They've got this mainstreamed, now. Globally.

Seems like it's only been a few years since National Review began floating this bullshit.

Brazil's president calls Nazis leftists after Israel Holocaust museum visit

Be glad Reuters isn't playing along.

Brazil’s right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro said “there is no doubt” that Nazism was a leftist movement, just after visiting Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial and museum.

Bolsonaro’s remarks directly contradicted information on the museum’s website saying Germany’s Nazi movement rose out of right-wing radical groups responding to the rise of communism.

In Tuesday’s televised comments, the Brazilian president echoed previous remarks by his country’s foreign minister, Ernesto Araujo, also claiming the Nazis were leftists.

Asked by reporters if he agreed with Araujo, Bolsonaro said, “There is no doubt, right?”

He went on to say that the Nazi party’s name was the National Socialist Party of Germany, which includes the word “socialist.” The official name was the National Socialist German Workers’ Party.

Despite their name, the Nazis followed a fascist and anti-Semitic - rather than a socialist - ideology.

And is this him cozying up close to Holocaust denial, as close as he so far dares?

Bolsonaro forgives the Nazis for the Holocaust.

President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil drew Israel’s ire on Saturday for saying the crimes of the Holocaust are forgivable.

Mr. Bolsonaro made the comments Thursday night at a meeting with evangelical pastors in Rio de Janeiro. 

He was talking about his visit to the Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem earlier this month.

“We can forgive. But we cannot forget,” he said of the Holocaust, adding that action was needed to ensure its horrors were not repeated. 

“Those who forget the past are condemned to not have a future,” he added.

Evangelicals are the same everywhere, eh?

They seem everywhere to prefer to support authoritarian wingnuts.