Today In "Liberals Are The Real Hitlers": Bret Bug Stephens

Bret Stephens: Tone Cop!

This July 4th, in cerebration of his God-given right to be paid a princely sum to shart his bilious nonsense all over The New York Times' op-ed page, Bret Stephens quickly and airily dismisses Donald Trump and the entire Republican Party as an irritating but transient inconvenience -- much like, say, an infestation of bedbugs --

Reading Orwell for the Fourth of July
As we celebrate freedom, speaking freely is in danger.

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We also have our own problems with freedom.

For once, the main problem isn’t Donald Trump. The president may be an instinctual fascist, a wannabe autocrat. But, after nearly four years in power, he’s been unmasked as an incompetent one.

Trump may have privately praised Xi Jinping for building concentration camps for Uighurs. Congress still passed legislation to impose sanctions on China for them. He may want to bring Russia back to the G7. The other six won’t let him. He may have sought to abolish DACA for the Dreamers. John Roberts decided otherwise. He may call the press an “enemy of the American people.” That enemy still operates without restraint when it comes to slamming him.

To adapt the Lloyd Bentsen line, Donald John Trump, you’re no Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

-- before taking on the real fascists who are, even as we speak, sneaking sneakily up on Murrica through the tall grass of the Oberlin college quad:

The more serious problem today comes from the left: from liberal elites who, when tested, lack the courage of their liberal convictions; from so-called progressives whose core convictions were never liberal to begin with; from administrative types at nonprofits and corporations who, with only vague convictions of their own, don’t want to be on the wrong side of a P.R. headache...

I am obliged to remind you, gentle reader, that this is penned by the same brittle, bottomless black-hole of Conservative self-regard who went trawling through Twitter last year in search of something to get mad at the Left about, found a George Washington University professor who had made an unkind remark about him, tried to get that professor fired, got caught and thoroughly owned by said professor, tried to use his New York Times sinecure to "win" that argument and succeeded only in shitting the bed hard enough to launch himself into Low Earth Orbit, then went on MSNBC (which apparently every gormless Republican has a constitutionally-guaranteed right to do wherever they feel like it) to compare the professor’s little joke to the rhetoric of “totalitarian regimes" and then stormed off of Twitter forever and ever.

But was not fired, suspended or disciplined in any way by his employers.

Which I must say is just piss-poor totalitarianisming on the part of The New York Times.

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