New Yorker: Book on Hitler Reminds Us of a Conservative Chaotic Clown With a Violent Following

The New Yorker is reposting this story from March, so the desperation must be setting in. There’s a new book about Adolf Hitler, “Takeover: Hitler’s Final Rise to Power,” and guess whom it’s eerily reminiscent of. The fear here seems not to be of Donald Trump but of his enablers.

Adam Gopnik wrote back in March:

[Historian Timothy W.] Ryback details, week by week, day by day, and sometimes hour by hour, how a country with a functional, if flawed, democratic machinery handed absolute power over to someone who could never claim a majority in an actual election and whom the entire conservative political class regarded as a chaotic clown with a violent following. Ryback shows how major players thought they could find some ulterior advantage in managing him. Each was sure that, after the passing of a brief storm cloud, so obviously overloaded that it had to expend itself, they would emerge in possession of power.

First, no one regards the possession of power more than the Democrats — just see how hard they’re working to undermine the “rogue” Supreme Court. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez asked of Congress, “What power are we going to exercise to rein in a fundamentally unaccountable and rogue court.” None, because you have no power.

Anyway, a democratic election did hand over (not “absolute”) power to someone who could never claim a majority in an actual election. That happened despite the Hillary Clinton campaign’s exhaustive efforts to connect the Trump campaign to the Russians. If anyone, the political class regards President Joe Biden as a “chaotic clown” (but only because of all those deep-fake videos).

Right?

We all know who Biden’s enabler is, and she should be ashamed of herself.

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