“Is the irony of this lost on her completely?”
I suspect the irony of this is lost on just about every Obamaton, and many Republicans as well.
Of course, Nazi racial theories are no longer popular with Democrats. The Democratic Party has become somewhat more civilized in this regard. It formally stopped promoting chattel slavery back in 1865, though Democrat did put their racial theories with the Jim Crow laws starting around 1876. Wilson ordered the racial segregation of Federal employees, but Truman reversed the order in 1948. It took about hundred years, but the Democratic Party eventually distanced itself from the KKK, which had been a core constituency under the leadership of the likes of Robert Byrd. Despite filibusters by the likes of Al Gore’s father and Bill Clinton’s political mentor, many Democrats joined Republicans in overturning the despicable Jim Crow laws that relegated many Americans to second-class citizenship based upon race.
Still, there are many Democrats in America who identify with all aspects of national socialism except for its racial theories (and, perhaps, its nationalism.) Some align with the economics of national socialism. Others align with the patriotic, state-worshipping culture of national socialism. National socialism’s military and surveillance focus offers a sense of security for yet some others. And, of course, many Democrats understand the usefulness of the public education system to indoctrinating the next generation of Americans in the tenets of socialism. Only a tiny neo-Nazi lunatic fringe still identifies with the Democratic Party’s old racial theories.
The whole idea of the Tea Party, which is a unorganized movement rather than an organized political party, is antithetical to national socialism. It advocates the old American values of self-reliance and responsibility, individual liberty and constitutionally limited government. The Tea Party’s idea of patriotism is similar to Mark Twain’s: “Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.” Though it respects the government, it does not worship the government; it does not look to government as its sufficiency and strength. The Tea Party movement is as diametrically opposite from any sort of neo-Nazism as it is from Obamunism.
These teachers should all read Tale of Two Cities again (if, in fact, they actually read it the first time). They’ve all become DeFarge’s and the irony IS completely lost on them.