Likening Trump, Other Republicans to Hitler: The First and Last Refuge of Democratic Scoundrels
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Top Democrats and Trumpophobes scream that former President Donald Trump is Adolf Hitler’s fascist twin.
English translation: Trump is a Republican.
John Kelly, Trump’s disgruntled former chief of staff, said last week that Trump matches “the general definition of fascist” and “certainly prefers the dictator approach to government.”
Relying, as usual, on anonymous sources, The Atlantic’s fabulist-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, “reported” that Trump said in the White House, “I need the kind of generals that Hitler had.”
“This is absolutely false,” Trump spokesman Alex Pfeiffer replied. “President Trump never said this.”
Regardless, Vice President Kamala Harris predicted on CNN that, if reelected, Trump would be “a president who admires dictators and is a fascist.”
What you might expect from left-wing MSNBC on Trump’s Sunday rally in New York City—and what one viewer thought of it. (Screenshot)
Referring to Trump’s appearance in Manhattan on Sunday, Hillary Rodham Clinton told CNN on Thursday that “Trump is actually reenacting the Madison Square Garden rally in 1939.” The pro-Nazi German American Bund (aka Amerikadeutscher Volksbund) staged an infamous Hitler lovefest at a different Madison Square Garden on the eve of World War II, complete with swastika armbands and stiff-armed salutes. That venue was demolished in 1968, soon after today’s Madison Square Garden opened a mile away.
Wearing a black sweater that paired perfectly with her soul, Clinton added: “President Franklin Roosevelt was appalled that neo-Nazis, fascists in America were lining up to essentially pledge their support for the kind of government that they were seeing in Germany. … [P]lease, open your eyes to the danger that this man poses to our country.”
Trump sold out Madison Square Garden in three hours. Do Harris, Clinton, and other Democrats believe that Trump’s 19,500 rally guests are Nazis? Concerning the 74 million Americans who voted for Trump in 2020, and proudly will do so in November, are we all Nazis, too?
Wednesday’s University of Chicago/GenForward survey found that 26% of black men aged 18 to 40 back Trump, up from 19% in 2020, per The Washington Post/Edison Research exit poll. Are these men black Nazis?
And what of the 12% of black women who support Trump in the University of Chicago’s study, up from 9% in 2020? Are they black Eva Brauns?
Just like Hitler, the absurd and repugnant charge that Trump resembles the bloodthirsty, Jew-hating, tyrannical warmonger fails on two fronts:
First, Trump’s top presidential aides included his orthodox-Jewish daughter and son-in-law, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner. Trump welcomed his Jewish grandchildren and celebrated Hanukkah at the White House. In his first term, he moved the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
Trump’s staunchly pro-Israel policies culminated in the Abraham Accords. These four peace deals between Israel and Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Sudan, and Morocco strengthened—not weakened—the Jewish state.
Trump rejected the censorship that Harris and Democrats crave. He shredded government regulations, threw no opponents behind barbed wire, invaded zero countries, and launched no wars—a 40-year first.
Trump’s first-term record would make Hitler vomit.
Second, rather than a powerful accusation, “Trump = Hitler” is an exhausted cliché. Amid these repulsive, synthetic smears, Trump is in excellent and crowded company. Democrats routinely call Republicans fascists, Nazis, and “just like Hitler”—in much the same fashion as salmon swim upstream: frantically, instinctively, and predictably.
As Haisten Willis detailed Wednesday in the Washington Examiner, Democrats have been equating Republicans with Nazis for at least 60 years.
- Then-Democratic California Gov. Edmund G. “Pat” Brown Sr. decried the 1964 GOP Convention acceptance speech by Sen. Barry Goldwater of Arizona. Brown said it “had the stench of fascism. All we needed to hear was ‘Heil, Hitler.’”
- Four years later, the Democrat president nominee, Vice President Hubert Humphrey, said: “If the British had not fought in 1940, Hitler would have been in London, and if Democrats do not fight in 1968, Nixon will be in the White House.”
