Time to celebrate the end of democracy and the beginning of the transition to fascism! All hail the Orange Turd Emperor, d0n0ld the Great, our White Supremacist savior, inaugurated today, 1/20/2025.
Video: Walt Disney's "Der Fuehrer's Face" is a 1943 American animated short film produced by Walt Disney Productions. Directed by Jack Kinney and written by Joe Grant and Dick Huemer, the cartoon is notable for its political satire and anti-Nazi sentiment.
Video: Nov 4, 2024. Fascist tendencies in Trump: A comparison to Hitler's rise. DW News. An unsettling question has been dominating the US presidential race: Is Donald Trump a fascist? Some have even compared him to Nazi Adolf Hitler. DW New's Washington Bureau Chief Ines Pohl sat down with Timothy Ryback, historian and author of Take Over: Hitler's Final Rise to Power.
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Timothy Ryback: Trump did say he would be dictator for one day, on day one. And he identifies that as a modality for governance and rule, which we've known for millennia that, you know, authoritarian rules, rulers. And, you know, Hitler definitely embraced that. And I think Trump's embrace of that authoritarian rule, the vengeance, all of that is the most unsettling part of it. But I think this inherent view that democratic processes are not the best way to run a country is certainly unquestionably a key fascistic trait. 2:43 to 3:31.
Hitler himself declared that he was going he vowed to destroy democracy through democratic process. He had to appear in court as a witness at a trial in 19th September 1931. And Hitler basically said this to the judge, that he was out to destroy democracy through democratic process. The judge said so, but through Constitution and processes, Hitler gave a one word answer. Ja vol (yes absolutely). And he would, I think were the most astonishing things, was watching him dissemble this Democratic Republic, you know, piece by piece, very systematically in a very skilled and cunning way. 3:31 to 4:17.
Ines Pohl: Do you think that this is one of the biggest fear was the Trump administration, that he really will undermine the democratic structure here in the United States? 4:17 to 4:26.
Timothy Ryback: I personally am concerned. We do have guardrails. I've studied, as have many scholars, the guardrails that existed for the Weimar Republic. But it's how these constitutional protections can be protected, how resilient they can be against a, you know, determined autocrat. What I will remind you is that, you know, Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933. Joseph Goebbels said, once we're in office, he said they're going to have to drag us out as corpses. And in April of 1945, that's exactly what happened, was the only way they ended this, that government. 4:26 to 5:25.
What's interesting is that the Weimar constitution remained in place throughout the entire Third Reich. I mean, the basis of governance was the Weimar Constitution. All you know, it was suspended, but it still existed. And so I think, for the U.S. Constitution, for all the protections that are there, it's only as strong, it's only as resilient as the people who are there to protect it. 5:25 to 5:56.
One of the most worrying [things] for me is, you know, Hitler said that once he was in office, heads would roll -- a verbatim quote about of Hitler. Trump didn't say that, but he did say bring out the guillotine. And I do think this notion of vengeance against political opponents is unsettling because there are various instruments of government for applying that kind of vengeance. 5:25 to 6:30.
The other thing that I think it might add to this was, Hitler was ridiculed. Throughout his entire political [career]. He was considered a buffoon. They called him out on all kinds of things. But the point was, the fall of 32 when Hitler was at his high watermark. And you said, you know, for 12 years people have been laughing at me. No one's laughing now, which read in retrospect as chilling. 6:30 to 7:02.
Ines Pohl: I'm covering this election intensely, Fascism's concept of masculinity traveling a lot. And my feeling is it's also really a gender election. So maybe you can talk a little bit about the concept of masculinity in the fascist world and maybe also compare it to the Trump world a little bit. 7:02 to 7:17.
Timothy Ryback: ...clearly there was this hyper masculinity among the national Socialists. Mussolini strutting. They did even, you know, Hitler with this presence and the people he surrounded himself with. There is a clear element to that. But, you know, clearly that's playing a role in this current election. You look at the Republican candidate, you look at the vice presidential candidate, you listen to the remarks that are that are being made. 7:17 to 7:54.
But oddly enough, Adolf Hitler polled very well among women in Germany at the time. And I don't know if it's changed his attitude. You know, second and third wave feminism has changed it. But Hitler did very well among women, with the electorate sometimes polling better among women than than among men. 8:24 to 8:31.
Ines Pohl: Maybe you can talk a little bit about the importance of free press, of media? 7:54 to 8:32.
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Timothy Ryback: ...frankly, in the press today -- and I mean, clearly I'm a New York Times reader ... But I've started watching Fox News to try to make sense out of what is going on. And, when you look at the same event being reported by these two entities, you get something completely different here. 9:12 to 9:35.
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What's amazing to me about fascists or these right wing extremists in Germany at the time, they understood democratic processes as well as anyone. And you know, it was Joseph Goebbels when they entered the parliament the day of the Reichstag, the legislative body, essentially Congress. He said, well, we did not come as friends. We did not come as neutrals. We come as enemies. They knew how to gridlock the legislative process. And, you know, Goebbels at one point said, you know, the big joke on democracy is that they give their own mortal enemies the means to their own destruction. 10:12 to 10:57.
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What he intended to do, though the publican of explicit fake news, was to hollow out the center, polarize public opinion in communities, in neighborhoods, even in families. 11:17 to 11:32.
Ines Pohl: Do you think Donald Trump studied Adolf Hitler? 11:32 to 11:36.
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Timothy Ryback: [No] According to Vanity Fair he did keep a copy of Hitler's speeches... I think he understood Hitler's rhetoric and his speeches very well. 12:28 to 12:41.
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Is d0n0ld tRump Hitler reincarnated? Or possibly the Antichrist? I certainly cannot say if either of those are true. Though it's very obvious there are many parallels between Adolf Hitler and d0n0ld tRump. Hitler hated democracy and successfully overthrew it. d0n0ld tRump hates democracy and seeks to overthrow it.
Both Joe Biden and Kalama Harris warned that d0n0ld is an existential threat to democracy. The voters failed to heed this warning and now we will see what happens. We all know d0n0ld will go farther than violating norms this time. Now that the corrupt scotus has granted him criming immunity, it is assured he will crime. Guaranteed. Whether or not democracy survives is up in the air, but it is for certain that we are in for a bumpy ride.
Also, many Americans will have hardship inflicted on them. Also non-citizens, who are to be immediately targeted. Though the ensuing misery is greatly desired by trump's cultists. So long as the person suffering the misery isn't them or any of their loved ones. Many will be surprised to find out that, yes, they are included among those who will suffer.
We are in the "fvck around and find out" phase starting NOW. Me, I'd rather we never found out. Because we took the much wiser path and elected Kamala Harris.
A caller to the Thom Hartmann Program (on the 20th) said "I believe he is going to trigger a national emergency, possibly using a border incident, and he will declare martial law and nullify the Constitution". In reply Thom said, "I think that is entirely possible".
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