The idea of Jewish betrayal during and after the war paved the way for a political party that saw Jews as not merely traitors, but a poisonous, subhuman riff-raff. ![]() Like Hitler, Trump has been savvy at incrementally extending the boundaries of criminal and treasonous behavior until they have become tolerated behavior.Īn article in the Tablet, a contemporary journal of Jewish life, recounts how Hitler used the big lie of the Jews being responsible for Germany’s woes and evoked conspiracy theories like Trump: In this case, since the Trump coup failed, it became necessary to blame it on Trump’s repeated invocation of the elusive antifa as “enemies of the people.”īut make no doubt about it, even out of office, Trump has normalized a deadly insurrection that if it had been conducted by a foreign power, we would be at war now. That is resonant of Hitler making Jews into “enemies of the state,” a message which he repeated over a decade until he was granted full power over Germany following the Reichstag fire in 1933. ![]() As a Suffolk University/USA TODAY Poll just found:Īsked to describe what happened during the assault on the Capitol, 58% of Trump voters call it "mostly an antifa-inspired attack that only involved a few Trump supporters." That's more than double the 28% who call it "a rally of Trump supporters, some of whom attacked the Capitol." Four percent call it "an attempted coup inspired by President Trump." “I think any time you have a significant number of the public saying use of force can be justified in our political system, that’s pretty scary,” Daniel Cox, director of the AEI Survey Center on American Life, told NPR.Įqually chilling is the delusional mind set that is allowing Republicans and some elected officials to dismiss the January 6 insurrection as the work of leftists. Think political violence is justifiable and could be necessary….Republicans gravitating towards violence while explicitly legitimizing it as a political tool is a dangerous precedent for the country. And he’s not done yet, as he continues to stand by the big lie that he was cheated out of a massive election win.Ĭonsider that a new conservative American Enterprise Institute survey finds that nearly 40% of Republicans, Trump was test-marketing Hitlerian domination of his followers to the last minute of his presidency. His incessant evocation of violence has made him a proponent of stochastic terrorism, as his followers committed domestic terrorism in his name, mass shootings such as the one on El Paso, as well as his policy of violence and cruelty on the Mexican border. Moreover, the deaths and potential assassinations of January 6 should remind us that from his initial objectifying of non-whites (and the non right-wing media) as “enemies of the people” in his 2016 campaign to his big lie that votes of US Blacks were not legal (because Blacks are not really US citizens), Trump employed grievance politics to stir the boiling id of hate amongst whites to lead to an attempted coup, which might have led to Trump declaring martial law. And he has an insatiable lust for cruelty and violence. However, Trump has mastered both the propaganda techniques of Goebbels and the psychotic symbiotic bonding with his cult followers that Hitler developed. And he didn’t start a war that killed 75 million people or more. Yes, the most appalling and abominable mass killing of millions of Jews, gays, Germans with disabilities and political “enemies of the state” didn’t occur under Trump. ![]() Maybe, you find comparisons of Nazism to Trumpism uncomfortable and a bit of an hysterical overreach. It’s not a topic that you can treat frivolously or hyperbolically. Progressives Must Stop Getting Queasy Over Comparing Trumpism to Nazism
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