Evil Returns

 

American fascism came full circle Sunday night in New York City.

Not since the pre-WWII American Nazi rallies has Madison Square Garden been filled to the rafters with racism, lies, and hate. Sunday’s rally was a spectacle of the once dormant fetid fruit of fascism returning to the venue.

I credit Aaron Ruper for sharing some of the highlights, or lowlights, of the American neo-Nazi hate speech at the rally.

Two hours before Donald Trump was set to take the stage at Madison Square Garden in New York City, right-wing “comedian” Tony Hinchcliffe warmed up the crowd with a shockingly racist performance.

“Where are my proud Latinos at tonight? You guys see what I mean? [The border’s] wide open. There’s so many of them.”

“These Latinos, they love making babies, too,” he added. “There’s no pulling out. They don’t do that. They come inside just like they did to our country. (Audience groans) Republicans are the party with a good sense of humor.”

“Why is our money involved in these wars when it comes to Israel and Palestine?” he said. “We’re all thinking the same thing — settle your stuff already. Best out of three: rock, paper, scissors. You know, the Palestinians are going to throw rock every time. You also know the Jews have a hard time throwing that paper, you know?”

Hinchcliffe turned to Puerto Rico, “There’s a lot going on. I don’t know if you know this but there’s literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now. I think it’s called Puerto Rico”.

The Trump campaign needed to resort to damage control. Campaign adviser Danielle Alvarez needed to lie, “This joke does not reflect the views of President Trump or the campaign”. Right. And pigs fly.

He also made a remark about Black people who “carved watermelons” instead of pumpkins for Halloween.

Later Hinchcliffe absurdly declared Democrats “have no sense of humor”. Could this be because MAGA “humor” is ALWAYS drenched in hate, bigotry, and racism?

Byron Donalds spouted, "I'll be damned if you're gonna have some school tell my boys that they can now be girls. Not on my watch. Not on the watch of Donald Trump."

And the hits kept coming.

Sid Rosenberg showed there's no hate like MAGA hate when he raged, "She is some sick bastard, that Hillary Clinton. What a sick son of a bitch. The whole fucking party. A bunch of degenerates. Lowlives, Jew-haters, and lowlives. Every one of 'em. Every one of 'em." 

Mike Johnson spewed the standard neo-Nazi lie that Democrats are "full on to Marxism".

"They thought they could kill him" -- Alina Habba on the registered Republican who shot at Trump.

Dr. Phil said "they" shot Trump.

"America is for Americans and Americans only" -- Sturmbannfuhrer Stephen Miller

"They even tried to take his life" -- Stephen Miller on the registered Republican who shot at Trump.

Brandishing a crucifix, David Rem hysterically shrieked, "She is the devil. She is the antichrist." No doubt this crackpot's idea of making America great again would take us back to the Salem witch trials.

"They're on the side of the terrorists!" -- Rudy Giuliani fear-mongered about Palestinians.

"Now they're trying to kill him" -- Rudy Giuliani on the registered Republican who shot at Trump.

Putin's paid American mouthpiece Tucker Carlson confessed, "The liberation he has brought to us is the liberation from the obligation to tell lies.” This was followed by his racist attack, “It’s going to be pretty hard to look at us and say, ‘You know what, Kamala Harris, she got 85 million votes because she’s just so impressive as the first Samoan, Malaysian, low IQ former California prosecutor ever to be elected president.’”

"They even tried to kill him" -- JD Vance on the registered Republican who shot at Trump.

Lara Trump claimed, "Donald Trump made New York City".

Donald Trump Jr. added, "The king of New York is back to reclaim the city that he built".

Trump took to the stage and spoke the words every American white supremacist and fascist loves to hear.

“On day one I will launch the largest deportation program in American history and get the criminals out. I will rescue every city in town that has been invaded and conquered, and we will put these vicious and bloodthirsty criminals in jail, kick them the hell out of our country as fast as possible. The United States is now an occupied country, but it will soon be an occupied country no longer. ... On Nov. 5, 2024, nine days from now, it will be Liberation Day in America.”

