Posted on 07/29/2019 6:05:50 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Former Congresswoman Donna Edwards told Chris Matthews tonight that President Donald Trump is engaging in rhetoric from “the Nazi playbook,” after he said Trump’s rhetoric is “Hitlerian.”
Matthews showed the clip of Fox News’ Chris Wallace telling Mick Mulvaney that the use of words like “infested” “sounds like vermin” and “sub-human.” He said the use of such rhetoric aimed at Congress members of color shows a pattern.
After praising Wallace, Matthews said, “‘Infested.’ It’s ‘vermin.’ It’s a Hitlerian term… He’s obsessed with this thing about cities.”
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“I’m sure Hitler was totally concerned with the living conditions of people in the slums. Right.”
In a way, he was. In the 1920’s Hitler’s nascent Nazi party needed large numbers of brawlers to make street war against other political groups. He found them in thousands of unemployed veterans of the Great War. In return for joining the NSDAP, each veteran received an S.A. uniform, free meals at the `Sturmlokal’, and a sense of being part of a greater movement.
“Truth is always stranger than fiction.”
How about factual?
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