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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Thursday, May 1, 2025

Is Trump another Hitler?

  

A series of elections in Germany in 1932 pitted an incumbent senile general against the upstart leader of an emergency conservative party. Because the liberty Democrats that were trying to maintain the existing system relied on this old man and later, a replacement who was seen as a national joke, Germany eventually elected Hitler as its leader.

While contemporary American Democrats are trying to paint Donald Trump as the next Hitler (in particularly trying to tie him to a radical conservative document called Project 2025, a think tank piece he has disavowed and no more extreme than many of the Democratic think tank documents), history seems to be repeating itself.

Regardless of the Democratic mental illness that has liberals trying to make out Trump as the reincarnation of Hitler, there are significant even disturbing similarities between the two men and the movements they launched.

The most obvious of these is their major message: Hitler wanted to make Germany great again and used similar language as Trump’s MAGA, which raised the same reaction of Hitler’s swastika. Both symbols were banned early on.

The rise of both political figures can be divided into two segments: Hitler to the Beer Garden insurrection and his final accension into power. It is easy for Woke democrats to paint Trumps rise in similar phase, his first term as president (full of back stabbing by trusted associates, lies and false accusations by his enemies, and overall pollical mistakes including the Jan. 6 event which Democrats did their best to paint into an insurrection, as if deliberate promoting the comparison with the notorious German leader.

But there is a legitimate comparison to be made. The Beer Garden insurrection sent Hitler to jail, where he contemplated his return to power (most of which later appeared in his two volume My Struggles) outlining his resurrection.

Trump cast out of office had four years to plot out his own, and like Hitler, decided to beat his opponents at their own game at the ballot box. Like Hitler, Trump began to build a shadow government (officials he would put into power once he became president again) sop that like Hitler had his government up and running within weeks.

Trump’s distrust of media, universities and government bureaucracy mirror’s Hitlers, and indeed, his verbal attacks on judges who oppose his agenda is a bit disconcerting (one judge was even arrested).

Trump’s opposition of DEI allows Woke Democrats to claim he is racist like Hitler’s hatred of Jews and others was, even though DEI is largely discrimination and might well have been better challenged in the courts.

Nothing seems more Fascist than Trump’s use of ICE to round up and deport people, a bit too reminiscent of the Nazi rounding up Jews and other so called undesirables, and while ICE currently is rounding up criminals, Hitler proved the definition of criminal can easily be expanded to include almost anyone opposed to his agenda.

Trump used illegal immigration as a platform for his reelection much in the way Hitler used the public fear of communism and misconceptions about Jewish people to pave his way to power.

Both men took advantage of the economy. Massive inflation and later the Great Depression allowed Hitler to convince the public to support the Nazi Party (although he also used significant behind the scenes nastiness to get over the final hurdle), while Trump took advantage of the massive inflation Democrats had causes during Biden’s term in office.

Both Hitler and Trump seemed obsessed with expanding the land mass of the countries they were elected to lead. Hitler eyed Eastern Europe including Poland to reconnect the pieces of the once great German empire. Trump has already indicated he would like to annex Canada and Greenland.

Trump like Hitler seeks to rebuild the military and like Hitler, has begun a purge of military leaders he does not trust.

Like Hitler, Trump has also sought to get rid of government people he believes won’t be loyal to his agenda, and has already secured control over all levels of federal government, scaring the death of a Democrats who are desperate to use “liberal” judges to derail an agenda they can’t stop through legislative means.

Trump like Hitler distrusts academia, which is largely infused with a woke mentality, and is defunding these as well as government funded media, and other organizations such as USAID he believes supports a woke philosophy.

Like Hitler, Trump is rebuilding government from the ground up, and his attempt to removed liberal judges and replacing them with conservatives bodes ill for the disorganized Democrats.

The opposition in Germany was so fractured, they could not stop Hitler’s rise to power – and in some ways may be held accountable for allowing it to happen, just as Democrats are today.

Each dishonest attack on Trump makes him stronger, partly because by lying and cheating, my making up myths about Trump, accusing him of crimes he did not commit, they allow the public to see him as more and more credible as a leader.

Democrats claim Trump will destroy Democracy, failing to note how close Democrats came to doing so under Biden, but were too incompetent to do so, and now, can no longer do so, leaving them to create the fiction the Trump is another Hitler, and perhaps in their twisted little minds, he seems so.

 

 


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