Dem Protestors ARE the Fascists They Pretend To Be Fighting

Ten Years Ago Today They Met Their Match in Donald Trump

Driving through the heart of Kansas City’s silly “No Kings” rally on Saturday, I followed a car whose occupants posed a question about the current state of affairs, namely, “Is it Fascist enough for you yet?” To ask this question with a straight face was to confess to an ignorance of recent history so profound as to be worthy of deportation to whatever country would take them.

In the way of background Italian strong man Benito Mussolini popularized the Italian term “fascismo” with his ascent to power in the 1920s. He used the ancient Roman symbol of a group of rods (fasces) bound around an axe to suggest the unity of all institutions—state, church, media, courts—in a common cause.

Ten years ago today, June 16, 2015, Donald Trump descended the escalator at Trump Tower and provided a fractious Democrat Party with its common cause. To make that cause worth fighting for, even killing for, the Democrats and their media allies immediately began to imagine Trump as Hitler. Their best weapon was the accusation of racism. It had worked so well in the past against Republicans.

Presciently—or luckily—a week before Trump’s announcement, I had predicted, “The Republican nominee for president will be that candidate who best learns that there is no future in apologizing.” Trump tested my thesis. “When Mexico sends its people,” he said in his artless way, “they're not sending their best….They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.”

Living down to my expectations, the media and the Democrats promptly tried to shame Trump into oblivion. Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine summed up the standard media talking point. “The thing that amazes me is the depth of his trash-talking with Latinos,” said Kaine, “saying all Mexicans are rapists and going after Latino immigrants.”

The Left presumed the weight of their distortions would scare Trump’s supporters and funders into abandoning Trump. Some Republicans wilted, of course, but Trump’s refusal to apologize is what inspired the right. Conservatives were looking for someone with cojones enough to resist the oppressive forces of the left.

The fasces uniting around this common cause quickly grew in size and scariness. Within a year of Trump’s arrival on the scene, Hillary Clinton and the DNC launched the Russia collusion hoax as a dirty trick operation, and the Obama administration finessed it, with the help of the FBI and CIA, into the foundation for a coup. The media meanwhile cheered the co-conspirators on.

On August 15, 2016, the FBI’s Peter Strzok memorably signaled the shared motive of all the conspirators. “There’s no way [Trump] gets elected—but I’m afraid we can’t take that risk,” he texted FBI lover Lisa Page. “It’s like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you’re 40.”

As the coup progressed, renegade Rolling Stone reporter Matt Taibbi said out loud what should have been obvious to everyone on his side of the barricades, “Being on any team is a bad look for the press, but the press being on team FBI/CIA is an atrocity, Trump or no Trump.” This was Fascism enough for me, but it was only going to get worse, almost unimaginably worse.

COVID mania exposed the fascist core of the American Left as no other occasion had. In every state and in every city in which Democrats had power, they abused it. The Pavlovian “No Kings” crowd became their party’s willing executioners, ratting out neighbors and friends to the state for the crime of daring to think.

To sustain the power that fear engenders, Big Media lied shamelessly about the causes of the disease and the cures, and the FBI worked with Big Tech—willing fasces themselves—to enforce the lies. When I had to run a National Guard checkpoint at the Buffalo Airport for the crime of coming from Missouri, I thought, yup, this is Fascism enough for me.

In October 2020, America’s fascists united to pull off their second coup attempt, this one successful. Led by future Secretary of State Antony Blinken, some 51 members of the intelligence community signed on to the lie that the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation. The other fasces—Big Media and Big Tech—marched in goose step with the deep staters and suppressed a story that would have undone the Biden campaign. Watching this story unfold in real time, I thought, “Wow, this is Fascism enough for me.”

With the story blocked, Biden had a chance of winning the election. Using COVID as a cover, Democratic operatives in key states just had to steal a few thousand more votes than usual. Big Media and Big Tech colluded by mocking those who dared question the rigging of the election with the Goebbels-like slur, the “Big Lie,” and the FBI sat on its hands.

Although the “Reichstag fire” metaphor is often abused, in the case of January 6, 2021, it hit pretty close to the mark. “On the basis of a wholly created myth about what happened that day,” said Tucker Carlson accurately, “the Biden Pentagon conducted an unprecedented political purge of the entire U.S. military. The FBI and various intel agencies increased their control over the American media and most obviously, the DoJ has been allowed to prosecute and jail hundreds of nonviolent political protesters whose crime was having the wrong opinions.” Yes, Virginia, that was fascism enough for me.

Starting January 20 almost all the fasces were gathered—the presidency, the House, the Senate, Big Tech, Big Media, Hollywood, academia, the educational establishment, the CIA, the FBI, corporate America, and increasingly the military—in one common cause, kill MAGA.

Some 1600 J6ers were arrested, nearly half imprisoned. SWAT teams pounded down the doors of pro-lifers and pro-Trump media. The FBI infiltrated Catholic churches and monitored school board meetings. Government entities fired multiple thousands of employees for insisting on bodily autonomy, and social media, urged on by the White House, blocked and shadow banned at will.

If that were not enough, prosecutors in New York, Georgia, and Washington, DC, prosecuted Trump on a variety of charges so bogus as to make the Moscow show trials look legit.

To enforce the new order at the street level, the Left developed its own private army. In a marvelous bit of self-parody, the bully boys of the new fascism, the Left’s own SA, call themselves anti-fascists or Antifa for short. Meanwhile, a group of fascist wannabes called “The Sedition Hunters” assisted the FBI in rounding up that stray great grandma who escaped the FBI’s net on January 6.

This was all fascism enough for former Obama “fan boy.” Elon Musk. In October 2022, Musk purchased Twitter. That was a pivotal moment. Other thinking people on the Left began to see just how casually oppressive America had become and helped Donald Trump lead America back from the abyss.

“We have met the enemy, and he is us,” said “Pogo.” Once the pouting Dems realize they are the fascists they presume to be fighting, the party’s over. All the more reason for their media to keep them stupid.

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