After the DC National Guard Shooting Comes the Big Lie

After the DC National Guard Shooting Comes the Big Lie


Morrisey, the governor of one of the poorest states in the country and who has spent much of his time attacking “the woke mind virus,” is pushing the following line across the media: “When the evildoers step up, we have to make sure that we do everything in our power to push back against them. Then there is the Morrisey Big Lie that these troops were “protecting the capital.” The National Guard has been picking up trash, mulching, and basically doing all the jobs that teenagers could have been doing over the summer if there were robustly funded summer-job opportunities. After first speaking about the need to not politicize the shootings, he said, “We are not going to let the same kind of ideology that drove the defund the police movement—we’re not going to let that happen with respect to the Guardsmen.”

Author: Dave Zirin


Published at: 2025-12-01 00:00:00

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