{"id":5581,"date":"2025-12-13T10:37:44","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T17:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/?p=5581"},"modified":"2025-12-13T10:37:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T17:37:45","slug":"atlantics-frum-warns-of-trump-voter-gulags-whos-buying-this-tired-hysteria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/2025\/12\/13\/atlantics-frum-warns-of-trump-voter-gulags-whos-buying-this-tired-hysteria\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlantic’s Frum Warns of Trump Voter Gulags \u2013 Who’s Buying This Tired Hysteria?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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David Frum, the man who once claimed Trump would turn the U.S. into a banana republic by 2021 and is still collecting a paycheck for it, has now officially graduated from \u201cconcerned pundit\u201d to full\u2011blown fever\u2011dream conspiracy theorist, and NewsBusters is right to call him out.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The \u201cTinfoil Hat\u201d Moment<\/strong><\/h2>\n

On MSNBC\u2019s Deadline: White House, Frum didn\u2019t just warn that Trump might abuse power; he straight\u2011up asserted that Trump may arrest people simply to stop them from voting. This isn\u2019t some nuanced legal analysis about executive overreach or election interference; it\u2019s a flat, breathless claim that the president is going to round up ordinary citizens and throw them in jail because they might vote the wrong way. It\u2019s the kind of thing you\u2019d expect from a late\u2011night comedy monologue, not from a staff writer at The Atlantic who still gets introduced as a serious conservative thinker.<\/p>\n

Frum\u2019s entire shtick is that Trump is an existential threat to democracy, but at this point, he\u2019s not predicting policy \u2014 he\u2019s writing fan fiction for the Resistance. He\u2019s not analyzing what Trump actually did or said; he\u2019s inventing a dystopian script where Trump is a cartoon dictator who personally orders the arrest of voters, and then he treats that script as if it\u2019s breaking news.<\/p>\n

The Absurdity of the Claim<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Let\u2019s be clear: Trump has never proposed, much less implemented, a policy of arresting people just for voting or planning to vote. He has threatened to prosecute political opponents for alleged crimes (like Mayorkas or Mamdani), but that\u2019s a far cry from saying \u201cI\u2019m going to arrest voters to stop them from voting\u201d. Frum is taking Trump\u2019s bluster, his legal threats, and his attacks on sanctuary cities, then warping them into a fantasy where the president is about to launch a mass arrest campaign against the electorate.<\/p>\n

And yet, Frum delivers this as if he\u2019s uncovering a secret plot, not as if he\u2019s just recycling the same \u201cTrump is Hitler\u201d narrative he\u2019s been selling since 2016. He\u2019s not even pretending to engage with reality anymore; he\u2019s just performing outrage for an audience that already believes the worst about Trump, no evidence required.<\/p>\n

NewsBusters\u2019 Righteous Mockery<\/strong><\/h2>\n

NewsBusters\u2019 Alex Christy is absolutely correct to label this as Frum \u201cdonning the tinfoil hat\u201d. When a supposedly serious commentator starts claiming that a sitting president may arrest voters to stop them from voting, that\u2019s not analysis \u2014 that\u2019s paranoia dressed up as journalism. Christy\u2019s piece rightly points out that Frum is no longer offering policy critique; he\u2019s offering a paranoid fantasy that belongs on a conspiracy podcast, not on a mainstream news panel.<\/p>\n

The fact that MSNBC lets Frum say this on air, and that The Atlantic still pays him to write it, is a damning indictment of the entire \u201cNever Trump\u201d pundit class. They\u2019ve spent years telling us that Trump is an authoritarian, but now they\u2019ve become the very thing they claim to oppose: purveyors of fear, misinformation, and authoritarian panic, all to keep their own jobs and relevance.<\/p>\n

The Final Verdict<\/strong><\/h2>\n

So here we are: David Frum, the man who once wrote a whole Atlantic article titled \u201cHow to Build an Autocracy,\u201d now thinks Trump is about to arrest voters to stop them from voting. He\u2019s not citing statutes, court rulings, or executive orders; he\u2019s just making it up and presenting it as a real possibility. And for this, he\u2019s still getting paid, still invited on TV, still treated as a serious voice in the national conversation.<\/p>\n

Is Frum getting paid for this level of ignorance?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

David Frum, the man who once claimed Trump would turn the U.S. into a banana republic by 2021 and is still collecting a paycheck for it, has now officially graduated from \u201cconcerned pundit\u201d to full\u2011blown fever\u2011dream conspiracy theorist, and NewsBusters is right to call him out. The \u201cTinfoil Hat\u201d Moment On MSNBC\u2019s Deadline: White House,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-malfeasance"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}