The New Yorker--And I'm Not Making This Up: "What Does It Mean That Donald Trump Is A Fascist"

These people have simply lost their @#$%ing minds.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but there is all the difference in the world between:

(a) What does it mean to say that Donald Trump is a fascist.

and

(b) What does it mean that Donald Trump is a fascist.

Not that (a) isn't insane enough...

The Orwellian psychopaths at the New Yorker clearly mean what they wrote. They're not as linguistically adept as they like to think they are...but they're good enough to get this right.

So that's to say:

Donald Trump is a fascist.

What are the implications?

Well, here are some per the subtitle:

Trump takes the tools of dictators and adapts them for the Internet. We should expect him to try to cling to power until death, and create a cult of January 6th martyrs. 

Well now, there's a couple of what we call testable predictions...

Wonder whether anyone at the New Yorker would like to put some money on them?

Nah...didn't think so...

In closing:

I'm not the world's biggest Trump fan.

But let me repeat myself repeating myself:

You asshats are a totalitarian, Orwellian cult.

Trump has proven himself to be a better-than-average President when he can keep it between the ditches.

This includes proving himself to be a federalist.

He ain't perfect.

But he is--far and away--better than you people.

In fact, part of why he's needed is that he's opposing you.

And you are horrible.

[Note: I just saw that this is Timothy Snyder. As I've said before, I though Bloodlands was good...though, like my history buff FIL, I didn't make it all the way through. It was just too much. But politically, Snyder is an abject hack. On Tyranny--more a pamphlet than a book--turns into a thinly-concealed anti-Trump screed. He's a member in good standing of the progressive cult.

So no wonder.]