When He’s Reich, He’s Reich.

Here is Trump loving the great men and women of the FBI . . . and making the case that someone facing felony charges shouldn’t be allowed to run.  (Watch the first 2 minutes.)

When he’s right, he’s right.

(If you were born in Canada and moved here two weeks later, you can’t be president; but if you’re a twice-impeached convicted felon and adjudicated rapist facing at least three more major criminal trials, that’s fine.)

This new book asks: what does Trump really have in common with Hitler?

The buffoonery, chaos and word salad speeches may be more calculated than they appear. “I would like people to become more aware of how incredibly consciously Trump is going about doing what he’s doing, how incredibly cunning and devious he’s been. People should absolutely not underestimate this guy.”

You’ve doubtless tired of my reminding you, but for years Trump kept a book of Hitler’s speeches by his bedside.  The parallels in their rhetoric are striking.

So how does a Jewish man like our friend Carl fall into line with the white Christian Nationalists (and others, of course) in supporting Trump?

In response to yesterday’s “fact check” post, he emailed me:

Another quick fact check: Trump had the border almost closed to migrants then along came Biden and his supporters who reversed everything and let in 10 million unvetted scum.

The three things I note about his email are:

  1. He made no reference to the “facts” checked in that post.  If Trump’s egregious untruths bother him — if honesty or integrity or accuracy matter to Carl in any way — you would not know it from his response.
  2. Of the 10 million immigrants he references*, almost none are “scum.”  Or vermin, for that matter.  Some German Jews were doubtless the Madoffs and Leopolds and Loebs of their time** — but to tar millions this way, as Carl does about those crossing the southern border and Hitler did about Jews and others?
  3. After much work, bi-partisan legislation that would have solved the border crisis was crafted and ready to be signed into law, but Trump torpedoed it.  He is now the cause of the crisis.  He keeps it roiling to fuel his campaign.  He allows the crisis to continue.  Carl doesn’t care.  He blames Biden.

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* Adding to our population by less than 1% a year.

** Just as some Mafiosi and Irish gangsters were mixed in among millions of wonderful Italian and Irish immigrants.