And for Americans waiting for Trump’s healthcare plan to replace Obamacare, he referred to RFK Jr: "I'm gonna let him go wild on health. I'm gonna let him go wild on the foods. I'm gonna let him go wild on the medicines."

Who needs doctors, virologists and medical science anyway?

And finally, let’s note Trump’s loudest and clearest racist dog whistle to his fellow white nationalists in just these few words: “My beautiful white skin.” 

When fascism comes to America it will be embraced by duped and frightened racist white men.

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"The best lack all conviction while the worst are full of passionate intensity."

Remembering William Butler Yeats and "The Second Coming", I offer this update:

Slouching Towards Bethlehem

Dulled and lulled by lying leaders and platitudes

Numbing us all and clouding our thoughts with

Monotonous tired clichés and trivial drivel

When mendacity ascends, something worse is sure to follow

Decency and reason are soon cast aside

Deceit, blame, anger and hate are unleashed

And together they rage across the land

Distorted vision darkens souls with bitter resentment

And a stand for truth draws wrath from the believers of lies

A National Crisis

 

This election is truly a state of emergency for the republic. A criminal has taken over the Republican Party and wants to impose his dictatorial rule over America. If this isn’t a national crisis, I don’t know what would be. 

From the New York Times:

Former Marine general John Kelly and the Trump White House’s longest-serving chief of staff told the New York Times that he believed that Donald Trump met the definition of a fascist.

“Well, looking at the definition of fascism: It’s a far-right authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology and movement characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy. So certainly, in my experience, those are the kinds of things that he thinks would work better in terms of running America. Certainly the former president is in the far-right area, he’s certainly an authoritarian, admires people who are dictators — he has said that. So, he certainly falls into the general definition of fascist, for sure.”

“And I think this issue of using the military on — to go after — American citizens is one of those things I think is a very, very bad thing — even to say it for political purposes to get elected — I think it’s a very, very bad thing, let alone actually doing it,” Mr. Kelly said.

“He commented more than once that, ‘You know, Hitler did some good things, too,’” Mr. Kelly said Mr. Trump told him.

We recall former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley told Bob Woodward, "He is now the most dangerous person to this country," and a "fascist to the core".

What does it say about our country that these generals who worked with Trump are ignored and dismissed by the Republican Party? This is not just abnormal. It's an unfolding national nightmare.

Republican Governor of New Hampshire Chris Sununu was asked on CNN whether Trump praising Hitler causes him to reconsider his support for him.

SUNUNU:  "No ... It’s all about the results. Look, we've heard a lot of extreme things about Donald Trump, from Donald Trump. Unfortunately, it’s kind of par for the course. With a guy like that, it's kinda baked into the vote at this point."

BOLDUAN: Are you okay supporting someone who Marine Gen. John Kelly says fits the definition of a fascist?  

SUNUNU: I think most of America is gonna go this way.

Well, every FASCIST American will go this way, followed by the obedient herd of shameless, sniveling, sycophantic, submissive conservative Republican cowards like Sununu.

Q: What kind of people vote for a fascist?

A: Fascists.

This is not who most Americans are. 

But there are enough of them to elect Trump if decent Americans don't overwhelmingly vote to stop the criminal Tangerine Tyrant.

Fascists are authoritarian bullies. They are consumed by anger and resentment, seeking vengeance and retribution towards those they hate, or hold them accountable, or otherwise get in their way.

Trump has declared his intention to send the military after Democrats, calling them the “enemy within”. Hell, yes, that fits the definition of a fascist.

On October 22, 2024 NPR reported Trump has made more than 100 threats to prosecute or punish perceived enemies.

Vice President Kamala Harris “should be impeached and prosecuted,” Trump said at a rally last month.

“I will appoint a real special prosecutor to go after the most corrupt president in the history of the United States of America, Joe Biden, and the entire Biden crime family,” Trump said last year.

