Tampon Tim. Kackles. King Cheetoh. Potato. Nicknames abound in politics. But there's another category of terminology that isn't quite a nickname: the label.
A label is something you hang on someone to signal similitude. Less of a metaphor, more of a simile. Many say that Klaus Schwab is like a James Bond villain. We don't call him Ernst Stavro Blofeld.
Labels get rolled out when people are really mad and all out of logic. Imagine tens of millions of furious normies trying to convey their feelings about Donald John Trump.
Hitler. It's nothing new, of course. Just take modern history's most famous villain and *poof*, hang that label on Trump. Toss in Stalin (the irony!) and Mussolini while you're at it. Because, you know, Trump is all about starting wars and killing millions of people...or something.
Do these people recall Trump's first term?
Of course, it isn't as simple as associating Trump--a populist--with men who had designs on global domination. The closest thing I can think of when it comes to Trumpian expansionism is when he toyed with the idea of buying Greenland.
That was some exquisite trolling. It was also the revival of a centuries-old American conversation about strategic global presence in the Arctic.
Not exactly the conquest of the Axis powers.
Back to Hitler the label: by some lights, the goal of those doing the labeling is to blow a dogwhistle to potential assassins, the mentally unwell who would attempt to harm Trump. The old parlor conversation, "If you could go back in time and kill Hitler, would you?", rang anew in the ears of Thomas Crooks, Ryan Routh, and possibly Vem Miller.
And it isn't just a few loons on X and Reddit making the spurious comparison. Sitting Senators, the LA Times, The Atlantic, NPR, Dem strategists Aisha Mills and James Carville, The Guardian...the list goes on.
Heck, some loon even wrote and published a book on the subect!
All of that media and "expert" opinion filters down the likes of "Papa Don" on TikTok (see below). He claims Trump has cost more American lives than "bearded guy" Osama bin Laden. Nothing to back that up, just trust the middle-aged guy in his garage.
Or take "Luke" below. Claiming Trump "called for a unified Reich" based on small print of an AI-generated ad posted by a lackey while Trump was in court defending a lawfare case brought by a weaponized DOJ underscores the tenuous, fragile grasp on reality that Trump haters maintain.
TDS is all too real, and the media and Democrats know it.
Don't be surprised if there's another attempt on Trump's life. After all, that's clearly the plan.
