GREAT MOMENTS IN PROJECTION: Salon dubs Ashli Babbitt “the 21st-century Horst Wessel: Symbolic martyr to the fascist cause.”
Flashbacks:
● “Hugo Chavez’s economic miracle.”
—Salon.com, March 6, 2013.
—Salon.com, January 18, 2014.
● Like [the late communist Pete] Seeger and the FDR cargo cult, Salon also harbors turn-the-clock-back fantasies of their own: Last month, the publication called for the nationalization of the news media because it was uncomfortable with the glut of right-leaning news and opinion led by — you guessed it! — Fox News. (Hmmm — I wonder if someone in the FCC read that article?) Now the Website wishes to turn the clock back on the film industry because of a perceived glut of independent films.
—Easy Riders, Raging Stasists, Ed Driscoll.com, February 22, 2014.
—Salon.com, July 8, 2014.
As Charles C. Cooke asked the left in 2016, “Herewith, an under-asked question for our friends on the progressive left: ‘Has Donald Trump’s remarkable rise done anything to change your mind as to the ideal strength of the State?’”