“ELIZABETH LYNNE CHENEY IS GUILTY OF TREASON,” reads one post Trump reposted on his social media site, Truth Social, regarding the former Republican congresswoman.

“START ARRESTING THE POLL WORKERS AND WATCH HOW FAST THEY TELL YOU WHO TOLD THEM TO CHEAT,” reads a message Trump reposted on social media in 2023.

Trump and his toady Rudy Giuliani falsely and viciously accused black poll workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss of fraud and interfering in the 2020 election.

Rudy will be parting with some of his nice things.

NBC News announced the judgement against him.

A federal judge in New York has ordered former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani to turn over his luxury Manhattan apartment and many of his valuables to the two Georgia election workers he defamed.

In a decision released Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Lewis Liman ordered Giuliani, a longtime ally of and former lawyer for former President Donald Trump, to transfer personal property "including cash accounts, jewelry and valuables, a legal claim for unpaid attorneys’ fees, and his interest in his Madison Avenue co-op apartment to a receivership" within seven days.

Trump and Giuliani were cheered by their fellow racists for this shameless and cowardly smearing of the two innocent women. Trump is their Great White Hope.

When fascism comes to America it will be welcomed by duped and frightened white men.

Sadly, they are just following the worst of American traditions.

America has a long history of racism and white supremacy.

Since before the Civil War they have been ripping our country apart by dividing Americans against one another.

And for 90 years since the rise of Hitler there have been American Nazis among us. They seriously conspired to remove FDR by force.

At the sedition trial of American Nazi agents during WWII, former Nazi Dr. Hermann Rauschning offered the following testimony.

“Adolf Hitler said the United States was threatened with a bloody revolution. He said he would be able to make this revolution come to pass. He explained the methods by which he would be able to paralyze the national unity of the United States and the power of resistance on this country…He said the cleavages in the population could be widened to disunite the country.”

“We have to paralyze the will and national unity of these and other countries,” Hitler said. “The great issue was to liberate the world from the poison of democracy, with its degenerating doctrine of liberty and equality”.

One of the worst dictators of the 21^st Century was paying attention. Putin has Trump as his weapon to accomplish what Hitler could not.

Prequel

 

Oct. 6, 1935 "German Day" celebration at Madison Square Garden

 

Now is a good time to discuss Rachel Maddow’s new book titled “Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism”.

Doctor of political science Rachel Maddow has written an important book on the rise of pre-WWII Nazism in the United States.

While it is an excellent study of history, the parallels to our present time are striking and disturbing. Holocaust survivors have noted the similar rhetoric of Trump and his white nationalist movement to the rise of the Nazis in 1930’s Germany. It would be to our greatest peril if we don’t heed their observations. 

From "Prequel" we learn the racist ideology of the Nazi “Aryan master race” was influenced by America’s history of slavery, Jim Crow, and the subjugation of Native Americans. With time there has been progress, but American white nationalism has exponentially risen again. 

Extreme nationalism craves unity, meaning, and purpose. Preferably under a strongman. Donald Trump is their beloved and revered autocrat, to be served, obeyed, and believed without question. His control over his followers’ thinking and beliefs is no different than that of a cult leader. And like a cult, every far-right nationalist movement fears and loathes outsiders. The leader tells them who are to be blamed, who are to be hated, and worst of all, who are to be punished.

This October of 2024 every decent and informed American citizen wants to vote to end our national nightmare by shutting down for good the admitted aspiring dictator Donald Trump. 

The rise of Nazism wasn’t just in Germany.  American Nazis filled Madison Square Garden several times in the 1930s. We’ve seen the images and film of them holding those rallies, festooned with American flags and swastikas. They loved and revered Hitler and wanted America to be under a dictatorship, in allegiance to Hitler. They hated the British, but FDR’s Democrats especially were their despised enemies. Naturally all these Nazis considered FDR to be a “communist”.

