Welcome to DU!
The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards.
Join the community:
Create a free account
Support DU (and get rid of ads!):
Become a Star Member
Latest Breaking News
General Discussion
The DU Lounge
All Forums
Issue Forums
Culture Forums
Alliance Forums
Region Forums
Support Forums
Help & Search
General Discussion
Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAfter Trump is gone, we'll still be stuck with most of the Republicans who enabled him.
Link to tweet
Steven Beschloss @StevenBeschloss
After Trump is gone, well still be stuck with most of the Republicans who enabled him. After Trump is gone, well still be saddled with millions of Americans who not only voted for him, they thought he was doing a great job.
We have a lot of work ahead to put things right.
7:46 AM - Jun 13, 2019
When he's gone, a special emphasis should be placed on PSA's that serve to "de-program" those still thinking that a POTUS that repeatedly lies is admirable.
InfoView thread info, including edit history
TrashPut this thread in your Trash Can (My DU » Trash Can)
BookmarkAdd this thread to your Bookmarks (My DU » Bookmarks)
5 replies, 567 views
ShareGet links to this post and/or share on social media
AlertAlert this post for a rule violation
PowersThere are no powers you can use on this post
EditCannot edit other people's posts
ReplyReply to this post
EditCannot edit other people's posts
Rec (4)
ReplyReply to this post
5 replies
= new reply since forum marked as read
Highlight:
NoneDon't highlight anything
5 newestHighlight 5 most recent replies
After Trump is gone, we'll still be stuck with most of the Republicans who enabled him. (Original Post)
Dennis Donovan
Jun 2019
OP
Republicans? We can't even get the Democrats to censure him, let alone impeach him
Snake Plissken
Jun 2019
#1
Snake Plissken
(4,103 posts)1. Republicans? We can't even get the Democrats to censure him, let alone impeach him
Out of the 535 members of Congress there is only a very small handful who are not enabling him.
uponit7771
(90,335 posts)2. K&R, what did the Nazis say after supporting Hitler?! Don't think KGOP will be that different
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)3. They were banned in Germany...
...at least the ones who escaped nooses after Nuremberg.
zipplewrath
(16,646 posts)4. Denazification
I presume you're making reference to the attempts at denazification. Those efforts were fairly ineffective an ultimately abandoned.
Very soon after the program started, due to the emergence of the Cold War, the western powers and the United States in particular began to lose interest in the program, and it was carried out in an increasingly lenient and lukewarm way until being officially abolished in 1951. The American government soon came to view the program as ineffective and counterproductive. Additionally, the program was hugely unpopular in Germany and was opposed by the new West German government of Konrad Adenauer.[2]
Quite honestly the student uprisings around 1968 were in effect partially about the "next generation" confronting the nazi generation about what they had done.
To the students, the German chapter of Fascism was not yet closed. Many former National Socialists were still working for the government or at the universities (in fact, then-Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger had formerly been a member of the NSDAP) and the newly formed right-wing National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD) was attracting more and more voters. In addition to that, the students had to deal with the fact that they were identified as Germans and blamed for the crimes committed by their parents' generation.
The students did not want to be held responsible for their parents' deeds. But their parents acted as if it were no concern of theirs; when the students tried to show the public that the anti-fascist idea of the constitution was not yet established in German society, the government and the press felt extremely offended, feeling they had formed a democratic society and did not want it to be attacked.
The students did not want to be held responsible for their parents' deeds. But their parents acted as if it were no concern of theirs; when the students tried to show the public that the anti-fascist idea of the constitution was not yet established in German society, the government and the press felt extremely offended, feeling they had formed a democratic society and did not want it to be attacked.
It is quite true that after Trump is gone, the courts will still be packed with his judges, and there will be people that continue to idolize him, and vote. They'll always believe that any lack of success was due entirely to those that hindered and opposed him. Trump is as much a symptom of larger problems as he is the cause of them.
BluesRunTheGame
(1,615 posts)5. & Fox News, hate radio, and the authoritarian clergy.