J. K. Rowling is an unhinged sufferer of Trump Derangement Syndrome. At least, she was during his first term and the inter regnum. Now, who knows?
For one thing, she went silent on the subject of the United States Presidential campaign period with her only mention being a single retweet of a feminist decrying unkind things being said about Vice President Harris after the Democratic Party nominated her over Biden in a de facto coup. That’s as close as she could bring herself to an endorsement of a woman progressive running against someone she once tweeted was “much worse than Voldemort.” See ‘Point #2’ of this post for much more on this subject.
Today, though, the day after Trump’s victory in the popular and Electoral College votes and his coattails giving the GOP control of the House and Senate, Rowling put out three tweets, each of which, while not Three Cheers for DJT, highlighted her shared experience with the Orange Man of progressive snobbery and being smeared as Nazis. Let’s look at these three tweets and some of the better responses in each post’s thread.
Vice President Harris struggled to make coherent answers to even the simplest unscripted questions from reporters. In her softball interview with Anderson Cooper, though, she skipped the usual word salad and affirmed loudly and clearly that former President Trump was a “fascist.” Do an internet search for “Trump called Nazi” and check out the number of hits there are. Rowling is clearly referring here, I think, to that progressive maven reflex with respect to Trump — but she makes it in the context of her being called a “transphobic Nazi” repeatedly the last four years. Hold that thought. Some of the funnier responses to this tweet:
Pretty funny — and I didn’t expect Rowling to be joking, however darkly, on the Morning After a Trump electoral sweep. There were also tweet-responses from Gender Critical feminists, who made the point that progressives got their due by treating women as third class citizens and then expecting them to show up and vote for a candidate who shared that view though also being a woman:
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