WHATEVER will stop Trump's Chatter 'skirting-around with NUANCES of NAZI WWII language, diametrically counter to what America IS Today???
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"In his call for a 'New Reich', Donald Trump continues to flirt with 1930's NAZI rhetoric:
"Donald Trump dabbles in Nazi allusions too often for it to be a coincidence.
"The latest example is a video posted on the ex-president’s social media account that features a fake headline implying the US could become a “unified Reich” if he wins a second term in November. The video replicates what appears to be World War I-era newspapers. But the term “Reich” – a German political concept of empire – is also synonymous with the Third Reich of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany. The presumptive GOP nominee’s campaign insisted the sharing of the third-party video on Monday was the work of a staffer and not Trump, who was in court. It was eventually taken down hours later on Tuesday.
"Trump may not have not been directly responsible for the post. But campaigns reflect the character of the candidate. And Trump has been flirting with Nazi imagery and giving comfort to far-right extremists for years. He recently accused President Joe Biden of running a “Gestapo” administration. Trump has several times warned immigrants are “poisoning the blood” of the United States, echoing language used by Hitler in his manifesto “Mein Kampf,” which the ex-president claims he hasn’t read. Back in 2017, Trump equivocated about condemning a White supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in which marchers chanted, “Jews will not replace us.”
"Trump also allegedly praised Hitler, according to former White House chief of staff John Kelly, who was quoted by CNN’s Jim Sciutto in his new book “The Return of Great Powers.” Kelly commented: “He said, ‘Well, but Hitler did some good things.’ I said, ‘Well, what?’ And he said, ‘Well, [Hitler] rebuilt the economy.’”
"Trump’s rhetoric must also be viewed in the context of a past and possibly future president who admires present day tyrants and dictators and has vowed to use the powers of the "Tresidency to enact personal and political retribution. He’s promising the biggest deportation operation in history to expel undocumented migrants. And his echoing of Nazi rhetoric on immigration has the same consequence as Hitler’s – to demonize outsiders supposedly threatening an imagined homeland purity.
"Biden seized on the latest evidence of extremism in Trump’s orbit by telling Democratic donors in Boston on Tuesday that “this is the same guy that uses Hitler’s language, not America’s.”
"It’s a good rule in contemporary politics not to use Nazi-themed rhetoric or allusions. Even Trump critics who portray him as an aspiring Nazi tyrant contribute to an erosion of the record about some of humanity’s most heinous crimes. The rising use of both Nazi innuendo and antisemitism suggest a troubling trend – the receding of the lessons of World War II and the Holocaust. The public’s collective memory is fading as the Baby Boomers who grew up in the shadow of their parents’ exploits in the 1940s Greatest Generation also begin to pass on.
"Anyone who admires Hitler and his murderous cult would do well to walk through the preserved death camps, gas chambers and mass crematoria in Eastern Europe where Nazis exterminated the continent’s Jews. And those who peddle Nazi-themed rhetoric should visit the cliffs of Normandy, where Biden is expected next month to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day amid rows of buried US and Allied soldiers who perished as part of the cost of fighting fascism."
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I've personally traveled often throughout "CENTRAL WWII Europe", some Godforesaken experiences to say THE VERY LEAST!
(Just ADD THIS to my 'anti-trump' list!
