Trump’s Brownshirts: Violence and Threats of Violence Have Become Inherent to Trumpian Politics | The Smirking Chimp

Kristallnacht is coming to America. They voted Hitler in and called it a Socialist Democracy.

Trump clearly said Mein Kamph was a favorite book he read with great attention.

That Donald Trump still has not been held accountable for encouraging the attack on the U.S. Capitol, or for provoking his followers with his blatant lie that the 2020 election was stolen, continues to galvanize an army of potentially violent Americans.

Source: Trump’s Brownshirts: Violence and Threats of Violence Have Become Inherent to Trumpian Politics | The Smirking Chimp

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  1. The most frightful example of the philosophical justification ‘the end justifies the means’ is the pogrom, the primary implementers of which know they’re committing mass murder yet still genuinely perceive it all as part of an ultimately greater good.

    I seriously doubt there are many people out there gullible enough to genuinely believe Donald Trump was somehow cheated out of an election win. Most of the Capitol Hill rioters very likely maintain(ed) that line as an excuse for their attempt to overturn Joe Biden’s (apparently quite) legitimate electoral win — or at least make it as unpleasant as possible, as witnessed on January 6.

    Long before the last presidential-election day, Trump was saying he may not respect a Biden win, as though preparing his voter base for his inevitable refusal to leave office, whatever the vote-count results may be. The rioters (and Trump) may simply have been enraged enough at his defeat by the supposedly ‘socialist’ Biden (which he definitely is not) they were now going to go the immoral route.

    Or they may have believed he has to remain in office for some perceived greater good (e.g., to ‘save the nation’, etcetera), regardless of Trump’s democratically-decided election loss. … The end justifies the means.

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