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Passages

(4,335 posts)
Mon Apr 27, 2026, 07:59 AM 3 hrs ago

Norman Ornstein: Trump has called the left: - Enemy within - Scum - Terrorists - Vermin - Radical

- Lunatics - Demonic - Evil - Fascists - Marxists - Communists - Garbage - The enemy of the people - The enemy within - Treasonous - Animals - Degenerates - Jew haters - Lowlives


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Norman Ornstein: Trump has called the left: - Enemy within - Scum - Terrorists - Vermin - Radical (Original Post) Passages 3 hrs ago OP
Should some one alert Dana Bash? Traildogbob 3 hrs ago #1
She's certainly passing her audition BlueKota 2 hrs ago #6
He's like one of those old-time Kodak projectors. tavernier 2 hrs ago #2
Always true about him. multigraincracker 2 hrs ago #3
"This isn't fringe rhetoric." I call bullshit on that. Martin Eden 2 hrs ago #4
I would have to say Just Jerome 2 hrs ago #7
Says, Eric Adams - corrupt piece of shit that he is. harumph 2 hrs ago #5
Not enough caffeine. It took me until your post to remember him. niyad 2 hrs ago #8
Yep, Adams was jonesing for a Trump pardon. harumph 1 hr ago #12
The hostility needs to be mutual. We need to treat the enemies of American democracy as our enemies. hay rick 2 hrs ago #9
Outside of Jew Haters these labels are what Hitler and the Nazis called Jews Botany 1 hr ago #10
True, Trump made his ambitions no secret. Passages 1 hr ago #11
He is publicly murdering people both here in the United States and internationally, both of his elections ... Botany 1 hr ago #13
Strange Rebl2 1 hr ago #14
Projection. usonian 1 hr ago #15
Shook who now? ECL213 53 min ago #16
When I confront MAGATs with this rhetoric BeneteauBum 41 min ago #17

BlueKota

(5,478 posts)
6. She's certainly passing her audition
Mon Apr 27, 2026, 08:58 AM
2 hrs ago

to please her soon to be new bosses! They won't be firing her!

tavernier

(14,483 posts)
2. He's like one of those old-time Kodak projectors.
Mon Apr 27, 2026, 08:32 AM
2 hrs ago

Just take any of those words and light them up on a white screen and there you have Mr. Donald J Trump

Martin Eden

(15,759 posts)
4. "This isn't fringe rhetoric." I call bullshit on that.
Mon Apr 27, 2026, 08:53 AM
2 hrs ago

Other than stating Trump is a fascist, which pretty close to the truth, which Democratic leaders said the rest of those things?

hay rick

(9,665 posts)
9. The hostility needs to be mutual. We need to treat the enemies of American democracy as our enemies.
Mon Apr 27, 2026, 09:11 AM
2 hrs ago

Botany

(77,632 posts)
10. Outside of Jew Haters these labels are what Hitler and the Nazis called Jews
Mon Apr 27, 2026, 09:29 AM
1 hr ago

Trump’s 1st wife has testified that he had a book of Hitler’s speeches by his bed. Trump and Miller
are planning even more radical fascism for America. Be it immigrants, climate scientists, liberals,
FBI agents who believe in the rule of law, real journalists, brown people, real medical professionals,
LGBT and educated people he sees them as enemies that need to be eliminated. The D o J has all but
said that are going to let the ICE agents who murdered Good and Pretti walk away from any charges.

Trump, “I want to be a dictator from day one.” Rough quote.

Botany

(77,632 posts)
13. He is publicly murdering people both here in the United States and internationally, both of his elections ...
Mon Apr 27, 2026, 09:58 AM
1 hr ago

… were dirty, he learned his behavior from Roy Cohn, he is a Russian asset, along with his cruelty, racism, sexism, anti intellectualism, grifting, stupidity, and his phony sucking up to America’s Christo Fascism,
are all on public display. He is burning America and or Democracy to the ground too along with our
climate because he has been paid and is still being paid by the fossil fuel industries.

That “attack” @ the White House Corespondents Dinner has Reichstag Fire all over it. @ least that is
what I think.

usonian

(26,099 posts)
15. Projection.
Mon Apr 27, 2026, 10:17 AM
1 hr ago

Found on Hacker News.


This decapitation of education, military, cyber-defense, public news, the arts, disaster preparedness, climate science ... the list goes on ... is so systematic that it can only be described as a fifth column effort to destroy the U.S. from inside, which Putin can't do from outside.

BeneteauBum

(647 posts)
17. When I confront MAGATs with this rhetoric
Mon Apr 27, 2026, 10:35 AM
41 min ago

I ask ‘Is this how you view me?’ The ones that don’t know me (we get a number of these during our weekly rally) are vehement in their agreement. The ones who know me say ‘you’re not the typical left wing lunatic’.
So one side views me as the enemy while the other thinks I’m a decent person. These morons all buy into the BS hate spewed by this administration. It seems they just enjoy the hate and will never change.

Peace ☮️

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