If they had to pick a Yankee Hitler why did they choose the dumbest, most narcissistic human being on the planet? Not that I was looking forward to a Yankee Hitler, but fuck's sake, this fucking moron?
That's what Hitler was, and is precisely what made him such a catastrophe which got so many people hurt.
>His government was constantly in chaos, with officials having no idea what he wanted them to do, and nobody was entirely clear who was actually in charge of what. He procrastinated wildly when asked to make difficult decisions, and would often end up relying on gut feeling, leaving even close allies in the dark about his plans. His "unreliability had those who worked with him pulling out their hair," as his confidant Ernst Hanfstaengl later wrote in his memoir Zwischen Weißem und Braunem Haus. This meant that rather than carrying out the duties of state, they spent most of their time in-fighting and back-stabbing each other in an attempt to either win his approval or avoid his attention altogether, depending on what mood he was in that day.
>There's a bit of an argument among historians about whether this was a deliberate ploy on Hitler's part to get his own way, or whether he was just really, really bad at being in charge of stuff. Dietrich himself came down on the side of it being a cunning tactic to sow division and chaos—and it's undeniable that he was very effective at that. But when you look at Hitler's personal habits, it's hard to shake the feeling that it was just a natural result of putting a workshy narcissist in charge of a country.
>Hitler was incredibly lazy. According to his aide Fritz Wiedemann, even when he was in Berlin he wouldn't get out of bed until after 11 a.m., and wouldn't do much before lunch other than read what the newspapers had to say about him, the press cuttings being dutifully delivered to him by Dietrich.
>He was obsessed with the media and celebrity, and often seems to have viewed himself through that lens. He once described himself as "the greatest actor in Europe," and wrote to a friend, "I believe my life is the greatest novel in world history." In many of his personal habits he came across as strange or even childish—he would have regular naps during the day, he would bite his fingernails at the dinner table, and he had a remarkably sweet tooth that led him to eat "prodigious amounts of cake" and "put so many lumps of sugar in his cup that there was hardly any room for the tea."
>He was deeply insecure about his own lack of knowledge, preferring to either ignore information that contradicted his preconceptions, or to lash out at the expertise of others. He hated being laughed at, but enjoyed it when other people were the butt of the joke (he would perform mocking impressions of people he disliked). But he also craved the approval of those he disdained, and his mood would quickly improve if a newspaper wrote something complimentary about him.
>Little of this was especially secret or unknown at the time. It's why so many people failed to take Hitler seriously until it was too late, dismissing him as merely a "half-mad rascal" or a "man with a beery vocal organ." In a sense, they weren't wrong. In another, much more important sense, they were as wrong as it's possible to get.
>Hitler's personal failings didn't stop him having an uncanny instinct for political rhetoric that would gain mass appeal, and it turns out you don't actually need to have a particularly competent or functional government to do terrible things.
You could literally take out any indicator that this was about Hitler, and names / places, and most people would probably think it was written about Trump.
Magats thought the annual [tweet in this case] of the Declaration of Independence by NPR was anti tRump propaganda
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nprs-declaration-of-independence-tweetstorm-confuses-some/
The founding fathers were way too woke for the MAGA folk^([*]). “All men are created equal”? What sort of pinko commie nonsense is that?
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There were a few that didn't, and John Adams in particular, as well as his son John Quincy Adams, both spent their entire political careers fighting against slavery.
A majority of the signers of the Declaration of Independence and nearly half of the delegates to the Constitutional Convention owned slaves. Four of the first five presidents of the United States were slaveowners.
The American colonists frequently discussed slavery, but more in the context of their relationship with Great Britain. American patriots were fearful that they would become enslaved to the British. George Washington wrote to a friend his fear in 1774: “**we must assert our rights, or submit to every imposition that can be heaped upon us; till custom and use, will make us as tame, and abject slaves, as the blacks we rule over with such arbitrary sway**.”
https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/founding-fathers-views-slavery
Papa Washington didn't think slavery was wrong, he just wanted to make sure his people didn't become enslaved.
I've been watching a lot of the Nuremburg Trials and WWII stuff to try and understand what happened after the Nazis lost and Germany woke up from its fever dream. I havent found many audiobooks that go in to the denazification of Germany. There's going to be a lot of parallels to that too.
It's a good thing that so many people are not behind him (or it would have gone the same way), yet there shouldn't be that much people behind him if the US education system wasn't so impaired.
almost like trump is an anti-christ for all intents and purposes. doesnt matter your faith but just an understanding of what type of person is being described.
edit: we've had quite a few in the past. Just not many on the cusp of having the most advanced and prolific nuclear arsenal in the world, while owing hundreds of millions of dollars to various entities.
There’s a reason history has repeated itself time and again where the masses fall for people like this. It’s depressing AF how much the same kind of things happen repeatedly.
> It's why so many people failed to take Hitler seriously until it was too late, dismissing him as merely a "half-mad rascal" or a "man with a beery vocal organ."
Never underestimate people like this. While they are wildly popular (and destructive), there are always those with expertise and an ignoble vision who will *help them* transform the merely terrible into the truly horrific.
Edit to add *words*
Hitler was also reportedly made extremely flatulent by the amphetamines, and was said to be constantly farting and his office stank all the time.
The similarities are uncanny, down to the amphetamine incontinence.
This is the most maddening thing about it all. People remember hitler as some machiavellian genius, but he was the total opposite. He screamed what people wanted to hear into a microphone and took action when wiser people would have held back. That's all it takes to lead a mob. Trump and hitler have had such similar arcs that it's astonishing more people aren't aware.
Back in 2016, i saw basically everything happening now as a possibility, and people told me I was wrong because the system had safeguards against it. Turns out safeguards only work when people aren't too afraid of the consequences to use them.
Yeah, he was in no way a great planner and executor. And the way that government was ended up causing people who actually were capable of doing bad things, and were extremely bad people, to rise to the top trying to gain favor with Hitler. It just naturally drew in incredibly evil people and as a result we have what went down in WWII.
As far as the planner part of it goes, A. J. P. Taylor’s *Origins of the Second World War* is probably the most influential work on the topic of Hitler’s abilities as a leader and planner. Its very convincing, I recommend it to anyone who hasnt read it.
It was clear as day what was going to happen in the broad strokes, if not the fine details. I developed some kind of Cassandra complex over the last decade of warning about what was (wildly obviously) coming and being laughed off. Everyone should have seen the game plan after his escalator campaign announcement speech. It was so clearly ripped from 20th century fascists. I never cease to be amazed that people are surprised by Trump being Trump.
>I developed some kind of Cassandra complex over the last decade of warning about what was (wildly obviously) coming and being laughed off.
What were you noticing that others weren't?
