Trying to think where I have seen the new Trump Card insignia before 😡🤦🏻♀️ pic.twitter.com/sZ3VNgFUvt
— Amy Siskind 🏳️🌈 (@Amy_Siskind) August 5, 2021
June 18, 2020: Trump's re-election campaign ads feature an inverted red triangle, which the Nazis used to identify political prisoners, liberals, and members of opposition parties. Trump's campaign runs 88 Facebook ads with the inverted red triangle in all 50 states before Facebook deletes the material for violating its policy against organized hate.
July 2, 2020: Trump's campaign is selling t-shirts with an eagle logo bearing a striking resemblance to the classic Nazi eagle. The phrase "America First" was popularized by white supremacist and fascist groups in the 1930s.
Oh look, CPAC using symbols from the SS. pic.twitter.com/u2SnFyOcCj
— Resistance Rages On (@ResistanceRages) February 26, 2021
This is making my stomach churn. It's so blatant... pic.twitter.com/8Y06hJIRWB
— PrincessFluffyFluff (@Loralei678) February 26, 2021
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— Punchbowl News (@PunchbowlNews) April 16, 2021
A new America First Caucus — led by @mtgreenee and @RepGosar — is recruiting people to join based on “Anglo-Saxon political traditions” architectural style that “befits the progeny of European architecture”
Some of the most nativist stuff we’ve seen pic.twitter.com/diPDItUt2V
Take a look at how they describe their immigration and infrastructure policy. pic.twitter.com/6jwkhyAKvl
— Punchbowl News (@PunchbowlNews) April 16, 2021
The new "America First Caucus" being formed by white supremacists Marjorie Taylor Greene, Paul Gosar, Louie Gohmert & others that calls for “respect for uniquely Anglo-Saxon political traditions” is nothing more than a Ku Klux Klan chapter in Congress.
— MeidasTouch.com (@MeidasTouch) April 16, 2021
If it’s all the same to you, we’ll just call them Nazis.
— KDM (@7WhoSayS7) April 16, 2021
House Dem Veronica Escobar shreds Marjorie Taylor Greene and Paul Gosar-connected nativist America First Caucus: “Did House GOP members plagiarize Mein Kampf?”
— Hugo Lowell (@hugolowell) April 16, 2021
[After World War I,] it is quickly connected with . . . the rise of the Ku Klux Klan. It became linked to anti-immigration movements, and sympathizers of fascism, and was popularized by Charles Lindbergh, the famous American pilot who lead the "America First Committee" — a group of some 800,000 Americans who wanted to keep us out of WWII. . . .It connects back to the nativism of the 1840s and 1850s, and it sounds broadly anti-immigrant. In a moment where people were very concerned about waves of immigration, which was a big motivating force for the KKK, it was only natural that America First would become a rallying cry for nativists and racists.[To be clear, who did the America First-ers want to keep out?]Anybody who's not white, not Protestant, not what they saw as a native-born American, an old-style American. And that was their notion of what America was supposed to be. So America First did have very strong resonances with ideals like "Make America Great Again," which was a phrase that they nearly echoed as well. The idea then, as now, was that the true version of America is the America that looks like me, the American fantasy I imagine existed before it was diluted with other races and other people. America First spoke directly and powerfully to that segment of white America that felt they were losing their power, their dominance. It was a way of saying me first, only my version of America should be allowed to have any sway here.
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Talking Points Memo, July 14, 2021
Gen. Mark Milley, the chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, reportedly compared then-President Trump's refusal to concede the election to Adolf Hitler, saying that Trump preached "the gospel of the Führer" by pushing falsehoods of a "stolen" election.
In an excerpt of the book "I Alone Can Fix It" by Washington Post reporters Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker that was obtained by New York Magazine, Milley fumed that Trump had led the country to the brink of its own "Reichstag moment" with his efforts to delegitimize democracy. ...
Milley was reportedly disturbed over Trump supporters rallying to the then-President’s baseless claims of widespread election fraud, calling them "Brownshirts in the streets." ...
"These guys are Nazis ... These are the same people we fought in World War II," Milley said a week after the Capitol was breached by a mob of Trump supporters and endangered lawmakers' lives, according to Leonnig and Rucker.
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