It's Official: With "Vermin," Trump Is Now Using Straight-up Nazi Talk

[Demovictory9]

https://newrepublic.com/article/176877/trump-vermin-speech-nazi-language

It’s Official: With “Vermin,” Trump Is Now Using Straight-up Nazi Talk
He’s telling us what he will do to his political enemies if he’s president again. Is anyone listening?

We’ve all often wondered whether Donald Trump understands the historical import of what comes out of his mouth. He’s so ill-informed, so proudly ignorant, that it’s easy to think that when he hurls a historical insult, he just doesn’t know.

I feel pretty safe in saying that we can now stop giving him the benefit of that particular doubt. His use—twice; once on social media, and then repeated in a speech—of the word “vermin” to describe his political enemies cannot be an accident. That’s an unusual word choice. It’s not a smear that one just grabs out of the air. And it appears in history chiefly in one context, and one context only.

Before we get to that, let’s just record what he wrote and said. On Saturday at 10:25 a.m., he posted on Truth Social:

“In honor of our great Veterans on Veteran’s Day, we pledge to you that we will root out the Communists, Marxists, Fascists, and Radical Left Thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country, lie, steal, and cheat on Elections, and will do anything possible, whether legally or illegally, to destroy America, and the American dream.”

Then, at a rally in New Hampshire later that day, he repeated those words essentially verbatim—promising to “root out ... the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country”—and then doubled down on it:

“The real threat is not from the radical right, the real threat is from the radical left, and it’s growing every day, every single day. The threat from outside forces is far less sinister, dangerous, and grave than the threat from within. Our threat is from within.”

This is straight-up Nazi talk, in a way he’s never done quite before. To announce that the real enemy is domestic and then to speak of that enemy in subhuman terms is Fascism 101. Especially that particular word.

[brewens]

1. Projection. Look at the ignorant, filthy, disease spreading vermin we had infesting the White House

during the first two years of COVID. I thought they might have to burn it down and build a new one.

[kwolf68]

2. Nothing more than...

Trying to make America great again. We are at a tipping point. IS ANYONE going to stand up against this fascist rhetoric at all?

[DoBW]

3. Thing is ...

With Trump, as it's been pointed out, every accusation is a confession

[moondust]

4. Dehumanization.

Rats, lice, cockroaches, foxes, vultures – these are just some of the animals the Nazis used to deride and dehumanize Jews.

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...Nazi propaganda is replete with references to Jews as vermin, rats or parasites.”

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How Nazi propaganda dehumanized Jews to facilitate the Holocaust

[Bundbuster]

5. tfg is the essence of vermin,

the epitome of a parasitic infestation. Projection much, Slobby?

[Picaro]

6. Absolute Fascist-speak

[Hope22]

7. I find it unbelievable

That a presidential candidate can get away with threatening us. His mouth has been spewing threats of imprisonment and more. Eventually he will tell the despicables to actually shoot neighbors and family who do not slurp his pudding. He is a disgrace to humanity. Believe what he is telling us. That is the beauty of this man’s insanity. He hasn’t given us one day of rest for over six years. The weakest have cracked years ago!!

[senseandsensibility]

8. Don't worry, he's just going in a different direction

according to the NYT.

[paleotn]

9. Yep. That he is. He's also projecting again.

Shut the fuck up, Donnie!

[The Wizard]

10. If he looks like a Nazi, sounds like a Nazi

and acts like Nazi, he's a .......

[machoneman]

16. From the guy who had Hitler's Mein Kampf on his bedside table. Who knew he was a Nazi?

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-adolf-hitler-books-bedside-cabinet-ex-wife-ivana-trump-vanity-fair-1990-a7639041.html

[ShazzieB]

18. It was a book of Hitler's speeches, not Mein Kampf :

A 1990 Vanity Fair article about billionaire businessman stated that Mr Trump’s then wife Ivana, said her husband owned a copy of “My New Order” – a printed collection of the Nazi leader’s speeches.

Not that it isn't just as bad, of course, especially when you think about how intellectually shallow TFG is. Someone who was a student or researcher in certain fields (political science, 1930s-1940s German History, or even public speaking or propaganda) might own a copy of such a book for reasons other than admiration of its author, but not Trump. The only reason he would hang onto a book like is because of his admiration for Hitler and for authoritarian dictators in general. *GAG*

[dpibel]

11. Stephen Miller, beyond doubt

Trump can't come up with this stuff on his own.

Guarantee you that this is straight from Stephen Miller's smirking mouth to the ear of the cult leader.

[bdamomma]

13. Stephen Miller

yes, he is orchestrating all of this. tRump is projecting all the time. Radical left?????? WTF .

The "threat" is him.

[IronLionZion]

12. Is he going to root himself out for fascism?

This is why they don't like school students reading books. Those who erase history are trying to repeat the worst parts.

[calimary]

15. I think you're onto something, my friend.

[machoneman]

17. No, he's rooting out fascists for job interviews for top jobs in his Cabinet!

[jmowreader]

14. Didn't he just describe HIMSELF?

Except for the "radical left thugs," everything in that post applies to him.

[calimary]

19. Just delete the word "left" and it's accurate.

[AntiFascist]

20. Adolf Trumpler makes his true intentions clear n/t