[AGL] Moment of Nostalgia

[Michael Eisenstadt]

Charlie, I had no idea that you read the stuff published on Ron Unz's 
website. The pseudonomous author "The Saker" is I believe a devout 
Orthdox Russian living in Florida. He writes in the long article you cite -

"As somebody who has had years of experience reading the Soviet press 
or, in another style, the French press, I can honestly say that I have 
never seen a more ridiculously outlandish hate campaign against anybody 
that would come even close to the kind of total hate campaign which 
Trump was subjected to. Then, as soon as he was elected, the US 
neo-liberals (who are not liberals at all!) declared that Trump was “not 
their President”, that Trump was put into power by Putin and that he was 
a “Russian asset” (using pseudo-professional jargon is what journos 
typically do to conceal their abject ignorance of a complex topic) and, 
finally, that he was a White racist and misogynist who will deeply 
divide the country (thereby dividing the country themselves by making 
such claims).

The fact is that for the past four years the US liberals have waged a 
total informational war against Trump and it would be absolutely 
unthinkable for them to ever accept a Trump re-election, even if he wins 
by a landslide. For the US Dems and neo-liberals, Trump is the 
personification of evil, literally, and that means that “resistance” to 
him and everything he represents must be total. And if he is re-elected, 
then there is only one possible explanation: the Russians stole the 
election, or the Chinese did. But the notion that Trump has the support 
of a majority of people is literally unthinkable for these folks.

Truth be told, Trump has proven to be a fantastically incompetent 
President, no doubt about that. Was he even worse than Obama? Maybe, it 
really all depends on your scoring system. In my personal opinion, and 
for all his very real sins and failings, Trump, at least, did not start 
a major war, which Obama did, and which Hillary would have done (can’t 
prove this, but that is my personal belief). That by itself, and totally 
irrespective of anything else, makes me believe that Trump has been a 
“lesser evil” (even if far more ridiculous) President than Obama has 
been or Hillary would have been. This is what I believed four years ago 
and this is what I still believe: considering how dangerous for the 
entire planet “President Hillary” would have been, voting for Trump was 
not only the only logical thing to do, it was the only moral one too 
because giving your voice to a warmongering narcissistic hyena like 
Hillary is a profoundly immoral act (yes, I know, Trump is also a 
narcissist – most politicians are! – but at least his warmongering has 
been all hot air and empty threats, at least so far). However, I don’t 
think that this (not having started a major war) will be enough to get 
Trump re-elected."

How do The Saker's opinions with which I concur jibe with your /reductio 
ad Hitlerum/ cartoons of Trump? Or have you been jerking our chain with 
gross cartoons that promote an opinion that you do not hold? I am 
beginning to suspect that you a devious fellow.


On 7/23/2020 8:39 AM, Charles Loving wrote:
> https://www.unz.com/tsaker/does-the-next-presidential-election-even-matter/
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> Charlie Loving

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