CHRIS CUOMO DEFENDS ANTIFA—INCITES VIOLENCE, AFFLICTED WITH TDS

CHRIS CUOMO AFFLICTED WITH TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME DEFENDS VIOLENT ANTIFA THUGS.

Trump Derangement Syndrome ( best defined by Fareed Zakaria as “hatred of President Trump (and his policies) so severe as to impair judgement”) has been detected in the recent fulminations of that formerly pleasant and mostly sensible CNN TV journalist and announcer: Chris Cuomo, host of  “Cuomo Prime Time”   Cuomo, the son of former governor of NY State (Mario Cuomo) and a graduate of Yale and Fordham Law has apparently fallen victim to a vicious case of TDS.  There is no other reasonable diagnosis. In his recent—and well criticized— CPT monologue, Cuomo tried to justify the violence perpetrated by the Antifa demonstrators.  According to Cuome, these violent thugs  “had the upper hand morally” so their violent actions and speech at the demonstrations were to be viewed as “morally acceptable”.

Cuomo’s monologue came on the anniversary of the Charlottesville riot last year which saw protests in Washington DC where masked Antifa Group members were filmed throwing eggs and water bottles, firing off Roman candles at police, the media and other demonstrators, and beating people in the street.  They were acting like the “brown shirt” thugs (they claim to oppose) of another time and place.  They were recorded verbally threatening to kill the President.  I guess that makes it OK (for Como) and gives the Antifa thugs the “moral high ground” because they were theoretically “opposing bigotry”.  But from this author ...it sounds a lot like Cuomo encouragement and incitement of violence.

Cuomo and his colleagues on the left were eager to hammer President Trump who last year after the rally was fiercely criticized for failing to condemn the violence unconditionally.  The President  stated correctly at the time that both protesters at the August 2017 Chalotttesvillle rally were to blame for the violence and the tragic fatality that resulted from it.  The President did not take sides...he was right in condemning violence on both sides.

However, for those with their logical process impaired by Trump Derangement Syndrome, and those who seem to have given up on our democratic processes—or who have sadly come to  believe thtat if your party can not win elections at the ballot box the only recourse of its supporters and facilitators in the media is to encourage violence!

That is a most-perilous course of action.

Those with more circumspection and better  historical perspective than  Chris Como,  should be carefully assessing that long step-off the cliff into the abyss of conflict and chaos.