Monday, May 5, 2025

First concentration camp in America? May 5, 2025

 

The good news is that Donald Trump does not intend to challenge the U.S. Constitution and run for a third term as president.

The bad news is that Trump intends to reopen Alcatraz which many liberals will see as an American concentration camp.

This last is a kind of wish-fulfilment by Democrats who have used the courts to block exporting of illegal immigrants who have been charged with serious crimes and immigrant rights groups forcing local jails to give up their contracts with ICE to house illegal immigrants.

The more I study the rise of Nazi’s in Europe in 1920s and 1930s, the more similarities I see between Hitler and Trump, which may simply be ironies of history, but also may be the impact of the left in giving Trump fewer choices.

One of these ironies were averted when Trump decided to pull back on his plan to rename Veteran’s Day. Hitler had tried to do the same thing when he became Chancelor of Germany in 1933 – in an attempt to alter the public perception that Germany had lost World War I. Perhaps someone in the Trump administration also noticed the similarity and encouraged Trump to abandon his plans.

Unfortunately, Trump’s decision to without federal funds from NPR and PBS reeks of Nazi-like censorship, as does his attempt to without funds from antisemitic universities like Harvard and Columbia. While these institutions should not be using federal tax dollars to promote hate, his defunding them gives the liberals more ammunition to use against him – including pathetic congress people who are calling for yet another attempt to impeach him.

Arresting that hateful anti-Israel character at Columbia satisfied a deep urge many of us had when listening to his hate speech, this, too, gave Trump’s enemies fodder to attack him with. As much as an asshole as that character is, we still live in a nation of free speech (although universities like Columbia and Harvard do not recognize free speech of conservatives).

But beyond all these, the historic similarities between Trump and Hitler are disturbing. Both sought to make their respective countries “great again.” Both gained power to some extent based on their opposition to diversity. As Trump makes moves to remove many of the illegal immigrants Biden and the Democrats allowed to flood over the borders, his methods strongly resemble those of Nazi storm troopers and evoke the fearful images of what happened in Europe more than 80 years ago. The fact that Trump’s actions in securing the borders are extremely popular with many Americans is still more terrifying, since a majority of Germans approved of his activities back then.

Equally ironic is that the more roadblocks Democrats use to keep Trump from deporting the nearly 20 million illegal immigrants, the more likely the Trump administration will be forced to resort to drastic measures such as reopening old jails or shipping these illegal immigrants to private jails throughout the country – more concentration camps.

Another disturbing similarity between Trump and Hitler was Trump’s recent proposal that congress people accused of crimes be removed from office. Hitler had used a similar pretext to gain a voting majority in Germany’s version on Congress.

The left is constantly looking for ways to reconfigure Trump as a Nazi, even going so far as to compare Trump supporters (maga) as the equivalent of brown shirts, and to equate the Jan. 6 protestors as part of an insurrection.

What disturbs the left the most is that Trump, having been in office just over 100 days, has begun a serious purge in government and military to remove those who oppose his agenda, again reflecting some of the moves Hitler made.

But unlike Hitler, Trump is doing these things legally, even if some liberal judges claim otherwise, and as long as he remains on the right side of the law, his actions will only confound the Democrats, who are trying to stop him from dismantling institutions that have been ripping off public tax dollars for years.

Yes, Trump has reversed a number of agreements that Biden and Obama forged, such as removing the United States from the crippling and silly climate change regulations, and restoring sanctions of counties like Iran, who have used oil to support terrorists, especially against Israel. Trump is cutting to the bone those agreements that turned America into a get rich quick scheme for China.

Whether all this looks to liberals like moves a Nazi might make, let them live in their fantasy land. But Trump needs to not feed this frenzy by taking actions that too strongly resemble the worst in human history.

 

 


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