Is Donald Trump & Russia Today's Charles Lindburgh and Nazi Germany?

[TomCADem]

Today, Donald Trump compared the U.S. to Nazi Germany in describing critical stories about him. However, perhaps Trump is right, but not in the way he anticipated.

In the 1940s, American Hero and celebrity Charles Lindbergh urged America to back Hitler's Nazi regine and, in return, Hitler took steps to cultivate Lindbergh's support:

http://www.express.co.uk/expressyourself/201613/Charles-Lindbergh-Hitler-s-all-American-hero

It became increasingly apparent that Lindbergh himself was decidedly racist. He maintained everyone of European descent would eventually be replaced with “a pressing sea of yellow, black and brown”. And he openly stated that if it was a matter of choice, he would rather see America allied with Nazi Germany than Soviet Russia.

During the pre-war years Lindbergh was also open about his great admiration for Hitler’s Germany. He travelled several times to the country to report on German aviation and the German air force, all at the request of the US government. But so impressionable was he that the commander in chief of Germany’s air force Hermann Goering was able to convince him that it was far more powerful than it really was.

Sensing that Lindbergh was an admirer of the Nazi regime, he let him become the first American to examine Germany’s newest bomber the secret Junkers JU88 as well as the Messerschmitt 109. Lindbergh was also given an opportunity to pilot the Messerschmitt which he would later praise fulsomely.

So delighted had the Nazi government become with Lindbergh’s lavish praise of their aircraft that at a dinner held in his honour at the American embassy in Berlin in 1938 he was presented by Goering on behalf of Adolf Hitler a decoration – the Commander Cross of the Order of the German Eagle.

Similarly, Russia is using xenophobic sentiment and insecurity among whites to cultivate support and influence in foreign countries for Russia with Donald Trump expressing open admiration for Putin.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/03/world/americas/alt-right-vladimir-putin.html?_r=0

As the founder of the Traditionalist Worker Party, an American group that aims to preserve the privileged place of whiteness in Western civilization and fight “anti-Christian degeneracy,” Matthew Heimbach knows whom he envisions as the ideal ruler: the Russian president, Vladimir V. Putin.

“Russia is our biggest inspiration,” Mr. Heimbach said. “I see President Putin as the leader of the free world.”

Throughout the presidential campaign, Donald J. Trump mystified many on the left and in the foreign policy establishment with his praise for Mr. Putin and his criticism of the Obama administration’s efforts to isolate and punish Russia for its actions in Crimea and eastern Ukraine. But what seemed inexplicable when Mr. Trump first expressed his admiration for the Russian leader seems, in retrospect, to have been a shrewd dog whistle to a small but highly motivated part of his base.

For Mr. Heimbach is far from alone in his esteem for Mr. Putin. Throughout the collection of white ethnocentrists, nationalists, populists and neo-Nazis that has taken root on both sides of the Atlantic, Mr. Putin is widely revered as a kind of white knight: a symbol of strength, racial purity and traditional Christian values in a world under threat from Islam, immigrants and rootless cosmopolitan elites.

[gordianot]

1. In finality Lindbergh participated in WWII as an American.

I do not think Trump will ever support any interest beyond his own financial need he is an agent of the Russian Federation.