"The Nazis Love Trump"
'The Nazis Love Trump.' Written by Walter Einenkel / Daily Kos, September 13, 2020. Alternet. - Excerpts, Ed:
- President Trump speaks to press members along the South Lawn Driveway of the White House, Fri., Feb. 28, 2020, prior to boarding Marine One to begin his trip to South Carolina. (Official White House Photo, Joyce N. Boghosian). -
In news that should surprise exactly nobody, on Tuesday The New York Times reported that Donald Trump is very, very popular among a certain segment of the German population. Specifically, German neo-Nazis. German neo-Nazis absolutely adore our weird-haired, buffoonish, racist leader. They’re putting his face on shirts and flags. They’re screaming their praises for him. They’re declaring him their new savior. So that’s nice.
Trump supporters can be relieved that while the majority of America may consider Trump a toxic and corrupt would-be leader, they can still rely on the support of Actual German Nazis. The Trump appeal to Germany’s neo-Nazi groups, a source of domestic terror in that nation as their far-right allies are in this one, is simple to understand. Trump is an avowed nationalist and nativist. He’s brazenly racist. He’s both a sponge for far-right conspiracy theories and an avid distributor of them. And he’s a practicing fascist—leading an administration that has increasingly simply ignored federal laws, Congress, and the courts in service to a white nationalist agenda headed by a forever-incompetent Dear Leader figure.
Trump is currently closer to the neo-Nazi ideal government than perhaps any other top nation, both nationalist and world-powerful.
Nobody in Germany is confused over what Donald Trump represents or what his intentions are. They understand him, and those he has staffed his administration with, perfectly fine. It is only the American press that cannot quite muster what to make of Trump’s fascist rhetoric and “norm”-breaking dismantling of ethics and law alike. Whether our American press is simply dumber than the German far-right, or too close-up to Trump to contextualize his moves, or is cowed, or simply wishes to keep collecting paychecks without being subjected to the targeted fury of Trump and his supporters for spelling it out, is unknown..
..Indeed, but it’s more than that. QAnon’s conspiracy theories are a recasting of past far-right and Nazi claims, in large part mimicking anti-Semitic propaganda from the last century. The Times points to current European “great replacement” theory, which claims that white Europe is being intentionally colonized to subvert white European identity and a mirror of the American far-right’s conspiracy-peddling toward Central and South American immigrants, and “the belief that Germany is not a sovereign country but an incorporated company and occupied territory controlled by globalists.”...
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Seriously, it's bad enough but it could be a whole lot worse.
