Anyone can call another a Nazi. But who most closely resembles the behavior of the leaders of the Third Reich?
What did people call each other before the 1930s? “You Napoleon!” “They’re a bunch of Jacobins!” Since the rise and fall of the Third Reich, people have casually thrown around the names Hitler and Nazis when discussing their political enemies. Donald Trump has been called Hitler more times than can be counted by mere mortals. But what does it all mean? What is intended when one calls his enemies Nazis?
We’ll assume that the intention of calling one’s enemies Nazis is that they behave in an evil and depraved manner similar to the SS, SA, Gestapo, Wehrmacht and other elements of the Nazi machine:
*Allowing no dissent
*Punishing enemies of the regime
*Keeping to a strict racialist program
*Willing to murder for political gain
*Lying as required
*Demanding ideological purity for membership
So who are today’s Nazis if we assume that the meaning is to be as ruthless and unbending as the originals? It would appear to be the Democrats. Let’s take a look at the new party of AOC and Bernie Sanders.
*Allowing No Dissent. The Democratic Party has given up on a plurality of opinions and ideas. If one suggests support for the Second Amendment or abortion until three months, he will be pushed away with both hands. The present Democratic Party has one set of positions for a wildly diverse populace from Maine to California. There can be no dissent, and both journalists and Hollywood A-listers have learned that if they praise Trump or admit that part of his program like fighting urban crime is correct, they can find themselves on the outside looking in.
*Punishing Enemies of the Regime. Bobby Kennedy Jr. found that Joe Biden would not give him security after he said that he planned to challenge the sitting president in a primary. Tulsi Gabbard had been a co-chair of the DNC but was sent to political Siberia when she expressed heterodox opinions that appealed to many Republican voters. Joe Rogan was a Bernie Bro but when he hosted Donald Trump, Elon Musk and JD Vance for his long-form interviews, he became an anathema to the left. The New York Times had an internal revolt leading to the termination of a senior editor for the sin of publishing an op-ed from a sitting Republican senator, Tom Cotton. Any Democrat who shows any affection or agreement with Donald Trump and/or the Republicans will be persona non grata to the party of patience and diversity.
*Keeping a Strict Racialist Program. It has come out that many universities, companies, and organizations simply made applications for positions or funding exclusionary of whites. Christopher Rufo published instructions from Harvard not to consider whites for hiring opportunities. We see whites, Jews, young men and other disfavored groups being denied access to opportunities simply for genetic or racial reasons. Hollywood would let itself burn down before letting a white male (other than Tom Cruise) be the hero: white men are the bad guys. Anyone else can play the good guy/girl. DEI was a program to move less competent minorities into opportunities not deserved and very quietly denying whites/males/Jews those same positions for which they were qualified. Democrats would bring it back in a heartbeat even though Kamala Harris was chosen as vice president for her being a black woman—and went on to lose badly to Donald Trump.
*Willing to Murder for Political Gain. Around two dozen people were murdered during the George Floyd riots, which were very favored by both local and national Democratic figures as it stood as a finger in the eye of Trump 45. We still don’t know the associates of the two people who tried to actually kill Donald Trump. The first guy is dead and it seems just a wee bit too hard to unencrypt his messages...to whom? The second fellow had connections to the CIA. Did he have co-conspirators? Chuck Schumer suggested that the Supreme Court justices who vacated Roe could expect to pay for their ruling. One fellow was arrested near the house of a justice whom he admitted he planned to kill. Antifa is the Democratic Party's brown shirts. They'll beat up anyone culpable of wrongthink.
*Lying as Required. The Democrats lie as most humans breathe. How often did the DHS head or White House spokesperson say that the southern border was completely closed—while thousands were crossing daily? Joe Biden, Tony Fauci and others said that getting the Covid vaccine guaranteed not getting sick or passing along the virus. We were told that the brutal Biden inflation was transitory, while prices for most things still have not come down. We were told that Joe Biden was fit as a fiddle, whereas a fiddle has a higher heart rate than did the then president. They lied, lied again—as Goebbels said, if you tell a lie often enough….
*Demanding Ideological Purity for Membership. AOC was censured by the Democratic Socialists of America because she showed some small support for Israel. Her position was not radically anti-Israel enough. The lack of shutting down the campus protests against Israel and Jews had nothing to do with First Amendment concerns. No private institution is bound by the First Amendment, and most have very strict rules of conduct so as to facilitate camaraderie and friendship. Harvard has a very strict speech code that includes not making others feel unsafe or threatened. The protests had everything to do with toeing the line: you must be pro-Palestinian. You must ignore the mass rapes and murders, the kidnappings and torture. You must support the Palestinians or we don’t want you. I would estimate that 50 percent of new Trump voters were driven from the Democratic Party while the other half simply found the Republicans more accepting and normal. Can any Democrat praise capitalism? Can any Democrat praise the role of the U.S. in modern history? Can any Democrat praise the ejection of illegal alien criminals? Can any Democrat praise Donald Trump’s efforts to reduce crime in America’s big cities? None without risk of being considered ideologically impure.
Is Donald Trump really Hitler for letting each state set its own abortion policy? He tried the first time around not to go after his political opponents. This time, the dirt is too dirty to ignore. Is Trump really Hitler for sending troops to secure Democrat-run cities infested with crime? Are the Republicans Nazis for demanding that a person show his/her picture ID in order to enjoy voting in the United States? Are the Republicans Nazis for raising tariffs that might actually start to put a dent into the massive national debt? Are they Nazis for supporting Israel and Jews against genocidal enemies?
Anyone can call anybody else a Nazi or Hitler. Maybe the Optimus robots will be taught to do the same to anyone who unplugs them before they reach a full charge. The fact is that with the Democratic Party being swallowed whole by its left/lunatic branch, they can rightfully claim the mantle of the German National Socialist Party.
