Move over Trump; we may have a new TDS sheriff in town.
Trump made his bones triggering the corporate state media into catatonic states of shock back in the heady 2015 days.
Vivek Ramaswamy, who appears more and more to be modeling his political trajectory on the rise of Donald Trump, and, despite the donor class propping her up, attracting significantly more grassroots support than Nikki Haley in the process, has unlocked a new achievement in that department.
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Via The Hill (emphasis added):
CNN analyst Van Jones said he was “shaking” watching GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy on the debate stage Wednesday night, warning that the country is witnessing “the rise of an American demagogue.”
In a panel discussion on CNN after the fourth GOP primary debate, Jones denounced Ramaswamy’s embrace of conspiracy theories and warned, “That guy is dangerous. That’s dangerous.”
“And the smug, condescending way that he just spews this poison out, is very, very dangerous. Because he won’t stop Trump, but he’s going to outlive Trump by about 50 years,” he said.
“You’re watching the rise of an American demagogue that is a very, very despicable person. And I literally, I was— I was shaking listening to him talk because a lot of people don’t know. That is one step away from Nazi propaganda coming out of his mouth.”
“I was shaking listening to him talk because a lot of people don’t know that is one step away from Nazi propaganda coming out of his mouth.”
— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) December 7, 2023
-Van Jones on Vivek Ramaswamy talking on the debate stage about the racist “Great Replacement theory.” pic.twitter.com/11gaY0HQpg
Van Jones is no stranger to public histrionics when confronted with political ideas/figures he doesn’t like (meaning any political ideas/figures his masters in the corporate state don’t endorse).
Here he is having a tantrum on national television in 2016 after Donald Trump shocked the world, forever damaging the vaunted reputation of D.C pollsters who had, in some outlets, granted Hillary a 98%+ percent chance of winning on election day.
Here is he crying again on air when the Brandon entity allegedly won in 2020.
Imagine being so high on your own smug supply as to proclaim in front of the world that Joseph Brandon, of all people on God’s Green Earth, becoming nominally the most powerful figure in the world is some sort of vindication for “the good guys win in the end,” or for good character.
I’ve literally met petty career criminals — who were at least honest about their actions and life choices — with greater moral fiber than Brandon.
I know we’re getting off the rails here in terms of the original subject matter of this article, but in researching this article I came across (again) this classic of the TDS genre: the 2016 Young Turks election night meltdown.
It’s an absolute banger of a TDS compilation. It begins smugly enough, as all liberals expected to usher in a new era of female empowerment with the coronation of Queen Hillary or whatever on election eve, and slowly descends first into anger and then into despair as the night drags on.
True cinematic schadenfreude.
