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The Childish Villain-ification Of Donald Trump
This pic comparing a young Donald Trump with a child figure in some old Nazi propaganda was posted by Doug Saunders, supposedly a serious international-affairs columnist at the Canadian Globe and Mail.
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It is illogical, childish nonsense. But Saunders is by far the only one disqualifying himself as serious commentator by posting such bullshit. Indeed, the villain-ification of Donald Trump is a regular feature which runs through U.S. and international media from the left to the right.
A few examples:
Pinochet. Chavez. Trump? – Politico, Cher compares Donald Trump to Hitler at Clinton fundraiser – Foxnews, Cher Slams Trump At Clinton Fundraiser; Likens Him To Stalin – CBS, Cher Compares Trump to Mao – Newsbuster, Trump is the GOP's Frankenstein monster – Washington Post, Biden on Trump: ‘He woulda loved Stalin’ – USAToday, Huffington likens Trump to Kim Jong Un – MSN, What Hugo Chávez and Donald Trump have in common – Reuters, The best way to thwart Trump Vader – CNN, Warning From the Syrian Border: Trump Reminds Us a Bit Too Much of Assad – Rolling Stone, News Quiz: Trump Rally or Erdogan Event? – The Intercept, Trump & Putin. Yes, It's Really a Thing – TPM, Trump’s not Hitler, he’s Mussolini – Salon, Media ethics writer compares Trump to Hitler – Politico, Donald Trump’s Insane Praise of Saddam Hussein – Daily Beast, Trump and Lenin – Miami Herald, Insult, provoke, repeat: how Donald Trump became America's Hugo Chávez – The Guardian, The Unstoppable Trump Monster – The Atlantic, Donald Trump is GOP's Dark Lord Voldemort – Townhall, Donald Trump is The Joker: Forget Mussolini and Hitler – Salon, Donald Trump’s Mansions and Saddam Hussein’s Palaces Are Basically the Same – Vanity Fair, Trump and Baghdadi Join Forces – Huffington Post, Echoes of Joe McCarthy in Donald Trump's Rise – RealClearPolitics, Donald Trump's bromance with Vladimir Putin – CNN, Trump's flirtation with fascism – Washington Post, The Maoism of Donald Trump – The New Yorker.
Is there any villain in U.S. (political) culture Donald Trump has not been compare to? Let me know what to search for.
I doubt that this assault on Trump's character is effective. (Hillary Clinton is a more fitting object.) Potential Trump voters will at best ignore it. More likely they will feel confirmed in their belief that all media and media people are anti-Trump and pro-Clinton.
The onslaught only validates what himself Trump claims: that all media are again him, independent of whatever policies he may promote or commit to.
Trump's economic policies as U.S. president would be catastrophic for those most likely to vote for him. Pointing that out, instead of inventing idiotic comparisons to this or that "bad person", would be more effect in dissuading people from voting for him.
Philip Giraldi• August 23, 2016 – http://www.unz.com/article/are-the-clintons-israeli-agents/
On August 5th, Michael Morell, a former acting Director of the CIA, pilloried GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump, concluding that he was an “unwitting agent of Russia.” Morell, who entitled his New York Times op-ed “I Ran the CIA and now I’m endorsing Hillary Clinton,” described the process whereby Trump had been so corrupted. According to Morell, Putin, it seems, as a wily ex-career intelligence officer, is “trained to identify vulnerabilities in an individual and to exploit them. That is exactly what he did early in the primaries. Mr. Putin played upon Mr. Trump’s vulnerabilities… In the intelligence business, we would say that Mr. Putin had recruited Mr. Trump as an unwitting agent of the Russian Federation.”
So who is guilty of putting the interests of a foreign government ahead of those of the United States? I know there are advocates for any number of foreign states running around loose in Washington but the friends of Israel in government and the media come immediately to mind largely because there are so many of them, they are very much in-your-face and they are both extremely well-funded and very successful. Now deceased former Congressman Tom Lantos and Senator Frank Lautenberg were, respectively, often referred to as the congressman and senator from Israel. And there are many more: Chuck Schumer, Chuck Grassley, Ben Cardin, Bob Menendez, Tom Cotton, Mark Kirk, Nita Lowey, Ted Deutch, Brad Sherman, Ileana-Ros Lehtinen and Debbie Wasserman-Schultz to name only a few in the Congress. All are major recipients of Israel related PAC money and all are reliable defenders of Israel no matter what Benjamin Netanyahu does and no matter how it effects the United States.
And then there are the Clintons. One only has to go back to Bill’s one-sided pro-Israeli diplomacy at Camp David in 2000 to discern how the game was played. And then there was the widely condemned January 2001 last minute pardon of Mossad agent Marc Rich, whose wife Denise was a major contributor to the Clintons, to realize that there was always a deference to Israeli interests particularly when money was involved. The only problem is that the Clintons, relying on Morell’s formulation, might more reasonably be described as witting agents of Israel rather than unwitting as they have certainly known what they have been doing and have been actively supporting Israeli policies even when damaging to U.S. interests since they first emerged from the primordial political swamps in Arkansas. If one were completely cynical it might be possible to suggest that they understood from the beginning that pandering to Israel and gaining access to Jewish power and money would be a major component in their rise to political prominence. It certainly has worked out that way.
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So who is guilty of putting the interests of a foreign government ahead of those of the United States? I know there are advocates for any number of foreign states running around loose in Washington but the friends of Israel in government and the media come immediately to mind largely because there are so many of them, they are very much in-your-face and they are both extremely well-funded and very successful. Now deceased former Congressman Tom Lantos and Senator Frank Lautenberg were, respectively, often referred to as the congressman and senator from Israel. And there are many more: Chuck Schumer, Chuck Grassley, Ben Cardin, Bob Menendez, Tom Cotton, Mark Kirk, Nita Lowey, Ted Deutch, Brad Sherman, Ileana-Ros Lehtinen and Debbie Wasserman-Schultz to name only a few in the Congress. All are major recipients of Israel related PAC money and all are reliable defenders of Israel no matter what Benjamin Netanyahu does and no matter how it effects the United States.
And then there are the Clintons. One only has to go back to Bill’s one-sided pro-Israeli diplomacy at Camp David in 2000 to discern how the game was played. And then there was the widely condemned January 2001 last minute pardon of Mossad agent Marc Rich, whose wife Denise was a major contributor to the Clintons, to realize that there was always a deference to Israeli interests particularly when money was involved. The only problem is that the Clintons, relying on Morell’s formulation, might more reasonably be described as witting agents of Israel rather than unwitting as they have certainly known what they have been doing and have been actively supporting Israeli policies even when damaging to U.S. interests since they first emerged from the primordial political swamps in Arkansas. If one were completely cynical it might be possible to suggest that they understood from the beginning that pandering to Israel and gaining access to Jewish power and money would be a major component in their rise to political prominence. It certainly has worked out that way.
Posted by: Shillary | Aug 26 2016 21:33 utc | 53
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