LOS ANGELES.–As the 2024 campaign comes to a close, all the knives are out for 78-year-old former President Donald Trump, not because of patriotism but because of pure vindictiveness and politics. All the denunciations by former staff are orchestrated by the campaign of 60-year-old Vice President Kamala Harris, hope to give her that last minute boost in a dying campaign, losing steam as Nov. 5 approaches. Yet the fake news doesn’t qualify what it does to support the Kamala campaign, rather reports as factual the misgivings of former disgruntled employees, all of whom had their run-ins with Trump, resulting in their firing. Unlike 81-year-old president Joe Biden, Trump demanded high standard for his employees at whatever level, having them demoted or fired when they misbehaved or didn’t meet his standards. Now they act sanctimonious before Election Day.
If you listen to Trump’s 74-year-old former Chief of Staff John Kelly, his statements are as childish as they get, showing exactly why Trump fired him for his incompetence serving in his post. In Kelly’s memoir, “Kelly-Trump Partnership,” he calls Trump a “fascist,” all because he was slammed by Trump for not doing his job. Kamala uses such rubbish as her closing argument in the 2024 campaign that Trump would rule as a dictator, rob the American public of the Constitution, Bill of Rights and destroy democracy. Voters have grown weary of Kamala’s unfounded claims, showing that she’s a true Manchurian candidate, programmed like a robot with preposterous Democrat talking points handed to her by her chief strategist David Ploufe, Obama’s former campaign strategist. Kelly’s childish revelation, picked up by the fake news, is that Trump is a “fascist.”
Trump isn’t part of any fascist political party or movement, he simply expects high standards for his employees or gets rid of them, with all the repercussions from disgruntled former employees. Kelly shows his limited IQ, stretching historic definitions to the breaking point, calling Trump a fascist in the same vein as Adolf Hitler or Benito Mussolini. When asked at a CNN town hall this week, Kamala repeated the tortured definition, calling Trump a fascist. Ordinary voters know it’s a derogatory word but have no clue what it means. “Well, looking at the definition of fascism, it’s a far-right authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology and movement characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a national social hierarchy,” Kelly said. How in God’s name does he mangle the definition of fascism with Trump?
Kelly despises Trump because he called him out as incompetent and fired him for his substandard service. Trump is the only candidate that wants to end the Ukraine War, whose presidency was defined by peace abroad and prosperity at home. Has Kelly opened his eyes to a world set ablaze by Biden-Harris, with wars raging in Europe and the Mideast? What political ideology can Kelly point to that Trump subscribes to other than using common sense to drive the U.S. economy, foreign policy and national security? How has Trump suppressed the corrupt U.S. press that wastes its First Amendment franchise on pushing a Democrat political agenda? Kelly may not like Trump’s personality or personal style but he doesn’t fit any definition of fascism without torturing it beyond any recognition. It’s become a fraudulent Kamala talking point that has backfired on her.
Kelly doesn’t know what it means to be on the “far right,” knowing that Trump was once called by Sen. Ted Cruz in the 2016 primary debates a typical New York City liberal. “Certainly the former president is in the far-right area, he’s certainly an authoritarian, admires people who are dictators—he has said that. So he certainly falls into the general definition of a fascist, for sure,” Kelly said, twisting all logic, but, more importantly, exposing his ignorance of historically relevant terms. Because Trump appointed conservative Supreme Court Justices who eventually overturned Roe v. Wade, does that make him a fascist? Trump didn’t sit on the Supreme Court and go through the legal reasoning and arguments to decide on Roe v. Wade. What makes Trump a right-wing extremist for appointing conservative justices? Democrats appoint only liberal justices.
Whatever the list of disgruntled former Trump employees that sign on to Kelly nonsense, it doesn’t mean they have any legitimate case to brand the former president a fascist. How is Trump more far-right than any other Republican leaders that believe in a secure border, limited military intervention overseas or social issues related to women’s reproductive rights? When it comes to 75-year-old former National Security Adviser John Bolton, Democrats like to cite or appear in the fake news, Trump got rid of him because his warmongering would have gotten the U.S. into WW III. Bolton advised Trump to bomb Iran and other Mideast countries, something Trump resisted. Democrats and the fake news like to put Bolton on the air because he denounces Trump. Voters have tuned out outrageous attacks on Trump knowing it’s all part of the last ditch strategy to help Kamala win.
About the Author
John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
