The Left is Seeing Ghosts, Again

The Left has a history of passionately searching and assigning significance to perceived symbols, with their narrative overriding any other interpretation. The latest haunting was found near a Supreme Court Justice’s suburban cul-de-sac. 

It started when Pulitzer prize-winning New York Times investigative reporter Jodi Kantor sounded the alarm on Thursday:

This hard-hitting reporting unsurprisingly shocked the sensibilities of people like Daniel Miller, a Washington Post and CNN contributor:

Rachel Maddow on MSNBC calmly explained, “I’ve never heard anything like this in the entire history of every controversy I’ve ever known about with the United States Supreme Court.” Ruth Ben-Ghiat, professor of History at New York University, feared for the safety of the Alito neighbors, in an attempt to explain why it’s taken more than three years to come forward.

The evidence-less definition of the flag as a “Stop the Steal flag,” clarifies the messaging of this narrative as brazenly having a partisan agenda. The Left is losing the Supreme Court war and will use anything to undermine the authority of the judicial branch. Prolific historian Steven Beschloss thinks it's time to stop his ideological opponents from controlling decisions he dislikes.

Best-selling author and scholar Norman Ornstein thinks that more than three years after Alito’s insurrectionist gesture, it’s now time to immediately impeach him. But, perhaps the timing has something to do with this: 

Within Kantor’s NYT report lies the actual explanation, which might be more believable than Supreme Court Justice Alito sending a secret signal to insurrectionist rebels in the eye-line of his suburban home eleven days after January 6th. Here is Alito’s explanation:

Alito, in reality, sent a clear signal in the opposite direction of insurrection during this time by ignoring the requests to bar Vice President Pence from following the procedures in the Federal Election Count Act. Alito, a month later in February 2021 further solidified his signal when the court faced the challenge of Pennsylvania’s presidential election results. While Alito indicated he wanted the court to answer future questions related to the challenge he made clear:

Odd behavior for a supposed insurrectionist and a person who could have theoretically stopped, or at least delayed, “the steal.”

Desires can lead us to make mistakes. The desire to find nefarious messages in innocuous events only serves to confirm what we desire to be true. This can often make us look pathetic, weak, and foolish. 

The newly emerged fealty-to-flag-law-and-order-Left wants Alito to be a traitor. They deeply desire a reason to subvert rightful judicial proceedings and to rebalance power towards their political favor.

Just like when the Left wanted Reagan to be a segregationist, instead of contending with his generational appeal in 1980. Why battle against judicial prudence and constitutional sobriety when one can dismiss it all effortlessly with interpretations of symbols that have alleged intent to support a bad thing.

Rhetoric driven by symbology is at best a tell. But, when a narrative relies on symbology instead of substance, it’s a clear indictment of that narrative. 

A detailed portion of the upcoming book Dismantled: The Party Switch Myth (RTS will be releasing excerpts from the book in our free newsletter) is dedicated to the mythological racial ghosts of the 1988 Bush/Dukakis campaign, as well as the intentional lie heard around the world about a speech heard by virtually no one, given by Reagan in 1980. Whether you're Jimmy Carter in 1980, Dukakis in 1988, or the Left today, when losing badly to a patriot defense it tends to make one see ghosts. This is yet another example of the Left's prolific ability to invent confirmations of their biased imagination, irrespective of obvious reality. And similarly, time may not be kind to the truth, as years from now this may be remembered as a blatant act of treason.

Then again, we don’t have to surrender control of conventional wisdom, like what the Left has been accustomed to. We are not doomed to comply with their desires and partisan ghost stories. We can and will read the score; are you with us?