More on the Obama inner circle Maoist
Victor Davis Hanson looks down into it:
I am not a big fan of saying that officials should resign for stupid remarks. But interim White House communications director Anita Dunn’s praise of Mao Zedong as a “political philosopher” is so unhinged and morally repugnant, that she should hang it up, pronto.
Mao killed anywhere from 50 million to 70 million innocents in the initial cleansing of Nationalists, the scouring of the countryside, the failed Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution, Tibet, and the internal Chinese gulag. Dunn’s praise of a genocidal monster was no inadvertent slip: She was reading from a written text and went into great detail to give the full context of the remark. Moreover, her comments were not some student outburst from 30 years ago; they were delivered on June 5, 2009. Her praise of Mao’s insight and courage in defeating the Nationalists was offered long after the full extent of Mao’s mass-murdering had been well documented. Mao killed more people than any other single mass killer in the history of civilization.
So where do all these people, so intimate with our president (Dunn is the wife of his personal lawyer), come from? A right-wing attack machine could not make up such statements as those tossed off by a Dunn or a Van Jones. There seems to be neither a moral compass nor even a casual knowledge of history in this administration. And now we have the avatars of the “new politics” claiming it’s okay to praise Mao’s political and philosophical insight and his supposed determination (”You fight your war, and I’ll fight mine”) because Lee Atwater supposedly once evoked Mao too.
This is not a problem about who the President has on his staff. This is a problem about who is President.
When I pointed out at this blog, way back during the Democratic primary fights in 2008, that Obama was not qualified to be President of the United States based on his 20-year association with a racist church in Chicago, I implied that there were best and worst case scenarios of what would happen if he was elected. Having a Maoist in his inner circle is on the track of a worst case scenario.
This is a vicious far-Left cadre with the President at the center. When has that sort of mindset coupled with that much power ever not produced catastrophe?
And the question isn’t how could these people be so ignorant of history, or even how such a depletion of common sense might result in serial disasters.
The question has become: What are these people capable of?
If you look at the people they cite as their guiding lights, the answer is anything.
Pay attention to what people in power say about themselves, and about you.