I saw CNN's coverage early yesterday, they were getting ready to have orgasms on the air as they repeatedly showed the *same* scuffle between a group of people playing tug of war with a flag for over half an hour (yes, that long, I was watching the TV while on a treadmill at the gym).
That being said, the Nazi meme is a good example of Orwell's principle of Newspeak from 1984: if you control the language, you control the discourse. Hitler killed his six million, Stalin maybe 20 and Mao over 40.
But if you want to insult someone you call them a Nazi.
That's because
a) we were allies with the Soviets during World War 2
b) The Holocaust (which doesn't excuse the Holodomor or the NY Slimes airbrushing of it)
c) as Ann Coulter pointed out in Treason, the mass infestation of Communists into most of the driving institutions of the US.
Yes, in fact, my mind is open as I watch this situation, and I will consider any evidence that emerges from it.
But I also know that people who call themselves National Socialists and white nationalists claim to have been there. Actually were there, if one is to believe what they posted on Stormfront. Reading some of the posts here on FR, I noticed that there is some confusion about what a white nationalist is. It isn’t a nationalist who happenS to be white. It is someone who wants a nation only of whites. I say that is delusional, just as it is delusional for them to think that Donald Trump is the answer to their prayers. But that is what some of them have claimed.
I have no wish to cooperate with them. I have no common cause with them. And, for me, the reason goes beyond mere politics. There are people in my family, via marriage, whose lives were at stake in Nazi Germany and would have been exterminated if they hadn’t seen the writing on the wall and gotten out. Anyone who calls me a Nazi to my face will lose his teeth. I also know people, some of whom are in my family, who suffered under Communism. My take on Nazis and CommunistS in the U.S. is this: they can beat each other bloody every day for all I care. Maybe some day we will have that storm, mentioned in “Taxi Driver” that will wash all the scum off the streets.