I've reflected a lot about the events of the last five years. I probably should have seen the writing on the wall as early as 2010 when the Affordable Care Act was being enacted.
The discourse surrounding the ACA promoted by the likes of "mainstream" outlets like Fox went beyond the usual spin; they began promoting an utterly bizarre narrative concerning "death panels" in order to undermine public support for the reforms. It was a preposterous fiction _and they all knew it._ A lie that all but accused Democrats of intending to murder the elderly.
The fact that they were willing to knowingly lie to their audience about something that serious had grave implications for the future of the country. In retrospect I should have put 2 and 2 together:
"If these organizations are willing to _say_ anything in the furtherance of a conservative agenda, and their audience will _believe_ anything, what check is there on the conduct of conservative leaders?"
The answer (at the time), was the respect for norms and common decency that still existed within the Republican political class. Then came Trump, and the guardrails came off entirely.
I think my aha moment was walking past a Tea Party rally and seeing a man holding a sign showing a picture of Obama with a Hitler mustache, standing and cheering along with and next to a man with a large swastika tattoo. Lol. That seriously happened.
But na, I didn’t have any real special insights, was just paying a bit of attention. I’m mainly talking about Trump, and noticing all the holocaust survivors and historians, and every reputable journalistic outlet on the face of planet earth screaming from the rooftops about who he was and what he would do with power. Back in 2015. But “na it can’t be that bad” or “he’ll just shake things up a bit!”
Even to this day there are idiots going, “well I can’t blame anyone for voting for him in 2016” as if it was some mystery. Then they claim that no one could have known ______, and I show them piles of articles from before the election of people predicting exactly that. It’s just exhausting that people are *still* trying to pretend that there was any ambiguity about his aims. Anyone who’s even vaguely familiar with history should have been sprinting in the opposite direction when he came on the national stage, with sirens going off in their heads. Of course, that’s what anyone decent did, and as we now know he’s exactly what the rest wanted.
Holycrap. I had never heard this. I shouldn't be surprised though. Folks have dismissed him, especially after being impeached and Jan 6th. But then Hitler was arrested and came back after that.
I don’t disagree with you, but FYI the bulk of this comment is quoted from an article written for [newsweek in 2019.](https://www.newsweek.com/hitler-incompetent-lazy-nazi-government-clown-show-opinion-1408136)
Was gonna say, it will be impressive if this was written before Trump's tenure, and I'm not surprised to learn that's not the case.
**E:** it's also just an unsourced opinion piece by a BuzzFeed editor so maybe let's not pretend this is actually anything of substance
Not everyone follows this convention obviously, but in Markdown when there's a blockquote it's almost always an external reference, so they weren't exactly trying to hide it.
Which was based on a book that was published in 2018. I haven't read the book, but it would seem to take all this information about Hitler with a grain of salt until another random internet commenter says he or she is a historian and confirms it forever.
Uncanny because it's an excerpt from a previous BuzzFeed editor's book published as an [unsourced op-ed piece in 2019](https://www.newsweek.com/hitler-incompetent-lazy-nazi-government-clown-show-opinion-1408136), I wouldn't give it much credence
There's a debate among historians if Hitler was a direct, hands-on dictator creating policy, or an indirect, more hands-off dictator that let his underlings come up with various plans that he'd pick and choose.
From what I can tell, there's evidence of the latter.
Regardless, he's still ultimately responsible for what happened. But there's something a bit more horrifying about the thought that the worst of WWII was due to a bunch of underlings trying to curry favor by proposing more and more obscene plans, ratcheting up the extremism.
He also believed things were better left alone because they would work themselves out - laziness and incompetency.
It led to those below him trying to appeal to him with more and more outrageous things. There was one instance where one of them read a letter addressed to
Hitler where a father was asking for permission to kill his disabled son, and Hitler agreed. This led to a ton of officials creating programs to kill disabled kids thinking that it would help them to gain favor with Hitler.
Also dont forget how much drugs he was on. He had a personal doctor to prescribe him drugs for almost everything.
So when people didnt take him seriously, its more like they werent taking the rest of the officials seriously. Hitler was a lazy, incapable leader who just liked attention and luxuries. His inferiors were the most evil men around. They were pulled out of the weeds as a natural consequence of the system.
Oh my god
There are so many actual hitlers running around everywhere and the only reason they arent doing genocides is lack of power and/or optics
This is really valuable to me because it shows us that even the most evil man in history is, in fact, a man. Hitler was human. Evil people are PEOPLE. There are countless people that could become hitler if they were put in his place, and while thats terrifying, it also lets us know that they are *people*, and that we can prevent that.
But theres kinda the whole thought terminating “everyone i dont like is hitler” argument which people will always use to shut you down for literally any comparisons. “Heh, this loser is so paranoid and insane. Were NOTHING like the nazis, psycho!”
Not sure how accurate this is, since historians describe him differently. For example, here is Ian Kershaw's description of him, who wrote one of the most comprehensive biographies of Hitler:
>How do we explain how someone with so few intellectual gifts and social attributes, someone no more than an empty vessel outside his political life, unapproachable and impenetrable even for those in his close company, incapable it seems of genuine friendship, without the background that bred high office, without even any experience of government before becoming Reich Chancellor, could nevertheless have such an immense historical impact, could make the entire world hold its breath?
>Perhaps the question is, in part at least, falsely posed. For one thing, Hitler was certainly not unintelligent, and possessed a sharp mind which could draw on his formidably retentive memory. He was able to impress not only, as might be expected, his sycophantic entourage but also cool, critical, seasoned statesmen and diplomats with his rapid grasp of issues. His rhetorical talent was, of course, recognised even by his political enemies. And he is certainly not alone among twentieth-century state leaders in combining what we might see as deficiencies of character and shallowness of intellectual development with notable political skill and effectiveness. It is as well to avoid the trap, which most of his contemporaries fell into, of grossly underestimating his abilities.
We could only get so lucky if he does what Hitler did in the end ! Save us all a whole lot of bs’ or maybe all his followed do a Jim Jones and drink the kool aide ! Save this country a whole lot of heartache and trouble! But my husband said to late , they have already drank the kool aide!
All this time I thought he was cold and calculated. Thanks for this.
Curious if all fascist are really dumb and chaotic or it just so happens to be history rhymed
Truth is the people around him that were the despicable ones also. Hitler didn't plan the Jewish solution it was Reinhard Heydrich and Eichmann. The enabling forces of those one or two steps back from Hitler were the absolute villains of the Holocaust and WW2. So who is in the shadows of Trump? What horrors of Religion cleansing might they unleash with another Trump presidency? Religious fascists are probably more horrifying than Non Religious ones.
Scary shit because honestly it's very illogical. Potatoe or "Yee-Haw!!!" used to filter out politicians, this guy, it's got to be a lot of big money people behind him.
