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applegrove

(118,874 posts)
Fri Sep 16, 2022, 05:37 PM Sep 2022

The "little Eichmann"

The "little Eichmann"

Steve Schmidt


It’s hard to believe that this actually happened:

HuffPost @HuffPost

Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) is taking credit for flying two planes full of immigrants to Martha’s Vineyard.

https://steveschmidt.substack.com/p/the-little-eichmann?r=2ibrr&utm_medium=ios

"SNIP......

We can thank the Governor of Florida for this capricious and performative stunt. It was an act of dehumanization. He treated fellow human beings — made in God’s image — like animals to satisfy the cruelty fetish of Rupert Murdoch’s hate-addicted audience of victims. It was a despicable and un-American act by a low man.

The images of decent people coming to the aid of people who are scared, lost, confused and stigmatized will present the backdrop for the November choice ahead. This is the choice: decency or cruelty. Freedom or control. Democracy or MAGA.

Ron DeSantis is a “little Eichmann.” Twenty years after the Nazi who planned the logistics of the Holocaust was hanged in Jerusalem, the man who interrogated him gave the world a warning. It should be heeded.

Avner Less said there are Adolph Eichmanns everywhere. He said they are all around us, but harmless and latent in a democracy. Less said the danger comes if democracy falls. He said it didn’t matter if it was a dictatorship of the left or right. What he pointed out was that the “latent Eichmanns” turn deadly in an instant when dictatorships rise.

......SNIP"

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Botany

(70,633 posts)
1. "It was a despicable and un-American act by a low man."
Fri Sep 16, 2022, 05:59 PM
Sep 2022

They are human beings not props for the, "little Eichmann."

Mopar151

(10,006 posts)
2. What would happen?
Fri Sep 16, 2022, 06:14 PM
Sep 2022

If any of us coerced a couple of drunk Trumpsters into a van, and dropped them off a couple towns away, in front of a mosque or a Montessori school, we'd get jammed up hard.

Justice matters.

(6,954 posts)
6. "This is the choice: decency or cruelty. Freedom or control. Democracy or MAGA."
Fri Sep 16, 2022, 08:34 PM
Sep 2022

I would have added "Fascism" like in Concentration Camp Martha's Vineyard.

This is the choice: decency or cruelty. Freedom or control. Democracy or MAGA's Fascism.

Warpy

(111,412 posts)
7. I've been calling him "Baby Batista: for a long time
Fri Sep 16, 2022, 08:43 PM
Sep 2022

since that's obviously where he's headed if we don't manage to stop him soon.

Kid Berwyn

(15,027 posts)
9. That's what all them AR-15s are for.
Fri Sep 16, 2022, 11:14 PM
Sep 2022

Millions of little Eichmanns today wonder, “When do we get to use the guns?”

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