Maria Ressa, Harvard’s latest prophet of doom, warned the graduates that “the fascists are coming!” 

Ah, classic Ressa. Ever the provocateur, she never misses an opportunity to turn a commencement or other speech into a melodramatic saga. 

Remember when she dubbed the Philippines the worst war zone? Or claimed she and Rappler were enduring a “death by a thousand cuts”? Or saying the law itself is a weapon against her sacred right to free speech? It’s almost as if she’s got a bingo card of hyperbolic phrases to shock her audience. 

This latest “fascists” declaration? Just another desperate bid for media attention as her reputation sinks at home. One can only imagine Mussolini and Hitler twitching in their graves.

Ironically, Ressa’s dictating such ludicrous rhetoric to presumably bright graduates smacks of the very fascism she decries. Perhaps the Nobel committee is now realizing their colossal mistake in awarding her that prize many others better truly deserved.