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1/ My dear American readers, I feel it is time to acquaint you with a phrase that was very popular during the Third Reich:
"Wenn das der Führer wüsste!"
You see, whenever Nazis at any level of the German government did something shitty, a lot of Germans who followed them refused to believe that high Nazi leadership was in any way responsible, and insisted that if Adolf Hitler himself knew of this, he would immediately put a stop to it - up to and including the deportation of the Jews. Hence their exclamation:
"If only the Führer knew about this!"
And in the years to come, I believe you will hear a similar phrase from many of those who voted for Trump whenever the Trump government does something shitty:
"If only Trump knew about this!"
#USPolitics #Trump #Hitler #Nazis
Friday night in Austin, TX, the Republican presidential nominee, Donald #Trump, fiercely criticized #TheAtlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, over a recent report about Trump’s troubling attitude toward the #military, which he believes should be loyal to him personally. As Goldberg reports, Trump said, “I need the kind of generals that #Hitler had,” which is both chilling & historically #illiterate.
#Tyranny #Autocracy #Authoritarianism #illiberalism
#democracy
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Trump Attacks The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg Over Hitler
The Republican nominee’s fixation on The Atlantic follows a dark pattern.David A. Graham (The Atlantic)
"Elon posted his MAGA hat which uses the Fraktur font, popular in nazi Germany. He wore this at a rally meant to evoke the 1939 nazi rally at Madison Square Garden.
He's telling you who he is." @esqueer
I wondered where I've seen that font before! Then I remembered, it was on the book #Hitler wrote in prison, #MeinKampf
BTW, Steve Bannon couldn't attend the rally, he was still in prison working on his own book. My Struggle.
#Nazi #MadisonSquareGarden
#Trump #ElonMusk #MyStruggle
In the passages attached below from his book Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (NY: Knopf, 2014), Charles Marsh chronicles how the drive among Germany's Protestant leaders for a "manly Christianity" played a major role in facilitating Hitler's rise to power in the early 1930s.
#Trump #Republicans #masculinity #gender #MaleVoters #patriarchy #fascism #Hitler #Nazis #churches
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@burtchen @mkarliner
To me, it is both surprising and appalling how many Americans have made it obvious that they would have supported Hitler’s rise to power.
"If you took Trump's statements about immigrants and replaced the words for "immigrant" with the words for "Jew", what would you see?"
#Trump #Hitler #Antisemitism #Immigrants #Meme #Meme
“Do you think somebody possibly has video of Trump mocking the handicapped, demeaning US prisoners of war, boasting about sexually assaulting women, praising Vladimir Putin, or urging a violent attack on the US Capitol? That would be huge.”
~ David Frum as quoted by Andrew Egger
Irony alert here.
#Trump #Republicans #fascism #Hitler
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The Soft Bigotry of Our Trump Expectations
One candidate gets graded like a normal candidate would. The other gets excused for talking about Arnold Palmer’s junk.Sam Stein (The Bulwark)
Dan Froomkin reminds us that the US did once have news commentators fiercely committed to the truth, courageous, and intent to serve democracy by remaining true to their vocation – in a word:
Walter Cronkite.
#Trump #Republicans #fascism #Hitler
/20
criticalread.substack.com/p/ti…
Time for a 'Cronkite moment'
Network anchors must speak the unvarnished truth about Trump’s mental stateDan Froomkin (Press Watch)
"The U.S. Naval Academy’s history department invited NYU historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat to give a guest lecture this month about what happens to militaries under authoritarian rule, then the Heritage Foundation and other right-wing figures launched a pressure campaign and the academy disinvited her."
~ David Kurtz
#Trump #Republicans #fascism #Hitler #RuthBenGhiat
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Kamala Harris Plans To Close With A Strong Anti-Fascism Message
INSIDE: Ruth Ben-Ghiat ... Patrick Soon-Shiong ... Mike FlynnDavid Kurtz (Morning Memo)
"We have been studying democratic crisis and authoritarianism for 30 years. Between the two of us, we have written five books on those subjects. We can think of few major national candidates for office in any democracy since World War II who have been this openly authoritarian….
The U.S. establishment is sleepwalking toward a crisis."
~ Steven Levitskiy and Daniel Ziblatt
#Trump #Republicans #fascism #Hitler
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"the reality is Trump could be a wannabe fascist all day. But without followers, he is just a guy screaming out anti-American garbage.
That is why to me it’s far more alarming that millions of Americans see Trump for who he is and love it. They want 'America’s Hitler'—as JD Vance warned in 2016 Trump could become. MAGA is what a modern day fascist movement looks like."
~ Dean Obeidallah
#Trump #Republicans #fascism #Hitler
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VP Harris is 100% correct that Trump is a Fascist—but that’s only half the alarming story.
MAGA is a full blown fascist movement!Dean Obeidallah (The Dean's Report by Dean Obeidallah)
Endorsing Kamala Harris, The Guardian states that Harris Harris represents a hopeful future, while Trump will drag Americans back into a reactionary past.
Trump’s authoritarianism may be the end of US democracy, The Guardian concludes.
#KamalaHarris #Trump #Republicans #fascism #Hitler #media #TheGuardian
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The Guardian view on the US presidential election 2024: a Democratic government is the one we need
Editorial: This election presents a critical choice. Do we embrace a hopeful future or retreat to a reactionary past? We’re backing Kamala Harris. She will unlock democracy’s potential, not give in to its flawsHarry Fischer (The Guardian)
And an important piece of information we may need to assess why Los Angeles Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong blocked an editorial endorsing Kamala Harris: as Sewell Chan, previously an editor at Los Angeles Times, reminds us:
"Elon Musk … is friendly with Soon-Shiong — they are both South African-born billionaire entrepreneurs."
