From neo-fascist demagogue and pathological liar Donald "Rump" Trump's comment that KKK and Nazi marchers in Charlottesville, VA in 2017 were "very fine people" to disgraced white supremacist agitator Rep. Steve King's racist social messaging, the Rethuglican / New Confederate Party under Rump has a record of racism and xenophobia. Now, they appear to be emboldened by the still-unverified "Barr Report", which purports to "summarize" the principal conclusions of the Mueller investigation. Now, Rethugs are quoting Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini in their attacks against Dems.
Far-right white nationalist Rep. Mo "No Mo" Brooks (R-Alabammy) was on the House floor using an expression popularized by the Nazis:
"Brooks, a five-term Republican, accused Democrats and members of the media of propagating a 'big lie' about collusion. The expression was coined by Hitler to describe how Jews used their “unqualified capacity for falsehood” to blame a top German military commander for the country’s losses in World War I. A lie could be so big, Hitler claimed, that it perversely defied disbelief.
It was unclear if Brooks grasped that by leveling charges of the “big lie,” he had inverted his own analogy, making Democrats the equivalent of interwar German and Austrian Jews. He set out to compare the other side to fascists, but he was the one employing a fascist smear — one that, ironically, came to define Nazi propaganda." (our emphasis)In a classic case both projection and deflection, "No Mo" even implied that the Nazis were "socialists," despite the historical record that the Nazis murdered socialists, Social Democrats, and Communists during the 1930s. The latest Rethug strategy is to use the term "socialist" as a fear tactic to gin up their ignorant and fearful base, not expecting it will backfire once their people realize that Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are fundamentally democratic socialist programs.
The Rethugs will never deal honestly with who they are, and will lie / project / divert to change the subject and move the spotlight from their corrupt and bigoted essence. It's in their DNA.
