Throughout the entire time that we’ve been dealing with Donald Trump the politician, we’ve been forced to endure the same, tired clichés.
You see, the left wanted very badly to paint Trump as the interjecting force against which the righteous among us would rebel. He represented the evil empire, to put it obtusely, and thus “the resistance” was born.
Of course, this was really just a ploy by the Democrats to frame any Washington-outsider as a threat and force their minions to reaffirm the faith…but that’s another lesson for another day.
In either case, Trump has always been lazily cast as the ultimate in evil.
This week, even the normally diligent folks over at ABC fell into this low effort fare.
ABC News senior national correspondent Terry Moran compared former President Donald Trump’s control over the Republican Party to a “Caesar” and a “Fuhrer” Wednesday on his network’s coverage of the second impeachment of Donald Trump.
Moran said, “Whatever you think of this case, they have risen to the moment. This is an atrocity in our history, an atrocity against our Democracy, and the care with which the Democratic House managers of this impeachment trial have come prepared, their argument is organized, they are ringing the notes of patriotism and the emotion of the attack itself, and surrounding that with what they hope is an evidentiary trail from Donald Trump to that attack. That is their challenge here.”
And then…
Moran added, “One more thing, which is the way that Republicans just aren’t going to budge. Whatever the nature of this argument, whatever the nature of the fact, is because I think we heard it in these vivid videos that the House Democrats are playing, ‘Fight for Trump, fight for Trump, fight for Trump.’ Not, ‘Fight for America.’ He has the Republican Party as a personalized power like we have not seen. It’s a Caudillo, it’s a Caesar, it’s a Fuhrer. We don’t see that in this country. We do now.”
Of course, it should be remembered that making comparisons between modern day events and the Nazi party’s atrocities is highly frowned upon by the Jewish Anti-defamation League, as it desensitizes today’s society to the horrors of The Holocaust.
