Posted on 02/20/2018 4:08:43 PM PST by Ennis85
It’s en vogue for enraged liberals to compare Trumpism to Argentine Peronism, wielding the analogy as a warning about the potential apocalypse that they fear is about to engulf us. Most recently it was Larry Summers, a member of the Democratic establishment for decades, who took to Twitter to declare: “I worry about the Argentinization of US government.”
Summers sent the tweet after President Trump accused Democrats of treason and the media reported on the president’s childish wishes for a military parade. He employed a standard characterization of Peronism as an authoritarian movement, a familiar depiction that no doubt had many Americans nodding along.
It’s not only Democrats who treat Peronism as the poster child for dangerous authoritarianism. In April 2009, Rush Limbaugh weighed in on the imminent government bailout of General Motors and Chrysler: “The president of the United States, Barack Perón, will announce his Argentinian-like takeover of Chrysler.” Even more thoughtful scholars have recently argued that “Perón shows how Trump could destroy our democracy without tearing it down.”
Like so many familiar historical cliches, however, this one is incomplete, if not downright wrong. It ignores that the core of Peronism was a vision that is the exact opposite of Trumpism. Peronism led a process of expanding economic equality, collective organization and political enfranchisement. Trumpism, by contrast, builds upon American tendencies toward inequality, individualism and political disengagement.
In fact, the comparison reveals more about Democrats than about Trump. Although the more liberal party, Democrats prioritize safeguarding liberal institutions over advancing policy goals such as greater economic equality. In fact, they equate many efforts to achieve these goals — such as Peronism — with dangerous authoritarianism.
Peronism, and movements like it, undoubtedly remake society and politics, from ideas to institutions. But such challenges pose less of a threat to democracy
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So the left is against a military parade since it reminds them of North Korea..yet for the entire Olympics, these same loons were praising North Korea..and a few yrs ago Schmucky Shumer wanted a similar parade..the left calls anyone a dictator that they hate..life is only good for liberals when liberals control things
If he was actually a S. American dictator, the Washington Post’s staff would be under an actual post in the desert.
Hey Ernesto Seman, I see you have a little semen on your upper lip.
And Melania is Evita.
No wonder liberals have fallen off the deep end.
Don’t Cry For America.
If Trump doesn’t go full pinochet, complete with helicopter tours for the enemy within, America will be done.
Ahh, the finest journalism from the BezosPost.
Don’t expect Dims/Libruls/Proggies to start making sense anytime soon. It’s not in their nature.
YES! HE'S CLEANING UP THE CORRUPTION IN WASHINGTON AND THE NEWS MEDIA, AND HE'S REVERSING THE DECADENCE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION!
(No wonder these degenerate want to stop him at all costs!)
“the president’s childish wishes for a military parade.”
“Childish” wishes? Nice objective reporting, WaPo.
Tell me again what a works paradise Venezuela and Cuba are
it this is possible (abusing any of our constitutionally-recognized rights).... there seems to be far more abuse of the First Amendment (freedom of the press, etc.) than there ever has been of the Second Am.
just saying, how in the world could a major media outlet publish such mind-rot as the WashPost, anyway?
I mean, not only commie-leftist all the time, BUT IRRATIONAL and frequently hallucinating
Is this real? Hard to believe they went this far off the deep end.
If President Trump.....that’s right Ernesto....PRESIDENT Trump....if he was worse than a latin American dictator, Ernesto, you would be in a dungeon, stripped down, and tortured.
Your rag of a newspaper would be engulfed in flames, and everybody who works there would face a firing squad.
None of that happened, Ernesto Semen, nor will it ever happen under this president. So STFU, Ernesto.
Perot did a lot to destroy the Argentine economy, to take Argentina from one of the richest countries in the world to an economic basket-case.
Ernesto Semán approaches the question ideologically. But the practical effect of politicians, movements, and policies -- how things worked out in practice -- is more important than all the rhetoric and buzzwords.
You talk like somebody who’s read a few too many posts by communists posing as Freepers.
They say “Fascist”, “dictator”, etc, without any facts.
Typical name-calling liberals.
Liberals are the most intolerant, bigoted, stingiest, polluting, angry, unfriendly, greedy, fascist, hate-filled, mean-spirited, envious, resentful, vicious, close-minded, violent, murdering, child-abusing, amoral, stupid, censoring, horse-punching, book-burning, ignorant, uneducated, unskilled, childish, prejudiced, racist, women-hating, man-hating, perverted, thieving, destructive, American-hating, Christian-hating, muslim-loving, Jew-hating, Israel-hating, communist, vote-rigging, vulgar, dirty, smelly, election-rejecting, regressive, restrictive, prohibitive, bed-wetting, poo-flinging, cop-killing, conservative black hating, and scared little lying thumb-sucking idiots God has ever created.
A brainwashed by the left idiot, spewing Marxist political talking points not true knowledge nor rational analysis.
Translation: Trump’s not just a poopy-head, he’s a mega poopy-head. We hate him, we hate him, we hate him!
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