For today’s generation, Hitler is the most hated man in history. His regime has become the the archetype of political evil.

However, this view does not extend to his economic policies. To the contrary, many of his policies are embraced by governments all around the world.

For example, the Glenview state bank of Chicago famously praised Hitler‘s economics in its monthly newsletter. In doing so, the bank discovered the hazard of praising Keynesian policies in the wrong context.

Whether in Germany or the United states, the controversy highlights the ways in which the connection between violence and central planning is still not understood.

In the 1930s, Hitler was widely viewed as just another protectionist central planner who recognized the supposed failure of the free market and the need for nationally guided economic development.

Proto-keynesian socialist economist Joan Robinson wrote that Hitler found a cure against unemployment. Keynes himself supported Hitler’s chief economic policies:

1. suspension of the gold standard
2. development of huge public works programs like the Audubon
3. protection of industry from foreign competition
4. expanded credit
5. institution of job programs
6. Bullying of private sector on prices and production decisions
7. vastly expanded the military
8. enforced capital controls
9. instituted family planning
10. penalized smoking
11. brought about national health care and unemployment insurance
12. imposed educational standards

Such programs remain widely praised. Today, even given their failures, they are features of every capitalist democracy.

Before we demand central planning from our own governments, we should remember where many of these practices originated – and their eventual conclusions.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) violated her own rules for the 117th Congress when she called herself “a wife, a mother, a grandmother, a daughter” on the House floor during the debate about President Trump’s second impeachment.

“I stand before you today as an officer of the Constitution, as Speaker of the House of Representatives,” Pelosi said. She continued, “I stand before you as a wife, a mother, a grandmother, a daughter, a daughter whose father proudly served in this Congress.”

But just this month, Pelosi and Rules Committee Chairman James McGovern (D-MA) announced the rules for the 117th Congress, which had “future-focused” proposals. These included completely eliminating terms that reference gender, such as “father, mother, son, and daughter.”

The proposal also included the “Select Committee on Economic Disparity and Fairness in Growth.” This requires Congress to “honor all gender identities by changing pronouns and familial relationships in the House rules to be gender neutral.”

In clause 8(c)(3) of rule XXIII, terms such as “father, mother, son, daughter, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, first cousin, nephew, niece, husband, wife, father-in-law, mother-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, stepfather, stepmother, stepson, stepdaughter, stepbrother, stepsister, half brother, half sister, grandson, or granddaughter” are removed.

In their place, terms like “parent, child, sibling, parent’s sibling, first cousin, sibling’s child, spouse, parent-in-law, child-in-law, sibling-in-law, stepparent, stepchild, stepsibling, half-sibling, or grandchild” are to be used.

A few days later, Democrats officially passed the sexless speech codes for the House of Representatives.

But Pelosi violated her own rules as she stood before Congress on Wednesday during a House hearing on the impeachment of President Trump.

One of the subtext narratives being circulated by the leftwing is that a number of Democrat members of Congress are claiming to have caught Covid-19 from Republican members who were not wearing masks as they sat around a safe room during the height of the Capitol Hill riot.  But did they?

First, there has been no direct evidence as to where the members may have caught the virus.  It is only speculation – and may be politically motivated.  The story is making the rounds on the elitist east coast media as if it is factually true.

What casts a shadow of suspicion over the accuracy of the claim is that none of the accused Republican legislators has proven positive.  If one or two were to test positive in the next few days, the timing would suggest that those Republicans likely caught it from the Democrats in the room – despite the masks.  After all, we have been told that masks are significantly less effective in preventing a healthy person from getting the disease than they are for already infected persons spreading the disease.

Another fact that questions the claim relates to Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal.  In earlier videos, she was seen in the House chamber and in the gallery without a mask – and among other maskless Democrat colleagues – before taken to the safe room (pictured above).  Hmmmm.  Maybe she was the source of the Covid-19 in the room.  I really do not know – but that is as possible as the current politically-oriented Democrat narrative.

Then there is the video of Delaware Democrat Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester offering masks to Republican legislatures.  It looks like a set up to me.  I am not surprised that those not wearing masks would decline her gift.  She would likely have known that before she started handing them out. What bothered me, someone made a video of her giving out the masks.

That does not seem like the kind of action that would naturally have someone suddenly record the one-minute video.  Even if someone wanted to record the one- or two-minute action, it would have been over by the time the person started shooting.  In other words, I think Rochester and the videography may have been producing the event for later release as a bit of political propaganda.  I cannot prove that, but I am highly suspicious.

You can see how the video was used to perpetuate the dubious narrative.  Even President-elect Joe Biden said he was disgusted when viewing the video.  In the trade, we call that pumping up a story.

Rochester said that one Democrat member — whose mask was around his neck — accepted the additional mask.  She explained his lack of face-covering was because he was talking on his cell phone.  Really?  You cannot talk on the phone with a mask on?

