Larry David can’t stand the fact that Bill Maher didn’t hate Donald Trump after they had dinner together.
The 77-year-old “Curb Your Enthusiasm” creator wrote an opinion piece attacking Maher for being open-minded, repeating the tired trope throughout the piece that Trump is Hitler.
The satirical <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/opinion/larry-david-hitler-dinner.html">essay</a> based on Maher’s remarks, titled “My Dinner With Adolf,” was published by The New York Times on Monday. 
“I had been a vocal critic of his on the radio from the beginning, pretty much predicting everything he was going to do on the road to dictatorship,” David wrote, pretending to tell the story from Maher’s perspective. “But eventually I concluded that hate gets us nowhere. I knew I couldn’t change his views, but we need to talk to the other side.”
David went on, “I joked that I was surprised to see him in a tan suit because if he wore that out, it would be perceived as un-Führer-like. That amused him to no end, and I realized I’d never seen him laugh before. Suddenly he seemed so human. Here I was, prepared to meet Hitler, the one I’d seen and heard — the public Hitler. But this private Hitler was a completely different animal. And oddly enough, this one seemed more authentic, like this was the real Hitler. The whole thing had my head spinning.”
“‘I must say, mein Führer, I’m so thankful I came. Although we disagree on many issues, it doesn’t mean that we have to hate each other.’ And with that, I gave him a Nazi salute and walked out into the night,” David’s essay says.
Maher, who has been openly critical of Trump, had a private dinner with the president earlier this month. He later admitted to enjoying himself and feeling better about the president on his <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxlopbcfXpQ">show</a>, &#8220;Real Time with Bill Maher.&#8221;
“And I know as I say that, millions of liberal sphincters just tightened. ‘Oh, my God, Bill, you gonna say something nice about him?’ What I’m gonna do is report exactly what happened. You decide what you think about it, and if that’s not enough pure Trump hate for you, I don’t give a f***,” Maher said of the meeting. 
“I don’t remember exactly what we were talking about, but it must have been something with the 2020 election because I know he used the word ‘lost,’ and I distinctly remember saying, ‘Wow, I never thought I’d hear you say that,’” Maher added. “He didn’t get mad. He’s much more self-aware than he lets on in public.”
“Everything I’ve ever not liked about him was — I swear to God — absent, at least on this night with this guy,” the “Real Time” host said. “He mostly steered the conversation to, ‘What do you think about this?’ I know: your mind is blown. So is mine.”
“A crazy person doesn’t live in the White House,” he added. “A person who plays a crazy person on TV a lot lives there, which I know is f***ed up. It’s just not as f***ed up as I thought it was.”

David and Maher

Larry David Whines About Bill Maher Giving Donald Trump A Chance With Trite ‘Hitler’ Comparison

Larry David Whines About Bill Maher Giving Donald Trump A Chance With Trite 'Hitler' Comparison

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Larry David

New York Times

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended Elon Musk on Thursday after far-Left Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and others smeared him as a Nazi for a gesture that he made during President Donald Trump&#8217;s inaugural celebrations earlier this week.
Musk made the gesture at the end of his remarks inside Capitol One Arena when he told the crowd, “Thank you. My heart goes out to you.”
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DO NOT BELIEVE THE MEDIA
The media is misleading you. Elon Musk never did a Nazi salute. Watch the full video: He simply gestured and said, “Thank you, my heart goes out to you.” <a href="https://t.co/e3vBaLoVqx">pic.twitter.com/e3vBaLoVqx</a>
— DogeDesigner (@cb_doge) <a href="https://twitter.com/cb_doge/status/1881451556656345170?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2025</a></blockquote>
Ocasio-Cortez made the accusation during remarks she made during an Instagram livestream.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t care what Elon Musk is doing behind a presidential seal,&#8221; she said. &#8220;In this country, we hate Nazis.&#8221;
&#8220;I like, you&#8217;re gonna do a Sieg Heil, you&#8217;re going to do a Heil Hitler &#8230; from behind the presidential seal of the United States of America?&#8221; she continued. &#8220;It&#8217;s on! It&#8217;s on!&#8221;
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Netanyahu responded to accusations by saying that Musk was &#8220;being falsely smeared.&#8221;
&#8220;Elon is a great friend of Israel,&#8221; he said. &#8220;He visited Israel after the October 7 massacre in which Hamas terrorists committed the worst atrocity against the Jewish people since the Holocaust.&#8221;
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&#8220;He has since repeatedly and forcefully supported Israel’s right to defend itself against genocidal terrorists and regimes who seek to annihilate the one and only Jewish state,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;I thank him for this.&#8221;
Even the left-wing Anti-Defamation League (ADL) defended Musk over the accusations.
&#8220;It seems that @elonmusk made an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm, not a Nazi salute, but again, we appreciate that people are on edge,&#8221; they said. &#8220;In this moment, all sides should give one another a bit of grace, perhaps even the benefit of the doubt, and take a breath. This is a new beginning. Let’s hope for healing and work toward unity in the months and years ahead.&#8221;
AOC fumed at the ADL&#8217;s statement: &#8220;Just to be clear, you are defending a Heil Hitler salute that was performed and repeated for emphasis and clarity.&#8221;
&#8220;People can officially stop listening to you as any sort of reputable source of information now,&#8221; she said. &#8220;You work for them. Thank you for making that crystal clear to all.&#8221;

