{"id":540209,"date":"2021-05-25T15:36:10","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T19:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=540209"},"modified":"2021-05-25T15:36:15","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T19:36:15","slug":"5-things-the-media-are-now-calling-insurrections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/5-things-the-media-are-now-calling-insurrections\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Things the Media Are Now Calling \u2018Insurrections\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2F5-things-the-media-are-now-calling-insurrections%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=540209&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1230457865.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>More than five months after violent rioters stormed the United States capitol in protest of the 2020 presidential election results,&nbsp;Americans should be rejoicing that the waves of copycat insurrections that the media <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/01\/13\/956413365\/state-capitals-tighten-security-amid-threat-of-armed-protests-ahead-of-inaugurat\">predicted<\/a> never <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/insurrection-at-the-capitol\/2021\/01\/17\/957947036\/despite-warnings-many-state-capitols-see-only-small-protests-and-quiet-streets\">occurred<\/a>. Instead, the media redefined the term \u201cinsurrection\u201d to include commonsense policies embraced by the vast majority of Americans. Apparently insurrection, like infrastructure, is a broad and elastic category that defies easy definition. In part, they may be trying to heighten concerns over a future attack, but by watering down the term to the point of meaninglessness, they\u2019re crying wolf with a charge that should be reserved for real and actionable threats to public safety.<\/p>\n<p>The media mostly acted this way for one reason: The more malleable the definition of \u201cinsurrection,\u201d the more rhetorically useful it is. Last month, everything was infrastructure; today, everything is insurrection. Here are a few recent examples:<\/p>\n<h4><strong>The Arizona vote audit<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2021\/05\/14\/stacey_abrams_arizona_election_audit_is_a_continuation_of_the_insurrection_gop_gaslighting.amp.html\">told<\/a> CNN\u2019s Anderson Cooper on Thursday that the vote audit currently underway in Arizona is \u201ca continuation of the Big Lie. But more importantly, and more concerningly, it\u2019s a continuation of the insurrection \u2014 of this attempt to disenfranchise voters and dismiss the legitimacy of our elections.\u201d She warned ominously that \u201cwe know that this is only part of a larger intention\u201d by Republicans to shift voting guidelines away from Democratic core voters. Republican officials who deny that they believe the 2020 election was stolen are \u201cgaslighting\u201d the public, she continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are saying aloud that there\u2019s nothing wrong, and at the exact same time, they\u2019re pushing forward legislation to fix something they say is broken. Either they\u2019re lying then\u2026 or they\u2019re lying now.\u201d The rebuff seems particularly ironic coming from Abrams, who still <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/11\/18\/935734198\/trump-hasnt-conceded-georgia-neither-did-stacey-abrams-what-changed\">denies<\/a> the legitimacy of the 2018 Georgia governor\u2019s election, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/why-is-stacey-abrams-still-treated-as-a-serious-voice-on-voting-laws\">she lost<\/a> by four times as many votes as Donald Trump lost the state in 2020.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Opposing automatically registering everyone with a driver\u2019s license via the \u201cMotor-Voter\u201d law<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Mother Jones magazine <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2021\/02\/voting-rights-republicans-trump-georgia\/\">warns<\/a> its audience, \u201cAfter Trump Failed to Overturn the 2020 Election, Republicans Are Trying to Steal the Next On.\u201d Sketching out these dark designs, Ari Berman states that these steps include undermining \u201cthe voting methods \u2026 used by millions of voters \u2026 5 million of [Georgia]\u2019s 7.6 million voters were automatically registered at the Georgia Department of Driver Services.\u201d But there can be little doubt that enrolling every registered driver to vote has facilitated fraud in the past.<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia City Commissioner Al Schmidt revealed that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/philly\/news\/politics\/city\/philly-voter-fraud-trump-immigrants-registration-commissioners-penndot-20170920.html\">317<\/a> non-citizens came forward to say they had wrongly been registered to vote thanks to the Motor-Voter law \u2014 and 90 had illegally voted in one or more of the swing state\u2019s elections. The numbers are far from complete, since they include only Philadelphia, only from 2006 to 2017, and only count those who <em>sought out <\/em>the government to admit their illegitimate voting status.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Not automatically mailing ballots to inactive voters<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Berman sees so many burgeoning insurrections that one policy alone would not suffice. He writes that states like Arizona may not pass every voter integrity bill in their legislatures, \u201cbut with the GOP in control of state government, other changes, like purging voters from the list of who automatically receives a mail-in ballot, are more likely to pass.\u201d Governor Doug Ducey (R) did in fact <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/arizona-governor-doug-ducey-signs-election-integrity-bill-reforming-absentee-voting\">sign<\/a> that bill, S.B. 1485, on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Ducey explained that voters can ask for the state to automatically mail them a ballot but, if they have not voted for four years, they will no longer receive an automatic ballot. They can still request one or vote in person. Any blanket mailing of ballots could create issues of voter security, because the Pew Research Center noted that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/democrat-plan-for-mail-in-voting-could-let-millions-of-ineligible-voters-vote\">one of every eight<\/a> voter registrations were inaccurate or ineligible in 2012.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>The ouster of Liz Cheney<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/a-hair-on-fire-emergency-leftists-react-to-liz-cheneys-ouster\">Numerous writers<\/a> claimed that this month\u2019s twin votes to replace Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) with Rep. Elise Stefanik as the third most powerful member of the House of Representatives represent an \u201cexistential threat for democracy,\u201d in the words of CNN\u2019s Dana Bash. Frequent <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AmandaMarcotte\/status\/1392295199754293248\">CNN <\/a>guest Amanda Marcotte said, \u201cThe GOP is coalescing around a plan to steal the 2022 and 2024 elections and purge any party members who dissent.\u201d Cheney\u2019s removal proves that \u201cRepublicans are lining up their ducks so the next coup doesn\u2019t fail.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Doing anything supported by Donald Trump<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Jonathan Chait warns his readers that anything which benefits Donald Trump is actually part of the insurrection. \u201cRepublican-controlled states are implementing voting restrictions to placate this lie; Republican officials who refused to go along with Trump\u2019s autogolpe are being removed from their positions,\u201d Chait <a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/2021\/05\/liz-cheney-save-democracy-republican-trump-coup-insurrection-purge.html\">writes<\/a> in New York magazine. \u201cTrump is both extending his control over the party and ensuring that his anti-democratic ideology is no longer challenged. He is training his party to join him in subverting the next election.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As we learned this month, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-inflation-skyrockets-to-highest-levels-since-great-recession-follows-disastrous-jobs-report\">inflation<\/a> is back. The worst inflation is inflating the definition of sedition to include any policy that would rein in the Biden-Harris administration, its radical policy agenda, or anti-democratic state policies that incentivize voter fraud.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/em><em>&nbsp;<\/em><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than five months after violent rioters stormed the United States capitol in protest of the 2020 presidential election results,\u00a0Americans should be rejoicing that the waves of copycat insurrections that &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1893663,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-540209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1893663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}