What Those Who Studied Nazis Can Teach Us About The Strange Reaction To Trump

Some clips from the article….

Trump and his supporters have a way of separating ideas that usually move in tandem. Facts and truth are suddenly unrelated. Power no longer implies responsibility. Legitimacy and decency are now somehow passengers on separate ships. In this dynamic, People magazine can champion both the perpetrator and the victim and see no contradiction or betrayal. Lilla can use the victory of a campaign steeped in identity politics to highlight the ineffectiveness of identity politics.

What Orwell in his book, 1984, called “double-speak”… how a post-truth world operates.

While many rejected Hitler’s anti-Semitism and bellicosity, his deep sense of having been wronged by Germany’s surrender in World War I ― a war in which he fought ― gave him authenticity.

The South… the Confederacy is still fighting the Civil War and DT represents their potential win.

the claim that immigrants are to blame is the talking point of the demagogue, not a reflection of economic reality.

DT (like in 1984) blames “the Other” for social problems, even though those claims lack merit.

“Outside of Germany people often wonder at the palpable fraudulence of Nazi propaganda, the stupid incredible exaggerations, the ludicrous reticences concerning what is generally known. Who can be convinced by it? They ask. The answer is that it is not meant to convince but to impress. It addresses emotion and fantasy. Nazi propaganda seeks to create in our minds tenacious ideas and fantasies.”

DT has even said, “I play to people’s fantasies” , taking a page right out of Hitler’s game plan. BTW… DT’s use of the word “fantasy” is his rationalization for lying to the public, what he has done in the past and what he intends to continue doing (Cheney did the same thing).

So, in the last year, Trump has flirted with or, maybe more his style, groped and pawed at totalitarianism, yet the advice from many is to “give him a chance” ― or to coordinate. 

Anyone who voted for DT wants to believe that they did the right thing… so any opposition is deemed as wrong-headed actions. Anyone who voted for DT does not recognize who DT really is.

We should not waste our time or imaginations trying to reconfigure Trumpism to explain why all of the “good people” supported him. It is more important to see it for what it is and resist.

This appears to be what Dems will be doing… all the while facing a FakeNews onslaught of false accusations designed to enlist more support for DT.

Thanks for the article which shows the many similarities to Hitler’s  and DT’s rise to power. Many have said that DT kept a book of Hitler’s speeches on his bedside table and DT seems  to have used the same strategies in 2016. 

So it goes :-)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-nazi-propaganda-coordinate_us_58583b6fe4b08debb78a7d5c