Posted on 05/07/2016 9:06:52 AM PDT by billorites
The United States is now moving in high gear into the most interesting election campaign it has had since 1968, and without the constant riots that occurred throughout that election year and surely, the assassinations (of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy) that shocked the world. As Canada has had a unique ringside seat on American people and events since before the American Revolution, we might dare to hope that the Canadian media would have a more insightful view of the presidential selection process than the usual Americophobic condescensions and alarmist shrieks of the international left group-think that afflicts most of the media on other continents.
The BBC and the Guardian, Le Monde, Der Spiegel and other printed imitations of Uriah Heep, have been wringing their hands raw and their alarm bells threadbare at the prospect of the U.S. Republican party being seized by the gnarled and furry hands of a caveman. Unfortunately, the Canadian media have generally failed to exercise the opportunity to see these events in their true light. I doubt if we will have to wait until the Republican convention in Cleveland to hear of the desecration of the party of Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Eisenhower and Reagan (and Richard Nixon, but he has still not been entirely liberated from the fictitious Watergate doghouse).
Donald Trump has been portrayed by the chief assassin of American history (albeit a bloodless one), Bob Woodward, slayer of Nixon, as “a fascist.” I was asked, in apparent earnest, on BBC’s flagship program News Night two weeks ago if Trump were not another Mussolini. I was reduced to Margaret Thatcher’s old rhetorical rejoinder: “Do my ears deceive me?” I gently remarked that Donald Trump does not dress his followers in black shirts, march on the capitol, murder his chief opponent..< SNIP>
(Excerpt) Read more at news.nationalpost.com ...
What I get out of this is MLK and Robert Kennedy were killed because the American People wouldn’t listen and this was the only way to get our attention.....
Don’t try that stunt again, not this time folks, it won’t work...
We are on the Crimes of the Clinton/Bush families, we are in an ‘internet’ world and we know things that back then we didn’t know, we are not drinking the ‘Jim Jones’ Kool-Aid this time around...
Wasn’t it Obama who vowed to use his ‘pen and cell phone’ to circumvent Congress and the Constitution to implement his own personal agenda? How then does the left exactly define a fascist?
Fascism was an Italian thing under Mussolini, Nazism was a German thing based partially on Islam - 0bama is a plain old fashioned tyrant.
Obama has been the ultimate fascist.
This last eight years has been fascism on display.
You can see now how that worked out.
Trump is not a fascist.
Elitists like fascism far more than socialism. You already know why.
Horrors, the American citizens are going to elect an American President who looks out for Americans.
Definitely not a fascist, but definitely an authoritarian. From time to time, that works out well. Rudy G is one and he cleaned up NYC. Sheriff Arpairo is one and he has done amazing things. I lean towards the libertarian side on that scale, but sometimes the authoritarian leaning person can fix a mess others cannot or won’t.
Hilarious!!!
LOL
This is the point — four consecutive terms of presidential failure and congressional failure, in almost every area. This is an American record, surpassing the Taylor-Fillmore-Pierce-Buchanan run-up to the Civil War, and the presidents in the 1920s (Harding, Coolidge, Hoover) who gave the country isolationism, the closing down of immigration, enforcement of Prohibition and the Great Depression. In the circumstances, it is a testament to the strength of American democracy that the leader of the opposition isn’t a rabble-rousing street bully like Mussolini.
In a nutshell...
Rules for being a leader:
1. Find a parade and get around in front of it.
2. Step off smartly and march to the tempo beat.
3. Glance back from time to time to make sure the parade is still behind you.
Most of the “real conservatives” we elect go to Washington, join forces with the democrats and govern like radical leftists.
If Trump just does 4 of the things he has promised he will be 400% ahead of all the “real conservatives” and “real republicans”
who are whining that he isn’t a real republican worthy of their vote.
This is GOOD! Thanks for the article! I had only one quibble and that was his lumping Coolidge in with ineffective Presidents.
Great word pictures that evoke Ron Moody's oily performance in "David Copperfield".
EXACTLY!!!
1. Find a parade and get around in front of it.
2. Step off smartly and march to the tempo beat.
3. Glance back from time to time to make sure the parade is still behind you.
Obama's rule for being a leader:
1) Start walking down the street in traffic telling everyone to get in line behind you,
2) Wander aimlessly, beating an old drum to no particular cadence.
3)Announce loudly about the millions in line behind you, (Ya, sure!)
The O’Conomy has gotten so bad the Nigerians are sending my eMails to their spam folders.
Obama has screwed things up so bad that Kenya gave their “Home Of Barack Obama” sign to Somalia.
Somalia sent it to Iran.
A Muslim, an illegal alien, a homosexual, a cocaine addict and a communist walk into a Chicago men’s club…
The towel boy says “Hello Mr. President”.
Maybe Paul Ryno and NRO can adopt the epithets uttered by Dems about Nixon’s 1968 “Southern Strategy.”
Ooops! They already are! And, another similarity, those party defectors in ‘68 were heavily motivated by patriotism and rule of law. This time it is a coup instead of a mass defection, but otherwise very familiar territory.
To quote myself: My TV is better, my knees are worse, but otherwise it feels a lot like 1968.
Ugh. Overwrought and overwritten. Couldn’t bring myself to read it in it’s entirety.
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