David Frum: Only a Low-Rent, Low-IQ Propagandist Would Compare a Political Leader He Doesn't Like to Adolf Hitler

Before linking this, let's remember that David Frum -- and most of the neocons -- have long favored a "discourse" in which any disagreement is immediately met by a vile smear: "You're pro-terrorist." "You're pro-Putin."

It's no great surprise they've so readily joined the neoliberal identity politics left they formerly pretended to oppose, because the neoliberal identity politics left also answers any disagreement with a vile smear: "You're racist." "You're a misogynist." "You're a transphobe."

This is all very much in David Frum's and Bill Kristol's wheelhouse; all they have to do is expand their list of smears of epithets and they're members of the toxic left in good standing.

And they're happy to do so. They're grifter scumbags.

But David Frum is shocked and horrified to hear that Fidel Castro's bastard son, who is now imposing martial law and stripping citizens of fundamental rights guaranteed to them by the Canadian Charter of Human Rights, all because his political situation is weakening, should be compared to Hitler.

Some people, myself included, are very surprised to hear David Frum taking this position, because his favored -- some might say only -- form of political "discourse" is to brand his opponents Literally Hitler.

People are reminding him of this. @MetricReject posts these old smears from Frum:

David Frum
@davidfrum
Jul 14, 2021

In a 2020 book, I experimented with the word "fascoid" to describe Trumpism - meaning similar to fascism, but not quite there. But as Trumpism moves from *threatening* anti-state political violence to *justifying* anti-state political violence, it's time to drop the fancy suffix

David Frum
@davidfrum
Jul 28, 2021

Very interesting by @DamonLinker about the newly overt Caesarism of the American far right: "a place broadly coterminous with fascism" https://theweek.com/politics/1003035/the-far-right-contemplates-an-american-caesar

Oh, the Damon Linker? One of AllahPundit's favorite leftwing propagandists to link, especially when he's trying to gin up a cancellation effort against fellow Salem Media employee Kurt Schlichter? That Damon Linker?

By the way, "Caesarism" was a favorite Thesaurus Substitution of Andrew Sullivan's, for when he was writing "fascist" so much he was wearing out the keys off his keyboard.

@MaxNordau and @GGreenwald both remember this from Frum, last year:

Glenn Greenwald
@ggreenwald

From the person who wrote a cover story in the Atlantic strongly implying that Trump was the New Hitler.

From the beginnings of the rise of Trump, I've heard NeverTrump and their leftwing media allies shriek about Our Precious Discourse, and it's angered me every time-- the lying, the endless gaslighting is enraging.

There are people who are legitimately civil and judicious in political speech.

The toxic leftwing media and the "smear anyone who disagrees with me as a Russian Agent" NeverTrump grifter propagandists are not among those people.

What the leftwing media and their NeverTrump allies, now employees, were objecting to, of course, was that the smears and insults were now flying in both directions, which these wannabe Petty Aristocrats could not abide.

And to hear these scumbags and maniacs piously bleat about Restoring Our Civil Discourse... well, I won't have it.

I remember David Frum's regard for Our Precious Political Discourse when he engaged in an extended 3,000 word personal smear of Andrew Breitbart on the occasion of his unexpected death.

By the way: Look at David Frum's lips. Now watch those thin lips as he runs his lie-hole. Tell me that his lips don't look like Fornicating Worms as he talks, copulating in their wormy writhings, engaging in worm frottage, spraying worm sexual liquids over each other.

@davidfrum
Very interesting by @DamonLinker about the newly overt Caesarism of the American far right: "a place broadly coterminous with fascism"
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