that once they are solved, no one needs the solver anymore. The better kinds of problems are recurring problems that ensure customer retention, employing plumbers, locksmiths and police officers, but the best kind are the completely unsolvable problems.

And those are the only kinds of problems that the Left wants to solve.

Given enough human ingenuity and technological development, most problems can concievably be addressed and that is why the Left has to contrive to make them unsolvable by either causing the problem (homelessness), defining it in such a way that it is inherently unsolvable (equity), defining the inappropriate problem while obscuring the actual problem (gun violence) or inventing fake problems (global warming) that can never be solved because they don’t exist in the first place.

Why create unsolvable problems? They’re a virtually infinite source of money and power. […]

]]> https://right.report/all-americas-problems-are-leftist-problems/feed/ 0 227235 Trump and the Absurd Accusation of Dictatorship https://right.report/trump-and-the-absurd-accusation-of-dictatorship/ https://right.report/trump-and-the-absurd-accusation-of-dictatorship/#respond Wed, 02 Oct 2024 13:05:40 +0000 https://right.report/trump-and-the-absurd-accusation-of-dictatorship/ One persistent theme coming from the Democrats is that Trump, if elected a second time, would become a dictator and end democracy. For eight years, critics have called Trump an autocrat and likened him to the despised autocrats of the twentieth century, from Mussolini to Hitler. This rhetorical extremism is odd: Reagan and Bush were despised by Democrats, but they were not generally portrayed as threats to democracy. Nor have these accusations gone away; if anything, they are more intense now than in 2015 when they first surfaced.

It is one thing to say that Trump will do this, and will do that, if we have not already had Trump in office to see what he did in fact do. Trump’s critics latch on to his phrases like “dictator for a day,” which are quite obviously intended jokingly, or at least half-jokingly, and they say: Aha! He even admits he’s going to be like Hitler. But Hitler proceeded, almost immediately upon his assumption of power in 1933, to institute a widespread regime of repression. Hitler didn’t govern in a normal way for a term, and then somehow metamorphose into a dictator the second time around.

My premise is that actions speak louder than words, and we can make a sound judgement about Trump by considering his conduct from the time he entered politics to the end of his first term in office. Here we’ll see that Trump displayed all the largeness and audacity and even pugnaciousness of a Caesar, but he didn’t do anything tyrannical—indeed by many objective measures he did the country a lot of good.

Let me put it another way. If Trump were a dictator while he was President, then he was the most incompetent dictator in the history of the world. Dictators control the police agencies of government; Trump was relentlessly pursued by them. He didn’t run the agencies; he spent much of time running away from them. Moreover, dictators don’t lose elections because they control them and rig them in their favor. It is conceivable that the Chinese Communists are voted out of power in China? That the mullahs in Iran lose an election? Tyrants ensure they stay in power. They certainly never relinquish power voluntarily; typically, they have to be ousted by force. None of this applies to Trump. […]

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