Like it or not, you'll bow down before our new Führer

So you still think a Presidential candidate quoting Adolf Hitler is no big deal?

This moment should’ve ended Donald Trump. That it didn’t is a moment of indelible national shame.

“Testosterone overload?" Merinus gave an unladylike grunt. "More like asshole overload if you ask me.”

• Lora Leigh, Tempting the Beast

If Joe Biden had mocked Serge Kovaleski, the New York Times reporter Donald Trump ridiculed in 2016 over his disability and a 15-year-old article, his political career would’ve been over before he left the stage. For reasons that still defy explanation, Trump survived that moment…and even thrived.

Now comes even worse news, that he’s been quoting Adolf Hitler in his campaign speeches…and the revelation barely seems to be creating a ripple amongst his followers, most of whom don’t see it as a problem.

Even Republican Congresscritters are trying to laugh it off as no big deal as they goosestep through the halls of Congress.

Nicole Malliotakis is one of the dipshit Republican congressmen from New York who at no time in her life has ever been George Santos or Elise Stefanik, that we know of. And oh golly, did she have one of the most pained and strained times yesterday trying to weasel out of condemning Donald Trump’s literal Hitler words about immigrants poisoning the blood of the country.

REFRESHER on Trump being literal Hitler:

“They let — I think the real number is 15, 16 million people into our country. When they do that, we got a lot of work to do. They’re poisoning the blood of our country,” Trump told a crowd of his rapt, dead-eyed followers at a rally in New Hampshire on Saturday.

For those of you who’ve forgotten whatever WWII history you might have studied, those are some pretty literal Hitler words.

And, according to a report that came out over the weekend, Ivana Trump, The Donald’s first wife, said he used to keep a book of Hitler’s collected speech in a cabinet next to his side of their bed.

Wait…Donald Trump reads??

Donald Trump, of course, denies reading (Hitler’s speeches), and Ivanka Trump was too dead to be reached for comment. So, let’s assume the worst of him and believe Ivana, shall we? If only because so much of what Donald Trump has been accused of has turned out to be true.

It happened on CNN with Abby Phillip, and just oh my God, the way these people squirm and weave, trying to avoid being forced to lightly suggest Donald Trump shouldn’t be literally Hitler. It’s like they think a trap door is going to open below them and they are going to be sucked into a void where nobody ever gets invited to Mar-a-Lago again

Yeah, wouldn’t that be just…awful??

And not just because Mar-a-Lago might become the new Nuremberg.

I suspect Rep. Malliotakis was probably rushed to the emergency room immediately after her CNN interview for contorting herself into rhetorical positions no human should ever find themselves in.

Watching her lie, deflect, fudge, and generally try to build a snowman out of horse shit was (not) a thing of beauty. She should be proud ashamed of herself for trying to convince Abby Phillips and CNN’s viewers that up is down, day is night, and in is out. The video is 2:56 of pure, unadulterated Republican horse shit, made even worse by the fact that Rep. Malliotakis demonstrated herself to be one of the worst liars in Congress.

“Let me start off by simply asking, is Trump right that immigrants are poisoning the blood of this country?” [Abby Phillip] inquired.

“Well, don’t I think that’s what he was saying,” Malliotakis responded. “When he said they are poisoning, I think he was talking with the Democratic policies. I think he was talking about open border policy.”

It’s literally exactly what he was saying, and it doesn’t matter if he meant “with the Democratic policies.” As if Hitler wasn’t also a big complainer about policies he didn’t like. What a stupid dumbass attempt at a deflection. What an ignorant fucking moron.

“Congresswoman, you’re saying that’s what you think he’s saying,” Phillip said incredulously. “But he was pretty clear. He was saying that the immigrants who are coming in, he says they’re poisoning the blood of the nation.”

“Never said ‘immigrants are poisoning, though,'” she protested.

Yes, we guess when Trump said “they’re,” he could have been talking about any collective group of humans. Republicans must hate pronouns so much because it’s nigh impossible to ever figure out who “they” refers to.

Kinda like trying to figure out what the meaning of “is” is, yeah?

But when Trump talks about “poisoning the blood,” there’s no room for interpretation. Those are LITERALLY the words Adolf Hitler used.

And yet…

“He was talking about people coming across the border,” Phillip shot back.

“He didn’t say the word ‘immigrants,'” Malliotakis said while ignoring Trump’s explicit references to people coming to the U.S. from South America, Africa, and Asia. “He was talking about Democratic policies.”

“He was talking about people, not policy,” Phillip replied.

Well, sure, he didn’t say the words “Final Solution,” either, but neither did Hitler until much later in the game, and I think we all know how the Third Reich ended up, eh?

He didn’t say Simon Says either. He simply meant that the Democratic policies that are flooding across the border, 15 or 16 million of them, are poisoning the blood of our country. Some of those Democratic policies even came from mental institutions and prisons!

Maybe they’re not sending their best…you know, like maybe they’re sending criminals, rapists, Packers fans, and who knows what else, right?

Rep. Malliotakis didn’t like it when Abby Phillips began reading from Mein Kampf, which, in case you haven’t read it, is a truly awful book. I’d definitely give it no stars on Good Reads.

Hitler wrote literally, “All great cultures of the past perished only because the originally creative race died out from blood poisoning.” That was very unfair of Abby Phillip to try to compare those words to Donald Trump’s exact words, which were almost exactly the same.

Of course, the candidate himself was somewhat less uptight about employing Hitler’s language, possibly because he seemed pretty confident that his base would embrace it.

It’s beginning to seem as if he was spot on…which is distressing in its own right.

Here’s the real problem that no one seems to be addressing- American politics has reached a point where at least part of the electorate seems not to have an issue with a candidate quoting Nazi doctrine, whether in whole or in part.

That fact should be setting off all manner of red lights nationwide. Columnists on both sides of the aisle, from Maine to California and Washington State to Florida, should be screaming, and it’s not happening. Why? Have we become so numb to Trump’s rhetorical excesses that we’re no longer surprised or alarmed by his declarations?

I don’t care whether a Presidential candidate has read Mein Kampf…but when that candidate begins quoting it during his campaign speeches, that’s a serious fucking problem. It says something- nothing good, to be certain- about that candidate’s fitness to serve in ANY public office.

That Donald Trump is quoting Adolf Hitler is a problem, one that should be setting off alarm bells. That this isn’t happening is an even bigger problem.

America is sleepwalking toward autocracy.

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