"Let's Go Brandon!"

A few weeks ago, a crowd at a NASCAR race started chanting a vulgar phrase about Joe Biden. I don't endorse that kind of language. It's unfortunate that our politics has become so coarse that such things are said about our presidents. 

But an NBC sports reporter did her best to cover for the president and told the viewing audience that the crowd was chanting, "Let's Go Brandon!" for driver Brandon Brown who had just won the race. 

It was the epitome of fake news. The phrase "Let's Go Brandon!" quickly went viral as many Americans embraced the reporter's lie and turned it into a weapon in the culture war. 

I have watched a number of videos when huge crowds at college football games are chanting, "Let's Go Brandon!"  It's all being done with a great deal of humor, not anger, and the cultural phenomena is growing. 

Of course, humorless liberals can't stand it. Their heads are exploding. Liberal media commentators are melting down on air. Other leftists are trying to get "Let's Go Brandon!" merchandise banned. 

Why are they reacting with such anxiety and emotion now? Well, it's just another example of the left's totalitarian impulse. 

I suspect another explanation is that the whole point of the leftist juggernaut is control and conformity. It wants you to feel alone and isolated in the new America they're trying to create. 

But there are more of us than there are of them. And they know that when a chant at a football game becomes a chart-topping hit, conservatives are discovering that there is strength in numbers and there are more of us than we thought. 

That's just my theory. I can't prove it. But the left's reaction to a silly phrase is way over-the-top.