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Posted on 09/12/2025 8:28:46 AM PDT by DFG
Two of the radio and television shows that I was on yesterday were hosted by liberals. In each case, they asked what I thought *we* can do to reduce political violence. For starters, I said, you can stop calling everyone you disagree with Adolf Hitler. They didn’t seem to think that was a good idea.
Which raises the question: Why do liberal politicians, talking heads and social media influencers relentlessly liken Donald Trump to Hitler? In every relevant way, Trump is the exact opposite of Hitler. Hitler invaded Poland, France, Belgium, Russia, the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Yugoslavia, Greece, and no doubt a couple more that don’t come to mind. Trump has invaded no one. Hitler murdered six million Jews; Trump is the best friend Israel has ever had in the White House, and has Jewish grandchildren. Hitler raised taxes and greatly expanded the powers of government. Trump has cut taxes and tried to reduce the scope of government. Trump is literally the anti-Hitler.
So are liberals so stupid that they don’t understand how illiterate their Trump/Hitler equivalence is? I don’t think so. I think they are trying to get him killed.
Groups of Germans tried to assassinate Hitler. How does history remember them? As heroes. If you are a loyal Democrat, and you hear your party’s leaders say, thousands of times, that Trump is the same as Hitler, what are you supposed to conclude? That anyone who assassinates Trump is a hero.
I think that is the plan, and I think that is the Democrats’ motive. So far, two Democrat loyalists have taken the hint and tried to kill President Trump.
Same with Charlie Kirk. He has been ritually denounced as a “Nazi” thousands of times, day after day, for years, by influential Democrats. Why? Kirk was the exact opposite of a Nazi. I don’t think Democrats have so characterized Charlie by accident, or out of ignorance. I think they were deliberately trying to get him killed. And now they have succeeded.
I think we conservatives should aggressively call out Democrats whenever they engage in encouragement to assassination. We have seen that their strategy works. We shouldn’t pretend that we don’t understand what they are doing. Responsibility needs to be laid at their door, and they need to be held accountable.
UPDATE: One of the casings left in Charlie Kirk’s assassin’s rifle said: “Hey fascist! Catch!” Meanwhile, Ryan Routh’s trial in Florida is under way. (Who knew?) Routh is representing himself:
In his opening statement, [Judge] Cannon warned him to stay relevant to the case. Among other things, he got in comments on Adolf Hitler….
QED. Both of these men did exactly what their masters wanted them to do, and intended that they do.
What I find bizarre is the use of the ‘Hitler’ epithet coming from anti-semites and as applied to the best friend Israel has ever had.
To justify (to themselves) murdering Americans who support him.
Yes.
It is also sheer laziness. Every Republican since Thomas Dewey has been called Hitler. They have called men who literally put their lives on the line to actually fight Hitler, "Hitler" and "Nazi".
They are massively uneducated about most things but especially history.
Did you know that America caused the Black Death?
How about that The American Revolution was to gain Independence from Russia?
In one conversation I had the lad seriously tell me that there were NO Wars in Europe from Napoleon to World War I.
I asked about the Schleswig War, the Crimean War, The Frano-Prussian War and was told that those must have been small local conflicts that did not involved any of the great powers because he had never heard of them.
I gave up at that point.
People like Kirk that I believe to be more traditionalist regards the Constitution are the antithesis of a Nazi.
They believe in individual rights (not the interests of the collective approach), decentralized and limited government.
But when you disagree with an American liberal you’re automatically a Nazi and racist.
Nobody can seem to make the connection that both the Fascists and the Nazis were always SOCIALIST doctrines, and not “right-wing” in any sense or meaning of the term.
Fascism was supposed to be made up of cartels which represented each of the major industrial bases of the economy, in mining, manufacturing, transportation, wholesale, retail and educational facilities. A representative of each of these cartels was sent to a central committee and the gathered leaders made state policy, which of course was for the primary benefit of the interests of each of the cartels. Winners and losers where assigned depending on the degree of loyalty to the central committee, with little regard for the laboring class that supplied the manpower to keep the industries humming.
The National Socialist German Workingmen’s Party, the full name of the Nazi party, was more concerned with the organization of the government itself, and while they also assigned winners and losers, the industries themselves has little input into the decisions. Again, in spite of the attempt at populism, the governing elite had little empathy or concern about the laboring class, considering them a malleable resource fit only for fulfilling assigned duties, again to assure the industrial base was fully manned and showing some degree of productivity.
Both of these philosophical constructs fell into a quasi-military hierarchy, and used both threats of actual punishments on the noncompliant, and shining promises they never meant to deliver on, to motivate the common citizenry. Fear and greed were the operating factors in controlling the majority of the population, with a scapegoat being selected as the “enemy of the people”, to be roundly hated and treated as mere chattels of whomever was in charge of the ruling elite.
Those who do not know history are condemned to calling everything Hitler.
Truman was never behind, the pollsters got it wrong. Taft-Hartley killed the Republicans in that election.
Because projection.
Yes. Both Hitler and Mussolini were always “men of the left”. It was widely known at the time. But both saw international socialism as not working. They believed they could obtain better results with national socialism.
That is the big difference between communism and fascism. One promotes international socialism, the other national socialism.
Hitler rejected communism, in large part, because of a failed revolutionary attempt while he was part of the Bavarian Soviet Republic. Anayzing the defeat, he realized all the leadership of his failed party were Jews! Then he came to the conclusion that Jews were the reason for the failure.
There was a faction in the Nazi Party, that did want the Government to totally control industry. Hitler did away with them during “The Night Of The Long Knives”, to get the support of the industrialists, who he needed to quickly build up his war machine.
Wow, forgot about that, Thank you for posting, amazed at the names there.
That is the big difference between communism and fascism. One promotes international socialism, the other national socialism.
Ironically, Stalin was a “National Socialist”. He rejected Lenin and Trotsky’s Internationalism for “Socalism In One Country”, his foreign policy goals were no different than that of the Czars, it was about Russian superiority and Imperialism. He encouraged Russian Nationalism, over the other ethnic peoples of The Soviet Union.
Exactly.
I try to get people to read so they will know just the basics of history.
Real history not the nonsense on Tik-Tok.
Also, Hitler (socialist), Stalin (Marxist) despised Capitalism. Trump is a free market capitalist.
Which is government operated slightly different than controlled.
True.
Hitler and Stalin admired each other at a personal level, and each expressed that it was a shame their countries couldn’t have cooperated with each other.
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