Former President Donald Trump echoed Adolf Hitler in his address to a campaign rally in New Hampshire. Photo: GETTY IMAGES
When will this circle be broken? I ask of the cold and calculated rancorous choler that issues forth from the mouth of Donald Trump. It was, as it now seems, too much to believe that when he lost the last election to Joe Biden he would fade away into the Florida sunset.
Of course, that is not the nature of the man, especially one who cries foul of the result, says he, and thus the country, was cheated on the correct result, and was at the helm of his supporters’ march on the Capitol that has resulted in rioters receiving substantial jail terms.
So here we are seeing now Trump being described as the frontrunner to receive the Republican nomination to contest the next presidential election. And if he wins? Why, he says, he will be a “dictator” for just the first day, and then resume the Trumpian crusade to glory, which is to make not so much America great again, but in his image. For isn’t that the perceived manifest destiny of all great leaders?
Last March, Trump launched his campaign at Waco, Texas, which I wrote of HERE for Footyology. Against a backdrop of pictures of those who had been imprisoned and merchandise, of course, such as t-shirts with the slogans “God, Guns and Trump” and “Trump Won”, he suspended reality, and dressed it up as the second coming:
“The Biden regime’s weaponisation of law enforcement against their political opponents is something straight out of the Stalinist Russia horror show. From the beginning it’s been one witch hunt and phony investigation after another. You will be vindicated and proud. The thugs and criminals who are corrupting our justice system will be defeated, discredited and totally disgraced. Enemies are desperate to stop us. Our opponents have done everything they can to crush our spirit and to break our will. But they failed. They’ve only made us stronger.”
Next year was “the final battle, it’s going to be the big one. You put me back in the White House, their reign will be over and America will be a free nation once again’’.
And so to Durham, New Hampshire, in the past few days, where the skeletal hands of fascism grabbed the microphone, and as many have commented, evoked fascism and Adolf Hitler. Trump smashed his boot into the faces of undocumented migrants as “poisoning the blood of our country”. These people, these samples of impurity, were “pouring into our country”.
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As if America is a pure strain of one ethnicity. What makes America great is its plurality of races and cultures. To take Trump at his word, the Statue of Liberty’s famous slogan to immigrants: “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free” is living on borrowed time. As to the people of Haiti, El Salvador, and African nations, they needn’t bother, for as Trump once opined they were “shithole countries” anyway.
Professor Jason Stanley, who has written on fascism, has been reported as saying that Trump’s language echoed that of Hitler’s. The Nazi dictator railed against Jews in “Mein Kampf”. Trump “is now employing this vocabulary in repetition in rallies,” Stanley said. “Repeating dangerous speech increases its normalisation and the practices it recommends. This is very concerning talk for the safety of immigrants in the US.”
This cleansing is not only of undocumented migrants but anyone not in Trump’s image, thus, he recently declared: “We pledge to you that we will root out the communists, Marxists, fascists, and the radical-left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country that lie and steal and cheat on elections.”
He said this on Veterans’ Day.
A Trump spokesman, Steven Cheung, in defending the indefensible, retorted that Trump’s critics were “clearly snowflakes grasping for anything because they are suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome and their entire existence will be crushed when President Trump returns to the White House”.
Apparently, Cheung remarked later that he meant to say their “sad, miserable existence”.
A Biden spokesman, Andrew Bates, responded: “Echoing the grotesque rhetoric of fascists and violent white supremacists and threatening to oppress those who disagree with the government are dangerous attacks on the dignity and rights of all Americans, on our democracy, and on public safety.”
Trump’s battle with the truth, which is well-documented, goes hand in hand with his repurposing of whatever means are necessary to suit his purposes. Hence his use of the lyrics to a song called “The Snake”, which was written by civil rights activist Oscar Brown and was a hit for soul singer Al Wilson in 1963.
Brown’s children hit Trump with a cease-and-desist letter, stating his version did not match their father’s intent, In fact their father had no bias against migrants. Trump took no notice.
As no doubt, he will take no notice of anything except his overarching ambition to grasp power.
Will 2024 be “the final battle”? Such language, evoking Armageddon, is truly beyond the pale. But then Trump could not exist in peace.
