Trump's Supreme Court pick founded and led club called 'Fascism Forever' at his elite all-boys schoo

[Maraya1969]

Source: Daily Mail

Gorsuch founded the Fascism Forever Club during his freshman year at Georgetown Preparatory, a now-$30,000-a-year private Jesuit school that is one of the most selective in the United States.
He served as president until he graduated in 1985, according to his senior yearbook.


The club was set up to rally against the ‘left-wing tendencies’ of his professors while attending a Jesuit all-boys preparatory high school near Washington D.C.
The name may be inconvenient for a Supreme Court nominee facing a tough confirmation battle. However it also shows the depth of Gorscuch’s right-wing credentials – and his penchant for mischief while attending his exclusive prep school in the 1980s.






Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4182852/Trump-s-SCOTUS-pick-founded-club-called-Fascism-Forever.html

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Nobody has run this story other than the Daily Mail

which is not a very credible source. Until I see it verified elsewhere I'm not buying it.

[Maraya1969]

2. I looked up "The Daily Mail" before I posted it and Wicipedia didn't have anything bad to say and it

won a lot of awards. It is the second largest newspaper in the UK

[oberliner]

29. The Daily Mail is a right-wing British tabloid

They just take information from other sources and repackage it with a clickbait style headline.

[pnwmom]

4. Look at the photos showing pages in the yearbook listing his clubs.

Both are clearly identified in the bottom left hand corner as coming from Seth Poppel's Yearbook library, an accepted media source.

And on his Facebook page E. Randal Schoenberg, the Holocaust lawyer who filed (and won) a lawsuit to obtain the warrant used to search Weiner's computer for Hillary's emails, posted this article with the comment, "This is the Neil Gorsuch I met in 1984."

[RandySF]

9. It's apparently in the yearbook.

According to his yearbook, the Fascism Forever Club was set up to oppose the "liberal" views of the school's administration, reported the Daily Mail.

A description in the yearbook added: "In political circles, our tireless President Gorsuch's 'Fascism Forever Club' happily jerked its knees against the increasingly 'left-wing' tendencies of the faculty."

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/donald-trumps-supreme-court-nominee-neil-gorsuch-founded-fascism-forever-club-school-1604426?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=/donald-trumps-supreme-court-nominee-neil-gorsuch-founded-fascism-forever-club-school-1604426

[ElementaryPenguin]

24. CLEARLY, THIS IS REAL! Daily Mail just beat the American Press.

This guy has lived his whole life in a right-wing bubble. The perfect successor to Fascist Fat Tony - the most destructive Supreme Court Justice in history!

McTurtle's going to look even more corrupt than usual if he uses the nuclear option to push this asshole through!!

[socialist_n_TN]

28. Well my British friends and comrades don't consider the Mail .......

a very reputable source either, BUT in this case, this appears to be true IN SPITE of this source.

As another poster said, it's in his school yearbook.

[Tactical Peek]

3. I appreciate some skepticism.

And though I'm no photoshop expert, I don't think this looks "fixed". I think it's probably on the level.

[jmbar2]

7. Check out the quote he selected in the right hand margin...

The illegal we do immediately; the unconstitutional takes a little longer.

-- Henry Kissinger


For a Supreme Court justice??? WTF?

[mahina]

8. Welcome to DU!

Aloha~

[sarah FAILIN]

41. I thought the same thing.

Sounds like a typical Trump pick.

[Mc Mike]

25. Yep, an Adolf Coors nazi. Like his mum. nt.

[JI7]

5. so that's why Bannon picked him

[YOHABLO]

6. Figures he would come from an elite prep school. Shut down public education? No problem

[RandySF]

10. k&r

[cstanleytech]

11. Great job on that vetting before you made the nomination Donald, whats next?

[wishstar]

12. Dangerous combination of intellectual brilliance/elite credentials and hatred of liberalism

He is beloved by Steve Bannon and Ralph Reid etc. since he defends their rightwing values while having the veneer of a polished privileged background and legal expertise that can lend "credibility" to their deplorable philosophies.

