Eighty-five years have passed since the infamous rally in Madison Square Garden hosted by the American Nazi Party (euphemistically called the “German-American Bund”) discussed here in a 2017 article in The Atlantic 1 , whose activities Hitler hoped in the short-term would at least paint him as someone who had some "good" qualities, and promote isolationism as to not get in his way in Europe. The American fascists in those days (as they do today) used “patriotic” symbolism (well, George Washington was a slaveholder)…
…while at its outdoor rallies, it didn’t exactly try to hide its affection for murderous dictators…
…or inside, the thuggish behavior of “storm troopers” as at the MSG rally…
…or when New York City police were “confused” about whether they supported democracy or fascism; here is an officer on horseback who thinks the American flag belongs in the hands of fascists and not a protestor supporting democracy and human dignity:
Of course Trump's ancestry on his father’s side is pure-blood German, so we can only assume that the reason why he seems to be wishing he was somewhere else than to be talking, let alone to sit, with then German chancellor Angela Merkel is because, well, he doesn’t view women as his “equals”:
If Trump’s own fascist, racist Madison Square Garden “rally” doesn’t convince people that he is unfit for any public office (even dogcatcher), it is the misfortune of this country that nothing will. Trump spent most of his time raving and lying about immigrants (legal or not), who are the stand-ins for the Nazi idea of what Jews were...
...and banking on the lax memories of those who don’t remember that the country was not “better off” four years ago—you know, 2020, during the pandemic caused by a virus that Elon Musk said there would be “zero” cases by the end of April? You know, when the country saw GDP and unemployment rates not seen since the Great Depression?
Or how about that the reason inflation rose so fast under the Biden administration was because people returned to work and started buying items that due to the pandemic were in short supply, and of course retailers and grocers took advantage of that to raise prices.
Biden (or Harris, for that matter) is not to
blame for that; it was Trump’s initial lax response to COVID-19 that was; hell,
he even claimed it would be “over” a month before Musk claimed it would, believing
the Chinese leadership’s denials and attempts to conceal its own incompetence
and failures in dealing with the virus.
Trump and his gang went full fascist at the Garden, shaming the venue once more. Besides Trump’s usual hysterical lies, exaggerations and made-up "facts," demonizing and dehumanizing those who don't share his orange complexion, there was a “warm-up” from a skid row line-up of Nazis like Stephen Miller (if someone like him lived in Germany during the Nazi reign, he would have been used by Hitler as a Jewish “confessor” of his "master race" ideology to justify the Holocaust), who proclaimed that “America is for Americans, and Americans only,” and far-right “celebrities” like Tony Hinchcliffe, who, according to the Huffington Post, “warmed up the crowd with a shockingly racist performance”:
“Where are my proud Latinos at tonight?” Hinchcliffe asked the packed arena, eliciting scattered loud cheers. “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.”
Of course, making such statements was “all in good fun,” in response to a few groans in the audience, because Republicans have such a “good sense of humor.” Maybe not all of them do, but the “joke” is on the country if they are responsible for electing this fascist freak show.
Huff goes on “Hinchcliffe’s ‘jokes’ mirrors MAGA talking points invoking the ‘great replacement theory’: the white supremacist conspiracy theory that brown migrants, often at the behest of Jews, are ‘invading’ America and Europe to ‘replace’ white people.”
You know, like how uninvited Europeans conducted their own “great replacement” of the Native Americans in this land, at least until 1924 when the first immigration law was passed to limit the intake of "inferior" eastern and southern Europeans? You know, like the people who still kept coming here illegally in such numbers that in 1929 a general "amnesty" law was passed that remained in effect for 20 years?
The hypocrisy is tough to take. People keep saying "then come here legally" when every new immigration "reform" law since 1965 has made it more difficult for Hispanic immigrants to do so, and for frankly xenophobic reasons.
Hinchcliffe wasn't finished, not by a long shot. He “joked” about immigrants “eating the pets” in Springfield, Ohio before going after Jews about being “cheap” and “obsessed with money:”
“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?”
Boy, am I rolling in the aisles. Hinchcliffe still couldn't quit while he was a mile behind, calling Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean,” and not to leave black people out if his racist rant, they “carved watermelons instead of pumpkins for Halloween.” The only group he left out were Asians, probably because they are the "model minority." Huff called Hinchcliffe’s speech as “arguably one of the most racist in American history,” which is hard to argue with. He ended his “speech” by proclaiming that “I’m just here to say that you guys are for the right candidate.”
Like the Trump campaign didn’t know what Hinchcliffe was going to say before it tried to distance itself from his despicable speech when it became clear that his “jokes” were the “story” that everyone was talking about, and not about Trump’s expected and usual lies. Unfortunately for the Trump campaign, they can’t run from this with a week to go from election day, and there is no doubt that Trump who we know used the term “shit-hole countries” to formulate his immigration policies and beliefs, does in fact feel Hinchcliffe’s “jokes” are not only “funny,” but “true.”
The next question is whether or
not voters still leaning toward Trump as the “lesser of two evils”—why they
think Kamala Harris is “evil” is beyond any logical comprehension—can justifiably
in good conscience vote for Trump now. Perhaps an even bigger question is how any
Hispanic voter can still support Trump. They actually think that in any mass deportation round-up they will not be asked for their "papers"? After all, they don't all "look the same." Uh-huh.
At the tail end of this video provided by the international news website France24…
…features two Trump supporters who claim
to be Peruvian immigrants, one who is a woman who claims that Trump will only deport "criminals" and not hard working people, like those at the seven Mississippi poultry plants in 2019 in which 680 "suspected" illegal immigrants were arrested during what one witness called a "Gestapo raid" by ICE agents. The motivation for this raid was apparently when Koch Foods was forced to settle a $3.75 million racial and sexual discrimination lawsuit brought by the workers at those plants.
And then there is this guy who tries to "differentiate" himself from Venezuelans, who are “killers" …
…and who should also remind us that Peru has a significant Chinese and Japanese population, including a former president, Alberto Fujimori, who with the help of the military conducted a coup in 1992 that shut down the legislature, the judiciary and suspended the constitution.
With the backing of the military, Fujimori became de facto dictator, as long as he followed Plan Verde (not unlike Project 2025 in its goals) supported by the far-right elite in Peru, which among other things called for the “total extermination” of what it called “unnecessary burdens” and “incorrigible characters” and those with a “lack of resources”—meaning discriminated-upon indigenous peoples, political opponents and insurgents fighting in the countryside—by "the general use of sterilization,” and by military death squads.
Human rights organizations called this program “genocide” and “ethnic cleansing,” as if it could be called anything else (well, just plain murder would do).
Fujimori fled the country in 2000 after it became clear that he was about to be indicted for numerous crimes involving fraud, bribery, corruption, human rights abuses, kidnapping, murder etc., but was eventually arrested and extradited back to Peru, where he was found guilty on numerous charges and sentenced to 25 years in prison, although he ended-up serving 16 years before being released and passing away this year.
Oh yes, the “memories” some
people who should know better cherish to still “justify” their support of Trump. When is this going to end? Is it really too late to be other than a moot point?
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