Why is an Atlantic writer mocked for her ‘Trump is Hitler’ opinion-piece?
The magazine’s staff writer, Anne Applebaum, has claimed that the former US president is espousing the rhetoric of the twentieth century’s most notorious dictators.
Once again, The Atlantic magazine has been ridiculed with regard to its publishing comments. This time the left-wing magazine is in trouble for publishing an op-ed comparing former US President Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Benito Mussolini. The author, Anne Applebaum, has long been accused of pushing propaganda for US intelligence agencies.
Published on Friday, the article’s headline asserts, “Trump Is Speaking Like Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini.” Applebaum goes on to argue that by calling his opponents “vermin,” and referring to criminal illegal immigrants as “animals,” Trump has “brought dehumanizing language into American presidential politics.”
There’s never a ‘mirror’ around when you need one.
Trump is “cynically” borrowing language from not just Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini, Applebaum argues. No, she goes on to fully mix her “propaganda soup;” she also adds a dash of Mao Zedong and a smidgen of Pol Pot.
“In using this language,” Applebaum claims, “Trump knows exactly what he is doing. He understands which era and what kind of politics this language evokes.”
The Trump campaign did not deem it worthy to respond to Applebaum’s assertions. They merely dismissed the article as “more fake news by a third-rate media outlet.” Ultimately, both the article and its source were thoroughly mocked by numerous commenters, online.
“When you spend 8 years calling a person every bad name you can think of – including Hitler – only to see that it’s not working, so you desperately decide the only thing left for you to do is call him all the bad names at once,” American journalist Glenn Greenwald retorted on X.
Left-wing magazine The Atlantic is making a final desperate attempt to demonize former President Donald Trump and the “evils” he will do to the country if elected, reports Townhall.
RealClearPolitics co-founder and president Tom Bevan mocked the over-the-top nature of the headline, saying, “The Atlantic with a threefer.”
Margot Cleveland, senior legal correspondent for The Federalist, responded, “When Hitler isn’t bad enough!”
“I can’t stop laughing,” SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk responded.
I can’t stop laughing 🤣🤣 https://t.co/l7mxpZo86W
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 18, 2024
Perhaps the public ‘they’ should note that Appelbaum sits on the board of directors of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), an NGO funded by the US State Department to do, in the words of its founder, what “was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA.” In recent years, the NED helped foment the 2014 Maidan coup in Ukraine, sponsored meetings of anti-Beijing officials and delegates in Taiwan, and financed a UK-based organization working to drive right-wing American news outlets out of business.
If one connects the dots, one finds that her published opinions and those of the US national security state rarely diverge. Writing for the Atlantic, she has advocated regime change in Russia, accused Trump of planning to “abandon” Ukraine and NATO, and accused Musk of “weakness” and “arrogance” over his refusal to help Kiev’s forces guide kamikaze drones into Russian naval targets in Crimea.
Which part of the phrase ‘World War III’ does she not understand.
“Anne Applebaum is on the board of directors for the most notorious CIA cut-out in all of US history,” American pundit Mike Benz wrote on X after the Atlantic published her op-ed on Musk. “So, you know, when reading her froth-mouthed hit piece today on Elon Musk, maybe take that into consideration.”
Applebaum has, of course, denied any association between herself and the NED or the CIA.
As a parting comment worthy of note – Appelbaum is married to Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski, whose liberal Civic Platform party she has praised in multiple articles for The Atlantic. Immediately after the Nord Stream pipelines were destroyed in 2022, Sikorski tweeted an image of the blast site along with the caption “Thank you, USA.”
According to American journalist Seymour Hersh, the pipelines were sabotaged by the CIA and US Navy.
Now we all know – how that soup is made.
