Shitlibs, 2000 style

A common shitlib gimmick is to bark about how they were Republicans until the party nominated Donald Trump. It isn't true of all of them, of course, because the Democrats were plagued by the DLC for decades before. But what this shows is that many were Republicans long after that party drove most of its moderate members away.

I found an editorial from the now-defunct Cincinnati Post from 2000 that represents the right-wing Republicanism of many of those who became shitlibs. I used to hear the Post described as "Cincinnati's liberal paper", which shows just how right-wing the Enquirer is. Today, the Enquirer is part of the elitist, totalitarian media consensus that is mostly right-wing except for its patronizing wokewashing that lets them pretend to care about a few issues. But the Post was far from liberal.

The 2000 editorial from the Post was titled "Clinton's hate-mongering." The right-wing vitriol of this piece was overpowering. It attacked President Bill Clinton for advancing a bill against hate crimes and acted as if congressional Republicans were poor, innocent victims of liberal bullying.

The media thought Clinton was one cool cat when he pushed right-wing ideas like school uniforms, welfare "reform", and the late '90s war games with Iraq. But every time he came to his senses and supported something to make the country better, he was portrayed as some dangerous leftist radical.

The Post accused Clinton of "beating up on the Republican congressional leadership" and said the GOP "should beat up on Clinton for advancing such a misguided proposal" like hate crime laws. The Post's arguments against hate crime laws were laughably weak. The editorial said these laws "criminalize motivation", as if hate crimes do not include any actual bad behavior. It said hate crime laws were the same as double jeopardy – which means to try the same crime twice – even though the media had been silent over other criminal cases being tried twice just because prosecutors didn't get the result they wanted the first time.

The article then had the nerve to accuse Clinton of being "unnecessarily nasty" to Republicans. If you don't understand why that's ridiculous, you must not have been around in 2000. GOP spite never started to let up until many of the worst offenders joined the shitlibs who now fill Democratic ranks. In fact, most of the editorial is a textbook illustration of this malevolence.

The right-wing Republicans of 2000 are the Democratic shitlibs of 2022. I mean that literally. Many of them are the exact same people. Many of those who attacked opponents as "liberals" back then assail these same dissenters as "right-wing Trump supporters" now. If they call you the latter, remember that nasty editorial they wrote back in 2000.