Weissman writes: "Though hardly more than a one-man band, The Daily Stormer is arguably the most noxious face of Donald Trump's nativist, xenophobic, racist, Muslim-bashing, and Jew-baiting base."
The cover of 'TrumpNation: The Art of Being the Donald' by Timothy O'Brien. (photo: Warner Books)
Trump Is Not Hitler, at Least Not Yet
05 June 16
ilthy Jew Terrorist William Kristol Says a Third Party Candidate will be Introduced,� the headline screamed. America's top neocon had just tweeted that he would soon announce an �impressive� independent candidate to run against both Republicans and Democrats, and the pro-Trump Daily Stormer was responding in its customary fashion.
America�s most successful neo-Nazi website, The Daily Stormer proudly takes its name from Julius Streicher�s notorious Nazi hate sheet, Der St�rmer. It openly calls Trump �The Leader� ? in German, Der F�hrer. And though hardly more than a one-man band, The Daily Stormer is arguably the most noxious face of Donald Trump�s nativist, xenophobic, racist, Muslim-bashing, and Jew-baiting base.
Wondering aloud whether Kristol�s intervention was �just a way to confound the goyim,� the Stormer�s founder and editor, Andrew Anglin, made clear where he was coming from. �Is this tweet serious?� he asked. �Is it a joke? Or is it simply intended to cause fear in the hearts of White Americans?�
�Trump responded to the Jew,� Anglin reported. �If dummy Bill Kristol actually does get a spoiler to run as an Independent,� the presumptive Republican presidential candidate tweeted, �say goodbye to the Supreme Court!�
Anglin saw even greater danger. �Any third party candidate would have zero chance of winning,� he wrote. �The goal is to get Hillary elected.�
�After Hillary, there will be no country left,� he went on. �She will destroy absolutely everything. She will ban the First and Second Amendments by installing communist judges and she will flood the country with so many immigrants � and give citizenship to those already here � that it will be impossible for a non-Democrat to ever win an election.�
�So the #NeverTrump Jews are actually calling for an end to America.�
Kristol�s effort has so far proved a damp squib. The most impressive candidate he could find is David French, a highly decorated combat officer, conservative lawyer, and columnist for the right-wing National Review. Widely unknown, French has yet to say yes. Even if he does, Kristol � the neocon nursemaid to Dan Quayle, the Iraq War, and Sarah Palin ? will once again look like a loser.
Anglin and his Daily Stormer are playing to win. Donald Trump, his Leader, clearly built on the white supremacist attitudes to which the Republican Party has pandered since Richard Nixon�s �Southern Strategy� and �War on Drugs.� Trump also draws on the liberal racism that Bill and Hillary Clinton embraced with their attacks on black �super-predators� and their mass incarceration crime bill, not to mention the way Slick Willie rushed back to Arkansas during his presidential campaign to preside over the execution of a mentally handicapped black man named Ricky Ray Rector.
But Trump goes beyond coded dog whistles and liberal pretense. A skilled demagogue and relentless bigot, he consciously plays to the longstanding racism that the anti-Muslim �War on Terror� and election of a black president brought to the fore � overt racial hatred that Trump himself helped stir up with his widely publicized claims that Barack Obama had not been born in the United States.
The neo-Nazi Anglin was quick to see the potential Trump represented, endorsing him last June, only days after the showman threw his hat into the ring and at a time when most other observers saw him as little more than entertainment and a profit source for big media.
�The modern Fox News Republican has basically accepted the idea that there is no going back from mass immigration,� Anglin wrote in his Daily Stormer. �Trump is willing to say what most Americans think: It�s time to deport these people. He is also willing to call them out as criminal rapists, murderers and drug dealers.�
Trump�s overt bigotry has enabled a motley crew of neo-Nazis and white supremacists to crawl out from under the rocks where they have lived for years. But none have used the opportunity more cleverly ? or pungently ? than the Internet-savvy Anglin and his Daily Stormer.
�Just like Hillary has no strategy to fight The Leader,� he wrote on June 3, �the Jews have no strategy to fight the Alt-Right.�
�The Jews� are, of course, the evil masterminds behind all efforts to suppress the white race, while the �Alt-Right� is the common front of neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and their useful idiots.
In the past, white nationalists had taken great pains to pretend that they were not about hate. But Anglin urges them to new candor.
�Now, when these kikes say that the rising neo-Nazi Alt-Right movement wants to gas the six million, we�re just like �yeah I know right, lol, get in the oven filthy kike ? daddy needs a new pair of lampshades.�
Donald Trump has enabled Anglin�s all-out effort to win over America�s white working class to unabashed racist hatred. Neo-Nazis and Christian Nationalists make similar appeals to disaffected whites in Europe, though they generally find it an easier sale to bash Muslims than Jews.
How do decent people beat back the hate? Only by offering the disaffected a clear understanding of how corporate globalism, neo-liberal economics, and Wall Street-inspired trade treaties have killed middle-class jobs and any hope for the future. Bernie Sanders tries to do that. Hillary Clinton does not. Which do you think has a better chance to stop the juggernaut that Trump has set in motion?
A veteran of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement and the New Left monthly Ramparts, Steve Weissman lived for many years in London, working as a magazine writer and television producer. He now lives and works in France, where he is researching a new book, Big Money and the Corporate State: How Global Banks, Corporations, and Speculators Rule and How to Nonviolently Break Their Hold.
