KJP Explains That “Extreme” Essentially Just Means Nonconformity

Karine Jean-Pierre is a terrible Press Secretary. The only skills she brings to the table are being black and being lesbian. That’s basically her resumé for getting this job. So here’s yet another clip of her sharing a really bad take on an important issue- extremism. What is extremism? KJP explains that it’s basically just nonconformity.

For context, here’s more of the shockingly partisan reporter exchange. Seriously, the reporter is just gushing with partisanship. Not even trying to pretend to be objective. Especially the last sentence of her question where she literally boils the Supreme Court down to either being extremists or semi-fascists.

Wegmann: Specifically with regard to limiting these freedoms, I guess what I’m asking is–the Supreme Court created this space for the anti-abortion movement at the state and perhaps the federal level. Where do they fit into this? How would the president describe them after this decisions? Are they just extremists or are they part and parcel of semi-fascists?

Jean-Pierre: Here’s what I’ll say. We continue to see attacks on peoples’ fundamental rights. With Americans on new abortion laws across the country. We have national Republicans who are leaders in their political party who sit in office who say they want to take away the rights, even in cases of incest and in case of rape, and taking away a woman’s right to make a decision on her body, that is extreme. The president is going to call that out and do everything he can to protect peoples’ freedoms, and that is important to call out and talk about. And again, we see the majority of Americans who disagree. And if you are not with where the majority of Americans are, that is extreme. That is an extreme way of thinking.

What KJP is saying here is that the interpretation of the constitution by the Supreme Court of the United States and thus the Supreme Court itself is extremist because their decision is “not with where the majority of Americans are.” But there are a few problems with this.

Firstly, and most importantly, the Supreme Court of the United States is not intended to make decisions based on current socio-political agreement. They’re supposed to make decisions based on the Constitution of the United States of America. Public sentiment and agreement is for the other branches of the government, while the Judicial branch is intended as a check and a balance for public sentiment.

Secondly, it is incredibly misleading to imply that being against abortion is extreme because it’s not consistent with majority sentiment. It’s a very divisive issue and that’s because there ISN’T necessarily a majority sentiment. Even within the pro and anti groups, there is significant disagreement.

Thirdly, prominent Democrat politicians have recently taken a LOT of stances that are not consistent with majority sentiment. Does that mean that they are extremist? For example, a lot of Democrats, including in Biden’s own administration, vocally oppose voter ID laws. But Forbes reported that 80% of Americans support voter ID laws. And the “defund the police” movement was huge with Democrat politicians for a while, despite the fact that fewer than 1 in 5 Americans actually support the stance. What about all the COVID mandates? Again, there’s not nearly the majority support for these policies as the Biden Administration would have you think. And how about the psychological, surgical, and chemical mutilation of children in the name of a radical queer agenda? So are they extremists for taking these stances because they don’t have majority support?

What KJP is really saying is that nonconformity is extremism. If you do not conform to what THEY think should be the way the majority of Americans are, then they will consider your opinion extreme. And they can make it look even more extreme by suppressing one side of the public discourse in order give the misleading appearance that they actually do have majority support, or by misleading the public about what certain issues actually are.

They did exactly this with the Florida Parental Rights in Education bill, which prevents the teaching of age-inappropriate sexual content to young children. The contents of that bill was misconstrued and the public was misled about what the bill would actually do. Then all discussion in support of the bill was heavily criticized as bigoted and hateful while discussion of certain related topics was censored. This gave the appearance that the bill was wildly unpopular and inconsistent with majority public sentiment when the opposite was actually true. The majority of Floridians and Americans supported the contents of the bill. So the Democrat position, by their very own standard, was the “extreme” position.

As with many issues these days, it’s really about who gets to decide. Who gets to decide what’s “extreme?” Who gets to decide what’s “domestic terrorism?” One person’s “domestic terrorism” is another person’s prepared speech to the school board opposing radical Marxist indoctrination in elementary schools. Who gets to decide what is “misinformation?” One person’s “misinformation” is another person’s expert medical opinion that simply doesn’t fit the reigning leftist COVID narrative. So who gets to decide?