You wake up, get out of bed, make a cup of coffee, and turn on the news. No matter what hour you tune in, you will undoubtedly see Trump in the headline. The majority of these stories will either be slandering him, or his administration. When the president says “the enemy of the people” or “fake news,” most people look the other way; however, many stories produced by the mainstream media organizations are fake and fabricated. The right wing party has been openly discriminated against by the mainstream media for decades in the form of false statements and completely dishonest claims, such as those made by Empire actor Jussie Smollett. Anyone feeling the need to speak or vote their conscience is often called a mad-man, nazi, or a straight white male. This way of thinking is not only wrong, but dangerous.
One of the main reasons the ideology of the American voters was successfully shifted is because of the presidencies leading up to Barack Obama. After Bill Clinton was caught lying under oath and was consequently impeached, much of the Democrats, such as Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, lost faith in the part of their party that still believed in a free market. Following Bill Clinton’s two terms, he was replaced by George W. Bush. Though he was a Conservative man from Texas, he didn’t believe in a free market the same way as his predecessors, yet the media almost immediately jumped on the opportunity to make President George W. Bush, the newest commander in chief of the GOP, look ignorant. Regardless of him being a great speaker, news outlets managed to make him appear as a horrible person and even worse president by the end of his eight year stint in office. Moreover, following him was a long eight year term of Obama. Leading up to the 2008 election, the media pushed harder than ever to put forth a great image of a wonderful black family that was destined to be America’s great savior. Our first black president had made it in the White House, and not much of anything great happened. Once Obama went into office, he pushed for a nationwide healthcare program he dubbed, the Affordable Care Act, more commonly known as Obamacare, and even temporarily shut down the government in order to pressure Congress to pass it. According to Politifact, this drove average middle class citizens into a healthcare mandatory of 40%. Due to the lack of speed within the federal government, the national healthcare provided was closer to universal than ever; however, the standard for good healthcare fell below what was necessary and the taxpayers were financially struck.

Following Obama came Donald J. Trump, the 45th president of the United States of America, who set his sights on removing Obamacare as soon as he announced his run for presidency. The media couldn’t seem to manage responding to the first confident Conservative president since Ronald Reagan, not for lack of effort. During the 2016 primary elections, entered a technique factually known as the “pied piper” strategy, this was later provided to the public through the Wikileaks emails. These were a series of actions involving Hillary Clinton and her puppets in the media propping up Donald Trump in the primaries. Why might she want to run against Donald Trump? The answer is simple, she knew how repulsive her and her husband were to the American public. Knowing she didn’t have a chance against anyone other than Trump, she ordered her corporate correspondents to promote Trump; becoming one of the biggest mistakes she made along the campaign trial. Not only did she lose the election, but because of other information provided by Wikileaks, her reputation with the American public was forever ruined. Following Trump’s inauguration, ensued a complete 180 degree turn-around from the Obama administration, which was exactly what was promised. While the media has painted him as everything from a racist to a dictator, he continues to work towards everything promised along the campaign trail, and sadly for Trump’s opposition, it’s working.

Presidents throughout U.S. history have been criticized by their opposition, this is nothing new; yet, the methods have evolved for the worse. A major false and demeaning story the media has pushed was the incident in which they claimed Trump mocked a reporter because of their disability. This involved a man named Serge Kovaleski, a correspondent of the New York Times, who’s piece was brought into question by Trump at one of his rallies. When asked, Kovaleski couldn’t accurately remember what he had written. Trump chose to mock him by flailing his arms about as if making fun of the reporter’s disability. However, according to Alberto A. Martinez of the New Standard Press, the media forgets to mention that he happens to mock everyone that way, including Republicans who ran against him in 2016 such as Ted Cruz. When looking at the full story, one might realize he insults everyone in that manner. That mockery isn’t just towards Kovaleski, and it’s not a direct insult towards a disability. Though the Koveleski story was definitely taken out of context, it stands in the shadow the mother of all of the hoaxes revolving around number 45, Russia’s involvement in the 2016 election. Since the election, many on the left have maintained a position that Trump colluded with Russia to alter the election results. Ultimately, because they can’t process the fact that the electoral college voted in favor of Donald Trump, it had to be the Russians. According to Ken Dilanian of NBC News, two years later on Tuesday February 12th, 2019, the Senate committee announced that they had found no direct evidence of Trump-Russia collusion, twice. After the Senate had already conducted and concluded their investigations, Robert Mueller reached a conclusion of his investigation. Mueller searched and investigated for 22 months, and spent $25 million investigating the allegations about whether or not Trump colluded with Russia. According to a letter written by the Attorney General William P. Barr, and I’m quoting, “The Special Counsel’s investigation did not find that the Trump campaign or anyone associated with it conspired or coordinated with Russia in its efforts to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election.” After nearly 2 years, 2,800 subpoenas, 500 search warrants, 230 orders for communication records, 13 requests to foreign government’s for evidence, and interviewed 500 witnesses, we’ve came to the same conclusion that the Senate had already reached twice.

