The Leftist’s Sky Is Falling

Get a load of these headlines and blurbs —

The head of the Joint Center for Political Studies, which the Washington Post describes as a “respected liberal think tank,” reacted to Trump’s landslide thus: “When you consider that in the climate we’re in—rising violence, the Ku Klux Klan—it is exceedingly frightening.”

Castro, still with us, said right before the election: “We sometimes have the feeling that we are living in the time preceding the election of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of Germany.”

Claremont College professor John Roth wrote: “I could not help remembering how economic turmoil had conspired with Nazi nationalism and militarism—all intensified by Germany’s defeat in World War I—to send the world reeling into catastrophe… It is not entirely mistaken to contemplate our post-election state with fear and trembling.”

Esquire writer Harry Stein says that the voters who supported Trump were like the “good Germans” in “Hitler’s Germany.”

Sociologist Alan Wolfe is up in the New Left Review: “The worst nightmares of the American left appear to have come true.” And he doubles down in The Nation: “[T]he United States has embarked on a course so deeply reactionary, so negative and mean-spirited, so chauvinistic and self-deceptive that our times may soon rival the McCarthy era.”

The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, keeper of the “Doomsday Clock” that purported to judge the risk of nuclear annihilation, has moved the hands on the clock from seven to four minutes before midnight.

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These were all compiled by PowerLine, and they aren’t about Trump. They are about Reagan.

Petrus sent this in and it’s very timely for me. I was talking to a friend from back north who told me he was undecided on who to vote for until the absolute moment he was in the booth. He pulled the lever for Trump.

During our discussion I reminded him that the very things being said about Trump were said about Reagan, or, Ronald Ray Gun.

He’s a bit younger, and a bit more apolitical. He said he hadn’t remembered that. I’m sending him this link.