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The Atlantic Uses Old Documentary to Compare Trump's America to Nazi-Occupied France
Newsbusters ^ | April 21, 2026 | P.J. Gladnick

Posted on 04/21/2026 8:02:40 AM PDT by PJ-Comix

Media liberals have been performing an increasingly common shtick. They piously proclaim that they are not comparing President Donald Trump and MAGA to Hitler and the Nazis ...and then they proceed to do exactly that. The latest example of this absurdly disingenuous technique comes via David A. Graham in Saturday's Atlantic magazine with "The Film That Explains Contemporary America."

The title itself actually says that the film directed by Marcel Ophuls which is the excellent documentary The Sorrow and The Pity about life in occupied France during World War II "EXPLAINS Contemporary America." And yet Graham after the obvious comparison presents the following obligatory disclaimer denying that he is making any such comparison. So let us first look at his disclaimer in which any savvy observer would know he is just winking at the readers to not take it too seriously.

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The documentary (4 hrs, 20 min) was great. The comparison the Atlantic writer made was ABSURD.
1 posted on 04/21/2026 8:02:40 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
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Atlantic, absurd?......oh woe is me..... 😂👍


2 posted on 04/21/2026 8:08:08 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? On hold! Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🚫💉! 🇮🇱🙏! Winning currently!)
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WHEN will they turn off the BS tap?


3 posted on 04/21/2026 8:12:42 AM PDT by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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Never - even if they go bankrupt they’ll keep it up with podcasts and social media.


4 posted on 04/21/2026 8:14:29 AM PDT by piytar (NEVER FORGET Ashli Babbitt, Rosanne Boyland, Corey Comperatore, Iryna Zarutska, and Charlie Kirk!)
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WHEN will they turn off the BS tap?

That tap will be wide open this weekend at the White House Correspondents Dinner.

5 posted on 04/21/2026 8:17:18 AM PDT by PJ-Comix (Gavin Newsom is just PRETENDING have Dyslexia as an excuse for being just plain STUPID)
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Where are the firing squads and concentration camps? The only mention of concentration camps was during Covid for anyone who did not take the shot.


6 posted on 04/21/2026 8:18:27 AM PDT by bray (Thank God for Israel)
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“These people are crazy” - President Donald Trump


7 posted on 04/21/2026 8:18:33 AM PDT by TTFlyer (Lenin: that by the infliction of terror, a well-organized minority can conquer a nation.)
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the excellent documentary The Sorrow and The Pity about life in occupied France during World War II

In 2024, Republicans won the House, the Senate, the Presidency, the Electoral College, and the Popular Vote.

But ... to the Democrats, Trump is like an occupying force who ought to be expelled from the country.

8 posted on 04/21/2026 8:26:54 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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he is just winking at the readers

I bet you would have more readers if you started winking too.
Then we could call you Winky.

9 posted on 04/21/2026 8:30:12 AM PDT by humblegunner
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It must be that never reported battle during WW2 where Germany united with Jewish pilots to attack Palestine that got the Atlantic confused. /sar
The truth is the “Final Solution” was presented to Hitler by the Grand Mufti ruling Palestine in the late 30’s.


10 posted on 04/21/2026 8:31:14 AM PDT by Zathras
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apparently even Hitler would call Trump Hitler


11 posted on 04/21/2026 8:41:08 AM PDT by ConservativeDude
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I’m shocked The Atlantic didn’t use that well-poisoner Leni Reifenstahl’s film.


12 posted on 04/21/2026 8:51:00 AM PDT by simpson96
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Why is the President even going to attend?

It will just be a tedious and lame continuation of the DNC s*&t show!

13 posted on 04/21/2026 8:51:07 AM PDT by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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And what lasting changes have they made with all this power. When the dems have a one vote majority, they get all kinds of things done but the Republicans can control everything and can’t do squat.


14 posted on 04/21/2026 9:01:56 AM PDT by redangus
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The Left likes to view themselves as “heroic”. Much easier than looking in the mirror and seeing copies of Brownshirt Nazis. To this day there has not been one single incident of a destructive or violent MAGA rally.


15 posted on 04/21/2026 9:08:03 AM PDT by Dogbert41 (“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God” -Matthew 5:9)
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Please ping me if you get an answer to your question .


16 posted on 04/21/2026 9:24:44 AM PDT by katykelly
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BOOM! FBI Director Kash Patel just dropped the hammer — filing a $250 MILLION defamation lawsuit against The Atlantic and their reporter for that sleazy smear piece claiming “excessive drinking” and mysterious absences.

All lies. All anonymous-source garbage. They got the pre-publication denial and ran the hit piece anyway. Classic legacy media desperation to take down a man draining the swamp at the FBI.

As the guy who carried the nuclear football, I've seen the pressure these patriots face every day. Kash is fighting for us — and he's not backing down.

Stand tall, Kash! We've got your six. The American people are DONE with the fake news machine.

https://x.com/BuzzPatterson/status/2046289057073025511

17 posted on 04/21/2026 9:27:47 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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Roosevelt: Internment camps, gold confiscation....


18 posted on 04/21/2026 9:34:25 AM PDT by Texas resident ( We finally have an American President again)
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If Trump was Hitler like, The Atlantic would have been shut down and their “journos” would be in prison.

Guess they can’t figure that out.


19 posted on 04/21/2026 9:35:33 AM PDT by Texas resident ( We finally have an American President again)
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Liberals see themselves as the ‘rightful rulers’ of the nation under all circumstances.

They see anyone who disagrees with them as the enemy of the state.

That the Atlantic author picked a documentary about OCCUPIED France is no coincidence. They think that they are being occupied by an enemy in the WH and the Congress and are being subjected to delusions of ignominy.

They call for ‘soldiers’ to rise up and disobey their commanders and think that their base of pink and green haired mentally unstable freaks will save their bacon in November...............


20 posted on 04/21/2026 9:42:26 AM PDT by Red Badger (Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)
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