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Please read it all. Hitler All the Way Down The Left trivializes real totalitarianism. Daniel J. Mahoney The grotesque banalization of Hitler and Hitlerism proceeds apace. The American Left’s discourse is replete with comparisons of President Donald J. Trump to Adolf Hitler and constant evocations of a dangerous “fascist” threat to democracy supposedly coming from an altogether illiberal Right. Kamala Harris labeled Trump a fascist and Nazi sympathizer in a CNN town hall meeting in October, and she and the mainstream media continued to pile on until the November election. When Trump held a rally at New York City’s Madison Square Garden on October 27, a little over a week before the election, many Democrats, and the increasingly hysterical talking heads on CNN and MSNBC, compared that rally to a meeting of the pro-Nazi German-American Bund in that same venue in 1939. Completely disregarding the impressively multiracial character of the MAGA supporters gathered to hear Trump, as well as the large contingent of Orthodox and Hassidic Jews also in attendance, the media incessantly identified Trump with Hitler and “fascism.” Not only was the deep-seated evil that was National Socialism trivialized beyond recognition, and not only was fascism crudely (and absurdly) identified with any opposition to a hard Left agenda, but crucial distinctions between fascism, National Socialism, and democratic conservatism were elided in a deeply misleading manner. This drumbeat continues to this day. The Trump/fascism/Nazism elision is commonplace in leftist discourse. {snip} Examples of this reductio ad Hitlerum, as Leo Strauss once suggestively called it, are legion and are likely to continue for a very long time to come, thus compounding the damage. As Dennis Prager (himself Jewish) argued in an insightful syndicated column published on election day, immense moral and civic damage has been done to our country by leftists insisting on “calling Donald Trump a fascist and a Nazi and declaring him ‘Hitler.’” Prager points out that “if Trump is Hitler, then Hitler was Trump. Hitler was nothing worse than a German version of Trump—not the instigator of World War II and the creator of the Holocaust; just a German Donald Trump.” The core of National Socialism was a morally insane anti-Semitism and pseudo-scientific racism that, in the end, justified genocidal mass murder, limitless war, and contempt for all decency and moderation. Hitler equated patriotism with lupine imperialism, what Ernst Renan called “zoological” race wars. He recognized no limits above the will of the totalitarian Führer and the self-assertion of the German Volk. He was a nihilist through and through. Trump doesn’t remotely belong to such a perverted and monstrous moral universe. The defamation of American conservatives committed to the preservation and sustenance of a constitutional republic is accompanied by, and culminates in, the trivialization of the monstrous evil that is National Socialism. What is sacrificed is nothing less than the truth and the capacity for measured civic and moral judgment on the part of those who hurl such slurs, and those who hear and accept them. The indiscriminate use of “fascist” and “fascism” does serious damage to historical understanding. More at the link: https://americanmind.org/salvo/hitler-all-the-way-down/

WORST. RACIST. EVER: .

But, but, President Trump is taking away our freedom (to wear masks) NOT in a felony !

WELL, BYE: Disney Pulls Plug On FiveThirtyEight Amid Broader ABC News Cuts. https://www.dailywire.com/news/disney-pulls-plug-on-fivethirtyeight-amid-broader-abc-news-cuts

"It's been very clear from the beginning that President Trump views this as a protracted stalemated conflict. And frankly, it's a proxy war..." "... between nuclear powers — the United States, helping Ukraine, and Russia. And it needs to come to an end. And no one has any idea or plan to bring it to an end. The plan of the Ukrainians up to now — and their allies on Capitol Hill and people you talk to in other countries — is let's just keep giving them as much as they need for as long as it takes. That's not a strategy."

Meet the Sole Democrat Who Stood for Cancer Survivor DJ Daniel During Trump's Address to Congress By Becky Noble Gillen, a first-term Congresswoman, hails from Long Island, a red blip in a sea of New York blue, and quite possibly, the last existing rational Democrat. https://redstate.com/beckynoble/2025/03/05/meet-the-sole-democrat-who-stood-for-cancer-survivor-dj-daniel-during-trumps-address-to-congress-n2186305

Biden Awarded $28 Million to Mysterious 'Vaccine Company' Run by His COVID Adviser and Based out of a Maryland PO Box by Andrew Kerr During the final months of the Biden administration, the National Institutes of Health awarded $28 million to a mysterious venture-backed company called Vaccine Company Inc., a biomedical firm founded in 2022 whose chief financial officer happens to be one of former president Joe Biden’s top COVID advisers. To Sen. Joni Ernst (R., Iowa), the September 2024 grant from the NIH’s Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health doesn’t pass the smell test. Vaccine Company has left virtually no public footprint showing what it has done with the taxpayer funds, which the Biden administration doled out to a seemingly random post office box in Bethesda, Maryland. https://freebeacon.com/biden-harris-administration/biden-awarded-28-million-to-mysterious-vaccine-company-run-by-his-covid-adviser-and-based-out-of-a-maryland-po-box/ https://www.usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_AY2AX000054_7529 https://arpa-h.gov/news-and-events/arpa-h-announces-awards-develop-computational-platform-multi-virus-vaccine-design

Gee, Dad leaves office and suddenly Hunter is broke.

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Another week. FAA still existing.

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Trump bulldozes through joint address to Congress. By Roger Kimball The president presented a bracing tour d’horizon in his opening sally. He ordered federal workers back to work: “They will either show up for work, in person, or be removed from their job.” As I write, the Trump administration is ending “weaponized government,” restoring free speech, underwriting English as the official language of the United States and pursuing a policy of “drill, baby, drill” to exploit America’s energy resources. Trump also provided an inventory of some of the flagrant waste, fraud and abuse that Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has identified: $22 billion from HHS to provide free housing and cars for illegal aliens, $45 million for DEI scholarships in Burma, $40 million to improve the “social and economic inclusion of sedentary migrants,” $1.9 billion to a recently-created “decarbonization of homes” committee of Stacey Abrams — and on and on. But beyond the manifold particular achievements was something Trump hinted at often: the change in tone, in energy, in outlook that has washed over the country since 12:01 on January 20. In many ways, that is the most amazing thing; what has been called the “vibe shift,” the new current of directness, the new, self-confident, unapologetic embrace of distinctively American possibility — the “Golden Age of America.” One sign of this is the total disarray of the Democrats in attempting to respond to Trump. How else can you explain the fact that Chuck Schumer, Elizabeth Warren and Cory Booker issued video clips with identical texts just hours before Trump’s speech? How do you spell “pathetic?” Early in his speech Trump, predicted that Democrats in attendance would not stand, applaud or smile no matter what he said or did. “I could find a cure to the most devastating disease,” Trump said, “or announce the answers to the greatest economy in history, or the stoppage of crime to the lowest levels ever recorded, and these people sitting right here will not clap, will not stand and certainly will not cheer for these astronomical achievements… It’s very sad, and it just shouldn’t be this way. So Democrats sitting before me, for just this one night, why not join us in celebrating so many incredible wins for America?” https://thespectator.com/topic/donald-trump-bulldozes-through-joint-address-congress/ Good question.

This is stuff that would have been a no-brainer for both parties a few years ago.