Ko Wen-je’s bad or daft historical referencesBy Hong Tsun-ming 康駿銘Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) Chairman Ko Wen-je (柯文哲), whose online influence has waned, has made another startling remark. Most historical events had their distal causes, proximal causes and triggers, rather than being isolated events that happened all of a sudden. This sequence of events was the key to Hitler’s monopoly of power and the death of the Weimar Republic. In each case, China’s rulers use one-sided, decontextualized and unsubstantiated statements to fan up populist support for whatever they do. The silliest label the two parties use is “green communist.” If the KMT and the TPP think communism is so evil, why do they keep sucking up to the Chinese Communist Party?
