Promising to deliver some progressive goals by (1) abusing presidential powers, (2) seizing new powers, and (3) posing topless to show off a roid-bloated physique sounds more authoritarian than left-wing.
Libertarians supporting the authoritarian? Checks out!
True. Self-defined “leftist” Stalinists are open about their embrace of authoritarianism.
Libertarians, in contrast, claim to be anti-authoritarian, all the while supporting a neo-feudal version of tycoon capitalism and all the while regarding fascists and unfettered police as the guard labour of the “free” market.
Not the only thing he has in common with grandpa. They also both played the useful idiot for expansionist fascist dictators.
As Hitler’s threat loomed ever larger over Europe, the U.S. ambassador to Great Britain, Joseph P. Kennedy, advocated a course of strict isolation for the United States. Convinced that Britain would never stand a chance against a Nazi onslaught, he resigned his office and returned to the United States in 1940.
I believe it was the first prefrontal lobotomy performed on someone who was diagnosed with mental retardation.
(I have a theory that her condition might have been autism instead, which often has a co-morbidity with epilepsy and intellectual challenges, but there’s no way to know now.)