I Did Nazi That Coming
How did the worst of us come to rule the rest of us?
Once, [Rabbi Chanoch] Teller was traveling with 16 of his [18] offspring ... while changing planes in Frankfurt, Teller noticed a German woman gaping.
'Are all of these your children?' the woman asked. 'From one wife?'
'Yes, God has blessed me with all these children,' the rabbi replied.
'Haven't you heard about the population problem?' the woman sniffed. 'How many more children do you want to have?'
Rabbi Teller paused and looked the woman in the eye: 'About 6 million,' he said.
Lynn Vincent
It seems as if every few years, Mankind needs to be forced to take a remedial course in one fundamental topic: NAZIS ARE BAD PEOPLE 101. As if the memory of six million murdered Jews aren’t enough, the passage of time is making it easier for people with
a defective conscience,
a nonfunctional memory, or
all of the above
to deny that the Holocaust was a real thing.
If you’ve never had the opportunity, I’d highly recommend a trip to the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. If a visit there doesn’t seriously rock your world from top to bottom, you should have your humanity checked. Short of a trip to Auschwitz, I can’t imagine anything more emotionally evocative and impactful concerning the Holocaust and its continuing relevance.
I won’t dignify those who’d argue the veracity of the Holocaust with a response, but I will reiterate that NAZIS ARE BAD PEOPLE. That’s not rocket science, nor should it need to be repeated every few years.
[A]meeting of the minds took place in Mar-a-Lago when Donald Trump hosted Ye and Nick Fuentes, two of the most powerful antisemites in American life. The dinner went swimmingly, as Trump “seemed very taken” with the white nationalist Fuentes, according to Axios.
The response from within the Republican Party was that Trump had blundered again. The president’s lack of judgment had embarrassed his allies and generated more unhelpful publicity. “Well, he certainly needs better judgment in who he dines with,” lamented Republican representative James Comer. “Republicans who continue to go along for the ride with Mr. Trump are teeing themselves up for disaster in 2024,” warns The Wall Street Journal editorial page. “If people are looking at DeSantis to run against Trump, here’s another reason why,” a longtime Trump adviser told NBC.
First, the words “powerful” and “anti-Semite” should NEVER appear in the same sentence. Under any conceivable (or inconceivable) circumstances whatsoever. Ever. Period. End of story. No questions will be allowed.
Second, Nick Fuentes (yes, I know he looks like a human pimple, but that’s for another time) should be washing dishes at a choke-and-puke in Intercourse, PA, not achieving fame as one of America’s foremost anti-Semites.
Good God, y’all…Mama must be SO proud.
The GOP’s problem is that with Trump declaring his intention to run for his old job in 2024, he’s sensed that his old base is crumbling. So, in desperation, he’s reaching ever further rightward into the scummiest reaches of the extreme Far-Right. This helps to explain how a two-legged blackhead like Nick Fuentes has achieved so much power and influence within the GOP.
In a normal political world, Fuentes would be interning in a county dog-catchers office somewhere in Floriduh’s Everglades. But, sadly, we live in anything but standard times, so the creeps, thugs, anti-Semites, and borderline criminals now have the run of the place.
Trump’s campaign in 2015 had an immediate galvanizing effect on white supremacists, a once-marginalized faction that saw recognizable themes in his rhetoric and came off the sidelines to work on his behalf. Trump’s response has always been to profess ignorance without condemning white supremacists or their ideas. This allows a David Duke to shrug off Trump’s claims of never having heard of him but still share in the glory of his success. (“We are going to fulfill the promises of Donald Trump. That’s what we believed in. That’s why we voted for Donald Trump, because he said he’s going to take our country back.”)
Trump has woven white-supremacist themes into his rhetoric, sharing Groyper videos and hailing his Nazi-loving loyalists as J6 martyrs. Pro-Trump Republican members of Congress such as Paul Gosar and Marjorie Taylor Greene — now a Republican power broker who is set to have her committee privileges restored by the new GOP majority — participated in a white-nationalist conference. The status of these ideas is revealed by the refusal of the party’s leadership to cast them out.
Mainstream Republicans (if such a creature exists anymore) have tacitly accepted the Groypers, White supremacists, Nazis, anti-Semites, alt-Right, and other assorted moral reprobates for one reason- they need them to win. Of course, some in the GOP may still feel pangs of guilt and regret for continuing to countenance what they know to be wrong, but when it comes down to winning or losing….
Yeah, sometimes ya just gotta swallow your pride, morality, conscience, and integrity if you’re going to have any hope of winning, knowhutimean?
White supremacists know all of this, of course, and their leaders like Richard Spencer know why Donald Trump has their backs.
Sadly, Spencer is probably spot on.
Trump- and the rest of the GOP- need the Groypers, White supremacists, Nazis, anti-Semites, alt-Right, and other assorted moral reprobates. Without them, they’d probably lose the White vote and any hope of winning the Presidency.
“He won’t disavow his own people,” Spencer continued. “He does know who butters his bread, and so he’s not gonna do it. … I don’t think he’s going to do it and I think if he’s forced to do it, it would ultimately be a weakness. I think any Republican that’s denouncing this stuff is going to lose. Any Republican that denounces Ye is going to lose because they’re ultimately denouncing their own people.”
From the moment Donald Trump descended the escalator at Trump Tower in 2015, American politics became hostage to the worst among us. Even with Mango Mussolini desperately working to maintain relevance, hatred, homophobia, intolerance, and White nationalism are still with us. And they’re still present because the GOP has yet to make it clear that they’re unwelcome.
In fact, quite the opposite is true; the GOP has welcomed the human flotsam with open arms. Of course, some in the party- like Adam Kinzinger and Lynn Cheney- have rebelled against the GOP occupying a morality-free zone. Still, those voices are few, far between, and quickly marginalized.
The nail that sticks up gets hammered down…if you know what I mean.
And, as hate speech within the political process is becoming normalized, so is it becoming increasingly established within social media. With Elon Musk recently taking sole ownership of Twitter, some who’ve been on the platform for years are complaining that their feeds are being flooded with extreme Right-wing tweets from people they don’t follow and don’t like.
Since Musk’s ascension to the throne, researchers have noted a significant and disturbing rise in hate speech. For example, Musk recently reinstated Andrew Anglin, a noted White supremacist and raging misogynist who’d been banned on Twitter since 2013. And, of course, he restored Donald Trump’s Twitter account.
In the process, Twitter has seen thousands of Moderate and Liberal voices leave the platform in protest because they don’t want to be part of what’s becoming a megaphone for the Far-Right.
My intent here is not to sound the alarm as if creeping Nazism will be the inevitable death of the American experiment. On the contrary, we should rightly be concerned about what those who believe in and glorify this ideology would do once they get a taste for political power. But to think that someone like Nick Fuentes should be getting fitted for jackboots and Sam Browne belts soon might be to overstate the threat a wee bit.
Fuentes, Richard Spencer, and the rest of the knuckle-draggers are free to spout whatever theories of White supremacy they choose, just as decent, compassionate Americans are free to stand up to their nonsense. America isn’t, never has been, and never will be the property and playground of White Conservative Christian heterosexuals.
That’s not how this works. That’s not how any of this works.