President Biden Hosts Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu At White House

Netanyahu Defends Musk After AOC, Leftist Media Smear Him As A Nazi

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Anti-Defamation League

Anti-Semitism

Benjamin Netanyahu

Elon Musk

Israel

Nazis

Social Issues

Sunny Hostin, a far-left co-host of ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View,&#8221; slammed the co-hosts of MSNBC&#8217;s &#8220;Morning Joe&#8221; for going to Mar-a-Lago to try to curry favor with President-elect Donald Trump.
&#8220;Morning Joe&#8221; co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski said during Monday morning’s show that they met with Trump over the weekend “to restart communications.”
It was the first time that they had spoken to him in seven years after they have repeatedly attacked him, including comparing him to Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler.
The show has been so rabidly hostile to Trump that MSNBC pulled it off the air the day after Trump was shot because the network was reportedly worried about what might be said on air.
&#8220;The bottom line is that America needs a free press that is willing to speak truth to power right now more than ever,&#8221; Hostin claimed. &#8220;And I think that we have to be very clear eyed when we think about the president-elect and cover the president-elect.&#8221;
&#8220;And I don&#8217;t think you need to sit down for 90 minutes at Mar-a-Lago and kiss his ring to be able to speak truth and to be able to cover a story,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;So maybe they&#8217;re not journalists in the true sense.&#8221;
Hostin claimed Trump was &#8220;the guy who ushered in the era of fake news.&#8221;
&#8220;He is the guy who ushered in alternative facts,&#8221; she claimed. &#8220;He is the guy who attacked three black female journalists. He&#8217;s the guy that revoked Jim Acosta&#8217;s press credentials for asking him a question. And so I think that this president-elect, I hate to say it would like nothing more than to have only Fox News cover him. Would like nothing more than a state-sponsored media.&#8221;
She concluded by claiming that Trump could not &#8220;be trusted in the way that other presidents can be trusted.&#8221;
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Sunny Hostin of The View voiced her outrage over MSNBC’s Morning Joe hosts, Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, holding a meeting with Donald Trump.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t think you need to sit down for 90 minutes at Mar-a-Lago and kiss his ring&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/mrH8tLG53c">pic.twitter.com/mrH8tLG53c</a>
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) <a href="https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1858582668201341349?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 18, 2024</a></blockquote>

The View’s “Behind The Table” Podcast

Sunny Hostin: ‘Morning Joe’ Went To Mar A Lago To ‘Kiss Trump’s Ring’

