In perhaps the funniest “campaign memo” ever, Friday's New York Times declared that “Democrats have lost the fear of calling Trump a fascist” — as if Trump was riding an escalator. The moment I returned to 2015, it was as if that “fear” had not disappeared.
OK, fine: The Timesman's Jonathan Wiseman is talking about top Democrats are now credited with being liberated thanks to Kamala Harris telling Charlamagne, “Yes, we can say that,” plus Bob Woodward, retired Mark Milley, in his latest book. It quotes the general as calling Trump “a fascist through and through.”
but, Seriously?
Jamel Boyer made this clear in November 2015, not in a Times column, but in Slate.
According to Sen. Tim Kaine, Hillary Clinton's running mate, even though President Obama has only ever referred to him publicly as a “homegrown demagogue,” in 2016 Barack Obama・President Obama also reportedly used the F-word in private.
That same year, Adam Gopnik of the New Yorker and Robert Kagan of the Washington Post took up the “fascist” claims in their papers, as did Jeet Here in The New Republic.
TNR would later feature a “Hitler-esque” image of Trump on its cover. We believe that is also important.
President Biden gave a prime-time speech a year ago warning of “half-fascism,” and you could almost hear the coughing sound when he said “half.”
OK, they weren't the “top Democrats,” Wiseman says, and now he feels free to say it out loud. Meanwhile, his “news analysis” actually shows that Democrats, with the exception of weirdo Hillary Clinton, who claims the 2016 election was stolen from her, did so in the wake of Charlamagne's show. No one at the top is mentioned.
Oh, and Liz Cheney is still a Republican (at least for marketing purposes).
In other words, Wiseman's article did not report actual trends. It basically means more people (especially top Democrats!) start doing that.
And just for the record, ever since Democrats stopped praising the great work Benito Mussolini was doing in Italy, they've been accusing Republicans of fascism.
There is no evidence that it has ever worked other than to warm the heart tremors of those who have spoken ill of it.
Again, that's true for most things all Times advocacy disguised as journalism.
