He’s telling us what he will do to his political enemies if he’s president again. Is anyone listening?

It’s Official: With “Vermin,” Trump Is Now Using Straight-up Nazi Talk He’s telling us what he will do to his political enemies if he’s president again. Is anyone listening?

I feel pretty safe in saying that we can now stop giving him the benefit of that particular doubt. His use—twice; once on social media, and then repeated in a speech—of the word “vermin” to describe his political enemies cannot be an accident. That’s an unusual word choice. It’s not a smear that one just grabs out of the air. And it appears in history chiefly in one context, and one context only.

    • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1451·
      8 months ago

      I remember pointing out that trump was using Nazi rhetoric during his ‘16 campaign.

      The number of people that argued with me about how it was an exaggeration. Makes me want to scream.

      • Rakonat@lemmy.world
        English
        48·
        8 months ago

        Anyone who says he wasn’t is willfully ignorant so they don’t have to admit they support facism, or unironically ignorant and falling victim to what facism does best: take advantage of the uneducated

        • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
          141·
          8 months ago

          They weren’t the sorts of people to listen to his rallies, etc. Mostly just caught the highlights and sound bites. So when rhetoric started they were mostly… unwilling to accept that. it was just… inconceivable.

      • Igloojoe@lemm.ee
        13·
        8 months ago

        The dude bragged about how he had mein keimf on his bedstand.

        Him and Desantis both studied hitler and wannabe him.

          • Igloojoe@lemm.ee
            1·
            8 months ago

            Not of the book. But I heard he studied history in college, and basically he is basically using the same playbook pre-WW2 nazi germany was doing.

    • TechyDad@lemmy.world
      11·
      8 months ago

      Slightly. Trump seems to be ramping up the rhetoric. He’s getting more and more comfortable emulating Nazi speech. And each step along the way, the media normalizes it by reporting “oh, that wacky Trump said something crazy again!”

      At this rate, he’ll be posting in September 2024 about a final solution to rid this country of his political enemies and all Jews and the NYT will report “Trump Puts Forward Plan To Unite Washington.”