There’s what Trump says for public consumption, and there’s his political rhetoric. They’re very different. What he says for public consumption: “My warmest sympathy and best wishes goes out to the people of New Zealand after the horrible massacre in the Mosques. 49 innocent [...]
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March 15th, 2019 - 4:18 pm § in Donald Trump
Trump downplays White Nationalist threat
One day after a white nationalist slaughtered 49 people in two Christchurch mosques, President Donald Trump — even as he professed to be horrified by the loss of so many innocent lives — came to the defense of white nationalists. Asked by reporters whether he views white nationalism as a[...]
March 15th, 2019 - 9:38 am § in Donald Trump, Hypocrisy
TRUMP TOUTS VIOLENCE AS 50 MUSLIMS SLAUGHTERED
Terrorism this week in New Zealand took the lives of 50 Muslim worshippers. The villain was a gun touting white supremacist .. what we now call a Trumpist. Before the red hats call me an extremist, read the words to the left. Two Senators, one a Presidential candidate, express the outrage all go[...]
Second Night of Hanukkah: A Seattle Jew Remembers Germany
Jerry Large / Columnist Seattle’s Franz Wassermann, 96, warns of chilling parallels with Nazi era Originally published December 26, 2016 at 6:00 am Updated December 26, 2016 at 12:07 pm Franz Wassermann, 96, wrote a letter to politicians that he shared with friends and family. (Jerry Large/The S[...]
November 8th, 2017 - 12:57 am § in Misc.
Neofascism: 355 Days Post Election
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.” — Hannah Arendt, “The Origins of Totalitarianism” (1951)[...]
November 4th, 2017 - 5:22 am § in America
Weimar Republic: How Hitler Came to Power
“It is ironic that while the democratic system itself became discredited, the radicalised mass electorate which remained in being switched its support to anti-democratic extremist parties of the left and the racist-nationalist right. While it is not technically correct to argue that Hitler was[...]
September 15th, 2017 - 1:18 am § in Misc.
Weimar Republic: Compare Trump’s Economy
“Harold James ….. itemised Weimar’s economic problems under seven heads: ‘world economic conditions, unfavourable demographic developments, low savings and investment rates, misinvestment, falling profitability, instability of public finance and excessive protection of industry’.[...]
May 20th, 2017 - 1:32 am § in Misc.
AFTER TRUMP: An Encounter in New Jersey
Ralph Drake FACEBOOK I just ran into this Nazi piggie in Shop Rite In Newton,N.J. I started to take his picture and he proudly posed…he asked,”did you vote for “the President?”...I said “yeah, twice”….he said “what he was just elected?” Then he l[...]
February 25th, 2017 - 12:49 am § in Misc.
Excerpts From “The Weimar Republic 1919-1933”
“Yet despite such signals, the surge in support for the Nazi Party in the elections of September, 1930, came as an enormous shock to large numbers of Germans.” “As Feuchtwanger has noted, ‘the Nazi breakthrough was not only sensational, it finally destroyed a party system’ whic[...]
February 22nd, 2017 - 1:12 am § in America
Weimar Republic: “The Democrat Party ….. undermined the prorepublic centre ‘from within'”
“Another political weakness in the Weimar Republic which historians have highlighted is the decline of German liberalism. Indeed, Peukart has singled out the decline of bourgeois liberalism and specifically of the Democrat Party and of the German People’s Party as the ‘decisive event’ of[...]