1/15/2024 0 Comments Erick erickson twitter trump 2020![]() ![]() Individuals like Patriot Prayer’s Tusitala “Tiny” Toese - who has been repeatedly involved in street brawls in Portland - and Chris “Crying Nazi” Cantwell have repeatedly pushed memes about how “Pinochet did nothing wrong” or that leftists need to be thrown out of helicopters. Perhaps the most disturbing thing about Erickson’s comments were that they were a carbon copy of the same meme and language that have been repeatedly seen in far-right groups in the United States. He also criticized that fact that we spent a combined $618 million in foreign aid to Central American countries which are “causing or contributing to the migrant caravan.” That sounds like a lot, until you remember that the USS Gerald R Ford, the U.S.’s newest aircraft carrier and one of a planned 12, cost $13 billion. Pinochet’s intelligence services also assassinated Orlando Leteiler, a former Chilean diplomat, and two other bystanders with a car bomb in 1976 in Washington, D.C.Īll of this is fine in the far-right’s eyes, however, because Pinochet also instituted free market economic reforms. ![]() ![]() Anyone who opposed Pinochet was either murdered, tortured, exiled or - in at least 120 cases - thrown out of helicopters into the sea. He also wrote a November 2016 op-ed for The New York Times in which he talked about the need for conservatives to “reach across the aisle and go outside Washington” and was profiled by The New Yorker.īut if any doubts remain about whether #NeverTrump Erickson has continued to advocate for his more “acceptable” conservatism as opposed to, well, advocating full-blown fascism, they were dispelled by a series of tweets Erickson posted Monday night, in which he lauded late Chilean dictator Augosto Pinochet and called for a return of dissidents being thrown out of helicopters.Īugosto Pinochet was a murderous dictator who ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990, after taking power in a CIA-backed military coup from the democratically elected socialist Salvador Allende. In the immediate aftermath of Trump’s 2016 electoral victory, Erick Erickson was the type of conservative pundit many despairing liberals wanted to see.Įrickson, a popular conservative radio host and commentator, had been a fierce critic of Trump, disinviting him from a 2015 conservative conference for “inappropriate” comments on Megyn Kelly. ![]()
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