The lefts' mass delusion about Trump

 Miranda Devine:

Sam Harris deserves our gratitude. With dazzling honesty, the liberal atheist public intellectual from LA has said out loud what we all knew but which his ilk have blurred for the past two years: Once you decide Donald Trump is the second coming of Adolf Hitler, then anything is legitimate to stop him — and, yes, everything illegitimate was done to stop him in 2020, and it was “warranted.”

Now that the Orange Hitler is lining himself up for a second tilt at the presidency, it’s OK to suspend democracy again to stop him.

This mass delusion of the left, that the former guy is “an existential threat to democracy” and a “moral emergency,” as Harris described it on British podcast “Triggernometery” last week, has metastasized under a president afflicted with a bad case of Trump derangement syndrome.

It has progressed to the next stage, of stigmatizing and dehumanizing Trump’s supporters, which has echoes in some of the darkest periods of 20th-century history. The dozens of Trump supporters held in a DC jail without trial for months and even years over Jan. 6 offenses, many nonviolent, would be recognized immediately as political prisoners by Amnesty International if they were detained in a country like Russia.

As the podcast’s co-host, Russian-born Konstantin Kisin, 39, interjects quietly halfway through Harris’ eloquent torrent: “If you destroy democracy in the process of protecting democracy …,” what then?

Let’s rewind, to the start of the conversation, when Harris defends Twitter’s silencing of conservative views and amplification of lies in the digital public square on which it squats, by saying no, it is a private company and Trump is “so malignantly selfish” that he should have been kicked off the social media platform a year before the 2020 election.

The fun begins when Harris tries to justify Twitter’s suppression of The Post’s Hunter Biden laptop scoop in October 2020 under the guise of “Russian disinformation.”

“It was appropriate for Twitter and the heads of Big Tech and the heads of journalistic organizations to feel that they were in the presence of something like a once-in-a-lifetime moral emergency,” said Harris.

“Here’s a guy [Trump] who is capable of anything; he’s not ideological, he’s a black hole of selfishness, there’s no telling what he will do and we cannot afford to have four more years with this guy.

“So, what should well-intentioned people do who have a lot of power in these various ways — you’re running the New York Times, you’re running CNN, you’re running Twitter — what should they conspire to do?
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“At that point Hunter Biden literally could have had the corpses of children in his basement. I would not have cared … Whatever the scope of Joe Biden’s corruption is, if we … understand he’s getting kickbacks from Hunter Biden’s deals in Ukraine or … China, it is infinitesimal compared to the corruption we know Trump is involved in.
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With liberal elitists, it’s a case of: I know Trump is existentially evil. I can’t explain exactly how I know. It’s a vibe. Trust me. In any case, who wants to be associated with the hobbits who support him? Ewww.

The antipathy to Trump among the elites is more about visceral class revulsion and a fear of contagion than his morality or politics.

Harris continues confidently: “That doesn’t answer the people who say, ‘It’s still completely unfair to not have looked at the laptop in a timely way and to have shut down the New York Post Twitter account; that’s a left-wing conspiracy to deny the presidency to Donald Trump.’ Absolutely it was, absolutely. But I think it was warranted.”

At this point, the hosts protest. “You’re saying you’re content with a left-wing conspiracy to prevent someone being democratically elected as president?”
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I think this is a pretty accurate description of the left in this country when it comes to Trump.  they would destroy democracy and pretend to be saving it.  That is what their attempts to criminalize Trump are all about.  They do not want people to be allowed to vote for him.