#Trump #Republicans #fascism #Hitler #media #sanewashing #LosAngelesTimes #PatrickSoonShiong #ElonMusk
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Los Angeles Times editorials editor resigns after owner blocks presidential endorsement
Mariel Garza, the editorials editor of the Los Angeles Times, resigned on Wednesday after the newspaper’s owner blocked the editorial board’s plans to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris for president.Columbia Journalism Review
"In a statement, the L.A. Times Guild said it is especially concerned 'that he is now unfairly assigning blame to Editorial Board members for his decision not to endorse.'"
#Trump #Republicans #fascism #Hitler #media #sanewashing
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"Mariel Garza, the Los Angeles Times' editorials editor, resigned yesterday after Patrick Soon-Shiong, the newspaper's billionaire owner, blocked the outlet’s decision to endorse Harris. This has further strained Soon-Shiong's already tense relationship with Times staff during a year marked by newsroom cuts and turmoil."
~ Brian Stelter
#Trump #Republicans #fascism #Hitler #media #sanewashing #LosAngelesTimes #PatrickSoonShiong
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"No one else in modern politics has been given more leeway for aberrant behavior than Trump."
~ Renée Graham
#Trump #Republicans #fascism #Hitler #media #sanewashing
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bostonglobe.com/2024/10/22/opi…
Opinion | When will media stop coddling Trump?
Call it normalizing or "sanewashing," but covering the former president as if he’s an ordinary nominee is journalistic malpractice.The Boston Globe
Jeff Sharlet looks at the term "sanewashing," which Parker Molloy has popularized to characterize how the corporate media treat Trump, and says,
"I think Parker would agree with this; It’s fascist-washing."
#Trump #Republicans #fascism #Hitler #media #sanewashing
/11
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Jeff Sharlet on ‘Sanewashing’ and Fascism
Nonfiction writer Jeff Sharlet joins co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to discuss how mainstream media outlets sanitize Donald Trump’s rhetoric in their reporting rather than straigh…Literary Hub
"A fat, lazy, incurious fascist is still a fascist."
~ Daniel Drezner
#Trump #Republicans #fascism #Hitler
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"Trump’s admiration for Adolf Hitler may be the clearest expression of how profoundly unsuited he is to ever come near our White House again."
~ Steven Beschloss
#Trump #Republicans #fascism #Hitler
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Admiring Hitler Is Disqualifying. Period.
Sixteen million Americans fought against fascism and the Nazi regime to secure freedom and democracy. We have a duty to defeat this candidate for president who rejects our basic values.Steven Beschloss (America, America)
"It needs to be emphasized at every opportunity that the Republican currently running to be president of the United States is on the side of the Nazis whom we sacrificed so much blood and treasure to defeat in World War II. It’s devastating that this tragic truth is not enough to render Donald unacceptable to every single American—or, indeed, no elected Republcans."
~ Mary Trump
#Trump #Republicans #fascism #Hitler
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"Trump's embrace & praise of Hitler should have been the breaking point for the GOP, but instead they've decided to go all in."
~ Wajahat Ali
#Trump #Republicans #fascism #Hitler
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Never Go Full Hitler
Trump's embrace & praise of Hitler should have been the breaking point for the GOP, but instead they've decided to go all in. We've officially reached the bottom, and none of it should be normalized.THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali (The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali)
"I hope that many of the people now supporting Trump will have an attack of conscience on their way to their polling station. But as Trump’s running mate, J. D. Vance, once wrote for The Atlantic, Trump is 'cultural heroin,' and the hard choice of civic virtue will never match the rush of racism, hatred, and revenge that Trump offers in its place."
~ Tom Nichols
#Trump #Republicans #fascism #Hitler
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Trump’s Depravity Will Not Cost Him This Election
Many Americans know exactly who Trump is, and they like it.Tom Nichols (The Atlantic)
"This is the time for political courage.
Instead, America’s highest-profile business leaders — Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Chase; Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft; and Warren Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway — are displaying political cowardice."
~ Robert Reich
#Trump #Republicans #fascism #EconomicElites #CorporateLeaders #JamieDimon #WarrenBuffett #BillGates #Hitler
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Political cowardice in the C-suites
Jamie Dimon, Bill Gates, and Warren Buffett have spoken out on everything else but are afraid to come out against Trump. They are relinquishing whatever claims they had to leadership in America.Robert Reich
Count New Hampshire governor Sununu among the Americans who want to shrug at Trump's infatuation with Hitler: asked about this yesterday on CNN, Sununu shrugged and said extremism is just "baked into" Trump.
But so what?
Heather Cox Richardson highlights this statement by Sununu:
“If we can get a Republican mindset out of Washington, we need that culture change.”
Trump loves Hitler? Trump's a fascist? So what?
#Trump #Republicans #fascism #Hitler
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As Dan Rather notes, "a who’s who of Republican officials from the Trump administration and many of the Pentagon’s top brass" have now warned us that the man is "unfit to serve."
Rather asks,
"if Trump should win, what would that say about our country?"
#Trump #Republicans #fascism #Hitler
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The warning bell keeps clanging. Many of us are bored at hearing the repeated clangs.
This underscores a central revelation of this election: given the chance to choose fascism, eyes wide open, a significant proportion of Americans say, "Bring it on."
So he talks about Hitler with admiration? So what? What's a little infatuation with Hitler, after all?
We Americans are having to face some ugly truth about ourselves as this election nears.
#Trump #Republicans #fascism #Hitler
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