A Los Angeles Times opinion column is under fire for comparing supporters of former President Donald Trump to Hezbollah and Nazi sympathizers.
“This woman compares her Trump-supporting neighbors, who plowed her driveway, to Nazi sympathizers & Hezbollah & wrestles w/whether to show them any kindness since she ‘can’t give them absolution,’” journalist Megyn Kelly wrote of the piece. “Note to Virginia Heffernen’s neighbors: don’t plow again.”
This woman compares her Trump-supporting neighbors, who plowed her driveway, to Nazi sympathizers & Hezbollah & wrestles w/whether to show them any kindness since she “can’t give them absolution.”
Note to Virginia Heffernen’s neighbors: don’t plow again. https://t.co/ZZCnPfI46S— Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) February 7, 2021
The Los Angeles Times published a piece last week titled “What can you do about the Trumpites next door?” which described how author Virginia Heffernan’s driveway was cleared of snow by her Trump-supporting neighbors.
“Of course, on some level, I realize I owe them thanks — and, man, it really looks like the guy back-dragged the driveway like a pro — but how much thanks?” she wrote. “These neighbors are staunch partisans of blue lives, and there aren’t a lot of anything other than white lives in the neighborhood.”
Heffernan went on then to compare the act of clearing her driveway to how Hezbollah “also gives things away for free.”
“The favors Hezbollah does for people in the cities Tyre and Sidon probably don’t involve snowplows, but, like other mafias, Hezbollah tends to its own — the Shiite sick, elderly and hungry,” she wrote.
She also described an experience she had with Nazi sympathizers in France as a teenager.
“You might end up like the upper-middle-class family I stayed with in France as a teenager. They did not attend a citywide celebration for the 100th birthday of Charles de Gaulle, the war hero who orchestrated the liberation of his country from Nazi Germany in 1944. They did have several portraits of Philippe Pétain, Nazi collaborator, on their wall,” she wrote, saying the family described the Nazis as “polite.”
The column set off a firestorm of negative reactions on Twitter, calling the piece “so very sad” and an example of how some Democrats can’t cope that their neighbors have differing political views.
This is a fascinating insight into how many on the Left think. The writer cannot fathom good in people with whom she disagrees politically. So very sad. (She tweeted it herself, but then hid her tweets sometime after I retweeted her below.) https://t.co/OkzMtpwu5Y
— David Shafer (@DavidShafer) February 7, 2021
Your leftist neighbors hate you and want you dead, no matter what a good neighbor you are.
Democrats create sickness and misery, like all leftists have done throughout history.
Column: What can you do about the Trumpites next door? – Los Angeles Times https://t.co/Ajk69M8xYw
— Nick Searcy, INTERNATIONAL FILM & TELEVISION STAR (@yesnicksearcy) February 6, 2021
Oh, horrors. In a country with contested elections and legal protections for free speech, how does a person come to grips with the realization that the folks next door have … gulp different political opinions? https://t.co/OiLSOqmZZc
— J.D. Tuccille (@JD_Tuccille) February 6, 2021
Man. This column. It’s like people don’t realize that genuine human connection is, in fact, the best way to change hearts and minds. https://t.co/MV42j19l9i
— Katie Herzog (@kittypurrzog) February 6, 2021
