bripat9643
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I think when a political group embraces and begins to use the rhetoric, slogans, even the foreign language of another group,
they are either expressing sympathy and comradery.
Lugenpresse was a much used NAZI perjorative to attack the press, particularly the LIBERAL and JEWISH press.
For Trump supporters and others in the alt right to embrace that terminology cannot be dismissed as meaningless.
Trump's army contains a very small contingent of what one might call full on/all in Nazis,
but it also contains a huge number of followers of what amounts to Nazi Lite.
To underscore your assertion, let me offer the following:
Italian and German fascism shared a strong commitment to the notion of national rebirth. Mussolini and Hitler encouraged their supporters to believe in lost (or stolen) greatness, in a glorious past. That could be long ago, as with the Roman Empire, which Mussolini liked to invoke, or only a couple of decades prior, as with the German Reich that was, according to Hitler, “stabbed in the back” in 1918. Trump makes this appeal to a golden age the centerpiece of his campaign, assuring audiences that only he can “make America great again.”
John McNeill, professor of history at Georgetown University.
Oh puhleeze. You douche bags are beyond desperate.