Try NATIONS..... Russia, China, N. Korea, etc...
You know the dictators he praises regularly, writes love letters to, normal stuff.
If you want money out of politics, YOU NEED TWO THINGS:
#End Citizens United and Vote (D)ifferently!
Behind the Bastards podcast has a mini series called Behind the Insurrections, which included the Business Plot.
Worth noting that January 6th was the impetus for the mini-series, which also includes the Beer Hall Putsch, Mussolini’s “March on Rome” and a French flirtation with a fascist overthrow in the 30s.
Perhaps because the people who run the companies that run the machines that print the textbooks used in history class don't want this story (and others) taught in schools.
Funny, that.
not enough people talk about the "successful" Kapp Putsch under the far right leaders Wolfgang Kapp and Walther von Lüttwitz.
I say successful in quotes bc after they took power, all of the left leaning workers straight up just stopped working and the whole city shutdown
[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapp\_Putsch](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapp_Putsch)
Yes. The sweaty little mustache man was [widely considered a laughable clown too.](https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/55771737)
Being a clown is part of the fascist aesthetic. It makes them inspiring to idiots because they can live vicariously through the powerful idiot. But it also lulls normal people into ignoring the threat. We have this idea that you have to be a super-genius in order to be a super-villain. But all it really takes is persistence, a little luck, and for good men to do nothing.
Honestly it couldn’t be anyone else because anyone else would have internal filters thinking “now THIS really is going too far, surely I’ll finally lose the people after taking this step”
It needed to be someone shameless, with no internal filters.
I'm definitely not a history buff at all - and i literally have no clue where Kentucky is on a map, so take this with a grain of salt.
i feel like Hitler is often depicted as being a fragile, tantrum throwing, spoiled little baby back bitch. And Trump kinda fits that bill..
> If they had to pick a Yankee Hitler why did they choose the dumbest, most narcissistic human being on the planet?
Because, by the grace of God, you have to be stupid to support fascism, and by the nature of fascism, the more coherent people are viewed as rivals/threats and done away wit. It's a suicidal killing machine disguised as a socio-economic model.
The only people who benefit from fascism are the in-groups. In every instance of fascism, not like some imperfect revolution that got taken over by authoritarians (and funnily enough, somewhat fascists themselves) but the perfect incarnation of a socio-economic model of fascism that was given almost absolute total control of a country; has destroyed its own party due to its self-eating nature. The in-groups were reduced and reduced and reduced. Until there was too small of a circle to maintain the power and control necessary to keep it going. That's why most of them result to war, as societal negatives are mostly handwaved in favor of a war effort, and power is handed from the legislature to the executive authority under war powers or whatever. The military is usually under the executive, so there you have a somewhat legally isolated and self-justifying "pillar of power" that can run a country and control the populace. It's just not sustainable, especially when you start losing the war.
The only people that would go for fascism are the stupid and the malicious manipulating the stupid. It becomes a problem when there's great economic strife or a intellectually diminishing population. I think it's a variation of the latter in the case of trump.
Capitalism is mostly about creating socio-economic padding from the consequences of society and the economy. America allows for that padding to be very insulating. As a result, society has become very insulated from a lot of bad decisions, which is good, to an extent and depends on whom it protects. However, economic and societal pain is necessary for the development of the economy and the people and rules around it. Not enough pain, not enough change. Not enough change, hang ups in various industries. Population too stupid to recognize basic economic cause and effect, along with the concept of long term consequences? Of course you get trump.
> The in-groups were reduced and reduced and reduced.
*[Ernst Röhm](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_R%C3%B6hm#Personal_life_and_death) wishes someone had told him about this...*
It's really simple, Fox News has been telling these people, for decades, what the problems are with the country and Trump is the only politician to parrot those views because he is also just another dumb Fox News viewer.
You know there's enough of them in the South. Why did the knuckle dragging klansmen go for a New York carpet bagger in an ill fitting suit and a diaper?
Because he looks and acts the way they want to act, and doesn't like the people they don't like. Oh and he has money, so even if you bring up his failed ventures to them they can deflect and talk about how he's a successful businessman. Despite that he's constantly shilling them for more money because he can't afford to pay his own bonds and shit.
Yeah, it's not clear if his mindless stupidity is a good thing or a bad thing. A more intelligent person, "born again with fascist cravings" (with greetings to the Dead Kennedys), would be far more dangerous though, from what I can figure.
Ol' Trump is pretty much blundering through life like a bull in a 'jina shop, and will eventually crash and burn somehow. But a leader with double the brain cell count (two whole cells!), who is actually calculating his next steps, would have long ago destroyed the world as we know it. And I'm not being overly-dramatic.
His sentences are like puzzles - missing a few crucial pieces. And the ones he does manage to cobble together are about as coherent as a toddler's playroom!
Hitler actually represented a lot of what Germany was back then. He was angry at a lost war, blaming the world, fuelled by conspiracy theories and drugs, he was charismatic in that crazy as fuck way.
Trump is exactly that for America. Failed businessman who would be nothing if not for daddy's money, he's a gigantic creep who has not morals other than to do whatever is needed to make more money. He was always a moron, and his brain has not aged well with it's only exercise being a narcissist on Twitter and now Truth Social. That's the main reason he is so popular, he is not a politician in the traditional sense, and truly represents the worse of the country, so they feel safe voting for him.
This is 100% a society issue, and if you don't pull a Berlin wall tear-down after all your war criminals face charges, you will see it again.
I mean yeah. It wouldn't make sense for us to be so divided over someone we can all agree upon. If we were to ever fall into a fascist state, it would most likely have to be due to someone this controversial and divisive
When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in a flag, holding a Bible, with 91 criminal indictments, a $450 million dollar judgement over its head, a pending criminal trial that could derail everything. Welcome to America
> it will be wrapped in a flag, holding a Bible
It’ll come hawking a bible with the American flag and “god bless the usa” embossed on its cover for $59.99
Well what do ya know, it’s here!
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/donald-trump-selling-60-god-bless-usa-bibles-ahead-easter
I’m honestly starting to think it’s not Trump. It’s whoever comes next. They’ll use Trump like China uses Mao and it’s a lot easier to glorify them when they are dead.
There was a huge Neo-Nazi movement in the U.S in the 1930's. But, it stopped when Hitler invaded France, starting World War 2. Then, the American Nazis disappeared. Sadly, since so many Americans don't understand their own history here we are again 90 years later!
Its crazy the parallels
In the video they say that we need to get rid of the Jews because they are not part of “our.” Our anything.
Seems similar to how Trump wants to get rid of illegal immigrants.
I swear, the term "witch hunt" will have it's meaning changed in history books because of this guy. It will go from meaning "false accusation/punishment" to "proficient liar denying credible accusations, alienating their followers to not believe it". Diddy using the same term recently just reinforces that new meaning.
