Trump’s Nationalist America is the same as Hitler’s Nazi Germany
Trump’s goal of destroying conservatism in order to build a Nationalist America has been a work-in-progress ever since he first rode down the Trump Tower escalator in 2015. And while MAGA sings the praises of their mango messiah for this change, the reality is that America has devolved into a nation that bears a striking resemblance to Hitler’s Nazi Germany.
One area where this is becoming glaringly obvious is Trump’s immigration policies, as we witnessed last week in a FOX News interview with his deputy chief of staff in charge of immigration policy, Stephen Miller, that focused on immigration. Sounding for all the world like a Nazi discussing the Jews, Miller declared that people from certain “failing” nations shouldn’t be permitted to immigrate into America because they would “replicate” that failure and bring the country down (via Raw Story):
White House adviser Stephen Miller erupted on Fox News in a furious rant claiming that entire generations of immigrants and their descendants “fail” in America, singling out Somali immigrants as he shouted about crime, welfare, and “replicating” supposedly failing societies in the U.S.
Miller declared that post-1965 immigration was the “largest experiment” ever inflicted on a civilization and blamed immigrants for everything from test scores to public policy challenges, escalating into a full-blown meltdown as he insisted the country would “replicate the conditions” of nations he labeled failures. (Emphasis mine)
So, how does this make Miller (and by default, Trump) guilty of being a Nazi? In his book, Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler provides the answer:
Since the inferior always outnumber the superior, the former would always increase more rapidly if they possessed the same capacities for survival and for the procreation of their kind; and the final consequence would be that the best in quality would be forced to recede into the background. Therefore a corrective measure in favour of the better quality must intervene. Nature supplies this by establishing rigorous conditions of life to which the weaker will have to submit and will thereby be numerically restricted; but even that portion which survives cannot indiscriminately multiply, for here a new and rigorous selection takes place, according to strength and health.
If Nature does not wish that weaker individuals should mate with the stronger, she wishes even less that a superior race should intermingle with an inferior one; because in such a case all her efforts, throughout hundreds of thousands of years, to establish an evolutionary higher stage of being, may thus be rendered futile. ~ Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, Chapter 11, “Race and People.”
For those who choose to ignore this as an isolated incident, let me remind you that Trump’s America First nationalism is rooted in racism and xenophobia. This fact reared its orange head during his 2020 reelection campaign when Trump told four Democrat women-of-color in Congress to “go back” to the “broken and crime-infested places from which they came.”
After initially taking some heat for his obviously racist taunts, along with an official condemnation by the House, Trump doubled down on racism and committed to continue the fight against the group he refers to “the squad” because in his mind he was “winning” the battle.
Days later at a North Carolina campaign rally, the army of followers Trump says would support him even if he murdered someone on Fifth Avenue embraced his racist taunts, shouting “send her back” when he mentioned the so-called “vicious” anti-America behavior of Rep. Ilhan Omar, a woman of Somali descent.
Racism and xenophobia have been proven to be key components of the America First nationalism ideology embraced by Trump.
During the inaugural meeting of the National Conservatism Conference held in Washington, DC, a panel on immigration featuring University of Pennsylvania professor Amy Wax advocated that America would be better off with fewer “non-whites” from “less-advanced countries.”
The racism and xenophobia of Trump’s Nationalist America are reprehensible, but equally reprehensible are the similarities between America’s religious “leaders” and those of Nazi Germany and the role each played to facilitate the rise of their respective leaders. It’s my contention that the spiritual condition of the 21st century church closely resembles that of 1930s Germany and as a result, we are witnessing the rise of a Hitler-like leader.
The church in 1930s Germany was a house divided, with one side preaching an “anything goes” abuse of God’s grace, and the other side preaching that salvation was based on the law and good works. The acceptance of these false gospels created the vacuum that was filled by Adolf Hitler. Church “leaders” on both sides saw many things in him that bothered them, but nothing that bothered them enough to risk losing their comfortable existence.
From 2016 through today, the “cheap grace” Evangelical leaders I refer to as the Fellowship of the Pharisees support Donald Trump in much the same way that the 1930s German church supported Hitler, and as a reward for their servitude to the one referred to as “God’s Man,” they have been given seats at Trump’s table where they fight for the crumbs of power he offers. These church “leaders” often mention things about Trump’s behavior and policies that bother them, but nothing that bothers them enough to risk losing their political power.
For the MAGA crowd ready to dismiss my conclusions concerning the parallels between Trump’s Nationalist America and Hitler’s Nazi Germany and the racist/xenophobic policies they have in common, let me share this recent statement made by Trump during a rally in Pennsylvania (via Newsweek):
Speaking in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday, Trump called Somalia “filthy” and “disgusting,” disparaged Afghanistan and asked why immigrants to the U.S. couldn’t come from Norway, Sweden or Denmark.
Trump’s wide-ranging speech to the GOP faithful in north-eastern Pennsylvania on Tuesday included boasts about the economy, the effectiveness of his tariffs and immigration.
On the latter, Trump said he had announced a permanent pause “on third-world migration—including from hellholes like Afghanistan, Haiti, Somalia, and many other countries.”
Trump asked why there could not be some people from Norway, Sweden, Denmark, adding, “send us some nice people, do you mind?”
This is a reprise of reported comments by Trump in 2018 at that Oval Office meeting in which he had allegedly asked why there could not be more immigrants from Norway.
Trump also said on Tuesday that the U.S. always takes people from Somalia, and places that are “a disaster” in the speech in which he mocked Representative Ilhan Omar, a Minnesota Democrat who was born in Somalia. (Emphasis mine)
So, Trump wants to ban people of color from “disaster” countries but he’s A-OK with white Europeans. Got it!
MAGA and the rest of the cult hate it when Trump’s Nationalist America policies are proven to be racist and no different than Hitler’s Nazi Germany, and to that I offer something I learned growing up: You’re entitled to your feelings, but that doesn’t change the facts.
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