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Former Attorney General William Barr in his new memoir condemned liberals and progressives for their reaction to President Donald Trump's election in 2016, calling their initial opposition to his victory "contemptible."
In "One Damn Thing After Another: Memoirs of an Attorney General," Barr breaks with Trump, who he worked for as attorney general from 2019 to the end of 2020. Barr was critical of Trump, sharing how the former president "went off the rails" after the 2020 election and should not be the Republican presidential nominee in 2024.
Barr also rebuked President Barack Obama, the Clintons, and the left more broadly, calling the "radical progressivism" he saw emerging during the Obama years a kind of "Jacobinismthe same kind of revolutionary and totalitarian ideas that propelled the French Revolution, the Communists of the Russian Revolution, and the Fascists of twentieth-century Europe."
For that reason, Barr wrote, the country was "in no mood for four more years of Obama-era progressivism and Clintonian mendacity" by the time 2016 rolled around.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/william-barr-says-liberals-reaction-to-trump-s-election-in-2016-was-contemptible-and-beyond-the-pale/ar-AAUNk6b
Go fuck yourself Barr. The left's reaction wasn't anything close to what the Trumpers did four years later.
Ocelot II
(115,589 posts)Kali
(55,003 posts)shut up and fuck off you toad.
boston bean
(36,218 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,052 posts)Revolutions are driven by broad popular ideas in the face of economic hardship and the perception of an unjust economic society. Totalitarian ideas are the tools of would-be dictators. I have no idea how he lumps them together and then adds fascists. Barr is a looney who can't think very well. IMO
bucolic_frolic
(43,052 posts)LisaM
(27,794 posts)Okay then.
The reaction most of us had was fear and nausea. And it was well placed.
Ocelot II
(115,589 posts)when he whitewashed the Mueller report, but I do. He's proved to be even worse than I thought he was, and that's very, very bad.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Barr sounds upset that we could see what the former guy was so clearly, while it took him years to figure out. Barr may not be as smart as he thinks he is.
BlueLucy
(1,609 posts)lame54
(35,262 posts)FalloutShelter
(11,832 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)What a giant pile of loose feces he is.
Initech
(100,038 posts)So yeah you don't really get a say in this, Billy...
keep_left
(1,780 posts)...alt-right Nazism. You can't escape it on social media. Constant whining about "degeneracy", "soy boys", cuck-this, Jew-that...absolutely sickening.
LiberalFighter
(50,783 posts)DanieRains
(4,619 posts)5,000 counts.
Bev54
(10,039 posts)He should be in prison for his life of political criminality.
BootinUp
(47,083 posts)PdamnedQ
(168 posts)Maybe that's a lie just like everything that Billy Bar says.
Ocelot II
(115,589 posts)PdamnedQ
(168 posts)malaise
(268,698 posts)After his loss
Fuck off scumbag