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A Doge and Pony Show [1]

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Date: 2025-02-19

Amid all the sturm and drang between Democrats and Republicans arguing over the numbers of people being fired, more talk is about their jobs and not them being real people. While politicians seemingly chase their tails, Democrats sound the alarm, and the GOP runs over the public like a terror-powered Tesla. Under the revving engines of Elon Musk speeding past the Constitution, real people worry about their lives. The fascistic nature of what is going on appears in one of the many DOGE posts: DOGE is looking for help from the general public! Please DM insight for reducing waste, fraud, and abuse, along with any helpful insights or awesome ideas, to the relevant DOGE affiliates (found on the Affiliates tab).

One of the ways to disguise one’s fascist behavior is to make the general public feel like they have a stake in it. Much like Hitler had citizens report on the whereabouts of Jews, Elon Musk, in camouflaged language, is asking the general public to rat out their fellow citizens. If you check the Holocaust Encyclopedia (a part of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum), the similarities are prescient. Starting with Mr. Trump’s campaign, where he accused immigrants of not only murder but cannibalizing pets—he ended it with what looked more like a Klan Rally than a presidential campaign, held at Madison Square Garden. The false feeling of protection is the secret to propaganda. Again, referring to the Nazi strategy, Hitler made sure to present the Jews as a danger only remedied by ethnic cleansing as well as people of color and anyone who were not heterosexual Aryans.

It is hard to tell which is the distraction, Trump’s seeming megalomaniacal attempt to take parts of the world or his attempts to weaken and bend the American government to his will. It is like the Superman/Clark Kent quandary, which was the real identity.

Trump’s fascination with Gaza is a case in point of his Nazi-like blueprint. According to the Holocaust Museum literature:

Throughout World War II, Nazi propagandists disguised military aggression aimed at territorial conquest as righteous and necessary acts of self-defense. They cast Germany as a victim or potential victim of foreign aggressors, as a peace-loving nation forced to take up arms to protect its populace or defend European civilization against Communism.

Substitute GOP for Nazi, and the words Germany and Europe with America, and the hyperbole becomes real. Writing what sounds like an alarmist trope, as I have been accused, may seem like spitting in the wind, but Hitler won the respect of his public and the complacency of his party. Like Mr. Trump, Hitler did not win by military overthrow; he won an overwhelming coalition election. One would have to be genuinely under the Trump spell to believe he wants to temporarily relocate the Palestinians in Gaza and build a “beautiful area” when they are displaced.

The sadness of what is happening to a rapidly re-decaying America is a setback of mammoth proportions. The even sadder tragedy is the blinders that the MAGA Republicans have put on. The Republican party that stood shoulder to shoulder with their saint [Ronald Reagan] at the fall of communism and the Berlin Wall and his steadfast opposition to Russian fascism is now applauding the treacherous turning of our backs on our allies. Democrats need to stop awaiting a moment of clarity from Republicans drunk on power. Meanwhile, let us not forget the people with families who risk losing their homes and livelihoods while the Doge and Pony show goes on.

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