I've seen some pretty disgusting **** over the last few months, but this really gross.
They are talking about an article from politico not Fox, but truly we have some sick ****s in this country. And before some of you tried to defend this, that's not what she's trying to say here.
She's not just trying to compare the situation, She's literally comparing him to a dictator, she's just doing it through the assassination attempt.
Still acting like he took a photo op and stage this photo when he was purely reacting on adrenaline.
If this situation had happened to a Democrat, they would've made him a martyr. They're just ugly in every aspect of life.
They are talking about an article from politico not Fox, but truly we have some sick ****s in this country. And before some of you tried to defend this, that's not what she's trying to say here.
She's not just trying to compare the situation, She's literally comparing him to a dictator, she's just doing it through the assassination attempt.
Still acting like he took a photo op and stage this photo when he was purely reacting on adrenaline.
If this situation had happened to a Democrat, they would've made him a martyr. They're just ugly in every aspect of life.
Trump assassination attempt makes him like Mussolini, who used own shooting for power grab: Politico column https://t.co/4IXpRXaQWU
— Fox News (@FoxNews) August 3, 2024
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Anti-Trump author and New York University history professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat argued that the assassination attempt on former President Trump speaks "to how autocrats can use adversity to strengthen their power," linking Trump's situation to an attempt on the life of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.
In a column for Politico Magazine, the author noted how both attempts solidified their strongman appeals. She mentioned that both used photos of them surviving shootings to work the crowd for more sympathy.
"With that gesture, Trump tended to his personality cult, reassuring millions of his devoted followers that he had survived and was unbeaten just as Mussolini did with his photo almost 100 years before," Ben-Ghiat wrote, adding, "The danger is what comes next."
…Explaining how Mussolini used this incident for his own political gain, Ben-Ghiat wrote, "That is why Mussolini, a journalist by training who attended to every detail of his image, posed for pictures after the attack, the bandage becoming a kind of badge of honor. And it is why each failed attempt became fodder for his personality cult by seeming to prove his macho toughness, resilience and invincibility."
Then came the direct comparison to Trump, who, after he was shot in the ear in Butler, Pennsylvania last month by a round from an AR-15 that barely missed his skull, stood up from cover and told his rally goers to "Fight, fight, fight!" The moment was captured in vivid photographs.