Gary Johnson’s Running Mate Says Donald Trump Is Straight Out Of ‘1984’
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Gary Johnson’s Running Mate Says Donald Trump Is Straight Out Of ‘1984’
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-1984_us_58189a06e4b0990edc336c30
“The rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp.”
11/01/2016 11:16 am ET | Updated 1 hour ago
Kate Abbey-Lambertz National Reporter, The Huffington Post
..............Weld drew the comparison to the Republican presidential nominee when he appeared on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” Tuesday, bringing a copy of the book with him.
“Before the Hate had proceeded for thirty seconds, uncontrollable exclamations of rage were breaking out from half the people in the room,” Weld read from 1984. “In its second minute the Hate rose to a frenzy. People were leaping up and down in their places and shouting at the top of their voices.”
“The horrible thing about the Two Minutes Hate ... was not that one was obliged to act a part, but that it was impossible to avoid joining in,” he continued. “And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp.”
In the book, members of the ruling party must gather each day for the “Two Minutes Hate” directed at the enemy. Seem familiar? Weld, running mate of Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson and a former Massachusetts governor, certainly thinks so.
“Sound like a Trump rally?” he asked. “Welcome to Donald Trump’s America, everybody.”............................
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I heard him read his passage this am. The similarities were and ARE astounding
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