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:
More explicitly, this feminist attributed Trump’s victory to American women who chose to give two fingers up to the Democrats:
Her next tweet I think has to be read as a follow-up to the first. “You don’t win friends and influence people by calling them Nazis” is a nice segue to “Bullying women and all those who stand up for their rights and for children is not how you win votes in an election.”
The responses were almost unanimously in agreement with that thought, some in sharp rebuke of the ‘Far Left Extremists’ that lead Democratic Party messaging today (in fealty to the Pharma, Tech, and War Machine oligarchs):
Rowling’s third tweet in the wake of Trump’s triumph needs a bit of translating for an American audience:
The Guardian is the UK’s equivalent of The Washington Post in being leftist under a veneer, ever diminishing, of objectivity. Rowling before the tweet heard round the world (which made her the target of Guardian opprobrium) was a cartoon ‘Guardian Reader,’ which in the dictionary is defined as “a reader of the Guardian newspaper, seen as being typically left-wing, liberal, and politically correct.”
I doubt Rowling has become enamored of The Daily Mail, but she gets much fairer treatment in that tabloid than she has in The Guardian the last four years. Rowling’s joke here is that The Guardian will not be “standing up” to Trump in any meaningful way just as they did not stand up for women and children in the Trans Wars, choosing instead to call their defenders “transphobes,” “bigots,” and “Nazis.” Not to mention “TERFs.”
Owen Jones is a Guardian columnist who bridges no dissent in the ranks of progressives with respect to there being any limit to “transgender rights.” Judith Butler is an American academic feminist, the most frequently cited among the horde of Gender Theory Extremists as an authoritative voice that the binary nature of reality, not to mention sex or gender, is patriarchal delusion. Though not a writer for The Guardian, her ‘take’ on gender fluidity, etc., became famous in the UK after a 2021 interview she did in that paper:
On September 7, 2021, The Guardian published an interview[94] with Butler by Jules Gleeson that included Butler’s view of trans-exclusionary feminists (TERFs). In response to a question about the Wi Spa controversy, the Press Gazette stated that Butler in the Guardian article stated: “The anti-gender ideology is one of the dominant strains of fascism in our times.”[132] Within a few hours of publication, three paragraphs including this statement were removed, with a note explaining “This article was edited on 7 September 2021 to reflect developments which occurred after the interview took place.”[133]
In briefs, “TERFs like Rowling are Nazis.” See the first two tweets in this series for Rowling’s thoughts on the rhetorical power of that defamatory reflex.
Those who responded to Rowling’s third tweet shared her assessment of the supposedly liberal newspaper:
There is no endorsement or enthusiasm about Trump’s delayed return to the White House, certainly, though one hopes, if the ‘Garbage Man’ populist manages to re-segregate sports into exclusive, separate categories of biological men and biological women, not to mention safeguarding children from those zealous for their chemical castration and surgical mutilation and women prisoners from rapist cell mates, that she’ll screw up the courage to tweet her approval. For now, however, it’s clear that the Presence will restrict her shared thinking to further rebukes of the Left in the US and UK for holding the Capitol doors open for Trump-supporting populists to take over Congress.
Just wondering how much the oligarch JK paid you to write this, you stooge. Sexual harassers and predators like you and Rowling are on the march, you oligarchs think that because you have money, you get to dictate our human rights to us.