It wouldn’t be a far stretch to suggest their offspring and grandchildren are now MAGA. It’s also not hard to imagine a certain Klan-friendly Fred Trump among those Nazis. Following the American Nazi tradition, Donald Trump and his corrupt party of appeasers today falsely and absurdly demonize and accuse Democrats of being “communists”. 

History is teaching us something here. This tactic of demonization can be regarded as a metric of fascism, a measure of their autocratic leanings. The early Nazis hated New Deal Democrats and Jews. Today’s neo-Nazis still do, while other white nationalist groups confirm their fascism when the show their own particular hate, bigotry and racism.

They are all white, and they all frame the groups they fear and hate as scapegoats.

Before the US entered the Second World War a patriotic American named Henry Hoke identified 20 representatives and senators who were inserting German propaganda into the Congressional Record. The politicians would forward the Nazi propaganda around the country in taxpayer funded congressional mail. Among these congressional purveyors of Nazi writings and speeches were Senators Earnest Lundeen of Minnesota, Robert Rice Reynolds of North Carolina, Burton Wheeler of Montana, and Representatives Hamilton Fish of New York and Jacob Thorkelson of Montana.

After the war the DOJ found records in Germany that showed over a million Americans on their mailing lists. Most were teachers, clergymen, doctors, and lawyers. Millionaires, major investors and judges amounted in tens of thousands more, not to mention many state legislators.

Young reporter Eric Sevareid wrote of a group in Minnesota while Charles Slocombe tracked them in California and reported them to Naval Intelligence.

Other patriotic, determined, and courageous anti-Nazi activists who exposed or prosecuted them included Leon Lewis, Dillard Stokes, William Maloney, and O. John Rogge. 

The latter two were federal prosecutors removed from their roles in trying the Nazi collaborators. Senator Burton Wheeler convinced the DOJ to "promote" Maloney out of his role as prosecutor. Rogge acquired records in post-war Germany that named 24 sitting congressmen on the take from Hitler's Nazis. Soon after Senator Wheeler visited with President Truman, Rogge was fired 

After the war and before his suicide, Hermann Göring told Rogge he would have gladly spent not just $5 million but $150 million to defeat FDR. 

Pro-Nazi groups had proliferated in the US in the 1930’s, often under the cover of isolationist or anti-war organizations.

The antisemitic American Nazi movement included the German American Bund, the Silver Shirts, the Crusader White Shirts, the Protestant Gentile League, the Christian Front, Christian Mobilizers, the American Nationalist Federation, and yes, Lindbergh's America First Committee.

Lindbergh's fellow aviator Laura Ingalls declared at her trial, a "witch hunt" according to her lawyer, that the US "needs someone like Hitler building a country while America is in chaos".

And of course, American Nazis would be compelled to form militias. They even recruited General George Van Horn Moseley to lead the armed insurrection. Some things never change. 

The Christian Front leaders were eventually charged with theft of National Guard weapons and ammunition. At a rally and true to form, their “good Christian Nazi” lawyer howled, “This is a fight for Christ! I don’t have to apologize to anyone for being a Christian!”  They got off due to the Guardsmen helping them cover up the weapons heist, and a defense attorney having a cousin as foreman in the sympathetic jury. The organization also had hundreds of New York City police officers as fellow members.

Today we unsurprisingly note the parallel of police unions supporting Trump. Historically most police actually had no problem with the idea of a police state. Imagine that. Corporate plutocrats also have fondness for having an army of police at their behest. They came in handy for keeping unions under their boot. 

Dick and Betsy DeVos are family of the far-Right Eric Prince, founder of the Blackwater mercenaries. They are funding a controversial, pro-Trump sheriffs program. The Sheriffs Fellowship is run by an ultraconservative think tank devoted to Donald Trump’s candidacy. Four conservative Michigan sheriffs have participated. Trump made a campaign speech in Michigan with a line of sheriff department officers behind him. Sheriffs also generally have no problem with the idea of a police state.