[HoneyBadger]

13. I am surprised that school does not have a Hitler Youth membership requirement

Georgetown Prep. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.

[wishstar]

14. Nah- he just thought he was so cool there as a rebel going against liberal political correctness

Just like elite snob William F Buckley jr.

[HoneyBadger]

15. The school ultimately endorses the creation of specific clubs

Not the students, so Georgetown and the Jesuits own it at least as much as Gorsuch. It was after all an official school club. Time to find out who was in charge.

[wishstar]

17. The school probably indulged the hyperbolic name considering it sardonic and witty

Kind of like the way Trumpsters love calling themselves Deplorables (although "Fascists" is more accurate!)

Several of the Shriver and Kennedy kids attended Georgetown Prep at same time as Gorsuch.

[HoneyBadger]

18. I am not impressed by their bad school choices

Were the Kennedys and Shrivers also Georgetown Fascists? Or did they merely stand by and enable it giving them plausible deniability?

[Mc Mike]

26. Right, that's what the Kennedys are known for, enabling fascism and plausible deniability.

They're not known for strongly opposing fascism, fighting to defend fascists' victims, being hated by fascists, and getting threatened and bumped off.

You really should think before you type. If you don't know about something, learn about it before expounding on it.

[onenote]

40. Does that wretched hive include John Dingell, Chris Dodd and the kids of Sargent Shriver?

sweeping with a rather broad brush, aren't we?

[Achilleaze]

16. He fits right into the anti-American IKGOPR mold

[dalton99a]

19. +1

[bucolic_frolic]

20. Evil

Satanic. Not to be trusted with anything.

[Paladin]

21. In a sane America, this would be an immediate disqualifier.

Unfortunately, we no longer live in a sane country.

[oberliner]

31. It wouldn't and shouldn't

In a sane America, we wouldn't judge a 50 year old man by his actions in high school.

There are numerous reasons to oppose his nomination based on his decisions as a judge (and as an adult).

[Paladin]

32. I guess you wouldn't give a shit what he did in college, either.

He posted the following Kissinger quote by his student picture while at Columbia:

"The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer."

Snopes confirmed this. But again, maybe you just don't give a shit.

[oberliner]

33. No, I don't judge a person by their college yearbook quotes

In the case of Gorsuch, I would judge him by his 25 year legal career, in particular, the rulings and opinions he expressed as a judge on the 10th Circuit.

[dchill]

35. That ought to be enough...

But it won't be.

[Retrograde]

36. True - let's look at his writings and decisions over the past 20 years

His stance in the Hobby Lobby ruling is enough to disqualify him for me.

[bigbrother05]

22. Welcomed into the halls of power after mom appointed to head EPA

Sounds like he comes by his political leanings from his mom:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Gorsuch_Burford

Reagan's 1st EPA chief and tried her best to minimize if not kill the agency.

[malthaussen]

23. The Daily Mail? Really?

At least the pictures are good.

-- Mal

[Turbineguy]

27. Oh dear.....

Sounds like he's qualified. In trumphump land.

[oberliner]

30. People should not be judged by their actions as high school students

This is a stupid article from a ridiculous British tabloid.

Plenty of actual reasons to oppose this nomination that are unrelated to what he did in high school.

[Paladin]

37. Since when do we cut ANY breaks to trump people?

Very much including an originalist SCOTUS pick, a guy who thinks being the new Antonin Scalia is a good thing?

You utilize the weapons put at your disposal against your enemies---high school fascism remarks are fair game......

[smirkymonkey]

34. He kind of looks a bit like Adam Sandler.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

38. Snopes says this is false.

http://www.snopes.com/neil-gorsuchs-fascism-forever-club/ Also false is an allegation that he advocated for racial separation: http://www.snopes.com/neil-gorsuch-separation-of-white-and-black/

I don't want him on the Supreme Court but objections to him should be based on actual facts, not alternative facts.

[Hortensis]

39. +10,000.