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Salon: Conservatives Are New ‘Good Germans’ of Nazi Era, Seek ‘Friendly Fascism’
breitbart ^ | 28 Feb 2021 | JOSHUA KLEIN

Posted on 03/01/2021 12:31:52 PM PST by MarvinStinson

A Salon essay published on Friday accuses Republicans of resembling “good Germans” of the Nazi era — wishing to believe they are decent people while hiding behind “fictions of plausible deniability for the evils committed by their leader” — and describes today’s conservatism as seeking “friendly fascism” masked in an appeal to return to “traditional values.”

The essay, penned by staff writer Chauncey Devega and titled “Conservatives are the new ‘good Germans,’ enabling and defending Trump’s crimes,” begins by claiming “Whatever ‘conservative’ once meant in American politics, it’s now just a flimsy rhetorical shield for fascism.”

Devega continues by declaring the former president as “a force of political, human, moral and economic destruction.”

“He is the leader of an American neofascist and white supremacist movement,” he writes. “Today’s Republican Party has fully become an extension of his political cult and crime family.”

“Trump incited a lethal attack on the Capitol as part of a larger plot to overthrow American democracy,” he adds.

“Public opinion polls show that Trump himself is more popular than the Republican Party as a whole,” he writes. “White right-wing evangelicals worship Trump like he is a god.”

Devega then poses a “riddle,” seeking to discover what the term “conservative” truly means “for today’s Republicans.”

Describing “the most benign and generous understanding” of the term as denoting “a respect for stability, tradition and existing societal norms and institutions,” Devega claims such a definition is far removed from Trump, the Republican Party, and its followers.

“Donald Trump, his movement and its allies have almost no relationship to that tradition, and overwhelmingly reject such values,” he writes.

“In the Age of Trump, American democracy is under assault by neofascism, white supremacy, authoritarianism, gangster capitalism and other antisocial values and beliefs,” he adds.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: conservatives; despotism; naziinsult; projection; salon; salonsux
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1 posted on 03/01/2021 12:31:52 PM PST by MarvinStinson
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To: MarvinStinson

Says the people who supported the genocide of 60 million babies, taking your guns and burning books.


2 posted on 03/01/2021 12:33:19 PM PST by bray (Pray for fake President Biden)
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To: MarvinStinson

Well, if conservatives are the “good Germans”, Democrats are the Nazis.

There, I said it.


3 posted on 03/01/2021 12:33:58 PM PST by cuban leaf (We killed our economy and damaged our culture. In 2021 we will pine for the salad days of 2020.)
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To: MarvinStinson

More personal liberty = nazi. Okay, sure.


4 posted on 03/01/2021 12:34:13 PM PST by Dutch Boy
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To: MarvinStinson

That title is some serious projection.


5 posted on 03/01/2021 12:34:17 PM PST by cuban leaf (We killed our economy and damaged our culture. In 2021 we will pine for the salad days of 2020.)
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To: MarvinStinson

It’s sick how they get it 180° opposite.


6 posted on 03/01/2021 12:34:34 PM PST by ifinnegan ( Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: MarvinStinson

The Nazis “canceled” the Jews.

Same methods of the democrats too.


7 posted on 03/01/2021 12:34:55 PM PST by 2banana (Common ground with islamic terrorists-they want to die for allah and we want to arrange the meeting)
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To: ifinnegan

After accusing the Republican Party and Trump of having “no respect for the rule of law” which they “consistently sought to undermine,” Devega then accuses the entire movement of having normalized terrorism and political violence.

“Trump and his movement have now normalized right-wing terrorism and political violence directed against liberals, progressives, nonwhites, Jews, Muslims and others deemed to be ‘the enemy,’” he writes.


8 posted on 03/01/2021 12:37:09 PM PST by MarvinStinson
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To: MarvinStinson

Demonrats projecting again.
THEY and the CCP, whose azz they lick, are the REAL new NAZIs.
They have seized the Whitehut through insurrection and the blackmailed RINOs were in tow.


9 posted on 03/01/2021 12:37:28 PM PST by doc maverick
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To: MarvinStinson

That’s funny, I am beginning to feel like a Jew in 1930’s Germany.


10 posted on 03/01/2021 12:37:48 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: MarvinStinson
You mean we order the public to stay in their homes, stay out of school, close their businesses and rely on state funding for food/shelter...things like that?

3/1/2021, 6:02:28 AM · 1,236 of 1,245
Diogenesis to ransomnote
“The man responsible for lockdowns and the modelling used to justify them
has no qualifications.” NONE.

“Despite his epics failures, he still sits on the government’s venerated SAGE science conclave. “
As it turns out, Ferguson hold no formal qualifications at all in the biological sciences
– not as a microbiologist, a virologist, nor as an epidemiologist or biological statistician.
… As far as publicly available information is accurate, he appears to have no formal training
in computer modelling, medicine or epidemiology either.”

11 posted on 03/01/2021 12:38:15 PM PST by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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“Public opinion polls show that Trump himself is more popular than the Republican Party as a whole,”
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There’s good reason for that, the GOP act like Assistant Democrats while Trump sides with the citizens.


12 posted on 03/01/2021 12:39:22 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: MarvinStinson

It is so at odds with reality that it has to be deliberate and orchestrated.

Nothing is real is scary.


13 posted on 03/01/2021 12:40:28 PM PST by ifinnegan ( Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: 2banana

“Like the ‘good Germans’ of the Nazi era, Republicans want to believe that they are good and decent people who can hide behind fictions of plausible deniability for the evils committed by their leader,” he adds.


14 posted on 03/01/2021 12:40:41 PM PST by MarvinStinson
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To: MarvinStinson

projection projection projection projection projection projection projection projection projection projection projection projection projection projection projection projection projection projection projection


15 posted on 03/01/2021 12:40:41 PM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Or a Korean in 1930s Japan.


16 posted on 03/01/2021 12:41:56 PM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: MarvinStinson

The democrats are the new Bolsheviks.

We conservatives aren’t German, we’re Kulaks. Eventually, us Kulaks will experience ordeals like the Bolshevik Holomodor, where an estimated 7,000,000 persons perished due to forced starvation by the Soviets. Other names for today’s modern Bolsheviks and Soviets is Antifa, BLM, or just Progressive.


17 posted on 03/01/2021 12:42:12 PM PST by Alas Babylon! ("You, the American people, are my only special interest." --President Donald J. Trump)
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I don’t see conservatives banning books like Amazon or the NYT book bestseller lists.

I don’t see brown shirts in action like ANTIFA.

I don’t see burnt and destroyed synagogues like BLM.

I don’t see fake scholarship like from the left and oligarch corporations teaching that a race (whites, in this case) are sub-human.

I don’t see conservative government officials obsessed with race like Biden’s nominee who writes whites are inferior because they lack melanin.

I don’t see people faking being a white, just black or Hispanic, because you get treated better in the workplace.

There is a fair nazi comparison to be made in USA politics, but it’s the left.


18 posted on 03/01/2021 12:42:41 PM PST by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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To: cuban leaf
Democrats are the Nazis. There, I said it.

I say it at home all the time.

19 posted on 03/01/2021 12:43:45 PM PST by frank ballenger (End vote fraud, harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: bray

Also the people who cheered on the wholesale destruction of statues of the heroes of American history, and that history itself, and burning and looting of 200+ American cities all last year.


20 posted on 03/01/2021 12:44:34 PM PST by Orosius
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