Isn’t it odd that Jerry Nadler, Adam Schiff and a rogue’s
gallery of Democratic congressmen have repeatedly and vociferously called the
President Donald J. Trump a dictator and compared him to Adolph Hitler, conveniently
ignoring the fact that they themselves are not making those statements in some
American Gulag between Solzhenitsyn-like torture sessions, which they would be
doing if it were true.
There’s something very Alice In Wonderlandish about such
outlandish claims but let’s face it, in the New Left such a thing as Objective
Reality is a bastard child that can be ignored and even done away lightly when
it stands in the way of the New Left weltanschauung. Because the New Left’s
narrative doesn’t quite mesh with the reality of today’s thundering economy or
the renewed standing of the United States in the community of Nations then we
must ignore the blazingly obvious.
So Trump is a Hitler?
Well, while it’s still available and before the New Left flushes it down
Orwell’s “memory hole” a couple of historic examples of actual Hitler-like
behavior in American Presidents might be in order.
President Andrew Jackson was a famed politician and general
before ascending to the presidency and was the driving force behind the
expulsion of Native American Indians to reservations from their original
territories. Forced expulsion. Jackson
was a member of the Democratic-Republican Party, a direct antecedent of today’s
Democratic Party.
Franklin Roosevelt, he of the New Deal, was responsible for
the forced internment of tens of thousands of Japanese Americans in mid-west
relocation camps during World War Two, deeply violating their civil rights and
costing them untold amounts of money in lost property and businesses on the
West Coast. Roosevelt also attempt to
add justices to the United States Supreme Court because he didn’t like they way
they eventually found that most of the New Deal was unconstitutional. Roosevelt
was, you guessed it, a Democratic.
President Lyndon Johnson used the Gulf of Tonkin incident – manufactured
out of whole cloth for political reasons – to ramrod enabling legislation through
Congress that greatly increased the war making powers of the President at his
sole discretion and was the playground slide that took the United States to the
bottom of the morass that was the Vietnam War.
That was Lyndon Johnson, a Democrat.
Any of these three examples could be credibly called “Hitler-like”
actions. I have yet to hear any of Trump’s
actions that approach the Hitler threshold.
