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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAre 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. Im 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.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)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)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)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."
Initech
(100,075 posts)They blame us for everything, including the rise of the Nazis now?
Girard442
(6,071 posts)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.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,190 posts)Gothmog
(145,238 posts)yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)and that...person...in the White House.
m-lekktor
(3,675 posts)Dread Pirate Roberts
(1,896 posts)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.
sinkingfeeling
(51,457 posts)m-lekktor
(3,675 posts)with his "Liberal Fascism". Boring.
JHB
(37,160 posts)...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)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)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)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.