What It Looks Like Now

FOTP News in Review for . . . Sunday, September 8th, 2024

Let’s start with a joke. A bad one.

Q: “What do you call those who weren’t Nazis but still supported them?”

A: “Nazis.”

From Time

When Hitler had vowed in court, in September 1930, to destroy democracy through the democratic process, a judge asked, “So, only through constitutional means?” Hitler replied crisply, “Jawohl.”

From CBS NEWS

In a speech at the Turning Point USA Believers’ Summit on Friday, Donald Trump implored audience members to vote in the 2024 election, assuring them that, if he gets a second term, “it’ll be fine, you won’t have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians.” In four years, he reiterated, “you don’t have to vote again. We’ll have it fixed so good, you’re not going to have to vote.”

A long way of saying Hitler wasn’t Hitler until he was Der Fuhrer, and Trump won’t fully be Donald Trump until the guardrails are removed on January 21st, 2025, if he is re-elected. Hitler never received a majority of German support— not in 1932, not in 1922 when he attempted a coup; Trump didn’t in 2016, 2020, and won’t, even if he wins the presidency, in 2024.

Silver’s model predicts that Harris has a 58.9% chance of winning the national popular vote — which has no bearing on the winner of the race — but that Trump will rack up 274 Electoral College votes, topping the vice president’s 263 estimated Electoral College total.

Republican presidential candidates, for that matter have won the popular vote just twice in the past 36 years — George. H.W. Bush in 1988 and his son, George W. Bush, in 2004.

And lunatics on the Right assault the Capitol because the system is rigged?

Goebbels . . . had observed, “The big joke on democracy is that it gives its mortal enemies the tools to its own destruction.”

Which brings us to the Sunday morning talk shows and this present, peculiar strain of selected, elected Republican who stop by to talk about their love for and adherence to the spirit and DNA of America, but don’t find a presidential candidate convicted of 34 felonies and sexual assault who also promises to throw public officials, election workers, and his political opponents in the hoosegow a disturbing character flaw — much less a disqualifying one. Gov. Doug Burgum (R-North Dakota), one such official, was on Meet the Press Sunday, and he has never been more unconscionable in his defense of Donald Trump, which is saying something because he’s usually a commercial break away from assuring us that Trump has plans to make the trains run on time.