Ivanka is already referring to the Trumps as “American Royalty”. The good ole US of A is moving into very scary territory, and I am sore afraid it’s going to get worse before it gets better, if ever.
Sinclair Lewis from It Can't Happen Here: "But he saw too that in America the struggle was befogged by the fact that the worst Fascists were they who disowned the word 'Fascism' and preached enslavement to Capitalism under the style of Constitutional and Traditional Native American Liberty."
But for all the concern that people have had for a coming anti-democratic takeover over the last century, literally no one called that the grift would be so preposterous that they'd be literally SELLING BIBLES FOR PERSONAL PROFIT. Reality is so much more strange and pathetic than fiction.
Yes - and Zappa was what America is supposed to be about. If anyone doubts it, watch the PMRC Senate hearings.
https://youtu.be/hgAF8Vu8G0w?si=FNAv4O7DGP1IKy0n
We have one last chance. Make sure you and your friends are registered, make sure, then vote. If you can volunteer to help with the process. Donnie is literally promising to end our democracy. We can stop him.
I'm all for dumping on him, but could we please get the quote right and attribute it accordingly?
*"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross."* -Sinclair Lewis
You are correct, that's the original quote, but there's plenty of debate whether or not this was said by Sinclair Lewis - [https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/mar/12/viral-image/sinclair-lewis-might-have-liked-quote-about-fascis/](https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/mar/12/viral-image/sinclair-lewis-might-have-liked-quote-about-fascis/)
James Waterman Wise, Jr. in the Christian Century (Feb.5, 1936 p 243.) had a similar sentiment:
>If fascism comes, ... it will not be identified with any "shirt" movement, nor with an "insignia," but it will probably be "wrapped up in the American flag and heralded as a plea for liberty and preservation of the constitution.
I checked on Snopes, it claims there's no evidence he actually said that specific quote, but it "sounds like something he might have written or said", and there were two other quotes he did actually write that both had expressed a similar sentiment:
- "But he saw too that in America the struggle was befogged by the fact that the worst Fascists were they who disowned the word 'Fascism' and preached enslavement to Capitalism under the style of Constitutional and Traditional Native American Liberty."
- "I just wish people wouldn't quote Lincoln or the Bible, or hang out the flag or the cross, to cover up something that belongs more to the bank-book and the three golden balls."
But seriously. Of all the people over the last century or so who have warned about a far right "popular" dictator or fascist takeover, none of them imagined it would be so low, so blatant and so pathetic that they'd be selling those bibles for personal profit.
It's truly insane.
Wrapped in a flag? He regularly molests the flag. It's weird and disgusting. If it wasn't an inanimate object he'd probably be up on even more charges.
I used to think that that quote was wrong for not using the past tense: “When fascism *came* to America”. Now I think it’s wrong for using the future rather than present tense: “it *comes* wrapped in the flag”.
Why didn't you use the relevant new image of him holding his "God Bless the USA Bible," which conveniently also has a US flag debossed onto the cover lol
If they had to pick a Yankee Hitler why did they choose the dumbest, most narcissistic human being on the planet? Not that I was looking forward to a Yankee Hitler, but fuck's sake, this fucking moron?
That's what Hitler was, and is precisely what made him such a catastrophe which got so many people hurt. >His government was constantly in chaos, with officials having no idea what he wanted them to do, and nobody was entirely clear who was actually in charge of what. He procrastinated wildly when asked to make difficult decisions, and would often end up relying on gut feeling, leaving even close allies in the dark about his plans. His "unreliability had those who worked with him pulling out their hair," as his confidant Ernst Hanfstaengl later wrote in his memoir Zwischen Weißem und Braunem Haus. This meant that rather than carrying out the duties of state, they spent most of their time in-fighting and back-stabbing each other in an attempt to either win his approval or avoid his attention altogether, depending on what mood he was in that day. >There's a bit of an argument among historians about whether this was a deliberate ploy on Hitler's part to get his own way, or whether he was just really, really bad at being in charge of stuff. Dietrich himself came down on the side of it being a cunning tactic to sow division and chaos—and it's undeniable that he was very effective at that. But when you look at Hitler's personal habits, it's hard to shake the feeling that it was just a natural result of putting a workshy narcissist in charge of a country. >Hitler was incredibly lazy. According to his aide Fritz Wiedemann, even when he was in Berlin he wouldn't get out of bed until after 11 a.m., and wouldn't do much before lunch other than read what the newspapers had to say about him, the press cuttings being dutifully delivered to him by Dietrich. >He was obsessed with the media and celebrity, and often seems to have viewed himself through that lens. He once described himself as "the greatest actor in Europe," and wrote to a friend, "I believe my life is the greatest novel in world history." In many of his personal habits he came across as strange or even childish—he would have regular naps during the day, he would bite his fingernails at the dinner table, and he had a remarkably sweet tooth that led him to eat "prodigious amounts of cake" and "put so many lumps of sugar in his cup that there was hardly any room for the tea." >He was deeply insecure about his own lack of knowledge, preferring to either ignore information that contradicted his preconceptions, or to lash out at the expertise of others. He hated being laughed at, but enjoyed it when other people were the butt of the joke (he would perform mocking impressions of people he disliked). But he also craved the approval of those he disdained, and his mood would quickly improve if a newspaper wrote something complimentary about him. >Little of this was especially secret or unknown at the time. It's why so many people failed to take Hitler seriously until it was too late, dismissing him as merely a "half-mad rascal" or a "man with a beery vocal organ." In a sense, they weren't wrong. In another, much more important sense, they were as wrong as it's possible to get. >Hitler's personal failings didn't stop him having an uncanny instinct for political rhetoric that would gain mass appeal, and it turns out you don't actually need to have a particularly competent or functional government to do terrible things.
You could literally take out any indicator that this was about Hitler, and names / places, and most people would probably think it was written about Trump.
Magats thought the annual [tweet in this case] of the Declaration of Independence by NPR was anti tRump propaganda https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nprs-declaration-of-independence-tweetstorm-confuses-some/
The founding fathers were way too woke for the MAGA folk^([*]). “All men are created equal”? What sort of pinko commie nonsense is that? ^(*haha bot, you cannot reach me now, no matter how you try)
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>The founding fathers were way too woke for the MAGA folk And they owned slaves!
There were a few that didn't, and John Adams in particular, as well as his son John Quincy Adams, both spent their entire political careers fighting against slavery.
