How Trump's hidden Nazi messages help conceal his open antisemitism

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How Trump's hidden Nazi messages help conceal his open antisemitism
Now that Trump is finally facing legal consequences for his actions he's amplifying his Hitlerian language

By CHAUNCEY DEVEGA
Senior Writer
PUBLISHED MAY 22, 2024 5:45AM (EDT)


(Salon) One of the most important rules for surviving and triumphing over an authoritarian regime is to always take seriously what the dictator says. They are not kidding. This rule most certainly applies to Donald Trump, who has promised that he is going to be a dictator on “day one” if he defeats President Biden in the 2024 election. With Trump tied with or leading President Biden in the early polls, the American people need to quickly internalize the aforementioned rule for survival.

As leading historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat warned in a recent social media post, “Folks, he is not going to leave office, ever. Know this before you decide not to vote for Biden. It will be worse than you can imagine and a national security disaster. The aim is to destroy America, to the benefit of autocrats around the world.”

Time magazine recently featured an extensive interview with Trump where he outlined, in great detail, his authoritarian plans and vision for the United States if he takes power in 2025. Several days later, the New York Times obtained audio from a meeting at Trump's Mar-a-Lago with his donors. There, Trump lied, of course, and claimed that President Biden leads a “Gestapo” that he is using to persecute his supposed enemies.

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Dr. Sharon Nazarian, who is a board member of the Anti-Defamation League and a noted expert on global antisemitism, issued the following statement in response to the Trump campaign's "unified Reich" video:

Words like Reich don’t just accidentally end up in campaign videos. This is a message to antisemites and anti-democratic extremists everywhere about what to expect should Trump return to the White House. Donald Trump knows exactly what he is doing. This is part of a long pattern of behavior where he normalizes antisemitic language and behavior and then later claims that he ‘didn’t know’ or it was ‘fake news’, but the extremists know full well where he stands, and we need acknowledge that these aren’t mistakes, he is telling us exactly what he would do in a second term. Donald Trump no longer should be given the benefit of the doubt. He sees antisemitism as a powerful tool to be used towards his own political goals, and those goals are to reshape American democracy and society in ways that will make the lives of Jews unsafe.

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https://www.salon.com/2024/05/22/how-hidden-nazi-messages-help-conceal-his-open-antisemitism/

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1. Trump's promoting a "Unified Reich!"

Why isn’t this the lead story on every (non-RWNJ) news station?

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2. Good F'n question !! ( nt )

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3. The MSM and Democrats are so far behind the ball its frightening

The needle has moved so far over and these two groups are still living in the past.

They think that Trump supporters just don't UNDERSTAND how dangerous he is. They are baffled at the polls like we are, and so increase the level of concern in their voices about having such a man in power again.

When, for Trump voters, it should be perfectly clear by now....THEY WANT A DICTATORSHIP! They want a strong man, NO MATTER HOW CRIMINAL OR IMMORAL, to come in and cut through all the red tape, the annoying Constitution, and overnight get rid of LGBTQ+ rights, gay marriage, trans medical support, along with very harsh border policies where they continue with family separations and worse. Maybe even bans for legal immigration from any country Trump personally deems a "shithole". Abortion bans, and State monitoring of women's pregnacies. No morning after pills. Lax rape laws.

Guns for everyone! Teachers included. And less restrictions on any deranged psycho from owning as many and as deadly a gun as they can easily acquire.

They want him to shut down CNN, and MSNBC. That or change them and pressure the owners to only have on hosts that support him. Allow Musk to deny voices of resistance on his platform. And throw in jail any protesters who dare stand up to the new Gilead.

They would absolutely LOVE this .

Or rather....and this is an important caveat........they THINK they would love it. But by the time some realized that maybe it wasn't such a good idea, it will be too late. The security apparatus will be in place, the "news" will tell them everything is fine.

So as I see it, the emphasis for those groups should be not on trying to convince Republican voters that Trump is bad....They already know that........and instead show in blatant terms how a dictatorship is bad.