The left’s mask slips on brazen Trump bias

New York Post ^ | August 21, 2022 | Miranda Devine

[TBP]

Sam Harris deserves our gratitude. With dazzling honesty, the liberal atheist public intellectual from LA has said out loud what we all knew but which his ilk have blurred for the past two years: Once you decide Donald Trump is the second coming of Adolf Hitler, then anything is legitimate to stop him — and, yes, everything illegitimate was done to stop him in 2020, and it was “warranted.”

Now that the Orange Hitler is lining himself up for a second tilt at the presidency, it’s OK to suspend democracy again to stop him.

This mass delusion of the left, that the former guy is “an existential threat to democracy” and a “moral emergency,” as Harris described it on British podcast “Triggernometery” last week, has metastasized under a president afflicted with a bad case of Trump derangement syndrome.

It has progressed to the next stage, of stigmatizing and dehumanizing Trump’s supporters, which has echoes in some of the darkest periods of 20th-century history. The dozens of Trump supporters held in a DC jail without trial for months and even years over Jan. 6 offenses, many nonviolent, would be recognized immediately as political prisoners by Amnesty International if they were detained in a country like Russia.

[FormerFRLurker]

The Democrats are the second coming of Adolf Hitler.

Nobody is the second coming of Hitler. Hitler was a uniquely evil individual. Both sides could stand to dial back on the emotion and the comparisons to Nazis. A puppet like Biden has nowhere near the power that Hitler had.

[FormerFRLurker]

Amnesty International and other pro-democracy groups should update their definition of “suspend democracy” to include FBI investigations of private citizens as well.