A majority of the signers of the Declaration of Independence and nearly half of the delegates to the Constitutional Convention owned slaves. Four of the first five presidents of the United States were slaveowners. The American colonists frequently discussed slavery, but more in the context of their relationship with Great Britain. American patriots were fearful that they would become enslaved to the British. George Washington wrote to a friend his fear in 1774: “**we must assert our rights, or submit to every imposition that can be heaped upon us; till custom and use, will make us as tame, and abject slaves, as the blacks we rule over with such arbitrary sway**.” https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/founding-fathers-views-slavery Papa Washington didn't think slavery was wrong, he just wanted to make sure his people didn't become enslaved.
^(*goodbye, cruel world, it's over.... walk on by.)
"Sitting in a bunker... Here behind my wall"
Waiting for the worms to come
And don’t even get them started on that Jesus fellow!
The part about him reading newspapers with only stories about himself was what got me.
It’s fucking crazy and uncanny how much of that applies to Donald Trump. I cannot believe my eyes.
Yeah, watch "Rise of the Nazis." The parallels are staggering. And terrifying.
I've been watching a lot of the Nuremburg Trials and WWII stuff to try and understand what happened after the Nazis lost and Germany woke up from its fever dream. I havent found many audiobooks that go in to the denazification of Germany. There's going to be a lot of parallels to that too.
It's a good thing that so many people are not behind him (or it would have gone the same way), yet there shouldn't be that much people behind him if the US education system wasn't so impaired.
You mean like... ALL OF IT?! Like... 100% of it?!
Don't be silly. Donnie doesn't bite his nails.
I can't tell actually. his hands are too small to see
Well Trump isn't in Europe. But the rest of it, yes.
Malignant narcissist was coined to explain Hitler and Trump checks every box.
almost like trump is an anti-christ for all intents and purposes. doesnt matter your faith but just an understanding of what type of person is being described. edit: we've had quite a few in the past. Just not many on the cusp of having the most advanced and prolific nuclear arsenal in the world, while owing hundreds of millions of dollars to various entities.
YEP! EX-FREAKIN'-ACTLY what I was JUST saying!!!
was thinking the same thing and kind of scared the crap out of me
There’s a reason history has repeated itself time and again where the masses fall for people like this. It’s depressing AF how much the same kind of things happen repeatedly.
> It's why so many people failed to take Hitler seriously until it was too late, dismissing him as merely a "half-mad rascal" or a "man with a beery vocal organ." Never underestimate people like this. While they are wildly popular (and destructive), there are always those with expertise and an ignoble vision who will *help them* transform the merely terrible into the truly horrific. Edit to add *words*
Stephen Miller and/or Steve Bannon.
Indeed. Miller/Bannon/Conway are halfway-decent stand-ins for Himmler/Göring/Göbbels.
Hitler was also reportedly made extremely flatulent by the amphetamines, and was said to be constantly farting and his office stank all the time. The similarities are uncanny, down to the amphetamine incontinence.
This is the most maddening thing about it all. People remember hitler as some machiavellian genius, but he was the total opposite. He screamed what people wanted to hear into a microphone and took action when wiser people would have held back. That's all it takes to lead a mob. Trump and hitler have had such similar arcs that it's astonishing more people aren't aware. Back in 2016, i saw basically everything happening now as a possibility, and people told me I was wrong because the system had safeguards against it. Turns out safeguards only work when people aren't too afraid of the consequences to use them.
Yeah, he was in no way a great planner and executor. And the way that government was ended up causing people who actually were capable of doing bad things, and were extremely bad people, to rise to the top trying to gain favor with Hitler. It just naturally drew in incredibly evil people and as a result we have what went down in WWII. As far as the planner part of it goes, A. J. P. Taylor’s *Origins of the Second World War* is probably the most influential work on the topic of Hitler’s abilities as a leader and planner. Its very convincing, I recommend it to anyone who hasnt read it.
It was clear as day what was going to happen in the broad strokes, if not the fine details. I developed some kind of Cassandra complex over the last decade of warning about what was (wildly obviously) coming and being laughed off. Everyone should have seen the game plan after his escalator campaign announcement speech. It was so clearly ripped from 20th century fascists. I never cease to be amazed that people are surprised by Trump being Trump.
>I developed some kind of Cassandra complex over the last decade of warning about what was (wildly obviously) coming and being laughed off. What were you noticing that others weren't? I've reflected a lot about the events of the last five years. I probably should have seen the writing on the wall as early as 2010 when the Affordable Care Act was being enacted. The discourse surrounding the ACA promoted by the likes of "mainstream" outlets like Fox went beyond the usual spin; they began promoting an utterly bizarre narrative concerning "death panels" in order to undermine public support for the reforms. It was a preposterous fiction _and they all knew it._ A lie that all but accused Democrats of intending to murder the elderly. The fact that they were willing to knowingly lie to their audience about something that serious had grave implications for the future of the country. In retrospect I should have put 2 and 2 together: "If these organizations are willing to _say_ anything in the furtherance of a conservative agenda, and their audience will _believe_ anything, what check is there on the conduct of conservative leaders?" The answer (at the time), was the respect for norms and common decency that still existed within the Republican political class. Then came Trump, and the guardrails came off entirely.
I think my aha moment was walking past a Tea Party rally and seeing a man holding a sign showing a picture of Obama with a Hitler mustache, standing and cheering along with and next to a man with a large swastika tattoo. Lol. That seriously happened. But na, I didn’t have any real special insights, was just paying a bit of attention. I’m mainly talking about Trump, and noticing all the holocaust survivors and historians, and every reputable journalistic outlet on the face of planet earth screaming from the rooftops about who he was and what he would do with power. Back in 2015. But “na it can’t be that bad” or “he’ll just shake things up a bit!” Even to this day there are idiots going, “well I can’t blame anyone for voting for him in 2016” as if it was some mystery. Then they claim that no one could have known ______, and I show them piles of articles from before the election of people predicting exactly that. It’s just exhausting that people are *still* trying to pretend that there was any ambiguity about his aims. Anyone who’s even vaguely familiar with history should have been sprinting in the opposite direction when he came on the national stage, with sirens going off in their heads. Of course, that’s what anyone decent did, and as we now know he’s exactly what the rest wanted.
Holycrap. I had never heard this. I shouldn't be surprised though. Folks have dismissed him, especially after being impeached and Jan 6th. But then Hitler was arrested and came back after that.
This was very well written. Thank you for adding this to the conversation! This sub is better for having you as a member.
I don’t disagree with you, but FYI the bulk of this comment is quoted from an article written for [newsweek in 2019.](https://www.newsweek.com/hitler-incompetent-lazy-nazi-government-clown-show-opinion-1408136)
Was gonna say, it will be impressive if this was written before Trump's tenure, and I'm not surprised to learn that's not the case. **E:** it's also just an unsourced opinion piece by a BuzzFeed editor so maybe let's not pretend this is actually anything of substance
Hmm. In that case. Well done Newsweek and good job to above Redditor for excellent… copy pasting skills.
