Nazis and Democrats share the stain of hatred -- Part 1 and 2: NAZI and DEMONcRAT HATRED

Nazis and Democrats share the stain of hatred -- Part 1:Nazi Hate

The title of an article posted here on September 18, 2018 read: “When it ends, where will all the hate [inside the Democrat Party] go?” 

No answer was offered; it was too soon to know. 

But, on 9 November 2016, the day after Trump won, we began to see where Democrat hate was headed.  (Coming in Part 2)   

We know where Nazi hate went after Germany lost World War I.  

Nazis and Democrats share the stain of hatred

The “stab-in-the-back” meme focused Nazi Party hatred

They hated the Jews enough to exterminate them with obscene cruelty, while many among the German people remained silently complicit in the carnage.  At the end, the Third Reich was kaput. 

What both political parties, the Nazis and today’s Democrats, had/have in common is the capability and desire to traffic in fake memes shaped to their advantage.   

On 21 October 1918, a young German soldier named Adolf Hitler was recovering from a gas attack when he learned of the defeat of Germany that prompted a revolution. He called it “the greatest villainy of the century”.  

Many Germans believed their Army did not lose the war, but had been “stabbed-in-the-back” by liberal politicians on the home front.  That sentiment was popularly rendered in cartoons, like the two above.

In Mein Kampf (1925) Hitler wrote, “I knew that all was lost. Only fools, liars and criminals could hope for mercy from the enemy. In those nights [during his recovery] hatred grew in me, hatred for those responsible for this deed…My own fate became known to me. I decided to go into politics.” (The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, William L. Shirer, 1960, p.32) 

Germans who bought the “stab-in-the-back” meme felt betrayed by Germany’s surrender. Many joined the Nazi Party. 

The reparations demanded of Germany by the Allies in the Treaty of Versailles exacerbated the agony of military defeat, and dialed-up the hatred for those held responsible. 

As noted by the historian Ian Kershaw, “In reality, of course, there had been no treachery, no stab-in-the-back. This was…a legend the Nazis would use as a central element of their propaganda armoury. Unrest at home was a consequence, not a cause, of military failure. Germany had been militarily defeated and was close to the end of its tether – though nothing had prepared people for capitulation. In fact, triumphalist propaganda was still coming from the High Command in late October 1918.” (Hitler 1889-1937 Hubris, Ian Kershaw, 1998, p.97.) 

The Jews were a convenient scapegoat for the German defeat

The Jews were a convenient scapegoat for the German defeat. 

Anti-Jewish sentiments were not new to 20th Century Germany.  They had existed there in the 19th Century. 

In 1879, the historian Heinrich von Treitschke, wrote of a rising tide of anti-Jewish feelings among Germans “whom they perceived as an invading foreign element: ‘Even in the most educated circles, among men who reject any thought of religious intolerance or national arrogance, one hears as if from a single mouth: The Jews are our misfortune’”. 

Then, in 1886, Friedrich Nietzsche wrote, “I have not met a German yet who was well disposed toward the Jews; and however unconditionally all the cautious and politically-minded repudiate real anti-Semitism, even this caution and policy are not directed against the species of this feeling itself but only against its dangerous immoderation.” (Julius Streicher: Nazi Editor of the Notorious Anti-Semitic Newspaper Der Sturmer, Randall L. Bytwerk, 1983, p.65.) 

Point is, Adolf Hitler did not invent racial antisemitism. Rather, he synthesized and weaponized the traditions of religious and economic anti-Judaism with racialist conceptions. In his early manifesto Mein Kampf, Hitler drew upon the writings and political goals of, for example, Richard Wagner, Wilhelm Marr, and Houston Stewart Chamberlain. In turn, Nazi racialist antisemitism took shape in the years leading up to the 1933 Nazi takeover through the additional efforts of Theodor Fritsch and Heinrich von Treitschke, among others. (See: The Coming of the Third Reich, Richard Evans, 2003, pp. 26ff.)

This amalgamation of hate was duly propagated by Hitler, Goebbels, and the Nazi media to their political followers and the National Socialist thugocracy. 

In the continuation of this article, we will see how the Nazi use of fake memes was replicated on the American political scene by the Democrat Party, to their benefit. 

Next: Part 2, Democrat Hate in Memes

Author’s Note: This is part of an on-going series based on the hypothesis that today’s Democratic Party has, since Donald J. Trump emerged as a contender for the Presidency in 2016, adopted several methods and tactics used by the National Socialist German Worker’ Party (1920-1945) in order to control people.

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Nazis and Democrats share the stain of hatred -- Part 2: Democrat hate

The title of a Canada Free Press post on September 18, 2018 read: “When it ends, where will all the [Democrat Party] hate go?” 

We now know the answer to that question. 

The hatred went into a four-year campaign to destroy the President of the United States, his supporters, and his plans for America. The campaign culminated in a fixed election enabling the ‘victory’ of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.

Nazis and Democrats share the stain of hatred 

Democrat Party’s hatred for Trump and all things Trumpian

The Democrat Party’s hatred for Trump and all things Trumpian went into high gear in the early morning hours after Trump’s election in 2016.    

