The Quislings Turn on Zelensky by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.

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The Quislings Turn on Zelensky
Some have picked a bad time to speak out against the president of Ukraine.
by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.
April 5, 2022, 11:05 PM


Washington — Well, now that Americans have had an opportunity to think about the war in Ukraine, cooler heads are coming to the fore. Or they think they are cooler heads. Last week in Washington there gathered a collection of cooler heads to consider what to do about the war. There was Sen. Rand Paul. There was the editor of the Federalist and TV commentator Mollie Hemingway. They are always worth listening to. Yet in this war evil men are doing evil to peaceful people. Much of the world has been roused against them. It is time for all the world to take a stand. I wish I could launch a witticism or two about them, but now is a time for sobriety. Atrocities committed in time of war and against civilians do not invite humor.

My British friend, Andrew Roberts, the Churchill biographer, spoke at a conference of conservatives in Brussels recently, and his remarks were reprinted in the Wall Street Journal over the weekend. He reminded the assembled that there are times when conservatives are duty-bound to stand out and speak up. Roberts was disappointed in his remarks by people like David Stockman, the budget director under President Ronald Reagan, who, by the way, had a spotty career with the Old Cowboy. In his own words President Reagan “took him to the woodshed” on at least one occasion. It is time for Stockman to return to the woodshed.

Provoked by Stockman, Roberts elaborated, “sometimes I feel that there are some in our movement who enjoy being contrary for its own sake — out of perversity or desire for attention — regardless of the cost to the wider movement and how it looks to ordinary people. They fail to heed the enormous damage done to the right in denouncing Mr. Zelensky and the favorable opinion that is strongly held by many millions, perhaps billions, of people around the world who have been profoundly moved by Ukraine’s plight.”

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https://spectator.org/volodymyr-zelensky-andrew-roberts-churchill/

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What did Stockman say of Zelensky with other quislings presumably chiming in denouncing the Churchill of our time? Stockman said, “we were already getting sick and tired of this Zelensky clown.” Clown! Stockman, went on, “Zelensky should resign and make way for a collaborationist government that will sue for peace.” Collaborationist! After all, Ukraine’s present government is composed of “anti-Russian fascists and oligarchs.” Stealing yet another line from President Putin, Stockman added that Ukraine is not a real country, and has no claim to sovereignty.

The language employed by Stockman has a Vichy-like quality to it — for instance, the use of the word “collaborationist” and when Stockman speaks of President Putin’s interest in territorial acquisition. Hitler used a more compact word: “Lebensraum.” Still, I think Stockman’s move to the Vichy right could have waited a few weeks. There were others who joined him. One was Rep. Madison Cawthorn, the youngest current congressman, who called Zelensky a “thug” and said that the Ukrainian government is “incredibly evil” and “has been pushing woke ideologies.”