Political legend Pete McCloskey compares 'psychopath' Trump to Hitler -- and traces the GOP's demise

[turbinetree]

to Newt Gingrich

By Ray Hartmann
Published February 01, 2021

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If anyone ought to have perspective about the troubled state of American democracy, it's Pete McCloskey.

Now 93, McCloskey had more than a front-row seat during the turbulent Vietnam era and the fall of President Richard Nixon. As a renegade Republican congressman, McCloskey called for Nixon's impeachment over the Vietnam War in 1971, opposed him in the Republican primary in 1972 and was the first to demand his resignation during Watergate.

So McCloskey knows an outlaw president when he sees one. With the benefit of that experience and the wisdom of his years, does he see the need to view the reign of Donald Trump dispassionately as just a case of history repeating itself? Are people overreacting to the turmoil of recent times?

https://www.rawstory.com/pete-mccloskey/

[MLAA]

1. Excellent article. I read it earlier this morning and glad you are sharing it.

The 93 year old McCloskey sure sees things clearly and isn’t afraid to call them out.

[turbinetree]

3. Your welcome....................

[BlueNProud]

2. It was Newt that encouraged them to throw truth out the window

and weapinize focus grouped buzzwords.

[JHB]

5. Yes, Newt, but it was a tandem effort with...

...his "majority maker," Rush Limbaugh.

Newt inside the government, Rush outside.

[2naSalit]

7. And don't forget his ties to R. Murdoch.

[OAITW r.2.0]

4. Met Pete in 1972 while he was campaigning for the Republican nomination.

He brought a keg of beer to the rally at my school. He was a very thoughtful guy and , IIRC, he tied our ME defense budget to Big Oil product protection thought that we should have billed the Kingdom for services rendered.

[no_hypocrisy]

6. I maintain that a combination for the preservation of American Democracy, an acute sense of history,

and the sheer will to resist saved this country from sliding into fascism. The Germans of post-Weimar Republic mostly had no idea of the deal they were making with Hitler. Those who did, ended up in concentration camps or worse.

[musclecar6]

8. I agree completely

With McCloskey’s analysis that Trump is a would-be psychopath madman like Hitler all the way. I’ve been saying exactly that for the last four years that this guy was a would be totalitarian dictator in the worst mold of the bad people we’ve seen over the years like Hitler, Joseph Stalin,Saddam Hussein et cetera.

Fortunately we stopped this SOB (no thanks to the spineless and/or ignorant Republican Congress).