The US Presidential election campaign has been marked by bitterness and pejorative invective with, among things, Donald Trump being described as a fascist.
That suggestion was tackled last week by columnist Mark McGeoghegan, who argued that Trump is better described as a “new authoritarian” of the type who “hollow out democratic institution from within. They pack the judiciary with loyalists, purge and disempower the legislature, undermine the integrity of elections, and transform the professional civil service into a personal, political vehicle.”
That provoked the ire of one of our readers, who today slates the tactics of the Kamala Harris campaign.
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Steph Johnson of Glasgow writes:
"Mark McGeoghegan appears to have fallen into the usual left-wing trap, similar to that of the Scottish Nationalists, that anything with which they disagree or that is right-inclined is a 'threat to democracy'.
Perhaps he is missing that fact that the so-called Democrats have forced in a presidential candidate who did not go through any official nomination process: a candidate who has been Vice-President through years of doing nothing to help the economy; who has done nothing to address huge numbers of illegal criminal immigrants; who appears unable to give a speech without a script but who relies instead on endless inane giggling; who dismissed an entire generation (Generation Z) as 'idiots'; whose party has dismissed all their opponents as 'garbage'; whose party politicised the judiciary against their opponent to such a degree that any genuine and legitimate concerns became hidden; who by her own admission is unable even to think on her feet; and who in her Vice-Presidency has had one of the lowest ever approval ratings in modern history.
Her entire campaign has been one of negativity against her opponent. Unlike Harris, her opponent shows a genuine desire to put his country first - not himself - who supports their armed forces and police officers, and who address the problems that the Democrats have neglected. It is no wonder that polls are in Trump's favour. The right have had enough of the left's division and deflection."
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