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So this is where we are now @gop? #meinkampf? Republican Mo Brooks reading Hitler quotes on the floor of the House. I would like to ask @KevinMKruse to dig in, but I will share some facts. google.com/amp/s/amp.busi…
There is so much irony, especially when you consider “alternative facts” was contrived by the #Trump team to describe their own false statements. google.com/amp/s/www.psyc…
Another part of concern is that Hitler and the Nazi approach to the #press was to create fear, vilify them, and then brutalize anyone in disagreement. The press truly was the enemy of the propaganda machine. encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/art…
Trump has been vilifying the press for some time now, sharing #propaganda, bullying reporters, and eluding to harming people of the press. google.com/amp/s/www.usne…
And here is a reporter being harmed at a #Trump rally. google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.…
Here is how Nazi’s treated foreign correspondents. #Reporting on Hitler: how foreign correspondents in #Nazi Germany battled to expose the truth. google.com/amp/s/www.hist…
I don’t like to make many direct comparisons between Nazi’s and the current #GOP but when they want to make these comparisons, it is important to understand the context and history of what actually happened in Germany.
There is also this 👇
Also please understand the part that was read is very #AntiSemitic
Look who decides to reinforce the idea that the media is the problem.
This thread is also important when the @gop tries to equate democrats and Nazi’s...
And thank you @KevinMKruse