In the ‘30s the notorious antisemite Father Coughlin was a popular pioneer in radical Right radio broadcasting. Other celebrities with Nazi sympathies were Henry Ford and Charles Lindbergh. Ford and Coughlin went so far as to distribute the antisemitic novel, “Protocols of the Elders of Zion”. Hitler was such an inspired fan of Ford that he had his portrait hanging in his office. Lindbergh would speak at rallies, urging the US to align with Germany.

The bag man and supplier of propaganda was a German born American Nazi agent named Sylvester Viereck. He would receive his instructions directly from the German Foreign Office, along with large amounts of cash to assure the services of the Nazi sympathizers in Congress. Viereck and some of the Nazi agents were arrested and convicted, but sympathetic power players in Congress would pressure the DOJ to back off from their members. By December 7, 1941, they would slink back into the shadows.

Hitler knew he had a lot of supporters in America he could use in his effort to keep the US out of his war in Europe. He saw the potential for division in America.

Later Putin learned from the Fuhrer’s efforts. The Soviets had practiced "dezinformatsiya" for years. Putin would find it easy to weaponize social media on the internet. Putin’s Great Information War would be his resounding victory over America. Trump would neutralize Ukraine and NATO for him.

How could Putin NOT have been inspired by Hitler’s words?

“America is permanently on the brink of revolution. It will be a simple matter for me to produce unrest and revolts in the United States, so that these gentry will have their hands full with their own affairs.”

His strategy was to find what he called “kernels of disturbance” to exploit “racial controversies, economic inequalities, petty jealousies in public life, and differences of opinion which divide political parties and minority groups”.

The OG Fuhrer would be proud indeed of Trump’s and Putin’s favorite general and possibly our next Secretary of Defense. Dishonored pardoned criminal and retired General Mike Flynn met with fellow neo-Nazis at their paramilitary training camp called “88 Tactical”. “H” is the eighth letter. In neo-Nazi code 88 = Heil Hitler. The number 1488 on their topographical map refers to the 14 words of white nationalism, "We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children,” and Heil Hitler.

Now Trump is echoing Hitler’s rhetoric at a fevered pace in this month running up to the election.

"I think the bigger problem is the enemy from within, not even the people that have come in and destroyed our country," Trump told Fox News show "Sunday Morning Futures," referring to American citizens as opposed to migrants.

"We have some very bad people, we have some sick people, radical left lunatics. And I think they're the -- and it should be very easily handled by, if necessary, by National Guard or, if really necessary, by the military," Trump said. "Because they can't let that happen."

Can’t let what happen? Oppose Trump? Disobey his will? Insult him? Mock him? Speak the truth about him?

Well, we can certainly see why this book was titled “Prequel” by Maddow. It is a red flag warning from history. 

"I'm a Republican, not a Nazi", shouted one of them at his 1944 trial for sedition.

Both Putin and Trump are now taking pages from Hitler’s propaganda campaign against America. Divide and conquer is the classic authoritarian power play.

Maddow concludes with, "The story of what it took, inside and outside the government, to stop the violent American ultra-right in the run up to World War II-- that's a gift from the smart, brave, determined, resourceful, self-sacrificing Americans who went before us. If we learn it, and we choose it, we can inherit their work."

Will enough Americans sense this and stand for democracy in the upcoming election? Or will the fascists finally empower a megalomaniacal criminal sociopath to finally end our experiment as a democratic republic?

Let's be clear about Trump's projection. American Nazis left their legacy. HE is the enemy within. 

 

MAGA Racism

 This is the face of evil, promoting American white nationalism.

Remember when Trump and Giuliani spewed their racist lies about the black women election workers committing fraud in Georgia? They were harassed at their homes and their lives were threatened by Trumpists. This is what life under fascism is like, and this happened in our country. 

Trump is a fascist.

