“Let's party like it's 1933"
----Richard Spencer, President of the National Policy Institute
“One People, One Nation, One Leader”
----Adolf Hitler
1933 was the year that Hitler came to power and Spencer head of the National Policy Institute, “sometimes described as a 'white supremacist think tank', was ecstatic with the elevation of Donald J. Trump to the highest office in the land, even provoking “an outcry with his widely covered 'Heil Trump' (or 'Hail Trump' which of course amounts to the same thing) salute after the election.” (1)
While Spencer and his crypto-fascists are still held at arm's length, last summer's “wink and nod” to the neo-nazis in the wake of the tragedy in Charlottesville, Virginia, demonstrate the eerily fascist overtones of this administration and the 'movement' it purports to represent. Indeed, the John Birch Society (purged from the Republican Party in the 1950's) and other wingnuts have long since found a new home and a new credibility under the Rescumlican umbrella. Spencer's exuberance, his public celebration of Trump's arrival is simply an outward manifestation of an underlying reality.
What is the definition of fascism? Fascism is authoritarian or totalitarian government in service of corporate interests. So, Hitler would suppress unions, the press, opposition parties, dissidents and minorities in service to Volkswagen, Krupp, Farber, Daimler, et.al. Creating a virtual police state in service to corporate interests.
Spencer knows the nature of the beast. Disgustus, inspired by tin-horn dictators around the world, reportedly wanted a military parade at his inauguration. Mark Hemingway writing in the “Weekly Standard” on March 1, 2016 cited a previous article in “Vanity Fair” concerining tRUMP's fascination with the German leader. I a charge first made by his ex-wife Ivana during divorce proceedings, Hemingway wrote:
- “Last April, perhaps in a surge of Czech nationalism, Ivana Trump told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that from time to time her husband reads a book of Hitler's collected speeches, My New Order, which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed. Kennedy now guards a copy of My New Order in a closet at his office, as if it were a grenade. Hitler's speeches, from his earliest days up through the Phony War of 1939, reveal his extraordinary ability as a master propagandist.
"Did your cousin John give you the Hitler speeches?" I asked Trump.
Trump hesitated. "Who told you that?"
"I don't remember," I said.
"Actually, it was my friend Marty Davis from Paramount who gave me a copy of Mein Kampf, and he's a Jew." ("I did give him a book about Hitler," Marty Davis said. "But it was My New Order, Hitler's speeches, not Mein Kampf. I thought he would find it interesting. I am his friend, but I'm not Jewish.")
Later, Trump returned to this subject. "If I had these speeches, and I am not saying that I do, I would never read them." (2)
Marina Fang writing in “The Huffington Post”, wrote this about a speech delivered by Disgustus in Ohio earlier today:
- "President Donald Trump accused Democrats on Monday of being “un-American” and
“treasonous” in a campaign-style speech in Cincinnati that was actually meant to tout
the recent GOP tax bill and the economy.
“Can we call that treason?” Trump said, referring to Democrats who did not clap for him during his State of the Union address last week. “Why not? I mean, they certainly didn’t seem to love our country very much.”
At the State of the Union address, it is typical for politicians of the president’s party to enthusiastically applaud, while lawmakers in the opposite party usually have a muted response.
A handful of Democratic lawmakers did not attend last Tuesday’s address to protest Trump.
Trump suggested on Monday that Democrats were “very selfish” in not clapping for him. “They would rather see Trump do badly, OK, than our country do well,” he said.
Earlier in the speech, the president claimed that he was “non-braggadocious” after bragging about his first year in office.
Interspersed with remarks about jobs and the economy, Trump brought up popular issues for his base, including the “fake news media” in attendance and the lack of players kneeling during the national anthem at Sunday’s Super Bowl, which he appeared to take some credit for.
“We’re one team, one people and one family, and we’re saluting one great American flag. And everybody stood up yesterday,” he said. “There was nobody kneeling at the beginning of the Super Bowl. We’ve made a lot of improvement, haven’t we? That is a big improvement, and on top of that, it was a good game. So a lot of good things happened. There was no kneeling before that Super Bowl.” (3)
Here you have it. Attacks on the press as “Fake News” and charges of “treason” over the most spurious charges. One team, one people, one family—soon to be “one people, one country, one leader” as the country begins goose-stepping in unison to a most certain doom. Seig Heil!
Impeach and Imprison
(1). Wolf, Michael. “Fire and Fury Inside the Trump White House” Henry Holt and Company, New York. 2018. Page 127
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