More than the virus threatens us.
David Horowitz 315 Editors' note: A shorter version of this article previously appeared on Breitbart.
In this spring season, America’s future is fraught with
uncertainties as a result of the pandemic unleased by Communist China’s
malicious concealment of a virus it had apparently developed in a Wuhan
laboratory. Will the nation be able to “re-open” as the president
desires, or will it descend into a long-lasting depression with millions
unemployed?
At the same time, a much greater uncertainty haunts the
horizon. This uncertainty is a product of the ferocious hate for the
president and his supporters ginned up by the political Left ever since
the 2016 election. The anti-Trump fervor is so intense it has divided
the nation into two alien camps until there is hardly any longer a
national conversation, or a united front in the face of the deadly
contagion.
For anyone not in thrall to anti-Trump obsessions, the spectacle of
Trump hatred is mystifying, even unfathomable. It’s not that the
criticisms of Trump are harsh – that is the currency of democratic
politics. The problem is that they are not merely harsh but veer on the
lunatic until communication with those who voice them seems impossible.
It is why the national conversation and a semblance of national unity in
the face of threats seem almost hopeless.
A recent New York Times interview
with the comedian and Bernie Sanders impersonator Larry David
crystalizes the problem. “You know, it’s an amazing thing,” David told
the Times, “[Trump] has not one redeeming quality. You could
take some of the worst dictators in history, and I’m sure that all of
them, you could find one decent quality.
Stalin could have had one
decent quality, we don’t know!”
Where to begin? Stalin was a totalitarian dictator who killed 40
million of his own countrymen – in peacetime. How does such a
preposterous comparison even occur to a man as intelligent as Larry
David, who as a comedian is also a student of character, and would
normally be more judicious. How could he be so far off the mark?.......To Read More....
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