Posted on 08/13/2020 6:00:14 AM PDT by Kaslin
In reading George Will’s recent column (“The Difference between Trumpism and fascism”), I was struck by a few things: his elitist anti-Trump tone, his denigration of the President’s supporters and his lack of understanding of Donald Trump’s appeal. The thing which struck me most, however, was not a failure to know the past, but his inability to apply the lessons of history to the present. He recites the basics of the history of fascism while completely missing how that history applies to the current situation.
What is it about Donald Trump that so offends George Will? Does the President fail Will’s ideological purity test? Is it the tweeting? Is it that most of Donald Trump’s supporters probably never subscribed to National Review? Or is it something as petty as the recognition that most of the President’s supporters are not members of the elites? They don’t belong to the country clubs that so-called Republicans like George Will belong to, and probably prefer it that way.
It is interesting that in his recitation of the history of fascism, Mr. Will fails to see the obvious: that the historical circumstances that shaped it and the ideological theories which Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini and others believed in, apply not to Donald Trump and his followers but to the very people who are trying to defeat the President and lead this country down a destructive path of rigid intellectual, economic, and social control.
One difference between the 20th century fascists and that of today is that the left has bypassed the brownshirt phase and gone straight to black. You don’t see Trump supporters attacking the police. You don’t see them burning down precinct houses or churches.
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His name is Will, but he Won’t.
George Will is an atheist. Trump may be rough around the edges, but he is a believer in Christ. Rev Franklin Graham said so, and I believe him. George Will HATES God, and therefore hates Trump.
Will doesn’t write for National Review.
Good
I think it’s about “the rule of law” and Trump’s total rejection of it. He believes he is the law, and whatever he does is legal, ipso facto of his having been the one to do it.
Wait whut????? What have you been injecting?
George Will is PROBABLY knee deep in the child sex ring...that’s the only reason I can think of.
George Will didn’t reach advanced stage TDS in the last four years. This is a long held contempt for PT and his supporters.
Don’t get me started on Ana Navarro and Jennifer Rubin! LOL
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