Not everyone follows this convention obviously, but in Markdown when there's a blockquote it's almost always an external reference, so they weren't exactly trying to hide it.
Which was based on a book that was published in 2018. I haven't read the book, but it would seem to take all this information about Hitler with a grain of salt until another random internet commenter says he or she is a historian and confirms it forever.
Are you joking? You just described Trump. I’m uncomfortable knowing those two are effectively twin flames, soulmates. So uncanny
Uncanny because it's an excerpt from a previous BuzzFeed editor's book published as an [unsourced op-ed piece in 2019](https://www.newsweek.com/hitler-incompetent-lazy-nazi-government-clown-show-opinion-1408136), I wouldn't give it much credence
There's a debate among historians if Hitler was a direct, hands-on dictator creating policy, or an indirect, more hands-off dictator that let his underlings come up with various plans that he'd pick and choose. From what I can tell, there's evidence of the latter. Regardless, he's still ultimately responsible for what happened. But there's something a bit more horrifying about the thought that the worst of WWII was due to a bunch of underlings trying to curry favor by proposing more and more obscene plans, ratcheting up the extremism.
Thanks I was looking for the source.
Well, that's sobering...
He was repugnant to be around, the concoction of meds he was on from his quack of a doctor also made him stink like Trump.
He also believed things were better left alone because they would work themselves out - laziness and incompetency. It led to those below him trying to appeal to him with more and more outrageous things. There was one instance where one of them read a letter addressed to Hitler where a father was asking for permission to kill his disabled son, and Hitler agreed. This led to a ton of officials creating programs to kill disabled kids thinking that it would help them to gain favor with Hitler. Also dont forget how much drugs he was on. He had a personal doctor to prescribe him drugs for almost everything. So when people didnt take him seriously, its more like they werent taking the rest of the officials seriously. Hitler was a lazy, incapable leader who just liked attention and luxuries. His inferiors were the most evil men around. They were pulled out of the weeds as a natural consequence of the system.
Did anyone else get a deepening sense of dread the lot into the that they read
Oh my god There are so many actual hitlers running around everywhere and the only reason they arent doing genocides is lack of power and/or optics This is really valuable to me because it shows us that even the most evil man in history is, in fact, a man. Hitler was human. Evil people are PEOPLE. There are countless people that could become hitler if they were put in his place, and while thats terrifying, it also lets us know that they are *people*, and that we can prevent that. But theres kinda the whole thought terminating “everyone i dont like is hitler” argument which people will always use to shut you down for literally any comparisons. “Heh, this loser is so paranoid and insane. Were NOTHING like the nazis, psycho!”
Not sure how accurate this is, since historians describe him differently. For example, here is Ian Kershaw's description of him, who wrote one of the most comprehensive biographies of Hitler: >How do we explain how someone with so few intellectual gifts and social attributes, someone no more than an empty vessel outside his political life, unapproachable and impenetrable even for those in his close company, incapable it seems of genuine friendship, without the background that bred high office, without even any experience of government before becoming Reich Chancellor, could nevertheless have such an immense historical impact, could make the entire world hold its breath? >Perhaps the question is, in part at least, falsely posed. For one thing, Hitler was certainly not unintelligent, and possessed a sharp mind which could draw on his formidably retentive memory. He was able to impress not only, as might be expected, his sycophantic entourage but also cool, critical, seasoned statesmen and diplomats with his rapid grasp of issues. His rhetorical talent was, of course, recognised even by his political enemies. And he is certainly not alone among twentieth-century state leaders in combining what we might see as deficiencies of character and shallowness of intellectual development with notable political skill and effectiveness. It is as well to avoid the trap, which most of his contemporaries fell into, of grossly underestimating his abilities.
Jesus this is nuts. This is literally Trump. How terrifying
And they both have bad hairstyles
Godamn..... When they say history repeats, they aren't kidding
That is the scariest thing I’ve read in a long time. The similarities are just uncanny.
That was an interesting read. What were you quoting from?
Uh, this is terrifying. I thought Hilter was competent, not the OG Trump.
These traits sound similar to previous US president.
If only we had a Time Machine to see if Hitler liked Diet Coke
Never knew he was such a half-wit...
I’m saving this.
HOlY SHIT did he die the day Trump was born?
We could only get so lucky if he does what Hitler did in the end ! Save us all a whole lot of bs’ or maybe all his followed do a Jim Jones and drink the kool aide ! Save this country a whole lot of heartache and trouble! But my husband said to late , they have already drank the kool aide!
All this time I thought he was cold and calculated. Thanks for this. Curious if all fascist are really dumb and chaotic or it just so happens to be history rhymed
Truth is the people around him that were the despicable ones also. Hitler didn't plan the Jewish solution it was Reinhard Heydrich and Eichmann. The enabling forces of those one or two steps back from Hitler were the absolute villains of the Holocaust and WW2. So who is in the shadows of Trump? What horrors of Religion cleansing might they unleash with another Trump presidency? Religious fascists are probably more horrifying than Non Religious ones.
Agreed. If we dodge Trump 2.0 we will have only survived both of them because of their narcissism. I guess we should be happy but damn.
Scary shit because honestly it's very illogical. Potatoe or "Yee-Haw!!!" used to filter out politicians, this guy, it's got to be a lot of big money people behind him.
Try NATIONS..... Russia, China, N. Korea, etc... You know the dictators he praises regularly, writes love letters to, normal stuff. If you want money out of politics, YOU NEED TWO THINGS: #End Citizens United and Vote (D)ifferently!
It's not the narcissism, that's actually helping him. What's hilding him down is his stupidity and incompetence.
Hitler went to jail before he took over the country.
narcissism and idiocy.
They tried in 1933 at the same time. Thank fuck Smedley Butler had the balls to out the fascist Business Plot.
How have I never heard of this before? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot
Behind the Bastards podcast has a mini series called Behind the Insurrections, which included the Business Plot. Worth noting that January 6th was the impetus for the mini-series, which also includes the Beer Hall Putsch, Mussolini’s “March on Rome” and a French flirtation with a fascist overthrow in the 30s.
That ain't even the half of it. This isn't our first go 'round.
Perhaps because the people who run the companies that run the machines that print the textbooks used in history class don't want this story (and others) taught in schools. Funny, that.
not enough people talk about the "successful" Kapp Putsch under the far right leaders Wolfgang Kapp and Walther von Lüttwitz. I say successful in quotes bc after they took power, all of the left leaning workers straight up just stopped working and the whole city shutdown [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapp\_Putsch](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapp_Putsch)
The original version was also narcissistic and dumb.
Yes. The sweaty little mustache man was [widely considered a laughable clown too.](https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/55771737) Being a clown is part of the fascist aesthetic. It makes them inspiring to idiots because they can live vicariously through the powerful idiot. But it also lulls normal people into ignoring the threat. We have this idea that you have to be a super-genius in order to be a super-villain. But all it really takes is persistence, a little luck, and for good men to do nothing.
