Julia Ioffe to Lefties: Calm Down for a Minute About Trump

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By Daniel J. Solomon January 20, 2017

As liberals freak out over the inauguration of President Donald Trump, writer Julia Ioffe has a message for them: Do not get paranoid like Republicans eight years ago.

As the left hyperventilates about camps and fascism, I’d like to remind them of the right doing the same (but with socialism) 8 yrs ago.

— Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) January 20, 2017

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It’s become a trope since the campaign that the new president might signal a rise in anti-democratic or even fascist tendencies within the American body politic. Ioffe think that’s akin to conservatives fretting that former president Barack Obama would impose socialism at the start of his agenda.

Obama never threatened to sue the press, encouraged violence at his rallies and singled out whole ethnic groups for special criticism.

Ioffe herself was on the receiving end of intense online anti-Semitism after she wrote a profile of Melania Trump.

Contact Daniel J. Solomon at [email protected] or on Twitter, @DanielJSolomon

Daniel J. Solomon is the former Assistant to the Editor/News Writer at the Forward. Originally from Queens, he attended Harvard as an undergraduate, where he wrote his senior thesis on French-Jewish intellectual history. He is excited to have returned to New York after his time in Massachusetts. Daniel’s passions include folk music, cycling, and pointed argument.

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