Republican National Convention(s)

[Dill]

(08-24-2020, 11:57 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Comparing your political opponents to Nazis is a low blow.  Quite honestly I expect better from you.

Er. Sure. But remember my first concern in comparisons between authoritarian leaders and Trump is not whether such comparisons are "low" but whether they fit and illuminate.  And that should be the concern of everyone going into this election.

We now have a president who is the great defender, not of the liberal regime of universal rights, but of an ethno-ideal of "Western Civilization," who centralizes party power in personal authority, who daily attacks the "Luegenpresse,"* and who strives to undermine elections and any institution which circumscribes his exercise of personal power.  

And he has the aquiesence of millions in this, for whom "the Left" remains the greater threat.  


First as tragedy, then as farce. 


*The attack on the press is now built into the Trump Party platform
.https://prod-cdn-static.gop.com/docs/Resolution_Platform_2020.pdf?_ga=2.165306300.2055661719.1598124638-455285808.1584478680