Senior Trump Official: We Were Wrong, He's a 'Fascist'

[Demovictory9]

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On Friday afternoon, 48 hours after the U.S. Capitol was stormed by violent insurrectionists encouraged by Donald Trump in an attempt to overthrow the government in protest of his election loss, a senior member of his administration spoke to me while he was driving to work.

“This is confirmation of so much that everyone has said for years now — things that a lot of us thought were hyperbolic. We’d say, ‘Trump’s not a fascist,’ or ‘He’s not a wannabe dictator.’ Now, it’s like, ‘Well, what do you even say in response to that now?’”

For four years, people like this official — lifelong Republican operatives — have convinced themselves that Trump’s obvious faults were worth tolerating if it meant implementing a conservative policy agenda. These officials believed the benefits of remaking the courts with conservative justices, or passing tax reform, outweighed the risks that a Trump presidency posed to democracy and to the reputation of the country in the world. Now, at the eleventh hour, with twelve days left before Joe Biden is sworn into office, it’s clear to some that it was always a delusion.
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“I went through Access Hollywood, Charlottesville — all of these insane things. There’s some degree of growing accustomed to the craziness. It’s not like my heart is racing, like, Oh, God, how am I supposed to react to this? It’s just more that I’m depressed. For people who devoted years of their lives to dealing with the insanity in an attempt to advance a policy agenda that you believe in, all of that has been wiped out. The legacy of the Trump administration is going to be that the president sparked an insurrection and people died because he tried his best to not abide by the Constitution and the tradition of a peaceful transition of power that’s been the norm since our founding. Nothing else is even going to be a side note.”


https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/01/capitol-riot-senior-trump-official-calls-him-a-fascist.html

[Squinch]

1. Assholes. No one wants to hear your 11th hour ass coverings.

[orwell]

2. What?

"Nothing else is even going to be a side note.”

How about 375,000 dead and counting asshole!

Fuck you! You enabled this monster!

[mnmoderatedem]

3. great that they could come to that revelation, four years too late

and to think all it took was umpteen million clubbings over the head.

[ananda]

4. Suddenly they're not blind it it?

I have to say... look what it took.

That is totally unacceptable. Trump
has been a fascist destroyer of innocents
and the country since day one!

[DeminPennswoods]

5. Confirming what we all knew, that

Trump was a useful idiot to get their "conservative agenda" passed. On Day 1, Dems need to write a bill that repeals every g-d one of the tax cuts, de-regulation, etc enacted during the last 4 years. If need be, Dems should end the senate filibuster to pass it for Biden's signature.

[Girard442]

6. Somebody just tossed the body of a dead terrorist out the 25th floor onto his car.

Welcome to the party, pal!

[PCIntern]

7. That was a terrific scene.

[BBbats]

8. No Shit,Sherlock!

Let's start a list of how many republican(I refuse to capitalize republican) asswipes are going to try and act like they didn't enable this.They knew damn well what Trump was.
I'd like to see a big "T" branded on their foreheads so they can't distance themselves.
We are going to see a lot,if not all of them,trying to cover their tracks!

[ancianita]

9. I FEEL NOTHING FOR THE UTTER, PERSISTENT STUPIDITY IN THEIR DNA.

Okay well SOMEthing

[Demonaut]

10. name these fucks!

no more "senior administration officials" or "top republican aide"

[Roisin Ni Fiachra]

11. Yep, he's a fascist, and possibly a flat out Ameri-Nazi.

Something is sinister, and way wrong, with Trump, and his family, and deep, thorough, long term investigations need to be done of them, and those who sponsored and assisted his ascent to the WH as well

When Nazis Took Manhattan

On the evening of Feb. 20, 1939, the marquee of New York's Madison Square Garden was lit up with the evening's main event: a "Pro American Rally." The organizers had chosen the date in celebration of George Washington's birthday and had procured a 30-foot-tall banner of America's first president for the stage. More than 20,000 men and women streamed inside and took their seats. The view they had was stunning: Washington was hung between American flags — and swastikas.

The rally was sponsored by the German American Bund, an organization with headquarters in Manhattan and thousands of members across the United States. In the 1930s, the Bund was one of several organizations in the United States that were openly supportive of Adolf Hitler and the rise of fascism in Europe. They had parades, bookstores and summer camps for youth. Their vision for America was a cocktail of white supremacy, fascist ideology and American patriotism.

At Madison Square Garden, the rally opened with the Pledge of Allegiance to the American flag. The mood was jubilant. Attendees wore Nazi armbands, waved American flags and held aloft posters with slogans like "Stop Jewish Domination of Christian America." There were storm troopers in the aisles, their uniforms almost identical to those of Nazi Germany. "It looked like any political rally — only with a Nazi twist," said Arnie Bernstein, author of Swastika Nation
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It bears mentioning that while there were 20,000 enthusiastic American Nazis inside the venue, there were also thousands of protesters outside. The anti-Nazi contingent included everyone from veterans to housewives to members of the Socialist Workers Party. The New York Times reported that the streets of midtown Manhattan were packed, and at one point the orchestra from a Broadway musical near Madison Square Garden performed a rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner" for the protesters. A mysterious crusader even set up a loudspeaker in a rooming house near the scene and blasted a denunciation of the Nazis out the window: "Be American, Stay at Home." The New York Police Department had deployed a record number of 1,700 officers around Madison Square Garden, enough "to stop a revolution," the police commissioner said.

https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2019/02/20/695941323/when-nazis-took-manhattan

[dalton99a]

12. The world is shocked by this discovery

[OnDoutside]

13. Yes, you were wrong, yes he's a Fascist, but so are you.

[Swede]

14. How could they miss the racism?

The vengefulness, the meaness, the total lack of loyalty to his wife (all 3 of them).

[Wounded Bear]

15. It is easier to fool someone than it is to convince them they have been fooled...

[bluestarone]

16. These fuckers have been ASLEEP for

Four fucking years.

[Mr. Ected]

17. If you're that pathetic in gauging a man's soul who won't shut up about it

You have no business making decisions that affect billions of people.

Get the fuck out of Washington and never come back.