Guest Post by Pat Buchanan
If this is the level of discourse from Beto and Bernie, 2020 looks to be one of the ugliest campaigns in American history.
During an Iowa town hall last week, “Beto” O’Rourke, who had pledged to raise the level of national discourse, depicted President Donald Trump’s rhetoric as right out of Nazi Germany.
Trump “describes immigrants as ‘rapists’ and ‘criminals’” and as “‘animals’ and ‘an infestation,’” said Beto.
“Now, I might expect someone to describe another human being as ‘an infestation’ in the Third Reich. I would not expect it in the United States of America.” The crowd lustily cheered the analogy.
By week’s end, Beto’s Third Reich comparison had been matched in nastiness by Bernie Sanders’ description of the president to the cheering activists of Al Sharpton’s National Action Network:
“It gives me no pleasure to say this but today we have a president who is a racist, sexist, a homophobe, a xenophobe and a religious bigot.”
Sanders managed to appeal to almost all elements of the Democrats’ coalition by accusing Trump of hating blacks, women, gays, foreigners and Muslims.
Sanders’ outline of Trump calls to mind Hillary Clinton’s now-famous attack on the white working-class folks who would give Trump his victory:
“(Y)ou could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables … racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic — you name it … he has lifted them up.”
Where Hillary’s slander of the Donald’s MAGA constituents as a thoroughly rotten crowd of Americans came two months before the 2016 election, Bernie’s assault on Trump’s character comes fully 20 months before the 2020 election.
If this is the level of discourse from Beto and Bernie, two of the leading candidates for the nomination, two years from Election Day, 2020 looks to be one of the ugliest campaigns in American history.
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And what does it say about democracy if this is the character of politics at the highest level in the world’s leading democracy?
When such language is deployed without admonition from the major media, what does that say about the sincerity of the media’s calls to unite and heal the country?
And if Democratic leaders are openly massaging the hatreds of the party base with such slanders, what does it tell us about those leaders?
If they believe such charges — “It is the truth and we need to confront that,” said Sanders — why do Democrats not impeach and remove such a ogre? Why has Nancy Pelosi ruled that out?
At the end of a week where he withdrew his nominee to head Immigration and Customs Enforcement and saw the departure of his Secretary of Homeland Security, Trump, referring to the 175,000 migrants apprehended crossing the U.S. border in February and March, protested repeatedly, “Our country is full.”
Echoes of Hitler’s Germany, said The Washington Post:
“Adolf Hitler promised ‘living space’ for Germans as the basis of an expansionist project, which historians said distinguishes the Third Reich from today’s xenophobic governments. Still, experts found parallels.
“‘The echoes do indeed remind one of the Nazi period, unfortunately,’ John Connelly, a historian of modern Europe at the University of California at Berkeley, said in an interview with The Washington Post.
“‘The exact phrasing may be different, but the spirit is very similar. The concern about an ethnic, national people not having proper space — this is something you could definitely describe as parallel to the 1930s.’
“The president’s words became even more freighted when he repeated them on Saturday before the Republican Jewish coalition in Las Vegas, saying, ‘Our country is full, can’t come. I’m sorry.’”
Trump’s actions and words last week do seem to portend tougher action on illegal immigration, but one need not look to Nazi Germany for precedents. They may be found in our own history.
The 1924 immigration act restricted legal immigration into the U.S. and imposed ethnic quotas. That was American, not Nazi, law and was enforced by Presidents Coolidge, Hoover, FDR, Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy.
Eisenhower, who led the Allies to victory over Germany, sent Gen. Joseph Swing to the U.S. border to remove a million people who had entered Texas illegally from Mexico, which the general proceeded to do.
Ike had crushed fascism and understood that securing the homeland against illegal mass migration is fascism only in the minds of those who have forgotten, if ever they knew, what a country is.
From his words and actions, Trump clearly senses that this may be the existential issue of his presidency: Can he secure the border against what seems to be an unstoppable invasion from the global south?
Nor is this only an American issue. In the capitals of Europe — Budapest, Berlin, Paris, Rome, London, Madrid — the gnawing fear is not of Vladimir Putin leading a mighty Russian army back to the Elbe to recreate Stalin’s empire, but of the African and Muslim hundreds of millions looking hungrily north to the pleasant lands of the former mother countries.
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“Can he secure the border against what seems to be an unstoppable invasion from the global south?”
Of course. One hundred percent! One hundred percent!
How? Build a wall? Tax remittances back to Mexico? Hire Chris Kobach? E-Verify? End chain migration? You know; all the bullshit he peddled to sucker deplorable voters into electing him.
Naaah.
He’s gonna announce: ‘Our country is full, can’t come. I’m sorry.’
Can’t you see all those wetbacks on the way to the u.s. border turning to each other and saying “I guess we need to turn back Pedro. The country is full.
What’s actually going to happen is he’ll wave the shiny object in front of those benighted saps who still trust him with a shake up of Homeland Security so he can say hey, I really tried but those mean old dummos wouldn’t help me.
