Americans must get better at recognizing radicals. A radical is identified by ideas and actions—not appearance. Bill Barr is more radical than almost any balaclava-wearing street-fighting political rascal you’ve ever seen in a grainy, shaky YouTube video. Ignore his suit and tie.
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PS/ Barr appears on TV because he wears a suit and tie, was once marginally respectable, and was selected by the biggest traitor in American history to occupy a role with an impressive title. But by his ideas and actions, he’s a fringe radical with no place in American discourse.
PS2/ Barr’s views on the executive branch are radical and even deranged—and have no place in American history or discourse. That these views are also *fraudulent* (they only apply when a Republican runs the executive branch) marks him as a suit-and-tie wearing far-right militant.
PS3/ Network and cable TV producers needed to up their game after the 20-year far-right plot to transform America—which began with FNC, Rush Limbaugh and Newt Gingrich in the mid-1990s—flowered into Trumpism. They failed to do so, and they failed miserably—with dire consequences.
PS4/ They still bring on far-right autocrats with no interest in democracy. The only requirement is that you dress nicely, have a good title, and are treated as respectable by one of the two major political parties in America. Producers make no *independent* judgment, apparently.
PS5/ Barr directed a Kent State–like attack on unarmed, peaceful civilian protestors in DC. He conspired with a criminal president to cover up some of the gravest political crimes in our history. He interfered in ongoing federal investigations in ways that were arguably criminal.
PS6/ So I have no idea why Bill Barr is on my television screen. None. I have no idea why major media is working as hard as it can to rehabilitate him and make his book a bestseller (and him a multimillionaire). That Barr can appear anywhere but on Bannon’s “War Room” is obscene.
PS7/ Bill Barr can wear a suit and tie, speak in what seems like a measured manner, and carry around an impressive title given to him by a career criminal, but he’s a dangerous lowlife who wants America to devolve into an autocracy.
He has no place in polite society or on my TV.
He has no place in polite society or on my TV.
PS8/ If you actually listen to what Barr is saying, his radicalism is breathtaking:
1️⃣ He believes the 2020 election was “rigged.”
2️⃣ He believes the Mueller probe was wildly partisan.
3️⃣ He calls the Trump-Russia scandal “the Big Lie.”
4️⃣ He uses “we” to describe Team Trump.
1️⃣ He believes the 2020 election was “rigged.”
2️⃣ He believes the Mueller probe was wildly partisan.
3️⃣ He calls the Trump-Russia scandal “the Big Lie.”
4️⃣ He uses “we” to describe Team Trump.
PS9/
5️⃣ His explanation for why he wouldn’t let the special counsel make the final call on Trump-Russia is he believes the conspiracy theory that the Mueller probe was infiltrated by partisan agents.
6️⃣ He supports *everything* Trump did from January 2017 through November 2020.
5️⃣ His explanation for why he wouldn’t let the special counsel make the final call on Trump-Russia is he believes the conspiracy theory that the Mueller probe was infiltrated by partisan agents.
6️⃣ He supports *everything* Trump did from January 2017 through November 2020.
PS10/ IOW, it is impossible to conduct a competent interview of the man during the amount of time a single program can devote to him because his views—and *actions*—are so radical across such a range of issues that what is required is an FBI interrogation rather than a book plug.
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