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Mike Malloy - 2015 Hits: Donald Trump Is Connecting With People Like Adolf Hitler Did (Original Post) hschulein Dec 2015 OP
Uninformed crowd susceptible to easy answers zebonaut Dec 2015 #1
I'd say: Americans are glomming onto ignorant, racist Trump... radhika Dec 2015 #2
I've said for years that anti-semitism isn't an essential ingredient of National Socialism- WhoIsNumberNone Dec 2015 #3

radhika

(1,008 posts)
2. I'd say: Americans are glomming onto ignorant, racist Trump...
Sun Dec 27, 2015, 01:42 PM
Dec 2015

the same way post-WWI Germans glommed onto ignorant, racist Hitler. When the smoke clears - should we be around to tell the tale - they will all feign ignorance of the darkest intentions.

I no longer put the onus on the figurehead - I point right back at the base that empowers him/her.

WhoIsNumberNone

(7,875 posts)
3. I've said for years that anti-semitism isn't an essential ingredient of National Socialism-
Mon Dec 28, 2015, 03:07 AM
Dec 2015

-only Hitler's version of it. Like any other right wing movement it merely requires an identifiable enemy. In Weimar Germany it was the Jews and the communists.

I remember how distraught the right wing was after the collapse of the Soviet Union. All those years of cultivating hatred and paranoia, and now, suddenly, nothing to focus it on. Nobody was happier about 9-11 than the right wingers in this country- They all heaved a sigh of relief at being returned to their comfort zone; a perceived existential threat. The Clintons just hadn't been cutting it in that regard.

Now they have the messiah they've been waiting for.

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