By Ryan Spoon
You know that person on the Right that said some foolish things online that even you find disgusting and now the Left is demanding that you denounce them?
SAVE YOUR BREATH AND JUST MOVE ON.
Dissociate, perhaps, if the person continues in a pattern of inexcusable bad behavior, even after repeated warnings. They might even have to be removed from any official positions that they hold, but don’t waste your time with public denunciations. It’s never enough for the Left (or even the RINOs!). Denouncing that person on the Right won’t make the RINOs/Dems become your friends. They won’t admire you. One denunciation is never enough for them. They always insist on repeated and endless denunciations. Over and over. And after you denounce one person on the Right, they want you to move on and denounce the next person. And the next and the next and… They are never satisfied.
There are a couple of these examples in Idaho politics over the past couple of years, and the Idaho GOP and other conservative organizations have simply removed them and moved on. They are no longer participating in the Idaho GOP political mainstream or other conservative Idaho groups, but they are also NOT my enemies. I have enough enemies on the Left, I have no enemies on the Right.
If you need any more reasons to IGNORE the howls from the Left, just examine their HYPOCRISY. We quietly remove our bad actors, but they don’t even do that! They elect them! Mere months after a Trantifa leftist publicly assassinated Charlie Kirk in front of his wife and young children, Democrats endorsed and ELECTED a state attorney general in Virginia that called for the murder of his own opponent’s children. He is now the highest-ranking law enforcement officer in that state. Democrats don’t denounce their evil, they promote it!
So, ignore the hypocritical calls from the Left, quietly dissociate from political liabilities on the Right when you absolutely must, but never publicly denounce. I have no enemies on the Right.
About Brian Almon
Brian Almon is the Editor of the Gem State Chronicle. He also serves as Chairman of the District 14 Republican Party and is a trustee of the Eagle Public Library Board. He lives with his wife and five children in Eagle.
