That ‘Woman Governor’ in Michigan Is at It Again
By Rick Moran
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer is once again looking to demonize her political opponents, accusing them of being racists and Nazis for opposing her stay-at-home policies.
Demonstrators will gather at the state capitol building in Lansing on Thursday to show their displeasure at their governor’s arrogant, high-handed response to the coronavirus pandemic. There will be confederate flags present. There is also likely to be signage accusing her of being a Nazi.
Gretch the Wretch doesn’t like that.
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said Wednesday that armed protests at the state’s Capitol over her stay-at-home order have “been really political rallies where people come with Confederate flags and Nazi symbolism and calling for violence,” adding that if they continue, they could lengthen the state’s social distancing restrictions.
“I do think that the fact of the matter is these protests, in a perverse way, make it likelier that we’re going to have to stay in a stay-at-home posture,” Whitmer said on ABC’s “The View.”
Why? What medical, scientific, or logical reason would there be to lengthen the shutdown just because people are showing their dislike for your policies? Apparently, some demonstrators aren’t wearing masks and are not practicing social distancing. I’d like to see the models showing a spike in infections solely because of the protests.
And just who is “calling for violence”? Asking to make it legal to leave your house is not a declaration of war, governor.
But Whitmer’s hysteria is growing as evidenced by her increasingly incoherent ranting.
“This is not appropriate in a global pandemic, but it’s certainly not an exercise of democratic principles where we have free speech,” Whitmer said. “This is calls to violence. This is racist and misogynistic. And I ask that everyone who has a platform uses it to call on people to observe the best practices promulgated by the CDC and to stop encouraging this behavior, because it only makes it that much more precarious for us to try to re-engage our economy, which is what everyone says they want us to be able to do.”