By Taki Theodoracopulos, Chronicles Magazine, January 2025
Taki Theodoracopulos is a writer living in New York, London, and Gstaad. In addition to his long-running High Life column in The Spectator, Taki writes Under the Black Flag for each number of Chronicles, and publishes Taki’s Magazine, a webzine.
The fact that someone once encouraged today’s so-called journalists to make writing their profession is a shocking example of child abuse.
I am talking about all the scribblers now desperately trying to blame someone—anyone—for Trump’s victorious reelection. Mind you, in my last column (“The Insurmountable Evil of the American Media”), I bravely predicted the media would deliver a Kamala victory. I confess I was influenced in my misjudgment by my long-departed mother. She thought journalists wielded much too much influence. (She also thought they were just a step above child molesters, but then she was old-fashioned.)
Speaking of lowlifes, a terrific prolix bore by the name of Timothy Snyder wrote a very long and stultifying piece in The New Yorker titled “What Does It Mean That Donald Trump Is a Fascist?” Among the ridiculous charges Snyder makes against The Donald is that, “In returning to power, he will seek to change the system so he can remain in power until death.” Never mind that over several pages, Snyder ties himself in rhetorical knots merely trying to define what a fascist is. …