The pitiful silver lining is that Pat’s belief in democracy appears to be waning. About time, Pat.
I hope these people of color burn down half this country .I hope they hang a few white liberals. It’s the only thing that will wake up white people. The only reason these people are at our board is because of Jews and Jewish Money but no one including the author will say it.Pathetic
The folks on the left remind me of Nazis.
Nazis – no. But they ARE Bolsheviks; totalitarian minded Trotskyites.
“And what does it say about democracy if this is the character of politics at the highest level in the world’s leading democracy?”
This sentence says more about Pats understanding of the republic than anything else.
Before the term “racism” gained traction, the word was “prejudice”. You were told not to be prejudiced, or as people said “I’m not prejudice” (no d). The idea was to give every individual a fair chance. Not to say that it happened fully, but it seemed reasonable. Of course, fairness or no fairness, white people had enough sense to avoid the ghetto. Now they’ve defined racism so broadly that trying to be open-minded and fair isn’t good enough. You’re supposed to shun your own kind and pretend not to notice the dysfunctional behaviors of the various minorities. So fuck it. If not liking garbage on the streets or preferring to avoid brawls inside McDonald’s makes a person a racist, there are a lot of people who will gladly accept the label racist. Think about that. The fucking left is actually turning people into self-acknowledged and shame-free “racists”.
Same thing with sexism, homophobia and the rest. It’s one thing to want women to have a shot at a job they can do adequately. It’s another to pretend that a 135 pound woman firefighter can carry a 230 pound person out of a burning house. It’s one thing to leave gays in peace to do whatever they want to do in private. It’s another thing to be forced to call a 6’5″ guy in a skirt a “woman”.
So let the Left call everyone names and the Normals will respond with a collective yawn.
Heterosexual white males have become fourth-class citizens (subjects?) in our own country.
Here is a breakdown of the classes that presently exist:
–illegal alien–first class–able to violate just about any American law with impunity including murder, identity fraud, public benefits fraud, etc. (that would get a lower class status individual arrested, fined and incarcerated)
–certain minorities–second class–hispanics and black Americans receiving “public assistance”–still covered under so-called “civil-rights” statutes, the same as illegal aliens…slightly less immunity from lawbreaking.
–certain other minorities–third-class–hispanics and blacks who are here legally and NOT receiving public benefits…slightly less immunity from lawbreaking.
–white females–also third class–covered under certain provisions of “civil-rights” statutes…slightly less immunity from lawbreaking.
–white heterosexual males–fourth class–expected to obey all laws, unlike the above classes–expected to WORK and pay the majority of taxes in order to support the previous three classes. In addition, according to the “civil-rights” division of the U S “justice department” (actually “just us” department) white heterosexual males ARE NOT protected by “civil-rights” laws–except for the abolition of “freedom of association” (only for white males) replaced by “public accommodation” statutes…NO immunity from even inadvertent lawbreaking–even when unintentional.
As to the “boomer generation” being held responsible for many of today’s ills, I only partially agree. Those who were anti-Vietnam war protesters got most of the good jobs both in government and academia and were able to embed their left-wing communist politics within government and academia while those of us who served were marginalized and “frozen out” of the promised jobs for returning veterans, despite laws establishing veterans preferences for such jobs. The hiring managers were mostly draft-dodgers themselves.
I blame those of the “greatest generation” (WW2) for most of today’s ills. Passing so-called “civil-rights” laws, (but only against whites), enforcing them at the point of federal bayonets, and destroying true “freedom of association” but only for whites and Christians did more to add to our present screwed-up situation than just about any other action.
While enacted in (somewhat) “good faith”, these “civil-rights” laws have morphed into the monstrosity that we live under today. Every “protected” group is now clamoring for special “protections”. From minorities to homosexuals, transgenders and (soon to be legalized) pedophiles are demanding special “protections” not available to heterosexual white males.
As an aide, it is interesting to note that “separation of church and state” does not apply to jews. Just look at the proliferation of jewish menorah displays on public property with “not a peep” from the jew-run anti-religion crowd. It’s only Christians who are to be marginalized and driven from the public sphere. Just sayin’
This shit is crazy.
Trump should never have a televised debate. Don’t elevate these scum bags.
Just huge rallies. Many in places that won’t count like Idaho and Wyo.ing.
Even in rural areas of California.
Anarchist ,you are on a roll today. White males have no protection from these civil Rights law and the niggers Lord it over us. They know the only reason white men put up with their vile shit is because this government is making us on behalf of the fucking Jews who owns the Congress. And please don’t anyone tell me Jews are our friends or Israel is a nation we must protect .. The Rothschilds create Israel and they are Satanist. The flag of Israel has a damn pentagran on it and that symbol is used in Witchcraft all over the world. Wake up for our sake.( White Men ). We are being fucked all over by people who hate us. Especially the so called Jews. They are pagans who stole the identity of the old testament Hebrews.