First thing first. Happy Memorial Day, America.
Second thing second. Let's make America America again.
The nation is suffering a surge of white nationalist fascism as our Felonious Fuhrer emulates the OG Fuhrer of Nazi Germany. Trump's attacks on higher education and our free press, along with his demonization of political opponents are following Hitler's blueprint for dictatorship.
This is his demented notion of a Memorial Day statement:
Notice there is no mention of the Americans who died in uniform. Nothing!
Just what we'd expect from a narcissistic authoritarian COWARD who dodged the draft when he was eligible for service during the Vietnam War. Now the same deplorable despot wants a military parade for his birthday. I'm sure Adolf would send his compliments from Hell.
As patriotic Americans honor the supreme sacrifice of our fallen, many of whom were killed in defeating Hitler and his Nazi regime, we're forced to watch the history of fascism repeating itself within our borders.
Trump is using the same hateful and demonizing rhetoric that Hitler used.
Everyone Hitler hated, and everyone Trump hates, would be called a communist, vermin, parasite, scum, traitor, monster, etc.
The world sees this more clearly than millions of poorly educated duped Americans.
ElPaís is a Spanish-language daily newspaper in Spain.
Harriet Over, a researcher in psychology at the University of York, studies theories of dehumanization in cases of mass violence such as the Holocaust.
In his book Making Monsters: The Uncanny Power of Dehumanization, psychologist David Livingstone, the grandson of a German Jew and a professor at the University of New England in Maine, discusses the history of lynching in the United States.
“David [Livingstone] has written a careful study showing that Nazi propaganda contains references to Jews as nonhuman animals (for example, rats and parasites), as well as criminals, enemies, and traitors. He uses this evidence to argue that the Nazis perceived Jews as both human and subhuman at the same time and, thus, portrayed them as horrible monsters,” Over says. And, she adds, stripping them of their status as human beings helped facilitate the Holocaust.
“We are still creating [monsters],” Livingstone says. “We see it in European attitudes toward Muslim and African refugees, in the genocidal war in Ethiopia, in anti-Muslim propaganda in Myanmar, in Russian attitudes toward Ukrainians, in Hindu Islamophobia, and in American racism against Black people, to cite just a few examples.”
By witnessing his constant lies, demonization, and authoritarian cruelty, the world knows Trump has become the real monster.
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