Thread by @FreedomFriesInc

(1) This is just the long form version of Matt Schlapp's tweet about the stage design during CPAC.

Trump & allies verbally attack anyone who doesn't toe their line. They do it to frighten others.

The fault for the stage design rests solely with CPAC.

https://twitter.com/CPAC/status/1366470303048728587

(2) Also, it's time to bust some myths.

Using a (very) well known Nazi symbol as the literal stage design at a conference is not just about antisemitism.

Many groups were brutally attacked by the Third Reich.

(3) The MAGA talking points about Nazism always incl. mention of the Jewish people, which is good, but then they claim no one in their mvt could be antisemitic bc MAGA policies have been so good for the Jewish ppl.

(Those MAGA policies were a big part of why I was once MAGA.)

(4) A few years ago for the first time I experienced a random Twitter user calling me a Nazi merely bc I supported Trump. I bet that every active-on-Twitter current or former Trump supporter has been called a Nazi.

The left and "never trump" folk cried wolf too many times.

(5) The unique stage design at CPAC 2021 was front and center. Most of us can see it's virtually identical to a certain Nazi symbol and we know it could not have been so without the agreement of Matt Schlapp and others.

Him claiming now that someone should've told him? Please.

(6) It's true that Hitler's 1932 election manifesto aligns more closely with the 2020 Democrat platform than the 2020 R platform.

That's because Hitler was using it to get elected. From there, the mask started dropping. His eventual policies were nothing like that platform.

(7) These historic facts have been distorted to get Trump supporters to believe there is no link between the inner circle he surrounds himself with, and those who proudly use Nazi symbols like this one in public in the US right now.

(8) Matt Schlapp using the Jewish people in his attempt to deny foreknowledge and intent concerning the stage design is actually a form of antisemitism.

The USA is a full member of this organization:

holocaustremembrance.com/resources/work…

(9) The main Holocaust target were Jews. Nazis also killed homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, Roma & any other group or individual they wanted to.

When a Nazi symbol is used at a political event in 2021, Jews aren't the only group that is being targeted.

It's about ideology.

(10) IDK if Schlapp and Trump intended the stage design to send a direct message like that... I wonder if it was to damage the conservative movement and the Republican party.

Everything Trump is doing benefits the Democrats.

Is that why he's doing it? IDK yet.

(11) The content of Trump's CPAP speech also needs analysis and explanation. IMO he doubled down on the same talking points about 1/6 that he and others are using.

It was a chance for him to do the right thing and help the country. But why break the habit of a lifetime?

(12) It was absolutely gutting for me to have to accept that the missteps I used to explain away were actually part of an ongoing pattern of behavior. The evidence for this is substantial and credible. IMO.

The worst part is that he threw it all away. The hard-won gains.

(13) Trump's actions and omissions over the past few months have led America to where it is now. The future electability of the conservative movement is in tatters.

"Populists" took over. And now everyone is paying the price.

(14) Seeing claims this isn't a Nazi symbol & everyone involved had no idea it'd be controversial.

1. It's late in the piece to say this, which is suspicious.
2. I've considered the assertions and I don't believe them at all.
3. The issue is far wider than one incident.

(15) One of the problems I have with the CPAC statements during & since the weekend is that they are so incompetent from a PR perspective.

They match almost perfectly the kind of responses Trump has been giving in recent months. He is increasingly desperate in his approach.

(16) I encourage people to step back and try to more objectively evaluate Trump's actions, omissions, & statements of the past 6 months or so, & compare them with the 2016 campaign & his first year in office.

I have followed his daily public life in detail since mid 2016.

(17) BTW, I am talking about Trump in this thread bc he & Matt Schlapp would've been in direct contact before & during CPAC 2021, & Trump was fine about using their stage for his important speech on Sunday.

He hates to admit any fault & he has a lot of self belief. A lot.