- After Republican President Gerald R. Ford pardoned Nixon post-Watergate, the American Civil Liberties Union declared, “If Ford’s principle had been the rule in Nuremberg, the Nazi leaders would have been let off, and only the people, who carried out their schemes, would have been tried.”
- Then-Rep. William Clay, D-Mo., claimed that President Ronald Reagan hoped to “replace the Bill of Rights with fascist precepts lifted verbatim from ‘Mein Kampf,‘” Hitler’s notorious manifesto.
- Democratic über-donor George Soros said that Republican President George W. Bush embraced the “supremacist ideology of Nazi Germany,” as radio host Larry Elder recalled.
- NAACP Chairman Julian Bond said in 2006: “The Republican Party would have the American flag and the swastika flying side by side.”
- Wisconsin’s Republican then-governor “Scott Walker is a fascist,” Libcom.org announced in 2011.
- South Carolina Democratic Party boss Dick Harpootlian said in 2012 that the Palmetto State’s Republican then-Gov. Nikki Haley “was down in the bunker, à la Eva Braun,” Hitler’s girlfriend and (for a few hours before their April 1945 murder-suicide) wife.
- California Democratic Party chief John Burton said that a 2012 speech by 2% milquetoast then-Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., reminded him that “Joseph Goebbels’ concept was the big lie.” Nazi Minister of Propaganda and Public Enlightenment Paul Joseph Goebbels was arguably Hitler’s closest and most loyal confidant.
- President Joe Biden slammed Republican Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas and Josh Hawley of Missouri for questioning the fairness of Pennsylvania’s 2020 elections. Such insolence, Biden said, recalled “Goebbels and the great lie.”
“This tired, old, baseless trope lacks insight and intelligence,” Willis wrote. “Most importantly, it is dishonest.”
Lesson: Regarding any similarity to Hitler, Donald Trump is nothing special. If every Republican is Hitler, then no Republican is Hitler.
Then-President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump watch as Rabbi Moshe Moskowitz lights a menorah at a White House Hanukkah reception on Dec. 11, 2019. (Official photo: Andrea Hanks)
Democrats claim that Trump spouts divisive, violent political rhetoric. But, of course, Democrats call Trump Hitler, denounce half of America as Nazis, and peddle potentially explosive statements and sadistic fantasies. Meanwhile, Trump literally dodges bullets.
- “Democrats want to see someone get up there and give a knuckle sandwich to Donald Trump,” MSNBC host Joy Reid said on Oct. 1, after Trump’s second assassination attempt. “I think that the people who want the fistfight are the base of the Democratic Party.”
- Echoing a short-subject Mexican film, Los Angeles’ Superchief Gallery features a lifelike rubber head of Trump that patrons can kick around a mini-soccer field.
- L.A.’s Subliminal Projects Gallery showcases a nude statue of Trump with its private parts chopped off and the bloody wound shielded with a bandage.
And let’s forgo the “both sides do it” rubbish. Imagine the glass-shattering shrieks if conservatives produced a video of fraternity bros playing volleyball with a mock-up of Harris’ head. Laughter? Arrests would be more likely.
If psychological projection were a felony, the entire Democratic Party would be in federal prison.
On Oct. 12, Riverside County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested Vem Miller, 49, of Las Vegas outside a Trump rally in Coachella, California. Officials say that Miller was “illegally in possession of a shotgun, a loaded handgun, and a high-capacity magazine.” He also allegedly carried bogus VIP passes, false press ID, multiple driver’s licenses with different names, and “fake passports” while operating an unregistered SUV with phony license plates.
Was Miller “100% a Trump supporter,” as he pleads, or had law enforcement “probably stopped another assassination attempt,” as Sheriff Chad Bianco suspects? Regardless, absent felony charges Bianco freed Miller on a $5,000 bond.
After all of this, with any luck, America on Nov. 5 will flush the clogged toilet that is the modern Democratic Party. Given today’s low-flow commodes, voters should flush twice.
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