(DC Pundit) – If you ever find yourself wondering what happened to Al Gore, the former vice president who once believed he was just a few hanging chads away from the White House, look no further than his latest appearance at San Francisco’s “Climate Week.” The 77-year-old climate crusader went on a bizarre, history-twisting rant comparing President Donald Trump’s administration to Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime.
Speaking with the kind of dramatic flair usually reserved for bad Hollywood monologues, Gore said, “I understand very well why it is wrong to compare Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich to any other movement,” before promptly doing just that.
“But there are important lessons from the history of that emergent evil,” he said, as if comparing a democratically elected American president to the leader of the most infamous dictatorship of the 20th century was just part of a thoughtful philosophical exercise.
Referencing post-World War II German intellectuals like Theodor Adorno and Jürgen Habermas, Gore attempted to draw a line from Nazi propaganda to the Trump White House.
“It was Habermas’ mentor, Theodore Adorno, who wrote that the first step in that nation’s descent into hell was, and I quote, ‘the conversion of all questions of truth into questions of power,’” Gore pontificated. “He described how the Nazis, and I quote again, ‘attacked the very heart of the distinction between true and false.’ End quote.”
According to Gore, this same logic applies to Trump’s climate policies: “The Trump administration is insisting on trying to create their own preferred version of reality,” he claimed.
That “version of reality,” according to Gore, includes skepticism toward climate alarmism, support for American energy independence, and a healthy distrust of globalist green policies that would kneecap U.S. manufacturing.
“They say the climate crisis is a hoax invented by the Chinese to destroy American manufacturing,” he said, referring to a claim Trump once made on Twitter long before he took office.
“They say coal is clean. They say wind turbines cause cancer. They say sea-level rise just creates more beachfront property.”
And just in case you thought this was going to stay remotely on topic, Gore also threw in a few references to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Pope Francis, because why not?
“We’ve already seen, by the way, how populist authoritarian leaders have used migrants as scapegoats and have fanned the fires of xenophobia to fuel their own rise of power,” he added, swerving yet again into leftist talking points.
Then came the kicker: “And power-seeking is what this is all about,” he declared. “Our constitution, written by our founders, is intended to protect us against a threat identical to Donald Trump.”
Ah yes, the Constitution was drafted in 1787 with the express foresight to stop someone like Donald Trump, a billionaire real estate mogul who would one day be elected president by 75 million Americans, from enforcing immigration law and rolling back climate overreach.
Despite being decades removed from his days in public office, and even further removed from political relevance, Gore seems more determined than ever to keep himself in the spotlight by peddling apocalyptic climate predictions and now, Nazi analogies. If nothing else, it’s impressive that he managed to name-drop Hitler, King, the Pope, and wind turbines in the same speech.
The left’s climate prophet has gone from “An Inconvenient Truth” to “An Unhinged Tirade,” and unfortunately, this kind of rhetoric is becoming more and more common among Democrats who can’t seem to accept that President Trump is back in the White House — and stronger than ever.
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