Looney Tunes: CNN’s Stelter Says Trumpism Is ‘Moving Toward Fascism’

CNN’s Brian Stelter decided not to start the first episode of so-called “Sources of reliability“” of 2022 ended on a positive note. Instead, Stelter continued to rehash the same tired ad hominem attacks he leveled all throughout 2021 by accusing his political opponents of “moving toward fascism”. 

Liberal and reliable Trustworthy SourcesDavid Frum (Atlantic senior editor) joined Stelter to discuss his bizarre July 2021 opinion piece declaring Trumpism fascism. Stelter asked Frum the leading question, as he does every time. 

Around halfway through 2018, you said that Trump and Trump’s allies were trying to justify January 6, that we are heading toward fascism, and that Trumpism was moving towards fascism. Is that still your feeling, a year later?  

Frum responded after he tee’d up the softball. He first redefined words by saying: “fascism is a popular movement that justifies violence in the name of some kind of overthrow of outdated institutions and to create some kind of national regeneration.”He then went on a tirade accusing Republican voters not to be horrified. “violence anymore, they’re increasingly accepting it.”

Stelter was a typical arrogant spokesman. “there are conversations about that here on CNN and on MSNBC” About the allegations of fascism within the Republican Party following the January 6th Riots. He concluded with another important question “do you think the rest of the national news media is taking the aftermath of January 6th seriously enough? Do you think there is enough coverage? 

Frum replied by whining that the coverage was difficult to keep up with, and argued it has been that way since 2015, seemingly alluding to Trump’s first run for President. “There is a scandal and then another scandal and then another scandal. There’s an outrage and then another outrage and then another outrage,” he said.

He acts like this wasn’t the media’s fault by creating the rapid fire panicked coverage during the Trump years.

 Continuing his whining further, Frum added: 

We kept saying through the Trump Presidency, the mantra–at least in the beginning of it, the mantra that many people used was the phrase, this is not normal. This isn’t normal. This is not normal. It is normal.

Frum continued on by asking if this would be the future of American politics in 2022 and 2024, and if not, what can be done to “keep the country true to its democratic and liberal traditions?”  

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CNN’s Trustworthy Sources
1/2/2022
11.32:30 am

BRIAN STELTER – You said about half way through 2017 that Trump supporters and people trying to justify January 6th are moving towards fascism. Are you feeling the same way about one year later? 

DAVID Frum: What is fascism? And what does that mean, when we use the term “fascism”? According to me, fascism can be described as a movement of people who justifies violence for the sake of overthrowing outdated institutions and creating a national revival. Well, that’s what you hear more and more from the people who are minimizing this. There is an accepta— they’re not horrified by the violence anymore, they’re increasingly accepting it. Acceptance is growing among them that America’s institutions (the institutions that make up the United States) are so flawed they will need to be destroyed and rebuilt. Violence will continue as the main tool.

STELTER Are there sufficient focused reports on the issue? 

FRUM: It’s hard to keep up. This has been the case since 2015. That’s the story since 2015. There’s an outrage and then another outrage and then another outrage. We kept saying through the Trump Presidency, the mantra–at least in the beginning of it, the mantra that many people used was the phrase, this is not normal. It isn’t normal. This is not normal. It is normal. It’s not acceptable or justifiable, but it is normal because this is the reality of the situation. The central question is: What will your American political future look like in 2022 or 2024? If you refuse to accept it, how can you keep America true to its liberal and democratic traditions?