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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump NAZI rhetoric disqualifies him from office.
Period. The unstable moron is a fascist traitor and stooge of the planets worst authoritarians.
We fought and beat the NAZIs in World War 2. We will do it again.
Beachnutt
(7,349 posts)Kid Berwyn
(15,005 posts)By Loretta J. Ross
Counterpunch, Jan. 20, 2021
After World War II, the Nazis who helped Hitler rise to power and murder millions of people, including at least 6 million Jews, were put on trial to send a warning to the world. Not all of them faced a judicial process, but enough were not protected by their high status, official offices, or claims of innocence and patriotism. Power through violence was the only language they spokenot justice, not freedomand they were held accountable. These criminals faced a tribunal at Nürnberg (Nuremberg) so momentous that the disgraced word Nazi is forever attached to those who participated in and enabled their horrific crimes.
After the war, Germany banned Nazi flags and neo-Nazis. In fact, the only way that Nazi paraphernalia got into Germany was through smuggling from other countries such as the United States, like from Nazi propagandist Gerhard Lauck in Nebraska, the man called the Farm Belt Führer who served four years in a German prison for distributing banned pro-Nazi materials throughout Europe.
I know this because I teach a course on White Supremacy at Smith College that focuses on anti-Semitism, anti-Black racism, and the many intersecting components of white supremacist ideology. After more than 30 years of organizing and teaching about fascism as a Black feminist activist and academic, I know the destructive influence of these noxious ideas, and I teach young people how to interpret and resist them.
Global contempt for the word Nazi is a lesson for us today in the United States after the attempted criminal coup at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. Anyone identified as sympathetic, supportive, or financing these seditious acts that attempted to deny the peaceful transfer of power in our country should be treated with the same public condemnation that the Nazis received after World War II. This includes Nazified people in Congress, in the media, in universities, in regular jobs, and throughout society because fascism is not the fevered dream of one delusional man. Trump is a white supremacist; that he is also a deranged narcissist is really incidental.
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https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/01/20/the-nazification-of-the-republican-party/
The hobnailed boot fits all who support the criminal defendant.
malaise
(269,234 posts)RFN. 🎄 🎄
Kid Berwyn
(15,005 posts)God told me to strike at Al Qaida and I struck them. And then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did. With the might of God on our side we will triumph, said George Bush. Or was that Hitler talking to Bush?
The Ghost of Adolph Hitler: Nazi Influence in America
DU 2004:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1872652
malaise
(269,234 posts)Enough!
FakeNoose
(32,833 posts)This salute happened while Chump was still pResident....
It should have been enough to disqualify him 4 years ago.
Kid Berwyn
(15,005 posts)June 14, 2018, Singapore
FakeNoose
(32,833 posts)... AND REMOVED from office.
Silent Type
(3,006 posts)Kid Berwyn
(15,005 posts)We also should follow Germanys example, where school kids are taught the evils of Hitler and Fascism. Otherwise, the ideas behind them will keep on infecting young minds and moving politics backwards.
spanone
(135,907 posts)Kid Berwyn
(15,005 posts)If a candidates stated goal is the overthrow of the Constitution, the candidate is automatically ineligible.
Otherwise, its We the People doing all we can to make the Donald happy.
NowISeetheLight
(3,943 posts)He is a national disgrace and unfit for ANY office.
Kid Berwyn
(15,005 posts)Initech
(100,112 posts)It took 10 years and cost millions of lives. Last thing we need is a repeat of history.
Kid Berwyn
(15,005 posts)Long live freedom!
By John P. Walsh
On February 18, 1943, following the illegal distribution of anti-Nazi leaflets by the White Rose at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Münchenthe leaflets instructing students and all others to actively resist the 10-year-old Nazi regimethree young German university students were arrested. In the next four days these students will be tried in a Nazi kangaroo court, convicted of treason, and condemned to death. Their crime?public vocal resistance to the totalitarian state that suppresses freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and freedom of conscience in addition to reprehensible war crimes, including the Holocaust, during World War II.
On February 22, 1943, in Stadelheim Prison in Munich, Germany, these three White Rose resisters are the first of their group to die for freedom and whose legacy in the 21st century is to be listed as some of the most important Germans of all timenamely, 21-year-old Sophie Scholl, her brother, 24-year-old Hans Scholl, and 23-year-old Christoph Probst, a married father with three children.
Christoph Probst: It wasnt in vain.
Sophie Scholl: The sun is still shining.
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https://johnpwalshblog.com/tag/history-nazi-resistance-christoph-probst/
forthemiddle
(1,383 posts)I am still trying to find away to make that the legal standard, and get him kicked off any ballot.
Kid Berwyn
(15,005 posts)I thought the Party of Lincoln would rise to the occasion.
Instead it floundered under the dead weight of MAGA and sank to the bottom.
Multiple sinkings. Source: https://myfox8.com/news/multiple-boats-sink-while-trump-supporters-hold-boat-parade-in-texas-deputies-say/