"Now that Hitler actually had to operate within a government the “sober” politicians would “submerge” this movement, according to The New York Times and Christian Science Monitor. A “keen sense of dramatic instinct” was not enough. When it came to time to govern, his lack of “gravity” and “profundity of thought” would be exposed."

Are people saying that about Trump? They were very wrong then, so...

the American dictator "turns up you can bet he will be one of the boys & stand for everything traditionally American."

And Sinclair LEWIS wrote "It Can't Happen Here."

We’re supposed to dismiss the bits of evidence as just one-time things and disconnected-dots (no “connecting the dots” allowed). If we use the labels “HITLER/Nazi/fascist” we are told not to exaggerate. The generations only know their own experience – the olds (me) can see these parallels; the kids see the “new” excitement. And the ancient countries have seen it all and don’t care anymore.


There was a BOURDAIN episode on "Rome" recently and a woman in her 30s said she is aware of some negative political trends, but that she will never vote and only focuses on her daily life, going only as far as what's going on in her neighborhood at most.

Both the press
AND
The citizens who supported to begin their rise

If they don't bow down to the almighty Trumpenfuror. We live in dark times.

Excellent website.

Thanks for posting this.

n/t

Very timely

Thanks for posting.

Especially this last paragraph..one of the boys, the media elected one of their own.

Maybe I'm showing my age, but in the 70's Hitlers and Mussolini's atrocities were taught to us in an unrelenting fashion.

The media knows that 'Never Again' was and is a battle cry for the rise of dictatorship. They are allowing a rise of the 1920's and 30's to occur because this is a game show to them, because their bosses think this is such a rating coup (no irony intended) they will allow this to happen again. This time in our country. The country that lost millions to stop them.

This shit is real…

Even many posters on DU are normalizing our new fuhrer.

The "I will give Trump credit where it's due" and

"We don't know how he will govern/we should give him a chance" brigades were out in full force after the coup was called by the media, and many still remain. They're a bit quieter now, but they get their shots in, making snide remarks about President Obama and granting tacit approval to our new orange overlord and the deplorables that voted for him.

joke .

and Trump is actually a bigger joke but they normalized him.

The similarities are horrifying.

They got stomped by the old IRA, and their attempt to march on Dublin with 30,000 blue nazis was crushed:

" The Blueshirts, who had in the region of 30,000 members, resisted paying local rates and the land annuities (which Fianna Fail continued to collect) to the de Valera government. O’Duffy also led violent resistance to the Fianna Fail’s government policy to seize unsold cattle and to distribute the meat to the poor. In one such confrontation in Cork, a young farmer’s son and Blueshirt, Michael Patrick Lynch was shot dead by Broy’s Harriers – a republican auxiliary to the police. His funeral was a spectacular Blueshirt show of strength, complete with Roman salutes and military drill.

There was no second civil war. The Army and Garda despite their roots in the Free State forces of 1922, obeyed the new government. Talk of a military coup in 1933 by O’Duffy and others in Cumann na nGaedheal and the National Army came to nothing. But there was extensive rioting around the country between the rival factions of the Blueshirts and the IRA and a number of deaths on both sides. "

http://www.theirishstory.com/2012/05/18/the-blueshirts-fascism-in-ireland/

There is no doubt that de Valera was an agent of US interests, who were aligned with anglophiles. But the rank and file anti-nazis stomped the blueshirts.

Is what I love about DU.

I gotta turn in now, so I'm saving it to read tomorrow.