"The fantasy of barbarians in our cities violating basic social norms serves to gird the Trump-Vance story that legal, constitutional government is helpless and that only an angry mob backed by a new regime could get things done.

It is worth knowing, in this connection, that the first major action of Hitler's SS was the forced deportation of migrants."

Snyder also dissects Trump's out-in-the-open antisemitism.

#Trump #Republicans #Hitler #Nazis #immigrants #BloodLibel #PoliticsofHate
/5

"It is fascist to start a political campaign from the choice of an enemy (this is the definition of politics by the most talented Nazi thinker, Carl Schmitt). It is fascist to replace reason with emotion, to tell big lies ('create stories,' as Vance says) that appeal to a sense of vulnerability and exploit a feeling of difference."

#Trump #Republicans #Hitler #Nazis #immigrants #BloodLibel #PoliticsofHate
/4

But:

"The reason why we keep alive the memory of Nazi crimes is not because it could never happen here, but because something similar can always happen anywhere. That memory has to include the details of history, or else we will not recognize the dangers.

'Never again' is something that you work for, not something that you inherit."

#Trump #Republicans #Hitler #Nazis #immigrants #BloodLibel #PoliticsofHate
/3

In a powerful essay written with his usual lucidity, Timothy Snyder comments on Trump's "Hitlerian month" and the continued refusal of many American commentators to acknowledge the clear parallels between what Trump and Vance are doing and saying what Hitler did and said.

As Snyder notes, the myth of American exceptionalism forces us to pretend it can't happen to us, the good guys.

#Trump #Republicans #Hitler #Nazis #immigrants #BloodLibel #PoliticsofHate
/2

https://snyder.substack.com/p/trumps-hitlerian-month

@formandart
It's amazing.
And from a time and area when the #BloodLibel was active.

That #Shofar is a symbol of #Judaism.

https:// en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_antisemitism

@66gardeners @MissingThePt
Shady Vance might have taken the hit for creating the #BloodLibel story about the Haitian immigrants in order to keep the story about the Neo-Nazis taking credit for making their story go mainstream though perhaps.

@jeffjarvis

Good video. Stochastic terrorism is another term for what Trump & Vance are doing.

NBC did a good news segment on the fallout from the “eating dogs” meme: https://youtu.be/KUyvOK2FA5Q?si=aUDqu2ji5vrWsRNB

Props, as always, to Yamiche Alcindor for good reporting.

"Fascists use lies as a weapon, to demonize minorities and incite hate and violence.

Trump is literally using the same fascist propaganda lies that Hitler used, to turn ordinary Germans into bloodthirsty Nazis.

Hitler’s lies convinced Germans that Jews were monsters. It led to the Holocaust.

Trump is literally using Hitler’s propaganda tactics, to turn ordinary Republicans into bloodthirsty MAGA Nazis."

~ Oliver Markus Malloy

#Trump #Hitler #BloodLibel #violence
/22

https://maganazi.substack.com/p/theyll-eat-your-pets-is-just-a-slightly

@wdlindsy
If only Facebook and Zuckerberg were held to account for the original loathsome post that started spreading the vile, incendiary "migrants eating pets," hoax.
As a person of Jewish ancestry Eye am particular sensitive to blood libels, as Mr Zuckerberg SHOULD be.
#CatsAndDucks, #Racism, #Facebook, #Zuckerberg, #MigrantBashing, #BloodLibel, #Othering, #DefinitionOfLoathsone, #NadirOfUSPolitics, #TuckersBalls

"There are monsters in this story, but they aren’t the immigrants trying to build a better life for themselves and their families. They’re the neo-Nazis, the right-wing influencers, the ghoulish amen chorus online and on Fox, and most of all, Donald Trump and JD Vance. They’re seeding the ground for something truly horrifying, and no one should mistake it for anything else."

#Trump #JDVance #immigrants #Haitians #xenophobia #BloodLibel #antisemitism #pogroms
/9

"JD Vance is no dummy; he is very conscious of the way he is kneading the clay of racist lies to arrive at what he believes is a more elemental truth. ...

This fictional barbarity, Trump and Vance are saying, must be met with genuine barbarity of our own. These are not humans but monsters, and if we have to spill their blood to purify our nation, it will be a righteous and glorious pogrom."

#Trump #JDVance #immigrants #Haitians #xenophobia #BloodLibel #antisemitism #pogroms
/8

"Is it that we should be concerned about the effects of immigration on housing prices or school resources? No no no. It’s that immigrants must be seen as sub-human. Who eats dogs and cats? Humans don’t do that.

The accusation is meant to evoke fear and disgust; it’s closely related to the ancient blood libel against Jews, which said they were kidnapping Christian children to kill them and use their blood in dark rituals."

#Trump #JDVance #immigrants #Haitians #xenophobia #BloodLibel
/7

@chestas @jwillia2

#BloodLibel is a term that refers to a centuries-old practice of blaming the #Jewish community for a death (or deaths) in the larger community.

And using this blame as an excuse to unleash violence upon the Jewish community.

See this definition from Encylopedia Britannica:

https://www.britannica.com/topic/blood-libel