Posted on 08/29/2022 5:07:24 AM PDT by MtnClimber
For the Left, Donald Trump is synonymous with “fascism” (or “semi-fascism,” as Joe Biden put it the other day). And for Liz Cheney and most of the NeverTrumpers, he remains an existential threat to democracy.
But to quantify those charges, what exactly has Trump done extralegally—as opposed to his bombast and braggadocio about what he might have wished to have done?
And what are the standards by which to judge this supposed menace? Did Trump illegally and with a mere signature nullify over $300 billion of contracted student loans—to firm up his college-student and college-graduate base nine weeks before the midterm elections?
Did Donald Trump weaponize the feared IRS, the logical place to find fascistic tendencies of any president bent on using government to punish his enemies? Did he push through a plan to add 87,000 new IRS investigative agents at a time of national discord?
For the last five years, Trump was rumored to be under investigation by the IRS. Currently, his accountant is facing felony sentencing for advising improper write-offs.
Certainly, from the contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop and the remarks of Hunter’s associates like Tony Bobulinksi, the Biden family raked in millions of foreign dollars. Evidence so far suggests Joe Biden was a recipient (as the “Big Guy”) of 10 percent of these quid pro quo payments. At times, Bobulinksi may have sent a strapped and broke Hunter thousands of dollars in cash gifts. Were any of these stealthy transactions taxed? Does the recently heavily Biden-endowed IRS care?
If Trump wished to abuse his power over the IRS, he would have followed the Obama model of weaponizing it during a reelection year to go after his ideological enemies.
In Obama’s case, the tax agency slow-walked or denied nonprofit status for groups whose ideology was deemed not helpful
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Calling Trump “Semi-Fascist” is leftist projection.
VDH ping
I have wondered where the US Pol Pot or Pinochet will come from. Having a Gulag in DC creates revolutionaries.
The slamming of dissent creates a Vesuvius impetus. The demunist effort to silence dissent impels just the opposite: I had thought the dems were smart about their power games.
https://nitter.net/FKeithH/status/1564218310711025664?cursor=LBkGJQQRAAA%3D#r
The Left can still utterly derail conservatives into the “real racists” and “real fascists” word game. They do not care what you call them. They cannot be shamed.
I’m having trouble remembering all the names we are called
Trump is an unconventional person who has demonstrated by his wealth, by winning the presidency, and by succeeding while in office that unconventional people have qualities completely missing from those who have so carefully obeyed the Establishment.
That is an existential threat to "sheep" like Liz Cheney and the Establishment itself.
Is it any surprise that their prime directive is "Trump Must Die!"
If Trump had tried to use government agencies to single out political enemies, bureaucrats who are anti-Trump would have immediately leaked it to the media and ran to their allies for protection. Louis Lerner, for example, did Obama’s dirty work without receiving punishment, because she was his ideological ally.
My point? Trump couldn’t have weaponized these agencies, because the bureaucratic state hates Trump and does whatever it can to stop him.
Biden’s exact words: “I’m going to say something, it’s like semi-fascism”
what a namby pamby
c’mon man!
if you are going to attack your political enemies you need to go whole hog
remember “they are going to put y’all in chains”?
i think he stumbled on this one
besides the fact that it is not even believable
Will the real fascist please stand up.
What has Trump done that’s so awful?
Mean tweets.
Brilliant article, well worded, by one of the foremost, if not the most foremost conservative scholars of our day.
The exercise of putting the shoe on the other foot is a valuable one, and he just wrote a clinic on that practice in his article.
I love me some VDH.
That’s been my question to the liberals spouting off about Trump being a liar & a racist. They can never give me an example, at least not one that is actually true.
VDH can underwhelm me at times but that commentary made some excellent points.
I’ll pass it along to the few millennials I meet who can process rhetorical questions.
Let me rephrase your question. Why do they fear him? I don’t think it’s because of the mean tweets or even his policies. Possibly because he wants to remake the Republican Party to be the party of the working class. Definitely because Trump cannot be controlled by the Establishment.
Well, President Trump stands for, and defends:
our borders, the sovereignty of the United States, the Constitution, the lives of the unborn, our American values and history, and other things that the left despises. The ‘mean’ tweets are incidental. What they really hate is the fact he is an American patriot who opposes the agenda of the New World Order. For that he must be stopped.
VHD
bump for later
He’s not a civilized - read controllable - politician.
He likes the fights. Like no other modern President. The man steps into the arena, instead of merely publicizing it for the masses.
Evidence so far suggests Joe Biden was a recipient (as the “Big Guy”) of 10 percent.
Xi’s investment paid off 1000 fold
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