While the youngest of the Hillary supporters were wiping away their tears of defeat, the older and more experienced Obama/Clinton operatives were planning a resistance movement that would relentlessly attack Trump.

Resistance started after the election, and did not start to begin to abate until after his defeat in November 2020.  Its last public demonstration, to date, was Trump’s Second Impeachment associated with the alleged “insurrection” at the Capital Building.  Trump was a civilian by then. 

Trump hatred was not limited to Democrats. 

The professional GOP political opinion concerning their new elected President was conveyed in a comment made by former President George W. Bush, within earshot of witnesses, after Trump’s Inaugural Speech.  “W” said: “That was some strange #.”  A telling comment by a former Republican POTUS.  

To the ears of the entrenched UniParty denizens inside the Beltway, those elected and those with Civil Service tenure, Trump spoke to the nation in the profane language of political heresy.  His Inaugural Speech must have sounded strange to many of the tens of thousands of government employees who live in the affluent counties surrounding D.C.  Several among the most affluent counties in the nation. 

Trump was an interloper. A foreign invader.  An existential threat to their status quo

To them, Trump was an interloper. A foreign invader.  An existential threat to their status quo. He was not fit to live in the White House. 

So, the Democrat Party launched the Resistance, while Republicans watched from the sidelines. A relatively few members of the House, and fewer from the Senate, occasionally offered soft push-back as the Democrat assault on President Trump gained momentum. But, on balance, Republican resistance to the Democrat Resistance was…limp.

What followed after election day 2016, was a continuous litany of fake memes choreographed by officials of the “Intelligence Community” (Brennan, Comey, et al.), and a Justice Department’s Inspector General’s report, dense without equivalent content, that took nearly as long to write as the King James Version of the Bible. And harder to read.   

From Trump’s election to his Second Impeachment trial after leaving office, there was a continuous litany of public trials based on fake memes that would have been, had he still been alive today, the envy of Adolf Hitler.

To review a few of those Show Trials, let’s take a walk down memory lane in the pictures above, top left to bottom right:

Top Left: The Honorable Robert Mueller, Legendary Crime Fighter and Former Director of the incorruptible FBI, who served in both Republican and Democrat administrations. He stumbled through his long-anticipated Trump-Russia Collusion testimony like a man selected from a random pool of people selected off the D.C. Metro who had neither read the Mueller Report, nor helped write it.  The substance of Mueller’s testimony was what an economist might call a “Dead Cat Bounce.” (No offense to cats.) 

Over time, with media repetition, the accusation became the indictment

The evidence of Trump-Russian Collusion was non-existent. It that regard, it was akin to the Nazis’ “stab-in-the-back” meme.  Frequent repetition of the fake meme gave it traction.  Trump-Russian Collusion became a media mantra for—not weeks, not months, but years.  

Top Middle: The Judge Brett Kavanaugh Hearing was another Democrat Show Trial.  The star witness was a woman who said Kavanaugh was the high school boy who sexually assaulted her at a time and place she could not remember; it had all been so traumatic for her. Evidence to support that this event happened equaled exactly zero.  A Democrat Senator called the FBI’s investigation into Judge Kavanaugh a “sham.” Actually, the entire episode was a sham.  Yet today, some Democrats are threatening to renew it. 

Top Right: The “investigation” into Trump’s allegedly improper phone call with the Ukrainian President featured a cadre of government ‘witnesses’ who offered nothing relevant to the inquiry.  Those shown above, plus several others, gave a collective testimony the sum total of which, also, equaled zero. This cat that fell from the building that bounced off the pavement appeared to be alive in the bounce, but like the Trump-Russian Collusion meme, it was dead, too. 

Over time, with media repetition, the accusation became the indictment.  In the United States, as in Nazi Germany, fake memes can mold public opinion.  The repetition of memes in the Third Reich illustrated the fact that oft repeated fake memes can sway the opinions of otherwise intelligent people.  

Bottom Photos: In the two Parades to Trump Impeachment, somber Democrat House members solemnly marched the requisite paperwork, as though it had just been recovered from the lost Ark of the Covenant, to the U.S. Senate to offer solid, documented ‘proof’ of Trump infractions.   

Democrat Show Trials based on fake memes

In the middle, the Parade happened while Trump was President.

On the right, a second Parade came after Trump was already gone from the White House. Why did the Democrats impeach him again, you ask? The answer is they assume he could not run for the office again in 2024.   

These, and other Show Trials based on fake memes, displayed Democrat political hatred on steroids. Unrelenting, fabricated ‘facts,’ sustained by solemn rituals with choreographed outrage. Events worthy of the Third Reich, but not of the United States of America. That is not until now. 

The Nazi Party planned to rule Germany for a thousand years.  To do that, they eliminated all competition from other political parties, many of whose members eventually died in concentration camps. 

There is no need for Democrats to similarly eliminate the Republican Party.  In fact, there’s every reason not to.  The GOP plays a key role in the narrative as ‘the opposition party’.  It was a role long played by a basketball team named the Washington Generals who played against the Harlem Globetrotters about 700 times.  And won—once. 

The level of hatred in the American Democrat Party has abated some since their victorious election.  They have achieved what they desperately wanted: Power.  And going forward they will do whatever it takes to keep it.  And that should concern all Americans.