Election campaigns, especially those that begin as prematurely as this one, are rarely the optimal occasions for intelligently original use of language. Still, the present pre-electoral shouting match in the United States is setting records in several categories. The Trump-haters have plumbed the depths of opprobrious adjectives and have now routinized the misapplication of the word “Nazi” and other terminology of the Third Reich to this president and administration.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was in my observation the first to compare the crowded but adequate detention centers on the southern border, where the detainees are fed as if they had free passes at McDonald’s, as “concentration camps.” She avoided the evidently tendentious expression “death camps,” but there is no reason to imagine that most Americans would know the difference.
However, with the eruption of outlandish billingsgate that followed the El Paso and Dayton shootings, Beto O’Rourke, as the apparently least intelligent of the Democratic presidential candidates, was the first out of the starting blocks to call the president a Nazi.........To Read More....
My Take - I saw the interview with Trapper Jack and watched Beto babble on unendingly, like a high school kid begging for the adults attention. The thought I walked away with from that interview? Can you imagine having to listen to this kid babble on saying nothing for four years? Oh, wait, we had that for eight years with Obama. Only he was much better at saying nothing.
As for George Will? Who cares? He's toast! The right overall will no longer read him and the left doesn't care what he has to say. He's an arrogant elitist beyond belief, and as a result, he threw himself into the abyss, and will never recover. His nose is stuck so high air that he would drown in a rain storm.
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