Posted on 07/14/2024 8:04:47 PM PDT by lowbridge
We chose the cover image, based on a well-known 1932 Hitler campaign poster, for a precise reason: that anyone transported back to 1932 Germany could very, very easily have explained away Herr Hitler’s excesses and been persuaded that his critics were going overboard. After all, he spent 1932 campaigning, negotiating, doing interviews—being a mostly normal politician. But he and his people vowed all along that they would use the tools of democracy to destroy it, and it was only after he was given power that Germany saw his movement’s full face.
Today, we at The New Republic think we can spend this election year in one of two ways. We can spend it debating whether Trump meets the nine or 17 points that define fascism. Or we can spend it saying, “He’s damn close enough, and we’d better fight.”
We unreservedly choose the latter course.
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It took 9 people to write that article?
What? No photoshop of Brandon with a big, handlebar Stalin mustache?
Michael Straight
New Republic editor Michael Whitney Straight (1948 to 1956) was later discovered to be a spy for the KGB, recruited into the same network as Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, Kim Philby, and Anthony Blunt.
Ruth Shalit plagiarism In 1995, writer Ruth Shalit was fired for repeated incidents of plagiarism and an excess of factual errors in her articles.
Stephen Glass scandal In 1998, features writer Stephen Glass was revealed in a Forbes Digital investigation to have fabricated a story called “Hack Heaven”. A TNR investigation found that most of Glass’s stories had used or been based on fabricated information.
Lee Siegel: In 2006, long-time contributor, critic, and senior editor Lee Siegel, who had maintained a blog on the TNR site dedicated primarily to art and culture, was revealed by an investigation to have collaborated in posting comments to his own blog under an alias aggressively praising Siegel, attacking his critics and claiming not to be Lee Siegel when challenged by an anonymous detractor on his blog.
And on, and on....
Walter Lippmann is responsible for this.
So here is what the guy said who invented fascism.
“Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.”
― Benito Mussolini
Joe Biden and the democrats, have willingly cheered the following:
1. Huge amounts of Federal money to the Largest Corporations, while small businesses fail at record pace.
2. Increased regulations, which by nature favor the largest Corporations.
3. Destroyed Trumps Tarriffs from China that helped American workers compete against slave labor, but still allowed the biggest corporations to continue to import components.
4. Ignored, repeatedly the law, see SCOTUS rulings and student loan giveaways. Destroying Congress utility in power of finances and the balance of power in the Republic.
5. The executive under Biden has refused oversight from Congress, destroying the balance of power in the Republic.
6. The US government executive branch agencies, and the legal system of States, have cooperated to attack political foes.
7. Joe Biden has threatened to use the US military against Citizens that ‘disagree’
8. The Obama and Biden administrations have heavily funded, some via George Soros, organized, and groups of Domestic Terrorists such as Antifa and BLM. The brownshirts as I call them.
9. The Biden and Obama administrations have targeted those serving in government because of political beliefs.
That’s really just the short list. The Fascist are the Democrats. They always accuse others of what they are doing. They are doing fascism.
In case you’re wondering why the economy is limping along with full bore fascism we have now (usually it’s good for economies) is because there is a better system. That’s the one we had when we provide our workers and industries a far chance and protections, but allow competition here. Fascism isn’t the best option, and someone needs to explain that to the Democrats.
‘They all believe democracy is synonymous with Democrat Party.”
That’s been obvious for years, it’s why the media refers to the Democrat party as the Democratic party. Word play = propaganda & brainwashing.
Other commie outfits do this too such as the communist nations of the Democratic Republic of Korea and the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
We all know how the left views fascism... They call it Antifa which is the definition fascism.
They’re for free speech as long it’s what they approve of and doesn’t offend anyone.
They believe men can be women and women men because they say so.
They think CO2 is a greenhouse gas that must be eliminated.
The left is incapable of rational thought and dictatorship is what they need because they can’t think on their own.
Man, that’s some ugly stuff.
TNR is nothing more than some social media accounts and an old masthead. Only the stains of their sins hold it together.
Hughes destroyed the old rag a decade ago and the world is still grateful.
