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 ...
O-kay.
They'll kill us if they can.
Never mind that the Nazis were open socialists and demonized Jews like this author is demonizing Trump supporters.
The primary purpose of the Capitol “insurrection” was to STOP the reading into the record of any challenges to the voting patterns within certain states, where there were great irregularities in the collection and counting of the votes. That this “insurrection” could somehow have been because of the MAGA people and the address by President Trump over on the White House grounds was just icing on the cake.
Right out of the playbook for the “Reichstag fire”.
My question too.
I don’t really think any healing can take place because these people are very sick. They will never let it happen.
were I the judicial system of Germany, I’d be filing some serious slander and incitement lawsuits against some of these magazines.
We’re being dehumanized
watch your backs!
Nazis = National SOCIALIST WORKERS UNION. They are the democrat platform of gun grabs, equal pay, hatred of capitalism, public unions, cancel culture, book burners, right to a job, right to healthcare,etc. I’m fed up with these stupid ass lies the left perpetrates.
There is a hair’s breadth difference between socialism and fascism.
But to LEFTIES, Socialism good, fascism bad.
The writer is a fidiot and weakling.
Salon: The magazine that makes Weekly World News look like a news magazine... 😃
The feeling’s mutual. It takes some nerve for them to push stuff like this when the Dems are in the process of going full authoritarian and oppressive. All the left has is slander and dehumanization; they don’t have convincing positions. It’s like the left looked at McCarthy and the old blacklist and said, “Hey, that was great. We need to do that to our political opponents but times a million.”
Salon: Conservatives Are New ‘Good Germans’ of Nazi Era, Seek ‘Friendly Fascism’
____________________________________________________
And they wonder why we think they are the enemy.
See my tag line.
L
Salon, LA Times, Phila. Inquirer and the Wash. Post are the last ones to call anyone a specific type of extremists, esp. Nazis.
THe Phila. Inquirer always was a leftist newspaper, even since the time I read it at school in the 60’s. In fact, one friend’s father was a VP of it, but it wasn’t as far-left Marxist as it is today.
The LA Times. Some good writers, some bad, and editorials that would make a Marxist jealous.
SALON magazine: the equivalent of a gin-joint bar for reds - cheap, watered down journalism and full of drunk, hateful people.
Wash. Post. From a liberal/left newspaper (been reading it since 1966) to the most hate-filled publication I’ve ever seen for a major “serious” newspaper. Bezos, like some of his WP predecessor owners, hired the most insane, racist, self-hating, America-hating writers and cartoonists alive.
Remember Ted Rall - a totally hate-filled cretin and I’m being kind to him. Followed by Toles, another far-left hater. Columnists - more like the Manson Family with machetes than journalists with integrity and facts.
What Devega has done is the old Marxist “switcheroo”, known in psychology as “projection”, i.e. projecting their own images/thoughts/ideology on their “enemies”. In elementary school it was “name calling” but with less venom.
Pres. Trump has a Jewish son-in-law, grandchildren and supporting wife. Biden has an organized crime and treason family whose religious practices including worshipping communist money, any crook’s money, and just plain old monetary greed.
Trump had Jewish advisors and appointees, black advisors/appointees, women advisors/appointees, Asians, gays, and other members of minority groups, etc. in his administration. The only group he didn’t have were communists/Marxists and their dupes. He figured the Democrats had to have someone to help them dismantle America.
Interestingly, leftist POLITICO and even now AXIOS, and on an accidental occasion, The Atlantic, are running some conservative writers or centrist liberals in their publications.
Leave it to SALON to pick the worst of the worst that the Left has to offer.
So let’s end this with, if Trump is a fascist/Nazi, then the Democrats, led by Comrades Obama, Harris (Red Diaper Baby, along with Pete Buttigieg), Maoist Anita Dunn, and black racist nominees Clarise Clark, and others) are Marxists, communists, Pinkos, Reds, anti-semites and often traitors like John Kerry.
I think that is fair enough, SALON. Now go back to the cesspool you came from.
The Hitler card sure gets played a lot
Major league projection there.
Two or three years ago I used to joke that I feel like we are living in Dr. Zhivago, but without the love triangle.
And here we are.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.