On a recent Hardball with Chris Matthews, blogger Andrew Sullivan pinned the entire Donald Trump presidential campaign on fear-mongering, fascism, racism, and Islamophobia (when he wasn't trying to get a word in sideways amid the interruptions of host Matthews).
The "fundamental truth" about this election, Sullivan opined, is that it marks the moment when white America -- indeed, the western world -- becomes a "majority minority."
"We're in a fascist moment here," the increasingly agitated white male Sullivan warned, when white America is resisting the massive demographic shift of "brown people, and black people, and the future."
"They believe America's ending, their identity is ending" and that it will be "'Adios, America,' to use that other fascist Ann Coulter's term."
What Trump supporters believe, Andrew, is that America as we know it is ending not because of brown and black people, but because the radical left, which has the cultural and political power in this country, has undermined our national security by attempting to destroy our borders, to destroy the very notion of citizenship, to hamstring us in our war against jihadists, to set people of color against whites and vice versa, to ramp up violent animosity against law enforcement, and to alienate our allies and embolden our enemies, all while smearing concerned patriots in this country as fearful racists.
Sullivan went on to cite, predictably, Islam as the other factor driving Trump's "fascist" campaign. "It's the gasoline on the fire, the fear that aliens are coming in to our country, and Trump has deliberately fostered" -- cue the Nazi reference! -- "in a way that only the fascists in the '30s have fostered: the notion that these people are a potential fifth column, come to kill you and attack you and rape you."
Sullivan apparently hasn't been keeping up with events in Europe, where a fifth column of Muslim fundamentalists, invited and welcomed by multiculturalist leftist elites, have come to kill and attack and rape their way across the continent. He also apparently isn't aware of the Islamic terrorism on America's own shores that has resulted at least in part because of the careless embrace here of ISIS-connected and -inspired "refugees," and because of our porous southern border.
It's not fear-mongering, fascism, racism, or Islamophobia, Andrew, when the threat is real.
