Yes, it can and will happen here unless more of us get involved
23 October 2024
Trump is not only America’s version of Hitler (as assessed by his Vice Presidential running mate), but America may transform into a variant of Nazi Germany unless America votes for Harris over Trump:
As discussed by Heather Cox Richardson:
In a searing article today, political scientist Rachel Bitecofer of The Cycle explored exactly what that means in a piece titled “What (Really) Happens If Trump Wins?” Bitecofer outlined Adolf Hitler’s January 30, 1933, oath of office, in which he promised Germans he would uphold the constitution, and the three months he took to dismantle that constitution.
By March, she notes, the concentration camp Dachau was open. Its first prisoners were not Jews, but rather Hitler’s prominent political opponents. By April, Jews had been purged from the civil service, and opposition political parties were illegal. By May, labor unions were banned and students were burning banned books. Within the year, public criticism of Hitler and the Nazis was illegal, and denouncing violators paid well for those who did it.
Bitecofer writes that Trump has promised mass deportations “that he cannot deliver unless he violates both the Constitution and federal law.” To enable that policy, Trump will need to dismantle the merit-based civil service and put into office those loyal to him rather than the Constitution. And then he will purge his political opponents, for once those who would stand against him are purged, Trump can act as he wishes against immigrants, for example, and others. More
The Washington Post Editorial Page agreed:
Opinion: If Trump wins, we could return to the world of the 1930s
American voters tend be pretty parochial in their approach to elections, focusing on domestic issues above all. I’m not sure if enough of them are fully aware of the stakes in this presidential election. The choice between Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump is a referendum not only on America’s future but also on the entire world’s.
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When Harris has revealed her own views, however, they have been reassuringly mainstream. “I believe it is in the fundamental interest of the American people for the United States to fulfill our long-standing role of global leadership,” she told the Munich Security Conference in February, adding, “This approach makes America strong, and it keeps Americans safe.”
She’s right, which is why more than 700 former national security officials — and more than 100 Republican national security leaders — have endorsed Harris. By contrast, only about half of Trump’s own Cabinet has backed him, and those who oppose him include his vice president, the ultraconservative Mike Pence. Retired Gen. Mark A. Milley, Trump’s chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has called him “fascist to the core.” Mark T. Esper, Trump’s defense secretary, has called him“a threat to democracy.” Retired Gen. John F. Kelly, Trump’s White House chief of staff, described him as “a person who admires autocrats and murderous dictators.”
Trump’s closing argument of the 2024 election is full-throated fascism.
Retired General Mark A. Milley, whom Trump picked to serve as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, warned that former president Donald Trump is a “fascist to the core” and “the most dangerous person to this country” in new comments voicing his mounting alarm at the prospect of the Republican nominee’s election to another term (according to a forthcoming book by Washington Post associate editor Bob Woodward).
Former Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney sees “no reason to disagree with [Milley’s] assessment,” adding that “The people that stopped [Trump] from his worst desires last time around won’t serve again.”
We need to vote pro-democracy and encourage ouf friends and family to do so also. We should assume that our lives will be destroyed if Trump wins the election. He has told us time and time again how he will emulate the despots of world history. In the next week, try to do more than you are doing now to promote Harris and the Democrats running at the Federal and State levels.
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