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“Trump is speaking like Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini,” charges The Atlantic’s Anne Applebaum, who throws in Mao Zedong and Pol Pot for good measure. As Sir Bedevire (Terry Jones) might say, who is this who is so wise in the ways of politics and history? Applebaum won a Pulitzer for Gulag: A History, published in 2003. The Yale alum is a smart lady, but as Nobel laureate Saul Bellow said, a great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

In this case, the illusion is that a president noted for economic growth at home and peace abroad, is the equivalent of Hitler, Stalin, and the rest of the gang. Applebaum also needs to believe that the addled Kamala Harris and Mao Zedong acolyte Tim Walz – endorsed by the Atlantic – are the wave of the future, as Lincoln Steffens said of the USSR.

Applebaum’s gulag tome is a sequel of sorts to The Gulag Archipelago: An Experiment in Literary Investigation by Nobel laureate Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. In The God That Failed, another book everybody should read, Nobel laureate André Gide notes that on the left, “truth is spoken with hatred and falsehood with love.”  If anyone thought that applies to Anne Applebaum it would be hard to blame them. As she wrote in 2020, “Trump hopes to undermine Joe Biden’s most important electoral asset: the impression, shared by even those who don’t like the former vice president, that he is a fundamentally decent person.”

On July 8, Joe Biden said it was “time to put Trump in a bull’s-eye.” After the assassination attempt on Trump five days later, Biden said he only meant to “focus on his policies.” On Wednesday, Biden said of Trump that “we gotta lock him up,” then claimed he only meant “politically lock him up.” The Delaware Democrat believes that Chinese Communists are “not bad folks” and blacks “ain’t black” if they fail to support him. Remember, Joe Biden is a fundamentally decent person.