Congressional physician Dr. Brian Monahan waded in with an email that said: “The time in this room was several hours for some and briefer for others. During this time, individuals may have been exposed to another occupant with coronavirus infection.”  If that is true – and based on the various test results – the culprits are more likely to have been the Democrat members.

The sadness of this event is the media once again passing off an anti-Republican narrative as fact without any fair analysis of actual facts.

This may be considered a small event, but it did get a lot of coverage – including harsh criticism of the Republicans, as usual.  It is, however, illustrative how the left and the media work together to create, package and magnify mendacious political narratives to malign the GOP.

So, there ‘tis.

Medical providers were forced to throw unused Covid-19 vaccines in the trash after New York Governor Andrew Cuomo “had stuck to rigid guidelines that prioritized health care workers, and residents and staff of nursing homes and group homes,” according to The New York Times.

“Across New York State, medical providers in recent weeks had the same story: They had been forced to throw out precious vaccine doses because of difficulties finding patients who matched precisely with the state’s strict vaccination guidelines — and the steep penalties they would face had they made a mistake,” The New York Times report said.

On Saturday, when 151 New Yorkers died from COVID-19, state health officials changed the vaccine guidelines. They now allow medical providers to offer the vaccine to an employee who had contacted a member of the public. However, there would have to be extra doses available and the “priority population” would still get priority.

Before the revision made on Sunday, Cuomo was backtracking on his strict rules. On Friday, he stated that more “essential workers,” and New Yorkers older than 75 could start getting vaccinated.

Last Thursday, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio asked, “Why don’t we just resolve this and give the City of New York the freedom to vaccinate high priority people as we see fit so we can speed up the vaccination process?” A Lohud.com report stated:

“New York will continue to restrict COVID-19 vaccine eligibility to health care workers and nursing homes despite calls from local governments to provide the shots to police, firefighters, teachers and elderly above 75, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Thursday.”

At Callen-Lorde Community Health Center in Manhattan, Dr. Peter Meacher, chief medical officer, thought he was going to receive a small supply of Moderna’s vaccine for his staff. Instead, he got 600 doses and was forced to store over half of them in freezers.

He wanted to offer the extra vaccines to high-risk patients, but was worried that he would face consequences for violating the state’s guidelines. He told the Times, “It’s stressful and frustrating to have the vaccine and to be unable to start giving it to our patients as quickly as we would like.”

Alex M. Azar II, the secretary of the federal Department of Health and Human Services, told states they should not abide by harsh restrictions on vaccine rollout.

“There is no reason that states need to complete, say, vaccinating all health care providers before opening up vaccinations to older Americans or other especially vulnerable populations,” Azar said. He also said that states should not “leave vaccines sitting in freezers.”

Dr. Neil Calman, president of the Institute for Family Health, said, “We’re seeing them in our office, and it just seems like we’re turning them away today just so we can call them back in a week and say, ‘Now you can get your vaccine.’”

Every now and then, the arrogant elitism of the New York press corps slips out.  We see it in their condescending attitude toward the masses living in fly-over America.  In the kindest references, we hear that they are merely out of touch with the lives of Americans who do not belong to that unique class of snobby multi-millionaires that populate the political and press culture of the Big Apple.  But if you follow the New York-based news industry, you will discover that they really look down on we the people as a lower and less enlightened class.

You will recall a former First Lady, former New York Senator, and 2016 Democrat candidate for President referring to Trump supporters as a “basket of deplorables.”  After a widespread backlash, that term was dropped — but the sentiment was not.  The folks on CNN and MSNBC – as well as all the folks in the New York print media – you know, the New York Times, New York Magazine, the New Yorker, Atlantic Magazine, Vanity Fair and those other scribes who serve as pop-up panelists on CNN and MSNBC – continued their malignant slander against the middle class for not embracing their elitist leftwing authoritarian view of the world.  We are said to be heartless and ignorant xenophobes, sexists, misogynists, racists, homophobe, Islamophobes, anti-Semites who sadly cling to our Bibles and guns.

The latest example comes from CNN’s Anderson Cooper.  He disparaged ALL the folks who showed up at the Capitol Building on January 6^th.  He mocked all of those on Capitol Hill for quietly leaving the scene and “going to go back to the Olive Garden and to the Holiday Inn they’re staying at, or the Garden Marriott, and they’re going to have some drinks and talk about the great day they had in Washington.”

First of all, Cooper conflates and smears the thousands who came and went peacefully with the much smaller number who rioted – contrary to their custom of describing violent rioters in our cities as “peaceful demonstrators.”  The latter contingent is being identified and rounded up by the FBI and other law enforcement agencies – as they should be.

While Olive Garden management had no comment, the Cooper remark set off an online firestorm from patrons of the Italian restaurant chain – and from folks who simply do not like to be looked down upon.

