David Frum Compares Trump To Mass Murderer Charles Manson

Posted • August 16, 2024: The Trump = Hitler analogy is getting old. We've been in desperate need of some fresh material! How jejune. Unsurprisingly, Trump-loathing journalist David Frum appeared on CNN This Morning today to supply it. Frum dug up, and approvingly quoted, this line from Republican consultant Mike Murphy -- or to be completely up to date, "Republican Voters Against Trump" consultant Mike Murphy. "Asking Donald Trump to talk about policy, it's like teaching Charles Manson to foxtrot. He can manage a step or two, but then he's going to put a pencil in your eye, because he's Charles Manson. And Donald Trump is Donald Trump."

Frum went on to call Trump an "insult comic" who "knows how to abuse and denigrate and humiliate and demean." The irony was apparently lost on Frum that whereas he trashed Trump for denigrating people, he himself had just analogized Trump to Charles Manson—the personification of pure evil. Maybe Frum could serve as the warm-up act for Trump's next insult-comic appearance. CNN host Kasie Hunt quoted from Frum's latest diatribe in The Atlantic, where he mocked Trump's "Kamala's a dummy" spin: "For all his jibes at her intellect, Harris is managing the mystery appeal effectively." This is what Frummy calls avoiding the press? "Managing the mystery appeal?" (…)

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