It’s almost like he’s intentionally doing exactly that:
Last April, perhaps in a surge of Czech nationalism, Ivana Trump told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that from time to time her husband reads a book of Hitler’s collected speeches, My New Order, which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed. Kennedy now guards a copy of My New Order in a closet at his office, as if it were a grenade. Hitler’s speeches, from his earliest days up through the Phony War of 1939, reveal his extraordinary ability as a master propagandist.
“Did your cousin John give you the Hitler speeches?” I asked Trump.
Trump hesitated. “Who told you that?”
“I don’t remember,” I said.
“Actually, it was my friend Marty Davis from Paramount who gave me a copy of Mein Kampf, and he’s a Jew.” (“I did give him a book about Hitler,” Marty Davis said. “But it was My New Order, Hitler’s speeches, not Mein Kampf. I thought he would find it interesting. I am his friend, but I’m not Jewish.”)
He can still be stopped. Americans:
- Make sure you’re registered to vote
- Vote early if you can, on Nov. 5 if you must.
- Volunteer
People keep acting like this shit is new, all that’s new is saying the quiet part out loud.
People didn’t call Islamic believers of middle eastern descent “vermin” post-9/11 but they sure treated them as such.
This country has always been a racist shithole, the racists are just bold now.
Source: I grew up in “liberal” Washington State, in a town with lots of South American and Korean immigrant farm workers, and lots of local businesses with “English Only” signs.
It’s actually quite disturbing that they are so bold now - it used to be in the 90s and early aughts at least that they were afraid to be upfront about it. Now they have no problems being openly racist, which feels like a throwback to the 50s or even earlier.
and his fascist wannabe disciples are eating it up
Maybe all these undecided voters will realize who he is.
Ms. Jager has simply always thought of herself as a Republican, and she’s not prepared to stop thinking of herself that way
They value group identity and membership more than they should. Honestly as far as I’m concerned that’s a form of stupid and moral failing. I bet a lot of them are also the kind who would say “if your friends all jumped off a bridge, would you jump too?”
American politicians have used dehumanizing language from the jump. This country was built on slavery ffs. Even if we limit it to the 21st century presidents this isn’t new. George Bush pulled this shit post 9/11. Hell, Biden has been and continues to dehumanize Palestinians
denying that there’s a Holocaust occurring in Gaza is also a dehumanization attempt.