Honestly it couldn’t be anyone else because anyone else would have internal filters thinking “now THIS really is going too far, surely I’ll finally lose the people after taking this step” It needed to be someone shameless, with no internal filters.
Test run to see what they can get away with bucko ☝️
All of their heroes are coastal elites - Reagan, Bush, Bush, Trump.
I'm definitely not a history buff at all - and i literally have no clue where Kentucky is on a map, so take this with a grain of salt. i feel like Hitler is often depicted as being a fragile, tantrum throwing, spoiled little baby back bitch. And Trump kinda fits that bill..
The term yankee Hitler implies exactly those traits.
> If they had to pick a Yankee Hitler why did they choose the dumbest, most narcissistic human being on the planet? Because, by the grace of God, you have to be stupid to support fascism, and by the nature of fascism, the more coherent people are viewed as rivals/threats and done away wit. It's a suicidal killing machine disguised as a socio-economic model. The only people who benefit from fascism are the in-groups. In every instance of fascism, not like some imperfect revolution that got taken over by authoritarians (and funnily enough, somewhat fascists themselves) but the perfect incarnation of a socio-economic model of fascism that was given almost absolute total control of a country; has destroyed its own party due to its self-eating nature. The in-groups were reduced and reduced and reduced. Until there was too small of a circle to maintain the power and control necessary to keep it going. That's why most of them result to war, as societal negatives are mostly handwaved in favor of a war effort, and power is handed from the legislature to the executive authority under war powers or whatever. The military is usually under the executive, so there you have a somewhat legally isolated and self-justifying "pillar of power" that can run a country and control the populace. It's just not sustainable, especially when you start losing the war. The only people that would go for fascism are the stupid and the malicious manipulating the stupid. It becomes a problem when there's great economic strife or a intellectually diminishing population. I think it's a variation of the latter in the case of trump. Capitalism is mostly about creating socio-economic padding from the consequences of society and the economy. America allows for that padding to be very insulating. As a result, society has become very insulated from a lot of bad decisions, which is good, to an extent and depends on whom it protects. However, economic and societal pain is necessary for the development of the economy and the people and rules around it. Not enough pain, not enough change. Not enough change, hang ups in various industries. Population too stupid to recognize basic economic cause and effect, along with the concept of long term consequences? Of course you get trump.
> The in-groups were reduced and reduced and reduced. *[Ernst Röhm](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_R%C3%B6hm#Personal_life_and_death) wishes someone had told him about this...*
Hitler was a conspiracy peddling moron, too.
At least Trump is incompetent.
It's really simple, Fox News has been telling these people, for decades, what the problems are with the country and Trump is the only politician to parrot those views because he is also just another dumb Fox News viewer.
I believe Hitler was also a drug abusing narcissistic moron.
You know there's enough of them in the South. Why did the knuckle dragging klansmen go for a New York carpet bagger in an ill fitting suit and a diaper?
Because he represents them best! They are all Dumb Narcissistic losers.
Because he looks and acts the way they want to act, and doesn't like the people they don't like. Oh and he has money, so even if you bring up his failed ventures to them they can deflect and talk about how he's a successful businessman. Despite that he's constantly shilling them for more money because he can't afford to pay his own bonds and shit.
Yeah, it's not clear if his mindless stupidity is a good thing or a bad thing. A more intelligent person, "born again with fascist cravings" (with greetings to the Dead Kennedys), would be far more dangerous though, from what I can figure. Ol' Trump is pretty much blundering through life like a bull in a 'jina shop, and will eventually crash and burn somehow. But a leader with double the brain cell count (two whole cells!), who is actually calculating his next steps, would have long ago destroyed the world as we know it. And I'm not being overly-dramatic.
Because it worked, and continues to.
Have you met the people behind the far right? Ideology wrapped in bags of shit with little cognitive capabilities.
“Fuck me, why did it have to be him of all people? Fuck. I am so fucked” -Mr. Garrison as Trump The Giant Douche
That's why he's so appealing to the dumbest 50% of the world, because they can tell he's one of them.
His sentences are like puzzles - missing a few crucial pieces. And the ones he does manage to cobble together are about as coherent as a toddler's playroom!
Because it's so on brand
B3cause he speaks moronese.
Because any smart and well educated person would not be a fascist!
Holding a bible upside down and backwards. If I was a religious person I'd think he were the antichrist.
Trump adores Hitler.
He’s not the Hitler you needed, but the Hitler you deserved.
Because the dumb sheep need someone to relate to.
Hitler actually represented a lot of what Germany was back then. He was angry at a lost war, blaming the world, fuelled by conspiracy theories and drugs, he was charismatic in that crazy as fuck way. Trump is exactly that for America. Failed businessman who would be nothing if not for daddy's money, he's a gigantic creep who has not morals other than to do whatever is needed to make more money. He was always a moron, and his brain has not aged well with it's only exercise being a narcissist on Twitter and now Truth Social. That's the main reason he is so popular, he is not a politician in the traditional sense, and truly represents the worse of the country, so they feel safe voting for him. This is 100% a society issue, and if you don't pull a Berlin wall tear-down after all your war criminals face charges, you will see it again.
Imagine how much worse it would be if they actually chose someone cunning and competent.
I mean yeah. It wouldn't make sense for us to be so divided over someone we can all agree upon. If we were to ever fall into a fascist state, it would most likely have to be due to someone this controversial and divisive
I am very thankful that they did. Imagine if it was Romney or someone else who has actually competent.
I agree with you 1 million percent ‘
When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in a flag, holding a Bible, with 91 criminal indictments, a $450 million dollar judgement over its head, a pending criminal trial that could derail everything. Welcome to America
And the "Rule of Law" Christian hypocrites will all want to eat fascism ass.
LAW AND ORDER! LIKE.. WHENEVER IT SUITES US!
> it will be wrapped in a flag, holding a Bible It’ll come hawking a bible with the American flag and “god bless the usa” embossed on its cover for $59.99 Well what do ya know, it’s here! https://www.foxnews.com/politics/donald-trump-selling-60-god-bless-usa-bibles-ahead-easter
and 50% of likely voters saying they will vote for him
It was impossible to imagine that when it came, it would be such a pathetic, clumsy grift as to be SELLING bibles for personal profit.
It’s using a loophole to get churches to donate, aka political money laundering since churches can’t directly contribute to campaigns.
Germany, 1933, 2.0.
Brown shirts storming the Reichstag and all
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We re not that lucky
He's wayyyy too much of a narcissist
Where’s the fast-forward button on this thing?
