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yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)
Thu Aug 3, 2017, 11:43 AM Aug 2017

Are you starting to hear rumblings about a Democratic Party/Nazi Fascist link?

It's a new book the rightwing media is promoting!





A sample from Media Matters - a Fox News interview:


STEVE DOOCY (HOST): Explain to me the connection between President Andrew Jackson and the Nazis.

DINESH D'SOUZA: Well, the book uncovers a sort of secret history between fascism and the Democratic Party and the left. This is important because, as you know, fascism is now the card that is played by the left against [President Donald] Trump. Trump is a fascist, Republicans are the party of fascism. I show that the opposite is true. Fascism has always been on the left. I also point out three ideas that Hitler got, very destructive, genocidal ideas from the Democratic Party. So, one of them you mentioned, Hitler is sitting in Landsberg Prison and he's frustrated because the British and the French have conquered large parts of Asia and Africa, and Hitler goes, "There's nothing left for us." And then he says, "Wait a minute, in America, the Jacksonian Democrats drove the American Indians off their land, dispossessed them, enslaved them." He goes, "That's what I'm going to do. I’m going to throw the Poles, the Slavs, the eastern Europeans, the Russians off their land. We'll resettle it with German families. If any of those guys remain we'll enslave them." So, Hitler got his blueprint for European, you may say conquest, in Europe directly from the Jacksonian Democrats.
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Are you starting to hear rumblings about a Democratic Party/Nazi Fascist link? (Original Post) yallerdawg Aug 2017 OP
This makes perfect sense, accuse the left of doing what the right is doing right in front of your Eliot Rosewater Aug 2017 #1
I heard the Joe Scarbrough crew make the association this AM... yallerdawg Aug 2017 #4
They've been claiming that fascism is a liberal ideology for years Azathoth Aug 2017 #2
God fucking damn these people. Initech Aug 2017 #3
This kind of thing was inevitable in a post-truth society. Girard442 Aug 2017 #5
Dinesh D'Souza - Why am I not surprised? N/t TexasBushwhacker Aug 2017 #6
Who cares what a felon thinks? Gothmog Aug 2017 #7
Fox News, Breitbart News, Infowars, One News Now, freeperville, yallerdawg Aug 2017 #8
Oh, sometimes I am up for a good prison memoir!! nt m-lekktor Aug 2017 #12
Some more Fractured Fairy Tales of history from the republicans. Dread Pirate Roberts Aug 2017 #9
Fake historian. Sad. sinkingfeeling Aug 2017 #10
As others mentioned in regard to this book the other day, Jonah Goldberg already did this m-lekktor Aug 2017 #11
That was some years back, long enough that... JHB Aug 2017 #13
Good points that i didn't think of!! m-lekktor Aug 2017 #15
When did he get out of jail? He's preaching to the choir. No one will believe that but trump's base. brush Aug 2017 #14
The Right has been claiming Hitler was a Leftie forever. Hieronymus Aug 2017 #16
These are the people that think Communists, Socialists and Democrats are all the same. progressoid Aug 2017 #17

Eliot Rosewater

(31,112 posts)
1. This makes perfect sense, accuse the left of doing what the right is doing right in front of your
Thu Aug 3, 2017, 11:45 AM
Aug 2017

face.

And the 50 million Americans they need to believe this, will.

Dinesh DLoser will keep doing this as long as other losers buy it.

yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)
4. I heard the Joe Scarbrough crew make the association this AM...
Thu Aug 3, 2017, 11:53 AM
Aug 2017

when he was talking about Jim Acosta confronting Stephen Miller, "overstepping" his unbiased, neutral journalist role in support of a liberal view bordering on fascism!

Azathoth

(4,608 posts)
2. They've been claiming that fascism is a liberal ideology for years
Thu Aug 3, 2017, 11:50 AM
Aug 2017

Jonah Goldberg wrote a whole book on it.

D'Souza is a particularly unhinged revisionist. One of his high points was defending the crusades and claiming they "weren't so bad."

Girard442

(6,071 posts)
5. This kind of thing was inevitable in a post-truth society.
Thu Aug 3, 2017, 11:55 AM
Aug 2017

Someone stands in your way? Create a whole alternate reality where they are the vilest of the vile.

Creationists and pro-lifers have been in this groove for years.

yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)
8. Fox News, Breitbart News, Infowars, One News Now, freeperville,
Thu Aug 3, 2017, 01:14 PM
Aug 2017

and that...person...in the White House.

Dread Pirate Roberts

(1,896 posts)
9. Some more Fractured Fairy Tales of history from the republicans.
Thu Aug 3, 2017, 01:17 PM
Aug 2017

I can picture it now. Hitler opened his wallet and found a U.S. $20 bill and stared at it for a second and then said "I've got it! Jackson! It's all so clear to me now!" One of the great "eureka" moments in world history long suppressed by the liberals.

m-lekktor

(3,675 posts)
11. As others mentioned in regard to this book the other day, Jonah Goldberg already did this
Thu Aug 3, 2017, 02:52 PM
Aug 2017

with his "Liberal Fascism". Boring.

JHB

(37,160 posts)
13. That was some years back, long enough that...
Thu Aug 3, 2017, 03:04 PM
Aug 2017

...D'Sousaphoney's book won't be a "me too!"

Plus there's a new crop of alt-right dingleberries he hopes to pluck. But that's assuming they buy books, not have one or two people rip it into an ebook and put it up so everyone else can download it for free.

m-lekktor

(3,675 posts)
15. Good points that i didn't think of!!
Thu Aug 3, 2017, 03:17 PM
Aug 2017

OH i am sure there will be pirated copies of this ebook online, I know the Goldberg ebook was available, that's how i saw it. Hell the audiobook version was even available!

brush

(53,778 posts)
14. When did he get out of jail? He's preaching to the choir. No one will believe that but trump's base.
Thu Aug 3, 2017, 03:11 PM
Aug 2017

It's kinda like when O was running and they were calling him a socialist and a fascist at the same time without seeming to know they on the opposite ends of the political spectrum.

Hieronymus

(6,039 posts)
16. The Right has been claiming Hitler was a Leftie forever.
Thu Aug 3, 2017, 04:51 PM
Aug 2017

It just goes to show how stupid and vulnerable the majority of Right Wingers are.
Meanwhile they're active in the KKK and Neo-Nazi Party.

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