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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow does a person Trump's age harbor such beliefs?
He's so much closer to WWII generation than the demographics that I think define these alt-right types...
How could anyone who grew up so close to the cultural effect of WWII be so dismissive?
That's not to say hate isn't ageless...
When he was in Europe over Memorial Day weekend - trashing NATO - part of the fruit of WWII peacemaking and what so many guys died for...no mention of Normandy/D-Day...memorial day!
He loves the Nuke war component of WWII - quick and dirty gets it done...but discounts the kind of action that took down Nazi Germany...guess we're beginning to understand why...this isn't mere ignorance...
Trump is just a rich James Alex Fields Jr.
Siwsan
(26,289 posts)uponit7771
(90,364 posts)... the Nazi terrorist calls us) so he retains some really asinine views about humans
Siwsan
(26,289 posts)Which may explain his lack of a gut wrenching emotional reaction to people waving Swastika flags. I know that there isn't a member in my family who isn't absolutely outraged by that disgusting display.
spanone
(135,873 posts)MineralMan
(146,329 posts)Not a single person in Trump's family ever served in the military. That was intentional. A pox on them all.
Raster
(20,998 posts)...and was arrested at a Klan* rally. Two Scoops Donnie* comes by his racism paternally... it runs in the family.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)They grew up in a time when segregation was legal.
brush
(53,845 posts)Too stupid to know history I guess. Nazi flags and uniforms appeal to them, but what really appeals to them is the white, master race ideology of the Nazis, which of course is stupid. I mean who won the war?
And wtf are they protesting about, society is tailor made for straight, white males all the advantages are there for them.
I mean those smart enough to realize it and who don't get caught up in going to racist, anti-Semitic, violent protests where their photos are taken and uploaded to the internet for all to see forever.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)hexola
(4,835 posts)Or those goofy cut ups on Hogan's Heroes re-runs...?
I guess "The Greatest Generation" is just a Tom Brokaw book now...
brush
(53,845 posts)hexola
(4,835 posts)But this seems to go beyond race...
onethatcares
(16,184 posts)talking about blocking those kind of people from the housing you own.
what the hell kind of parents would do that? His father and we know he practiced the same.
Soxfan58
(3,479 posts)I learned it from my kids.
redstateblues
(10,565 posts)But racial equality will eventually dominate the south the way you learned it.
Sanity Claws
(21,852 posts)His father profited off the war by building housing but he did not serve in any armed force. It would be easy for his offspring to admire the Nazis because no one in their family fought them.
Canoe52
(2,949 posts)thucythucy
(8,086 posts)before Pearl Harbor, including celebrities like Charles Lindberg and industrialists like Henry Ford who were quite open about it. I suspect Trump's father was one of those.
struggle4progress
(118,338 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)we have a winner!
Wounded Bear
(58,706 posts)He is a low-life, disgusting version of, "Let them eat cake!"
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)He had good teachers.
So many factors combined to create his racist and confused mindset.
He doesn't even think he is one.