After George Stephanopoulos endured 16 unbearable minutes of Counsel to The President Kellyanne Conway spinning every question he asked to how horrible Obama, Hillary, Comey and leakers are, he finally had enough of her and had a on air meltdown.
“You are so full of bullshit you float Conway. I will give you ’till the count of three to float your blond lying ass off that chair and off my show. ONE! I don’t give a rat’s ass about ABC! TWO! I will be more than happy to resign on camera rather than suffer one more second of the bullshit coming out of what seems to be the largest green bullshit factory on Earth. THREE!”
[ABC turns off the camera as we hear scuffling, furniture falling, screaming and the Earth under an entire nation rumbling in foot stomping applause with the cry of ‘BOUT TIME so loud it was heard by the Mars Lander.]
I watched the final episode of GENIUS last night, the Nat Geo series on the life of Albert Einstein. It was about a smart person so you can be sure no Trump voter watched it. I would bet my life on that.
Of course the parallels to the rise of Adolph Hitler and the Nazis in the 1920’s and 1930’s and the rise of Donald Trump are profound. Scapegoating Muslims and Mexicans rather than Jews and slavs to build the fear and anger of populism. Rejecting and ejecting scientists and educators. Blaming other countries for their woes to build even more fear and anger. The flags, the rallies, the patriotism, the bigotry, the racism, the intolerance, the law and order, massive prisons, the military buildup and all that whiteness goes without saying.
But what struck me the most the other night was a scene that lasted only a few seconds. In 1938 Einstein walks past a book burning on Krystallnacht. There was no CNN or cable news at the time. All there were books, magazines and newspapers which the Nazis piled 20 feet to throw to the flames.
Donald Trump does same thing for the same reason. He already had control of AM radio, and with our advanced technology he does just what Hitler was doing but now does it with Fake News, Alternative Facts and the intimidation of journalists, reporters to such and extent that he points them out at loud angry rallies calling them “sick”, and “scum” and the “enemy of the people” you know treason.
The parallels are astonishing. But sadly one of the most dangerous human foibles is not being able to see the cult through the dopamine.