76 YEARS OF THE LEFT’S HITLERS: From the Little Man on the Wedding Cake to Donald Trump.
The left’s first Hitler, however, was one of history’s most famous losers, the little man on the wedding cake, the man who all the polls predicted would be elected president in 1948 but whose moving plans were upended as incumbent President Harry Truman won a stunning and totally unexpected victory: Thomas E. Dewey. The potted history of the 1948 election is that Truman won by being honest and down-to-earth, dealing with the real concerns of Americans while the haughty Dewey confined himself to lofty generalities. Old Give-‘Em-Hell-Harry gets kind treatment from historians; they’ve forgotten, or don’t want us to remember, how ugly Truman’s campaign really was.
On Oct. 26, 1948, exactly one week before election day, the New York Times ran a front-page, above-the-fold article entitled “PRESIDENT LIKENS DEWEY TO HITLER AS FASCISTS’ TOOL.” It began: “A Republican victory on election day will bring a Fascistic threat to American freedom that is even more dangerous than the perils from communism and extreme right ‘crackpots,’ President Truman asserted here tonight.”
Sound familiar? It should: the Democrat playbook hasn’t changed for 76 years. The Times continued: “Already the ‘gate’ has been opened ‘just a little bit’ by the Eightieth Congress to admit this totalitarian specter to the shrines of democracy, the Chief Executive told his audience in Chicago Stadium.” Nowadays he would have said “our democracy.”
These were the Democrats’ glory days, and they’ve been trying to relive them ever since. Old Joe Biden, however, is a tatterdemalion Harry Truman, and he may not emulate his great comeback. But for incendiary gutter rhetoric, he is a worthy son and heir of the Man From Independence.
It actually goes back prior to that: In his 1944 State of the Union address, FDR smeared the laissez–faire Coolidge era of the 1920s as “the spirit of fascism:”
One of the great American industrialists of our day—a man who has rendered yeoman service to his country in this crisis-recently emphasized the grave dangers of “rightist reaction” in this Nation. All clear-thinking businessmen share his concern. Indeed, if such reaction should develop—if history were to repeat itself and we were to return to the so-called “normalcy” of the 1920′s—then it is certain that even though we shall have conquered our enemies on the battlefields abroad, we shall have yielded to the spirit of Fascism here at home.
When the Babylon Bee runs the headline, “Democrats Warn Of Terrifying Fascist State Where Government Shrinks And People Can Afford Groceries,” the first half of that equation actually happened 80 years ago.
Our former President showed tremendous grace and courage under literal fire tonight. So thankful for his safety and so sad for the victims and their families.
— Jeff Bezos (@JeffBezos) July 14, 2024
If only the czar knew what his paper has been writing about him!
UPDATE: Washington Post Refuses to Be Shamed When Democracy Could Die in a Shooting.