PRESIDENT TRUMP’S STATE VISIT

It is disappointing that the success of President Trump’s state visit should be marred by the juvenile antics of the politically correct – in particular the babyish news coverage of the mainstream media, and the insults spewed out by various Labour politicians and other Left attention seekers. One such was the London mayor, Sadiq Khan, who took to the airwaves and sprawled his bile across several newspapers in the days before President Trump arrived.

In one such newspaper article on, Khan declared:

‘Praising the “very fine people on both sides” when torch-wielding white supremacists and antisemites marched through the streets clashing with anti-racist campaigners … Setting an immigration policy that forcefully separates young children from their parents at the border. The deliberate use of xenophobia, racism and “otherness” as an electoral tactic. Introducing a travel ban to a number of predominately Muslim countries. Lying deliberately and repeatedly to the public.

No, these are not the actions of European dictators of the 1930s and 40s. Nor the military juntas of the 1970s and 80s. I’m not talking about Vladimir Putin or Kim Jong-un. These are the actions of the leader of our closest ally, the president of the United States of America.’

President Trump did not praise white supremacists and antisemites. What he did was to point out that not all those attending that event at Charlottesville were extremists, including the Antifa thugs, and that there were some ‘very fine people on both sides’, who did not deserve to be vilified as they were only peaceful protestors. Khan lied.

Likewise, the separation of children from their parents for those crossing the border into the USA is a practice from the previous Obama administration. It was Hilary Clinton, not President Trump, who sought to create division during the election campaign, not least when she accused large numbers of ordinary Americans of being deplorables. Regarding the restrictions on travel from a number of countries, that was due to security concerns. That many of those countries were Muslim majority countries says more about Islam than about Trump.

In reality, it is Khan who is lying.

In his sordid article Khan continued to allege that President Trump was ‘a figurehead’ for a new ‘global far-right movement’ that ‘is on the rise around the world’ and posed a ‘growing global threat’ by using ‘new sinister methods to deliver their message’.

While it is true that we are living through a communications revolution, the allegation that there is now some new far-right that poses a threat to liberal society is an invention as old as the 1950s. It was peddled in The Authoritarian Personality, from the Frankfurt School in 1950 (see The Genesis of Political Correctness: The Basis of a False Morality, pages 43 to 73), and rehashed by Hilary Clinton and others with the allegation of there being some new alt-right (a concept that those accused have willingly adopted), of which, during the presidential election, Clinton said:

‘The Wall Street Journal describes it as a loosely organized movement, mostly online, that “rejects mainstream conservatism, promotes nationalism and views immigration and multiculturalism as threats to white identity” … This is part of a broader story – the rising tide of hardline, right-wing nationalism around the world.’

In a speech during the presidential election campaign, Clinton said:

‘You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? [Laughter/applause]. The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic — you name it. And unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up. He has given voice to their websites that used to only have 11,000 people, now have 11 million. He tweets and retweets offensive, hateful, mean-spirited rhetoric. Now some of those folks, they are irredeemable, but thankfully they are not America.’

‘Half of Trump’s supporters’ are ‘deplorables’ and ‘irredeemable’! That amounts to around a quarter of the USA’s voters, and Clinton was more than happy to denigrate them. She lost the election.

Back in 1950, The Authoritarian Personality alleged:

‘For the pseudoconservatives are the pseudodemocrats, and their needs dispose them to the use of force and oppression in order to protect a mythical “Americanism” which bears no resemblance to what is most vital in American history’ [and that] ‘This is not merely a “modern conservatism”. It is, rather a totally new direction: away from individualism and equality of opportunity, and toward a rigidly stratified society in which there is a minimum of economic mobility and in which the “right” groups are in power, the outgroups subordinate. Perhaps the term “reactionary” fits this ideology best. Ultimately it is fascism. While certainly not a necessary sequel to laissez-faire conservatism, it can be regarded as a possible (and not uncommon) distortion of conservatism – a distortion which retains certain surface similarities but which changes the basic structure into the antithesis of the original.’

The Authoritarian Personality was published shortly after the allies had defeated Nazi Germany. The idea that the USA was threatened by fascists from within was an absurdity peddled by communists. Yet the absurdity is rehashed and continuously peddled. The allegations provoked by Trump’s state visit to the UK are not simply mindless abuse, but are part of the cultural Marxist agenda. They are part of a belief system. The believers need to be challenged and stopped.