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This Isn't Hard To Say [1]
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Date: 2022-11-27
People about to give everything to stop Nazis on June 6, 1944, Normandy, France
The Media still calls it “The Greatest Generation”. Why? Partially because they gave their blood and lives to stop fascism from overtaking Europe and ultimately, the USA with their sacrifices.
“These individuals have often been described as driven, patriotic, and team-players.”
Now we are witnessing a former president of the United States, declared candidate and presumed front runner for the GOP Nomination in 2024, openly courting vocal and notorious anti-Semites, white supremacists and Holocaust-deniers.
Last Tuesday, Former President Trump shamelessly hosted white nationalist Nick Fuentes and rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, at his Mar-a-Lago resort (although, he did what he always does and denied he knew who Fuentes was and what he is all about). While Trump can claim he “doesn’t know” Fuentes, there can be no doubt that the former President knows where his guest Ye stands on the subject of the Jewish people, as it’s been loud and clear across the media scape for the past 60 days. As Axios reported:
“Ye, who has lost major sponsorships over his anti-Semitism and recent far-right associations, has said he wants to run for president in 2024.”
This is no longer a “dog whistle”, it is a full-blown bullhorn, and the most appalling thing about it is that the GOP is remaining silent on the issue. Where are the condemnations? There is such a blatant cowardice to call this rising fascism what it is and unite behind the values and principles that our forefathers fiercely defended.
As former Republican Party campaign adviser Tara Setmayer demanded:
"Where are the elected leaders of the Republican Party marching on the Sunday shows condemning this? Saying 'hell no, this person has no place in the Republican Party'?"
Is nothing sacred? Are we so corrupt now as a nation that we can’t simply agree that Nazis are the bad guys? One of the two major political parties in America is so craven for power that they can’t even stand up against the foul despotism that fueled a second world war and ultimately fell to defeat.
“Conservatives believed they could contain fascists in the interwar period, and seem to think the same thing today. They bear responsibility not only for generating some of the ideas, but for collaborating with, and tolerating, a lot of the violence and racism. I see conservatives walking down a really precarious path, one that will endanger us all.” - Jonathan Zatlin, a College of Arts & Sciences associate professor of history, is teaching Comparative European Fascism, about Hitler’s Germany, Mussolini’s Italy, and similar regimes that trafficked in violence, racism, and repression.
Denying that what we’re seeing is not what we’re clearly seeing is part of the process of how we can lose our democracy. As we’ve been warned by Hannah Arendt, in The Origins of Totalitarianism:
“Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of man who can fabricate it.”
Nazis are bad.
Nazism is utterly anti-American.
Anyone who doesn’t know this core truth is not worthy of holding public office.
It’s not that hard to say.
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