{"id":63479,"date":"2024-10-25T15:57:06","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T22:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=63479"},"modified":"2024-11-08T13:31:38","modified_gmt":"2024-11-08T21:31:38","slug":"gop-leaders-in-congress-are-outraged-at-kamala-harris-but-not-trump-for-talking-about-fascism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=63479","title":{"rendered":"GOP Leaders in Congress are OUTRAGED at Kamala Harris (But Not Trump) for Talking About Fascism"},"content":{"rendered":"

The unprecedented cowardice of Republicans in Congress has been among the most disappointing developments of the Era of Donald Trump. Despite the fact that many of them righteously condemned Trump during and immediately after the January 6th insurrection that he incited, most have relapsed into the catatonic state of worship that is mandated by cult leaders.<\/p>\n

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The blindly obsequious members of America’s Legislative branch of government include its GOP leaders Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House, and Mitch McConnel, Republican minority leader in the Senate. They are the standard bearers of the Republican Party’s far-right MAGA wing who have managed to achieve new records of incompetence at their respective jobs.<\/p>\n

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Now these extraordinarily inept so-called “leaders”<\/em> have sent out a furious press release<\/a><\/strong> expressing their seething displeasure at recent remarks by Vice-President Kamala Harris. She was asked by a reporter whether she agreed with some of Trump’s former White House staffers that he is a fascist, and she replied in the affirmative. That triggered the missive by Johnson and McConnell (whom we shall henceforth refer to collectively as “JoMac”<\/em>) calling on Harris to “End The Dangerous Rhetoric.”<\/em> It said in part that…<\/p>\n

“[Harris] has only fanned the flames beneath a boiling cauldron of political animus. Her most recent and most reckless invocations of the darkest evil of the 20th century seem to dare it to boil over. […]<\/p>\n

“Vice President Harris may want the American people to entrust her with the sacred duty of executive authority. But first, she must abandon the base and irresponsible rhetoric that endangers both American lives and institutions. […]<\/p>\n

“And we call on the Vice President to take these threats seriously, stop escalating the threat environment.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So JoMac are accusing Harris, in flamboyantly colorful terms, of having “fanned the flames beneath a boiling cauldron of political animus.”<\/em> Never mind that it was actually a group of close Trump associates who were minding the political crock pot. They include Trump’s White House Chief of Staff, Gen. John Kelly, his Defense Secretary, Gen. James Mattis, and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Mark Milley. All of these respected military officers who were appointed by Trump now agree that he is a fascist. And they oughta know.<\/p>\n

What’s more, the position that Trump is a dangerous, aspiring dictator is shared by Trump’s former National Security Advisor, John Bolton, another one of his Defense Secretaries, Mark Esper, and more than 700 national security officials<\/a><\/strong> who have endorsed Kamala Harris for president.<\/p>\n

JoMac went on to demand that Harris, who was merely agreeing with Trump’s people, “abandon the base and irresponsible rhetoric”<\/em> and “stop escalating the threat environment.”<\/em> However, JoMac never bothers to make the same request of their Dear Leader Trump. They must not have heard him say that<\/a> “Joe Biden and the fascists that control him are a threat to democracy.”<\/em> Or that<\/a> “Every time the Radical Left Democrats, Marxists, Communists, and Fascists indict me, I consider it a GREAT BADGE OF HONOR.”<\/em> Or that<\/a> “We are going to WIN BIG and take our Country back from the Radical Left Losers, Fascists, and Communists.”<\/em><\/p>\n

JoMac neglected to mention the countless times Trump has referred to Harris as a “communist, Marxist, fascist.”<\/em> CNN documented<\/a><\/strong> a few of those attacks that took place recently. Such as Trump saying that \u201cShe\u2019s a Marxist, communist, fascist, socialist”<\/em> at an Arizona rally. Or that “This is a radical-left, Marxist, communist, fascist,”<\/em> which Trump said at a news conference. Or that “We have a fascist person running who\u2019s incompetent,”<\/em> which Trump told his glassy-eyed rally-goers at a Virginia campaign stop.<\/p>\n

JoMac also must have missed it when Trump’s running mate, JD Vance, said that Trump might be “America’s Hitler.”<\/em><\/a><\/strong> Which is a sentiment that millions of Americans share. According to a new ABC News\/Ipsos poll<\/a><\/strong>, “Nearly half of Americans say they view former President Trump as a fascist.”<\/em> That includes “46 percent of independents and 12 percent of Republicans.”<\/em><\/p>\n

All in all, there is an astonishingly strong consensus, across a broad range of Americans, that Trump is a threat to democracy, with authoritarian aspirations, who must never be permitted to hold any office of power again. But JoMac are incapable of seeing this reality. They are as indoctrinated into the Trump cult as the rubes who attend his rallies wearing desecrated flag fashions.<\/p>\n

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