ANDREW MCCARTHY: Michael Flynn Was Not Masked Because The FBI Framed Him.

BIDEN’S PROGRESSIVE GAMBLE: Will Americans sign up for fundamental transformation?

Having gotten quite a taste of it already during their 75 day free trial, hopefully the answer is a resounding no.

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA DOCS SEE MORE SUICIDES THAN CCP VIRUS DEATHS: The data is steadily piling up, and it’s not unique to the Golden State, according to Jeffrey Tucker of the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER).

ANDREW DAVIS: The Religion of Retreat.

UNEXPECTEDLY. Bill Maher: ‘Impeachment Turned out to Be a Horrible Thing.’

THIS IS MORE LIKE THE 21ST CENTURY I WAS PROMISED: “For the first time in nearly a decade, U.S. astronauts are about to blast into orbit aboard an American rocket from American soil. And for the first time in the history of human spaceflight, a private company is running the show. Elon Musk’s SpaceX is the conductor and NASA the customer as businesses begin chauffeuring astronauts to the International Space Station.”

URBAN LIVING KILLS: Risk for MS 30% higher for those living in cities, study finds.

HONG KONG PROTESTS: Police fire teargas as thousands rally against Beijing’s national security law.

Related: Hong Kong’s ‘one country, two systems’ is over.

THE NEW YORK TIMES HONORS MEMORIAL DAY AS ONLY THEY CAN: Why Does the U.S. Military Celebrate White Supremacy?

IS THE DEMOCRATIC COALITION INSANE? Of Course COVID-19 Deaths Aren’t a ‘Trump Death Toll.’

Trump very wisely allowed each governor to set his or her path for the states they governed. As a result:

● Where Is Cuomo’s Apology for Killing 10,000 People?

● NY’s job base is wrecked.

● Where Does Ron DeSantis Go to Get His Apology?

● Media Props up Michigan’s Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Mayor of New Orleans by Blaming President Trump for Their Own Errors.

● And in California:

ALLEN WEST INJURED IN SERIOUS MOTORCYCLE CRASH, AIRLIFTED TO CENTRAL TEXAS HOSPITAL.

HMM: White House concerned with coronavirus spread in LA area, asks CDC to investigate. If it’s spreading, it’s not because of a lack of intrusive, picayune government regulation.

CAFÉ AT JAPANESE ZOO USES CUDDLY CAPYBARAS TO ENFORCE SOCIAL DISTANCING.

It’s adorable – and no “uncanny valley effect” from using mannequins.

CAYMAN: Premier steadfast in holding off on border reopening, even as Aruba, St. Lucia hint at June, July reopening.

EVASION: Boston College denies Title IX official explained how it would circumvent new sexual misconduct rules. The rule of law is for the little people.

GOV. WHITMER’S POLICIES WERE INVOLVED: New Disturbing Details Emerge In Case Of Elderly Man Who Was Beaten At Michigan Nursing Home. “He never should’ve been housed, quarantined with the victim that he eventually assaulted.”

COLLUSION: Professors working with China are ‘selling out the American people,’ says Cabot Phillips.

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PAUL BEDARD: White House Report Card: A series of big wins clouded by the lingering virus.

20 MINUTES INTO THE FUTURE:

CHANGE: First-Time Gun Buyers Explain How Coronavirus Changed Their Politics.

DUMBING FASCISM DOWN, THEN AND NOW:

Even today, this kind of reductionist political attack remains popular, and not just among Antifa street marchers. The United States, like many other countries, does contain a genuinely radicalized right-wing political fringe, including some who call themselves fascist. However, these are not influential political actors. Yet that did not stop then-presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke from assailing Trump in October by declaring, “Outside of the Third Reich, give me another example of a Western leader who has called people of one faith inherently defective or dangerous or disqualified from being successful in that country.” Julian Castro, another 2019-era Democratic presidential candidate, declared that Trump advisor Stephen Miller is a “neo-Nazi.” Last June, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called migrant detention centers on the Mexican border “concentration camps,” language clearly intended to signal moral equivalence with the Nazi holocaust. Six weeks later, at a sentencing hearing for two Proud Boys who got into a street fight with Antifa extremists, New York Supreme Court Judge Mark Dwyer stated, “I know enough about history to know what happened in Europe in the ’30s when political street brawls were allowed to go ahead… We don’t want that to happen in New York.”

While judges and lawmakers may claim to be speaking metaphorically or speculatively, some of those listening seem to be taking the comparisons literally. Before he shot and killed nine victims in Dayton, Ohio, last year, 24-year-old Antifa supporter Connor Betts frequently decried political opponents as “Nazi” on Twitter, declaring, ominously, “Nazis deserve death and nothing else.”

The destruction of fascism in Europe 75 years ago should be remembered as a great victory. And fascism itself should be reviled—but not in a way that inflates false fears or smears conservatism, nationalism, and even patriotism as offshoots of Nazi ideology. The millions who died fighting actual fascism did so to preserve freedom of conscience and national self-determination. And their legacy should not be distorted by those who would seek to dress every political opponent up in Death’s Head cap badges and calf-high jackboots.

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