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and yet they call President Trump Hitler!

nowhere is more TDS-afflicted than taxpayer-funded ABC TV Australia’s Q&A program:

37m42s to 39m10s:

VIDEO: 1h6m: 21 Sept: ABC TV Australia: Q&A: US Election 2020: Four More Years?
Transcript:
ELEANORE WELLS (black American living in Australia): My question for the panel is, regardless of whether Trump wins or not, has he shown a much smarter autocrat how it’s done? Like, could we have another Hitler or some other horrendous... It doesn’t seem far-fetched to me. I’m worried...
HAMISH MACDONALD, ABC: That’s a pretty extreme comparison to draw.
ELEANORE WELLS: Is it?
HAMISH MACDONALD: Well, Hitler...
ELEANORE WELLS: Is it?
HAMISH MACDONALD: Hitler was responsible for the death of six million Jews.
ELEANORE WELLS: Is it extreme? I don’t think it’s extreme because...
HAMISH MACDONALD: Trump hasn’t done anything like that.
ELEANORE WELLS: Hitler didn’t start out this big. It was a small thing and it grew. So just... Let me finish. So, he... We don’t know at what point in the trajectory it is. But it doesn’t sound far-fetched to me at all.
HAMISH MACDONALD: OK. Cole?
***COLE BROWN: Yeah, I actually... I totally agree. I mean, you know, Hitler obviously has been mentioned as a major and extreme example. But the sort of descent into fascism, the descent into chaos is a gradual one. And in the history of empires, America is not that old. So, I think that this understanding, this sort of belief that the music will keep playing forever and we’ll stay... That’s just not true. I think democracies ultimately decline when they’re not tended to. And...and...what’s happening right now, you’re seeing sort of day in and day out as precedent is violated, Donald Trump sort of dismantling that democracy...
https://www.abc.net.au/qanda/2020-21-09/12671124

***COLE BROWN is a “privileged” 24-year-old Ethiopian-American, who only arrived in Australia this year, but has been adopted by our insane media as a commentator on US politics!

15 Sept: NYT Book review: What It Means to Be the ‘Token’ Black Kid in a Rich, White World
By Michael Pina
GREYBOY: Finding Blackness in a White World by COLE BROWN
For Cole Brown, the 24-year-old author of “Greyboy” — a debut essay collection that reflects his futile quest to pin down questions that won’t sit still — growing up as the rare Black child in a world of white privilege is at once an unavoidable affliction and a golden ticket.

The son of a Fortune 100 executive and grandson of Ethiopia’s first female senator, Brown grew up vacationing on Martha’s Vineyard. He belonged to the Philadelphia Cricket Club, took model rocketry courses at summer camp and went to storied private schools. He has access, opportunity and wealth. As an undergraduate finance major at Georgetown, Brown aspired to one day work at Goldman Sachs...
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/15/books/review/greyboy-cole-brown.html

COLE on Antifa vs white nationalist violence - approx 45m to 48m - with push-back from conservative, John Ruddick, but agreement from Hoggard (staffer with Reagan & Geo W Bush) & Morris (ex-BBC), is equally insane, and helped by Wray’s FBI lie:

COLE BROWN: Yeah, I mean, Antifa exists. One, I think to call it a group is probably to give it too much credit. I mean, there’s not clear, sort of, organisation there. But, two, what he often attempts to do is create some degree of parity between it and white nationalist organisations, of which there is none. The extent of violence that white nationalist organisations are responsible for in these places is sort of off the charts as compared to this sort of loose assembly of people.
JOHN RUDDICK: Name one. Name one example of right-wing violence this year...
COLE BROWN: There was a shooting just, like, two weeks ago.
KIM HOGGARD: The FBI, everyone says it.
JOHN RUDDICK: Right-wing people, conservative people are peaceful people. Now, right now...right now, Mitch McConnell’s home is being surrounded by a mob...
JOHN RUDDICK: Give me an example of right-wing violence this year. Give me one example. You can’t.
KIM HOGGARD: Charlottesville, Virginia, to start with.
COLE BROWN: That wasn’t this year. There was one two weeks ago...
KYLIE MORRIS
I’ll do my best. I mean, Kenosha, Wisconsin – I think there is a fairly clear example of someone who came to defend territory and land.
JOHN RUDDICK: No, that person was about to be shot himself. That’s quite...
KYLIE MORRIS: Well, OK. You can frame that, but you wanted an example of violence. There’s an example of violence. Certainly, if you cover these protests, generally, standing back in the corner – this was true for me in Ferguson, this was true for me in Baltimore – up on the roofs, you know, on the awnings, guarding shops, are white vigilantes. So, they are men who’ve turned up, and they’re carrying semiautomatic weapons...
JOHN RUDDICK: They didn’t start the violence, they were reacting to violence...