Since Trump took office, the rise of a political group, Anti-Fascist movement, more commonly known as Antifa, began as a counter-protest to white supremacists such as Richard Spencer and David Duke, yet it’s evolved to many. According to Kyle Swenson of the Washington Post, the group is now violently attacking groups like Patriot Prayer in Portland Oregon during the group was celebrating that their founder Joey Gibson was nominated for the Senate. And according to Scott Mcdonald of Newsweek, the group also planned and executed an attempt at Milo Yiannopoulos’ life when he was hosting Free Speech Week at UC Berkeley. They claim to be America’s last hope. Make no mistake, these people are nothing less than domestic terrorists. This group is ironically fighting against their own ideals, either because they don’t have a choice or they don’t realize they’re doing it. They claim to be Pro-First Amendment, but under their ideals, the First Amendment doesn’t apply to those they disagree with. The Fascist movement arose in Europe during World War II. The irony stands within the fact that Antifa often tries to silence voices they don’t agree with, like the voices of Ben Shapiro in Los Angeles or Patriot Prayer in Portland. According to L.V. Anderson of Slate, a series of chants have risen recently in protests, ranging from “Ho Ho, Hey Hey, No Fascist USA” to “Nazi Scum, Off Our Streets” to “Cops and Klan go hand in hand” to even just simply “Reagan’s Dead.” But the most important out of all of these chants is “f*** your discourse.” In the process of desperately fighting fascism, Antifa has become the enemy that they hate so much. They are not shifting opinions any more than they are fighting back against those that disagree, and it usually isn’t pretty. Alleged Nazi’s are often met with violence, like the aggression seen at UC Berkeley and Portland, Oregon. According to United States law regarding self defense, if someone has not raised their hand to strike you, you have no right to strike them. These kinds of actions and policies are unconstitutional and are not only tolerated, but encouraged by the media.

Antifa tends to advertise what they’re doing as justified retaliation against “hate speech.” Hate speech is not a generally defined term, it’s not even legally defined. Which is why our Supreme Court is required to air on the side of freedom. Antifa will say it’s ok to punch Nazis, yet the definition of Nazi varies from person to person. Some people would see Nazis as people who hold Nazi values, yet Antifa will label people who they don’t agree with. According to Emily Ward of CNSNews, people such as Ben Shapiro, who ironically is an Orthodox Jew, have responded to the Nazi allegations with “well this makes the yamaka a little weird.” Hate speech isn’t a fair term to use because of it’s loose definition. I asked 50 people the following question: “What is hate speech, and who defines it?” 72% of people answered with “Speech that incites violence against a particular group of people (Ethnicity, Religion, Nationality).” However, the second part of the question, who defines it, proved harder to answer. Some said that society as a whole should define it, others said the supreme court, some said the legislative branch, while some said that it can’t be defined at all. The problem with defining it is that it puts too much power in the hands of the authority that defines it, while it also strips freedom of speech from the party in question. The thirteen colonies fought for these personal liberties. Unlike Canada who bent over for the king of Britain, America decided to fight for freedom. We didn’t fight won of the hardest fought wars in history in order to become an oppressive nation, we fought for personal liberties. The same civil liberties we are now marching to take away.

While American citizens like to believe their freedom of speech is absolute, there have been times throughout history that the American government lost its interest in supporting it. Under Woodrow Wilson, the U.S. passed the Sedition Act of 1918. This act outlawed any speech that was deemed detrimental to the reputation of the federal government. The problem with this was the loose wording, which allowed the Supreme Court to rule however the judges saw fit. Many Socialist activists and labor union leaders were charged under these acts. Under the reign of Joseph McCarthy, many people of the Hollywood elite were accused of being Communist sympathizers. Even people today such as Tommy Robinson being jailed for speech in the United Kingdom, to Jordan Peterson nearly losing his job and facing jail time in Canada. Given these tragic events some might think we would have learned our lesson, yet groups like this continue to push towards speech codes.

We are going head first towards 2020, and the Democratic party seems to be splitting their vote. The Democrats have been divided between Socialism and Capitalism sense the Progressive movement in the 1920’s. As always, there are many different rumored Democratic candidates. Regardless of who wins the primaries, Democrats have another independent option in Howard Schultz, the former CEO of Starbucks, which will divide the Democratic vote while Conservative votes will go towards Trump. All in all, in reality, the votes don’t matter as much as the votes in the electoral college, which is majorly Democratic. Despite the candidates that are catching media attention, the majority of elected officials will make the logical decision, whether that keeps Trump for another term or elects someone else more fit for office.

The next time you hear someone complaining about how Trump treats the media, such as Jim Acosta, consider how you would react in a similar situation. When a news outlet does everything in their power to smear your name, policies, and administration, you’re going to grow agitated. Now consider most of those accusations towards him and his supporters are premature and turn out to be false. When an organization like CNN or MSNBC, at the expense of truth, pushes a story that is completely fake in order to promote a hateful narrative, they are the enemy of the people. Tomorrow morning when you see a news headline negatively involving his name, take a step back and keep that story in the back of your mind. It usually doesn’t take long for more details to come into light that changes the context of the story. Take the Jussie Smollett case for example. He claimed that he had been attacked by two white men who poured bleach on him and yelled, “this is MAGA country.” CNN, ABC, CBS, MSNBC, and TMZ all had no hesitation to prematurely jump to conclusions because his story fit the narrative. However, only a few days later, after the Chicago Police Department conducted a basic investigation, the evidence didn’t match the story. It was later brought to light that he hired two extras from his show Empire to help fake the whole thing. There’s a lesson to be learned here, act when you get the full story, not half of it.