”It was never an “open secret” among me and my then-colleagues that Leon Wieseltier, the longtime literary czar of the New Republic, behaved inappropriately with women in the workplace. It was simply out in the open. This week, Wieseltier’s previously forthcoming culture magazine was suspended, and Wieseltier publicly apologized for past misconduct.Multiple women have complained of sexual harassment they say occurred during much of his three-decade reign at the New Republic. (Emerson Collective, which owns a majority stake in The Atlantic, was the financial backer of the now-scrapped publication.
Wieseltier was also a contributing editor at The Atlantic until today, when Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor in chief, announced in a note to staffers that the magazine is severing its ties with him.)” - The Atlantic, M. Cottle, Oct. 2017.
“[Our] primary purpose, will not be to record facts but to give certain ideals and opinions a higher value in American public opinion. If these ideas and opinions were accepted as facts it would be unnecessary to start the paper. The whole point is that we are trying to impose views on blind or reluctant people.”
https://newrepublic.com/article/120193/how-new-republic-was-founded
But he and his people vowed all along that they would use the tools of democracy to destroy it.
Now they sounds just like the Biden team more than anything.
Would Killing Hitler have saved lives? What if a worse communist leader had taken over? What if The new ruler had not forced so many Jewish scientists to flee Germany? What if they helped this new Red German and built an atomic bomb for the People’s Republic of Germany—and used it? The deaths might have been worse. It is all speculation but not a wise one if used to Assassinate Trump or any ruler.
Yes, it would have.
The Communists had more than enough faults, but they would, had they come to power (which wouldn’t have been too likely, since they had never been able to garner more than 16.9 per cent of the national vote, and often significantly less), they would have been against the war, and against genocide.
Had the hellhound been killed and his reign of terror collapsed, the Conservatives, the Liberals, the Catholic Centre Party, and last but not least, the Social Democrats, would have had to work out a compromise how to shape the nation‘s political future. They together would have been the majority against the extremists.
But to everyone in the resistance, no matter where, it was clear that peace was the first goal, for better or worse for Germany. There was nobody among them who thought that the war was winnable- no backstab legend this time 😉
Only a handful, rather naively, hoped for the best outcome of a future peace conference - it was more of a „God have mercy on us“ moment - but we shall, sadly, never know…but everything would have been better than what really happened 🙁
And about the atom bomb: America deployed so many resources to its development that the German efforts looked puny besides. Furthermore, there was no way in the Forties that a German bomb could have struck America, atomic or not. Germany had neither intercontinental ballistic rockets nor bombers suitable for such a task.
True. So true.
Cue the Golden Book with Hitler on it....and....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ToEvz-7trY&list=FLKpRD_0zszQ1oaPHGck9B5g&index=27
I don’t know about your opinion there.
Anyway, WHEN kill Hitler? What exactly is the alternative history?
Some have talked about as a baby. Some, what if WWI killed him?
I wonder if he got more attention with his artwork if he wouldn’t be quite what he became. Or, FTM, if the Allies hadn’t been overly punitive with WWI aftermath.
All innocent naive speculation, on my part, since I don’t know much.
Germans did have a bomber that could reach America in WW II—but it could not return to Europe. BUT with a nuke a one way trip would have been possible. Crew could ditch over Atlantic to be recovered by a U-Boat. They even talked about such things to hit New York—But it was practice with conventional bombs—but with a nuke—even a dirty bomb it might have been worth it. Japan even thought of hitting the USA with a plague bomb they perfected in China. One way attack on San Francisco or San Diego. They would have gladly given up a plane and crew to hit a US city.
YEP!
I must admit that I don’t know how it all would have worked out if the tyrant had been assassinated, either.
I just know that all plotters against him, or (I prefer the term of) resistance fighters were united in their wish to end the bloodbath and genocide as quickly as possible.
This scenario assumes, of course, that he indeed was successful in his intrigue to become a dictator. Had he died as a child, or not survived to his thirties, I don’t see Germany becoming a Nazi terror state. His charisma was considered almost unearthly, even by those who objectively hated his guts.
The entire Nazi system has been called a polycracy, where many suborganizations of the party competed with each other and with older structures of government.
All of it was centered, „hinged“, on his person, with him pulling the strings in the middle like an evil puppeteer, or like a spider; smack-dab in the middle of its net.
The advantage of this would have been that the entire system of tyrannical rule would have come crashing down with him gone. The entire system would have been decapitated.
That‘s why he had to go to hell.
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