Sunny Hostin

Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC) said in an interview over the weekend that he believes President-elect Donald Trump is another dictator like Adolf Hitler or Benito Mussolini.
Clyburn made the remarks during a Saturday interview with Neil Cavuto on Fox News&#8217; &#8220;Cavuto Live&#8221; while talking about the country&#8217;s shift to the political Right in this month&#8217;s elections.
&#8220;We go from left to right in this country,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We go from right back left in this country. And I always say, well whether the pendulum is going from left to right or right to left, it always passes through the middle.&#8221;
&#8220;Now, the country has gone lurching back to the right,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;I hope it’s not going as far right as that which happened in Germany in the 1930s. But you may remember I forewarned way back in 2018 that I saw this coming. I’ve studied history all of my life.&#8221;
Cavuto pushed back, asking if he was saying that he is &#8220;envisioning another Hitler.&#8221;
&#8220;That’s exactly what I’m saying,&#8221; Clyburn said. &#8220;I said the 1930s in Germany. And of course, we go to Mussolini in Italy.&#8221;
Clyburn added that he was not being hyperbolic by making the comparison.
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🚨Wow. Democrats are still calling President Trump Hitler:
Neil Cavuto: “Are you envisioning [Trump] as another Hitler — is that what you’re saying?”
Jim Clyburn: “That’s exactly what I’m saying!”
Cavuto: “You don’t think that’s a little hyperbolic?”
Clyburn: “You may think… <a href="https://t.co/gm3ver1qC9">pic.twitter.com/gm3ver1qC9</a>
— Steve Cortes (@CortesSteve) <a href="https://twitter.com/CortesSteve/status/1857814457071632581?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 16, 2024</a></blockquote>
Republican strategist Steve Guest responded to the clip by posting on X: &#8220;Democrats are rhetorical arsonists who don’t care about the consequences of their rhetoric.&#8221;
&#8220;President-elect Trump had already faced multiple assassination attempts,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Clyburn’s comments this morning only add fuel to the fire.&#8221;
Claremont Institute senior fellow Jeremy Carl made a similar assessment of Clyburn&#8217;s remarks.
&#8220;Former long-time member of Democrat leadership throwing around this type of dangerous language at a President who has already been the victim of two assassination attempts,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s dangerous and outrageous.&#8221;
Radio host Julie Gunlock posted on X: &#8220;Yup. They want him dead. They’ll keep saying it.&#8221;

House Votes June 28

Democrat Jim Clyburn: Not Hyperbolic To Say Trump Is Another Hitler, Mussolini

James Clyburn

Popular radio host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/charlamagne-tha-god" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Charlamagne tha God</a> weighed in on President Joe Biden&#8217;s cordial meeting with President-elect Donald Trump at the White House on Wednesday, and he admitted to having a hard time wrapping his head around how that all went down.
During his Thursday morning broadcast, he recalled how Biden — along with the rest of his party and a whole host of media talking heads — had been referring to Trump as a &#8220;fascist&#8221; or suggesting that he was the second coming of Adolf Hitler just days earlier. What he didn&#8217;t understand, he said, was how Biden had pivoted so easily from calling Trump an &#8220;existential threat&#8221; to inviting him into the White House for a pleasant conversation.
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Charlamagne on Biden welcoming Trump to White House: &quot;What happened to the threat of democracy talk? What happened to the fascist talk? &#8230; I&#39;m just trying to figure out, how do you go from, &#39;He&#39;s an existential threat to democracy&#39; to &#39;Welcome back&#39;?&quot;<a href="https://twitter.com/DailyCaller?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DailyCaller</a> <a href="https://t.co/b8a9jfvhGJ">pic.twitter.com/b8a9jfvhGJ</a>
&mdash; Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 (@JasonJournoDC) <a href="https://twitter.com/JasonJournoDC/status/1857117242565054606?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 14, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;I just don&#8217;t understand the White House visit,&#8221; he began. &#8220;Granted, I&#8217;m glad there&#8217;s a peaceful transition of power, but what happened to the threat of democracy talk? What happened to the fascist talk?&#8221;
&#8220;By the way, I know I&#8217;ve said those things about Trump as well,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;But I&#8217;m not talking about me. I&#8217;m talking about his political opponents like President Biden. When they say it, it holds way more weight than me. I&#8217;m just trying to figure out, how to you go from &#8216;He&#8217;s an existential threat to democracy&#8217; to &#8216;Welcome back&#8217;?&#8221;
DJ Envy, Charlamagne&#8217;s cohost, weighed in then, noting that Biden had looked happy during the meeting and had been &#8220;cheesing&#8221; for the cameras.
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Charlamagne went on to say that he understood Biden held himself up as an advocate for certain political &#8220;norms,&#8221; but still couldn&#8217;t quite make it all make sense in his mind.
By the end of the segment, he appeared to give up entirely, saying, &#8220;I&#8217;m gonna stop minding white people&#8217;s business.&#8221;
The popular host had broached the subject earlier, asking last Friday why prominent members of the Democratic Party had suddenly stopped referring to Trump as a &#8220;threat to democracy.&#8221;
&#8220;Don’t y’all find it strange that now that he’s won, they’re not calling him a threat to democracy? They’re not calling him a fascist. I mean, damn, on Monday, they was just calling him that. I would think that, you know, if you really believe that, then somebody’s speech would be about how America ‘effed up and how things are about to be really bad. It just makes you wonder how much of it did they really believe, or how much of it was just politics. That’s all,&#8221; he said at the time.