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**Is nowadays are real word? Ah that's one of the great mysteries of the universe....
"Nowadays" is NOT a 'real word'. Except for the fact that "usage" determines acceptable English, and this bastardization "Nowadays" has infiltrated Standard English from "somewheres" in the Ozarks.
I know that it probably *sounds* perfectly acceptable in Texas.
Could you BE any more snarky ? What is more trivial, the question, or someone wiling to take valuable time out of their day to lift a leg on the person asking the question ?
One contemptible addition some decades back was the inclusion of "DoctorWelbyish " (since removed) in the USA.
Thank you for your important and very interesting coverage.
Anyone else want to chip in right now?
There's only one thing I can think of that can do that: GENERAL STRIKE.
We've a long, long way to go to protect people in foreign lands from the continued war and war crime from the West and most importantly the USA.
Predator Drones murder on a continued basis in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen and Somalia for certain. How many other places we do not know.
This alone is heavily indicative of what is to come.
But they can't hide forever from a better-informed world outside of the "approved" US Corporate State chowderhead media.
There is a lot more than just P'v't Manning's fate riding on this show trial.
It might just serve to plunge the US back into further isolation as experienced during the Dimwits/Chain-g ang reign of error and terror and shoot it down to the bottom of the world trust and popularity list, where it is currently at the lower-middle (source; BBC).
Gawd knows how Manning is bearing up during this prolonged lynching but his stoicism and perhaps resignation (or is he being drugged?) should be a spur to world support for his Nobel prize nomination. Sign on at http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=5459.
Stuff it all back down their hypocritical throats!
And I hope that they enjoy reading this on RSN's surveilled database.
"Ah fart in their general directions" (Monty Python's Holy Grail). I hope they get a chuckle at some of my daffy scribblings on RSN.
Abb-abb-abb-t-th-th-at's al ffolks: He-heh-heh!
Complicity to murder and genocide is on trial, and Manning refuses to be complicit. Do we, as human, also? We are the ones on trial, but you cannot call it one. Should we let them convict us without our knowledge?
Hierarchies have lead to garbage gathering police who are deputized to 'take it out,' the garbage which is provided in droves by the central media outlets as lies, or, as a paper-trade. They have to produce so much garbage to successfully alter the cultural landscape permanently, or tectonically, hollowing out under our feet instead of being hallow, or having any predisposition for that. Purposefully, they drive people from their evolutionary design to learn and to participate.
Learning leads to learning-to-lea rn (Bateson) where we would, then, know the 'container' relevant to the learned where both exist together as form, not word. "In the beginning, all was mush and without form," Denial allows proceeding upon no truth at all. This is usury.
We make up for missing truth when being instructed to be in a container that contains none, or, maybe is 50/50. Tricks are not epistemology, or real knowledge, in any event. One needs imagination. Learning, in reality, is not a trick. It would be an oxymoron. If there is any distinction to made, any leap for cognitive powers we could possess, for the power that makes it all just, this is another drama designed, solely, to make us shudder, and is not random.
"..A military spokesman said that the media operations center located half a mile away from the courtroom was "a privilege, not a right...."
It seems amazing to hear someone in the US military advise us that they grant privileges. And all while the US tax payers fund their entire lives from salaries and health care to retirement.
This is an indication of the power we have given to a group that is supposed to defend the USA. Now they tell us what our privileges are. And even more frightening will be the day that an American civilian is arrested by the military and indefinitely detained as allowed by the NDAA.
One more clear indicator of Eisenhower's warning about the "military-indus trial complex. It's all out of control!
Well, that's the US attitude to healthcare too and education, innit!? It's only for the elite and privileged.
There's a long way to go before this country joins the "civilized" world -if ever!
What's a "secure telephone"?
I agree that life goes on" (Oobladee-oobla dah!) but this country is becoming more and more like Spain's Franco era and Suharto's Indonesia I'm tired of repeating this), both supported and armed by the "land of the faux-free-to-sh op and the home of the cowed and surveilled".
It's the QUALITY of life we are looking at here and which is endangered!
Te US is becoming more and more like one of these Sci-fi box rooms where the walls keep sliding in on and constricting it's occupants, or the four-poster bed that lowers it canopy in the night to smother it's sleeping occupants.
Wake up and smell the shite -then fight!
The U.S. Army, as with other entities with the U.S. empire's power structure is ethically bankrupt. The more it protects an monetary empire's interests, the more chance for change.
There is also an NSA entity, PRISM, that is apparently being used to spy on the emails of who knows how many people, foreign and domestic.
The U.S. Constitution has been violated by the very status quo power brokers-and their supporters-who claim to support it. And it's nothing new.
progressives.
Is that the message?
Who do you think will win that 'discussion'?
Well, the IRS hasn't attacked anyone since Nixon ordered them to, and that was the liberals, the FBI, for all its' faults has a long horrendous record of attacking liberal groups and still does, although they occasionally go after obvious criminal right wing groups, the brunt of their actions still falls on liberal groups. And the ATF goes after the people committing gun crimes, which is nearly 100% conservative. So, in this case, they do go after conservatives mostly, but it isn't targeting conservatives per se, it's targeting subversives.
And the military isn't attacking liberals per se, they're attacking the first and fourth amendments.