Dana Milbank on Trump and fascism
DM quotes two fools, or more likely liars, to support the notion that The Donald in 2016 is a lot like Hitler before 1933.
This is not legitimate hyperbole.
This is just egregious lying.
On Monday, Jane Eisner, editor of the Jewish media outlet Forward, quoted Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt: “Some people didn’t approve of Hitler’s anti-Semitism, but they went along with it because he was going to make Germany great again.”
And comedian Louis C.K., who says he would like to see a conservative president, wrote to his fans about Trump this weekend, saying that “we are being Germany in the 30s. Do you think they saw the s--- coming? Hitler was just some hilarious and refreshing dude with a weird comb over who would say anything at all.”
The only Germans who didn't get it, who didn't see it coming, were stupid to the point of Down's Syndrome, at least, catatonic, or had somehow been living in a complete news vacuum for decades.
Nazis were already in uniform, a transparent imitation of Il Duce's uniformed followers.
Hitler's contempt for democracy and his commitment to fascism, and his emulation of the Italian dictator, in power in Italy since the March on Rome in 1922, were as plain as the nose on your face.
And his plans for the Jews, the communists, and the whole of Slavdom were set down and made public with pride in Mein Kampf and tons of other Nazi propaganda vehicles.
Hitler was as hard for Germans to figure out as the National Alliance (read The Turner Diaries) was for us.
Phooey.
All the same, Trump's whitemaleism - his Aryan misogynism? - is or appears to be, thanks to his own behavior, a bit too much the Klan-friendly type for me to personally be OK with it.
Some prices are clearly too high to pay to avoid or delay whites becoming a mere plurality in the USA.
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