Did Neil Gorsuch Found a Fascism Forever Club'?

[Rhiannon12866]

References to the organization appear to have been a yearbook-only joke.

Updated 2/6/17 at 2:30 p.m.: Catholic journal America Magazine reports the "Fascism Forever Club" was an in-yearbook joke, quoting the former student government adviser at Georgetown Prep during Neil Gorsuch's later high school years as saying students would create fake clubs and activities.

"They were all inside jokes on their senior pages,” Steve Ochs said.

In an update, The Daily Mail notes that a reference to the club appears in more than one place in Gorsuch's Georgetown Prep yearbook. But it also quotes a Gorsuch friend as saying the name of the club was a "self-deprecating joke" and that the organization never actually existed. A school spokesman also told Snopes.com that "no such club ever existed" there.


http://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2017-02-02/neil-gorsuch-founded-fascism-forever-club-report-says?src=usn_tw

[lapfog_1]

1. Does it matter?

If he created the club, even as a high school student, it clearly shows his lack of judgment and his callous attitude.

If he created the name as a joke, it clearly shows his lack of judgment and his poor sense of humor and his callous attitude.

[Rhiannon12866]

5. No, of course it doesn't.

And it does speak to his lack of judgment, makes you wonder about the education quality at that school. But since this has become an Internet phenomenon in recent days, I thought the correction was worth a post.

[Turbineguy]

2. That "inside joke" would have worked better

if he had turned out to be a flaming liberal.

[Bucky]

3. Do you think they'll blame it on Obama?

or on Clinton's cock for nostalgia's sake?

[s-cubed]

4. I think that was debunked. You might check snopes.

[Rhiannon12866]

6. There's a link to Snopes in the article

Did Neil Gorsuch Found a High School 'Fascism Forever' Club?

Tabloid claims that Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch had founded a "Fascism Forever" club in high school proved false.

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(Gorsuch) wrote that he founded and led the “Fascism Forever Club,” though those with knowledge of the school back in the 1980s say there was no such club. The mention of it in the yearbook was a tongue-in-cheek attempt to poke fun at liberal peers who teased him about his fierce conservatism.

It was “a total joke,” said Steve Ochs, a history teacher at Georgetown Prep who was the student government advisor during Mr. Gorsuch’s junior and senior years at the Bethesda, Md., school.

“There was no club at a Jesuit school about young fascists,” he told America. “The students would create fictitious clubs; they would have fictitious activities. They were all inside jokes on their senior pages.”

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http://www.snopes.com/neil-gorsuchs-fascism-forever-club/