The New Republic's June cover: Trump=Hitler

The New Republic Twitter Account ^ | July 7, 2024

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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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I have heard of Japanese projects to attack the American mainland, but, iirc, there were balloon bombs launched by the Japanese, supposedly to cause forest fires in the Western US.

Tragically, six civilian Americans on a picnic in May 45 were killed when one of these Fu-Go bombs went off near them.

IIRC, they had found it in a forest, believing it to be a dud, and wanted to lift it off the ground. I have no clue why the unfortunates didn’t run and alert the UXO department.

Then it went off. May the six Americans who were killed by the blast rest in peace✝️

But bombers with a range of 4,500 miles, i.e. from Brittany, the westernmost part of occupied Europe, to the American East coast? And that is one way.

I am no expert on World War Two, but iirc, bombers had much shorter ranges in those days, even the dreaded Avro Lancaster.

Furthermor, afaik, American radar was so good after 1943, that such a German bomber would definitely have been intercepted.

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It sure is and it’s just scratching the surface.