Cowardly punching down on innocent and vulnerable black women reveals the core of this man's sociopathy. It's long past time for this evil racist to face justice. We the voters are the jury this time, but the outcome is  absurdly uncertain. Tragically millions of Americans are too racist, ignorant, gullible or duped into voting for the fascist.

Lest anyone think I'm being irrational or extreme in calling Trump a fascist, I refer to the experienced perspective of Trump's own chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley. He told Bob Woodward: “I had suspicions when I talked to you about his mental decline and so forth, but now I realize he’s a total fascist. He is now the most dangerous person to this country. A fascist to the core.” 

(Update: later on October 12.)

Trump:

From the very beginning of this journey, I have been on a mission to rescue our nation from a failed and corrupt political establishment.

I will NEVER QUIT, I will NEVER BEND, I will NEVER BREAK, and I will NEVER YIELD, not even in the face of death itself!

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Historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat:

Spoken like a fascist. Did you know that Trump borrowed his "drain the swamp" slogan from...Mussolini? Read “Strongmen” for details.

Il Duce said he would free his people from Marxist "vermin" and end corruption. How did that work out?

Trump is certainly fuming, and raving his egomaniacal version of "Mein Kampf" these days. 

As I was saying.

Like all fascists Trump and Rudy are bullies.  

Sometimes their victims will defend themselves by seeking justice.

In December of 2023, a jury awarded Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss just over $148M in compensatory and punitive damages from Rudy Giuliani.

They’ll be lucky to collect a dime from that nasty racist weasel.

CNN reports: “Freeman and Moss are simultaneously still fighting Giuliani in court to collect on the roughly $150 million he owes them, after they won their defamation case against him before a jury.

Giuliani has paid none of the debt, and lawyers for Freeman and Moss are before a separate judge now trying to seize his two multimillion-dollar apartments, multiple New York Yankees World Series rings, and his large collection of luxury watches, which include two given to him after Sept. 11, 2001, by European heads of state.

Freeman, Moss and Giuliani have a major hearing on the debt-collection efforts scheduled for next week in federal court in New York.”

The ladies also took the radical Right propaganda outlet Gateway Pundit to court. It played a significant role in spreading false information about the 2020 election. The defamatory articles have been pulled down.

The Guardian reports: “After the 2020 election, the Gateway Pundit published a series of stories amplifying a misleading video that showed Freeman and Moss counting ballots. The site pushed the false claim that the two women were committing fraud and counting illegal ballots after counting had ended for the night. The Gateway Pundit was the first news outlet to identify Freeman and later identified Moss, who have been cleared of all wrongdoing. Even after Georgia election officials debunked the video, the site continued to publish numerous articles falsely accusing Moss and Freeman of fraud.”

Today the Gateway Pundit posted this statement on its website:

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Note from the Editor: Legal Update

Oct. 12, 2024

Georgia officials concluded that there was no widespread voter fraud by election workers who counted ballots at the State Farm Arena in November 2020. The results of this investigation indicate that Ruby Freeman and Wandrea ‘Shaye’ Moss did not engage in ballot fraud or criminal misconduct while working at State Farm Arena on election night. A legal matter with this news organization and the two election workers has been resolved to the mutual satisfaction of the parties through a fair and reasonable settlement. 

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It is to our nation's most profound dishonor that the racist perpetrators of this "high tech lynching of uppity Black women" are close to gaining power again in the White House. They have no shame, no honor, no decency and no conscience, but every decent American feels ashamed for our country.

VOTE to keep these domestic enemies of our republic from destroying truth, justice, and our democracy. 

WE HAVE TO STOP THESE RACIST MONSTERS! 

Another Cry for Help?

 

...If you're listening. HELP ME! 

Just ONE more time!

The law is closing in on me!

My judges on the Supreme Court FAILED to protect my Private Criminal Conduct! 

They GOT ME dead to rights!

I NEED your HELP more than EVER!

I'll give you Ukraine! I'll destroy NATO! 

ANYTHING you want, Komrad Vlad!

Just HELP ME STEAL, I mean win, THIS ELECTION!