A new poll from the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics found that 56% of President Joe Biden’s voters believe “there is no real difference between Republicans and fascists.”
So, we probably shouldn’t be surprised that New York magazine’s Jonathan Chait posted an article this month claiming that “anybody fighting Joe Biden is helping Trump’s next coup.”
According to Chait, our republic has become “something functionally resembling a parliamentary system. Biden leads the governing party. Trump is the leader of the opposition. To oppose the one is to support the other.”
Or, as Anakin Skywalker more eloquently put it in Attack of the Clones, “If you are not with me, then you are my enemy!”
How far does this moral imperative go to support everything Biden wants? “Anybody who supports the party’s normal political operations,” Chait writes, “is throwing lit matches around the kindling of Trump’s next Reichstag fire.”
So, according to Chait, if you are a Republican who opposes any part of Biden’s entire agenda, you are enabling an American Hitler.
Do you prefer a top corporate tax rate of 21% to 26.5%? Then, you are Hitler.
Do you oppose government-run pre-K? You’re Hitler.
Are you against new tax breaks for electric cars? Hitler.
Might we suggest that if you want independents and conservatives to vote for Biden or abstain from voting at all, maybe, just maybe, you should allow them to oppose Biden when they disagree with his policy preferences aggressively?