There can be no mistaking Cooper’s belief that the Olive Garden, the Holiday Inn, and the Marriott Garden hotels are the environments of the lower class.  Why else would he connect them to a group of people for whom he has nothing but contempt?

Cooper apparently differentiates those places – and their clientele –from those who patronize The Jockey Club, Sardi’s, and the Ritz-Carlton.  Let’s face it.  Finding Cooper at an Olive Garden would be like sighting a penguin in Florida.

While the criticism of Cooper was widespread across the various media platform, the CNN host arbitrarily focused his on-air response to CNN’s media war target, FOX News and hosts Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity.  While Carlson and Hannity opined on Cooper’s snobby comments, they did not create the nationwide reaction.  It was an organic response to what Cooper said … period.

The reaction was sufficient to force Cooper to make that on-air response.  It was not an apology, however.  Arrogant people do not apologize.  He doubled down on accusing all those participating in the demonstration as violent criminals.  Then in a pathetic attempt at relating to the common man, Cooper said he likes artichoke dip at Olive Garden even though it has spinach – and he does not like spinach.  I wonder if Cooper will next reveal his favorite pool hall in the Bronx or rib joint in Harlem.  Nay!

Cooper suggested that those calling him out as an elitist snob were reacting to his pedigree – specifically his mother who he did not name.  I wonder why.  Maybe it is because his mother is heiress Gloria Vanderbilt – making Cooper the great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt – and scion of one of the snobbiest families in American history.

After excoriating FOX and its personalities, Cooper suggested that America does not need a divisive media battle – oblivious to the irrationality and inconsistency of his own attack on the FOX network.

We can safely say that Cooper did not grow up with an appreciation of America’s everyday working class.  He is among the wealthiest of the cable news talking heads with a net worth north of $200 million dollars.  He is the richest of a very rich category of news commentators.  In fact, virtually every one of those folks you see on the networks are millionaires – including the reporters and regular panelists, such as James Acosta ($4 million), Joy Reid ($4 million), Lawrence O’Donnell ($16 million), Craig Melvin ($6 million), Rachel Maddow ($25 million), Chris Hayes ($5 million), the once discredited Brian Williams ($50 million), David Gregory ($12 million), Wolf Blitzer ($20 million), John Berman ($5 million), Alisyn Camerota ($8 million), and  … well you get the point.

Rather than continue down this rabbit hole … if you are curious about others, just search “(name) net worth” and you will find more – a lot more.

I have no problem with people being rich.  During my career, I have dealt with lots of millionaires and billionaires.  Many – even most – are great people.  But there is a segment of the super-rich community that has a sense of superiority and is condescending, like Cooper.  In fact, the New York millionaire news crowd is an insulated collection – a culture – of arrogant, condescending snobs who get their leftwing philosophy from a sense of personal superiority.

Even in explaining his slam against middle-classism, Cooper came across with his elitist sense of superiority on full display.  It would be a BIG improvement if those reporting the news represented a broader segment of the American public – a little economic diversity — instead of a bunch of homogeneous, tight-knit, leftwing, New York City media plutocrats.

So, there ‘tis.

During the protest at the Capitol Building on Wednesday, a Trump-supporter and former US Air Force Veteran, Ashli Babbitt, was shot dead by a Capitol Police officer as she attempted to climb through a broken window to bypass a barricade.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said that he never wants to speak to President Donald Trump again after the events at the US Capitol on Wednesday, according to The Washington Post.

The president has been accused of inciting the riot by urging his supporters at a rally on Wednesday “to fight” and march to the Capitol, where Congress was counting electoral votes and confirming Joe Biden as the president-elect.

After the Capitol was secured and Congress reconvened more than six hours later, McConnell condemned the protesters.

“The United States Senate will not be intimidated,” he said. “We will not be kept out of this chamber by thugs, mobs, or threats. We will not bow to lawlessness or intimidation. We are back at our posts. We will discharge our duty under the Constitution and for our nation.”

He continued, “Even during an ongoing armed rebellion and the Civil War, the clockwork of our democracy has carried on. The United States and the United States Congress have faced down much greater threats than the unhinged crowd we saw today.”

“They tried to disrupt our democracy. They failed,” he said. “This failed insurrection only underscores how crucial the task before us is for our republic.”

Congress finished counting the electoral votes shortly before 4 a.m. ET on Thursday, finalizing Biden’s victory.

On Thursday night, Michael Sherwin, the acting US attorney in Washington, DC, indicated that federal prosecutors were investigating Trump’s role in inciting the insurrection.

“We are looking at all actors here, not only the people that went into the building, but … were there others that maybe assisted or facilitated or played some ancillary role in this,” Sherwin told reporters in a phone call.

The Washington Post reported that when Sherwin was asked whether that included Trump, he said, “We are looking at all actors here, and anyone that had a role, if the evidence fits the element of a crime, they’re going to be charged.”

After Sherwin’s comments, the president released a video condemning the violence at the Capitol.