Thread by @CherylRofer

This is one more example of a reporter badly missing the point.

"Oh dear, Kudlow is upset and we can't figure it out."

No. That's not the news here, @shearm
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Perhaps @shearm is too young to remember. Perhaps he hasn't studied history. But others will have gotten the message.
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Both Kudlow and Peter Navarro used the phrase "stab in the back" this morning. 3/
thestar.com/news/world/201…

That phrase was a favorite of Hitler's. Germany was stabbed in the back by Europe in the Treaty of Versailles.

Versailles was devastating to Germany. That's why we decided not to do that kind of thing after World War II.
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Hitler used it as an excuse (one of many) for the Holocaust. Those Jews stabbed Germany in the back, so they deserved whatever. 5/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stab-in-t…

Here it is in German:

Dolchstoßlegende
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There is a group of people in the United States who celebrate that history. They got the significance of two of Trump's cabinet using that phrase. 7/

While I was searching for material on Dolchstoßlegende, I found an op-ed by the Republican William Safire, about its rise in Argentina in 1982. 8/
nytimes.com/1982/06/18/opi…

It's worth reading. Here's a sample. 9/

That's a small history lesson. I hope it's helped, @shearm. Looks like it might help @maggieNYT too. 10/10

Some questions coming up about how frequently "stabbed in the back" is used. I checked at Google Ngram. Big peak from 1930 to 1950, then not much and decreasing.
books.google.com/ngrams/graph?c…