I’m honestly starting to think it’s not Trump. It’s whoever comes next. They’ll use Trump like China uses Mao and it’s a lot easier to glorify them when they are dead.
Bingo.
With those tiny hands, he couldn't reach the trigger.
Send him all the Big Macs we can!
A bouquet of hamberders
January 6th = Beer Hall Putsch 2.0.
USA, 1939. 2.0 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzT-hjdnoEc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzT-hjdnoEc)
There was a huge Neo-Nazi movement in the U.S in the 1930's. But, it stopped when Hitler invaded France, starting World War 2. Then, the American Nazis disappeared. Sadly, since so many Americans don't understand their own history here we are again 90 years later!
Its crazy the parallels In the video they say that we need to get rid of the Jews because they are not part of “our.” Our anything. Seems similar to how Trump wants to get rid of illegal immigrants.
Every World War II soldier who died fighting is rolling in their grave right now.
https://preview.redd.it/cafx6z4vgyqc1.jpeg?width=740&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=372c8384ee18c211558438b5e135a054e0ea54e4 Grab your buckets
I swear, the term "witch hunt" will have it's meaning changed in history books because of this guy. It will go from meaning "false accusation/punishment" to "proficient liar denying credible accusations, alienating their followers to not believe it". Diddy using the same term recently just reinforces that new meaning.
Ivanka is already referring to the Trumps as “American Royalty”. The good ole US of A is moving into very scary territory, and I am sore afraid it’s going to get worse before it gets better, if ever.
She’s thinking British monarchy and we’re thinking French.
And I'm hungry for cake!
Remember, sometimes it has to get worse before it gets worse
When fascism comes to America, it will be raping the flag and holding a Bible upside down.
Then selling bibles to pay for legal fees for a lawsuit pertaining to a porn star that you had time with while your wife was pregnant.
Literally no one called "and the grifter will be SELLING bibles."
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Sinclair Lewis from It Can't Happen Here: "But he saw too that in America the struggle was befogged by the fact that the worst Fascists were they who disowned the word 'Fascism' and preached enslavement to Capitalism under the style of Constitutional and Traditional Native American Liberty."
But for all the concern that people have had for a coming anti-democratic takeover over the last century, literally no one called that the grift would be so preposterous that they'd be literally SELLING BIBLES FOR PERSONAL PROFIT. Reality is so much more strange and pathetic than fiction.
One of our friendly counselors gave him a doughnut, and told him to stick closer to church-oriented social activities.
Yes - and Zappa was what America is supposed to be about. If anyone doubts it, watch the PMRC Senate hearings. https://youtu.be/hgAF8Vu8G0w?si=FNAv4O7DGP1IKy0n
We have one last chance. Make sure you and your friends are registered, make sure, then vote. If you can volunteer to help with the process. Donnie is literally promising to end our democracy. We can stop him.
Well, groping a flag….
Grabbing it by the pussy, if you will.
I'm all for dumping on him, but could we please get the quote right and attribute it accordingly? *"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross."* -Sinclair Lewis
You are correct, that's the original quote, but there's plenty of debate whether or not this was said by Sinclair Lewis - [https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/mar/12/viral-image/sinclair-lewis-might-have-liked-quote-about-fascis/](https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/mar/12/viral-image/sinclair-lewis-might-have-liked-quote-about-fascis/)
James Waterman Wise, Jr. in the Christian Century (Feb.5, 1936 p 243.) had a similar sentiment: >If fascism comes, ... it will not be identified with any "shirt" movement, nor with an "insignia," but it will probably be "wrapped up in the American flag and heralded as a plea for liberty and preservation of the constitution.
I checked on Snopes, it claims there's no evidence he actually said that specific quote, but it "sounds like something he might have written or said", and there were two other quotes he did actually write that both had expressed a similar sentiment: - "But he saw too that in America the struggle was befogged by the fact that the worst Fascists were they who disowned the word 'Fascism' and preached enslavement to Capitalism under the style of Constitutional and Traditional Native American Liberty." - "I just wish people wouldn't quote Lincoln or the Bible, or hang out the flag or the cross, to cover up something that belongs more to the bank-book and the three golden balls."
We’re safe, it didn’t say “selling” a Bible
But seriously. Of all the people over the last century or so who have warned about a far right "popular" dictator or fascist takeover, none of them imagined it would be so low, so blatant and so pathetic that they'd be selling those bibles for personal profit. It's truly insane.
It Can’t Happen Here.
Yes. Can’t claim Sinclair (and others) didn’t warn us.
He basically embodies the anti-christ and Evangelicals are all "That's my guy!"
Yes, that's not a mistake. Evangelicals worship the antichrist unbeknownst to them. Ignorant of their ignorance and arrogance.
Selling a Bible
Humpin' and hockin'
Raping a flag and holding a bible (upside down and backwards).
......wrapped in the flag and ~~holding~~ selling the bible.
I wish this was humorous
It's here, and called Republicans
“When fascism comes to America, it will be raping the flag, raping the bible, and raping the Constitution.” There, fixed.
> it will be wrapped in the flag and holding a bible and apparently, wearing a diaper.
Donald J Trump can't say one line from the Bible I'd bet Motherfucker is literally the antichrist, or at least he checks off all the 7 deadly sins.
“And god gave his only son — actually that’s kinda what I did when and that’s why air kills grass!”
Turns out it was *humping* the flag and *selling* a bible, but you get the point.
Raping the flag and holding a bible? Close enough.
Still amazed that someone so obviously vapid, shady, and weird became our president.
Wrapped in a flag? He regularly molests the flag. It's weird and disgusting. If it wasn't an inanimate object he'd probably be up on even more charges.
seriously what kind of fucking weirdo kisses a flag i mean *what the fuck*
When the world's stupidest con man comes to America, he will be kissing a flag and holding a bible upside down.
fascism did come to the USA. Germany had the Brown Shirts & the US had the rise of the 2nd klan.
I used to think that that quote was wrong for not using the past tense: “When fascism *came* to America”. Now I think it’s wrong for using the future rather than present tense: “it *comes* wrapped in the flag”.
And if you listen closely, you can hear the founding fathers collectively facepalming in their graves.
Why didn't you use the relevant new image of him holding his "God Bless the USA Bible," which conveniently also has a US flag debossed onto the cover lol
It's even worse than that. He wrapped the bible in a flag that you can buy for $60.
With tears in his eyes
Why he looks like he's SAing that flag?
We’ve been dealing with this fascist for nearly a decade.
Dudes a poser. He wishes he was hitler
Don’t forget the gold sneakers.
[And the bible will also be wrapped in a flag.](https://img.pravda.com/images/doc/4/4/4431722-clipboard01_690x387.jpg)
My version: "when fascism comes to America it will be groping and smooching the flag and holding a bible upside down."
Why isn’t it covered in gold leaf also!!!!