So if the July 20 plot against Hitler in Germany in 1944 was laudable and its perpetrators now hailed as heroic patriots, what would be so wrong about a July 13 plot against Trump in the German city of Milwaukee in 2024? After all, is Trump not a new Hitler, as repeatedly proclaimed everywhere?
We’ll come to that presently, but in the meantime, expect to hear the name Lori Lodes used a lot over the coming months as the Irish media ramp up their campaign against the Trump-Vance ticket. The executive director of the “environmentalist” group Climate Power, Lodes was approvingly quoted in The Irish Times last week: “J.D. Vance is Donald Trump’s dream come true — a climate denier who is all too happy to do Big Oil’s bidding and pad their profits at the expense of working people.”
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