J6 Probe’s True Goal Is Slandering The Right Out Of The Public Sphere – The Federalist

Democrats on the House Select Committee to InvestigateJanuary 6claim their public hearings, starting this week, are meant to tell the story about what happened that day.

But millions of Americans watched the violence unfold on television, and theres been breathless news coverage in the months since. The events ofJan. 6, 2021have been investigated by Senate committees, federal inspectors general, and a phalanx of Washington reporters. Prosecutions are still ongoing in open court.

With so much information already public aboutJan. 6, what is the real purpose of these prime-time hearings? And why has the committee so aggressively stretched its investigative powers beyond the limits, including by subpoenaing me and four other Republican colleagues?

Behind the committees storytelling, theres a more sinister aim: convincing Americans that conservatives are to blame for the events of that day. In fact, Democrats have already done just thatasserting last year that President Trump was unmistakably responsible for the violence and even calling Republicans traitors for their Electoral College objections. Never mind the fact that Democrats made the very same objections to every Republican president in this century, or that Democrats spent most of 2020 condoning left-wing violent riots across the country.

The committees real goal, and what it hopes to achieve with its unprecedented subpoenas and its bright-light hearings, is a repudiation of conservatism and all those who hold conservative values. Democrats want to use the violence ofJan. 6to stigmatize conservative voices and delegitimize conservative ideals. Theyve even talkedcondescendingly, of courseabout treating conservatives as cult members who need to be deprogrammed.

Theres long been an arrogance among those on the left that has compelled them to try to delegitimize conservatives. President Obama famously predicted the grassroots Tea Party fever would break following his 2012 re-election. Four years later, Hillary Clinton infamously dismissed millions of Americans as deplorables who were hopelessly misguided and irredeemable.

But in the wake ofJan. 6, Democrats are amplifying their attacks against conservatives.

You hold a sincere belief that state election integrity measures help to make elections more accurate and more secure? Democrats call you a racist. And President Biden says youre part of Jim Crow 2.0 and as bad as 1960s segregationist Bull Connor.

You exercise your right to speak up at a school board meeting to say that boys shouldnt be allowed to use the girls restroom in elementary school? Democrats say youre transphobic, and you may even get a visit from President Bidens FBI.

These attacks are intentional. Their design is to make you feel embarrassed and ostracized. And it goes hand in hand with the lefts Orwellian effort to tell you what to think.

The Biden White House has called on Big Tech companies to fight disinformation, and the Department of Homeland Security stood up a so-called Disinformation Board for the same purpose. Of course, the disinformation only runs one way, and always against conservatives. Prominent Democrat politicians have posted demonstrably false information online and there is no broad outcry to take it down. But when a conservative voices an opinion that conflicts with the lefts woke ideology, her account is shut down unless and until she bends a knee to the left.

Each of these heavy-handed tactics, including the Select Committee subpoenas and hearings, has at its core the same goal: delegitimize conservative views so that they dont need to be debated or even addressed in polite society.

Todays Democrat Party is a party of coastal elites who believe they are smarter and more enlightened than their fellow Americans. They set up fact-checkers and disinformation boards because they think Americans are too stupid or too busy to make up their own minds. And when their radical, top-down policies still prove to be unpopular, they move to delegitimize dissenting ideas.

That is why the Select Committee will spend dozens of hours of prime-time television coverage to lecture Americans about an event they saw for themselves less than 18 months ago. That is why the Select Committee is targeting their Republican colleagues with ridiculous charges of insurrection and treason. Make no mistake, the violence ofJan. 6was as wrong as wrong can be. But Americans watching the hearings should have no illusions about the Democrats true objectives.

Mr. Jordan is the ranking member on the House Judiciary Committee.

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J6 Probe's True Goal Is Slandering The Right Out Of The Public Sphere - The Federalist