Germany’s Der Spiegel is a shameful example of European leftism
writes Evelyne Joslain at the
American Thinker (thanks for the Instalink, Sarah).
Related — Also at The American Thinker: Let's Stop Using the Words "Trump Tried to Overturn the 2020 Election"; It's Unprofessional JournalismAs early as February 2017, after Trump had just been inaugurated, the magazine’s editorial team published an infamous cover showing the Republican brandishing the severed head of the Statue of Liberty, dripping with blood, to make it clear that Trump was going to guillotine the US democracy, no less.
On January 20, 2024, the rag was at it again! Trump has not yet been re-elected, but the narrative of the transnational left is that the head of the MAGA movement is going to be a dictator. On the cover, there’s a photograph of a martial, presidential Trump, who is respectfully saluting the troops (a magnificent Trump, actually). On the lower left, though, is this enormous wart for a title: “DIKTATOR TRUMP! Ein Szenario” (“Dictator Trump! A Scenario”).
… When the transnational left, running the whole gamut from the extremely wealthy elites with undue powers down to pathetic journalists in search of fame, regurgitates to us ad nauseam that Trump threatens “democracy,” as do all those who dare to have a skeptical opinion of the imposed narrative, we must understand that they are not speaking of true democracy, where the most diverse opinions can be expressed, but of “their own democracy.” That is to say, they fear the very opposite; namely, preserving their own interests through dictatorship. It’s just that they lack the courage to name the goals for what they are while having the nerve to accuse their opponents of their sins.
2 comments:
Americans do not understand Europeans (of any nationality, I'd like to think we "get" some better than others, and it is probably true, but frankly, we do not know which ones we "get" and which ones we do not). Europeans do not understand Americans. The difference is we realize we do not understand them, but they actually think they understand us. I have discussed this with several friends (almost all from western Europe, maybe the easterners "get" us better?). They honestly believe they understand us. My observations indicate they are somewhere better than clueless, but not much.
In their defense, I think (on this one, at least) we are closer to clueless than they, but....
Their entire views of us are formed by Hollywood and what their own media rehashes from rags like the WaPo and NYT. I had a young Danish woman tell me, upon visiting Savannah, GA on her first visit to the U.S. that it completely changed her preconceived ideas of the U.S. It was a complement.
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