Charlamagne tha God

Charlamagne Tha God Can’t Wrap His Brain Around Trump-Biden White House Meeting

Charlamagne Tha God Can't Wrap His Brain Around Trump-Biden White House Meeting

2024 Election

Charlamagne Tha God

Elections

Fascism

Joe Biden

WASHINGTON, D.C.—As Vice President Kamala Harris made a final electoral appeal to the nation, her supporters doubled down on extreme rhetoric, calling former President Donald Trump and his supporters Nazis and fascists.
“If he wins in November it will be the birth of the American Nazi Party with him at the top of it,” Bill Wood told The Daily Wire outside Harris&#8217;s Tuesday <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kamala-calls-trump-a-petty-tyrant-in-closing-speech-as-far-left-protests-rage">speech</a> at the Ellipse. &#8220;He&#8217;s going to take anybody who disagrees with him and put them in jail, and from there, he&#8217;s going to deport them out of the United States altogether.”
“Trump is nothing but a dictator, he wants to subvert our democracy,” said Marc Petitpierre, who traveled to the rally from West Virginia. “He’s a damn Nazi! He’s a fascist! Of course he is!” Petitpierre responded when asked his thoughts about Democrat vice presidential candidate Tim Walz’s <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4956168-walz-trump-madison-square-garden-rally/">comparison</a> of Trump with Nazis.
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WATCH: Our <a href="https://twitter.com/SpencerLndqst?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SpencerLndqst</a> went to a Kamala Harris rally to see whether her supporters really think Trump is the next Hitler. And they do.
&#8220;If he wins in November, it will be the birth of the American Nazi party” <a href="https://t.co/jpUFfKgUZ3">pic.twitter.com/jpUFfKgUZ3</a>
— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/1853081956004581696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 3, 2024</a></blockquote>
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“I think he wants to basically turn this into a white Christian nation, which it is not,” another attendee said of Trump’s motives, before saying that she isn’t concerned that the heated rhetoric could inspire more violence against the former president.
“I think it is a totally reasonable assumption,” she said of claims that Trump is a Nazi. “I mean, Elon Musk is wearing a ‘Make America Great Again’ hat in the Nazi font,” she continued, referring to Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden. “That was definitely the vibe there, it was frightening and disgusting.”
“I hope he goes to prison. I think he should go to prison,” she added. “I think he’s a full fascist authoritarian.”
One man said that both Trump and his supporters were Nazis.
“You committed treason, and we hate your ever f***ing guts,” he said of people who vote for Trump, adding that the Republican presidential contender “wants to destroy all life on earth.”
“They don&#8217;t get to be the Nazis on our street. They don&#8217;t get to turn our police into, you know, they&#8217;re Gestapo. F*** them,” the man said. “If they want to bring on the violence, America, we&#8217;ll kick their ass.”
When asked what his final message would be, he remarked “love wins in the end.”
During her speech, Harris called Trump a “petty tyrant” and a “wannabe dictator,&#8221; and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kamala-calls-trump-a-petty-tyrant-in-closing-speech-as-far-left-protests-rage">compared</a> her opponent to King George III. Shortly after Trump narrowly escaped death at the hands of a would-be assassin in Butler, Pennsylvania in July, President Joe Biden urged Americans to &#8220;<a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/hey-remember-lowering-the-temperature-in-our-politics/">lower the temperature</a>&#8221; in politics.

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WATCH: Kamala Voters Say Trump Supporters Are ‘Nazis,’ Want Trump In Prison

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Trump

Former first lady <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/melania-trump">Melania Trump</a> reacted to Vice President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kamala-harris" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kamala Harris</a> and her surrogates labeling her husband, former President Donald Trump, and his supporters <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/auschwitz-survivor-blasts-kamala-for-comparing-trump-to-hitler" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nazis and fascists</a>.
During the first lady’s stop on “<a href="https://x.com/KarluskaP/status/1851238555432915428">Fox and Friends</a>” on Tuesday, Melania hit back at the rhetoric from Democrats and the legacy media calling Trump the &#8220;second Hitler&#8221; and comparing his rally at Madison Square Garden to Adolf Hitler&#8217;s in 1939.
“It’s terrible,” the former first lady said. “He’s not Hitler, and all of his supporters they&#8217;re standing behind him because they want to see the country successful. And we see what kind of support he has.”
“He loves his country,” she added. “And he wants to make it successful for all of the people. He loves people and he wants to make this country great again.&#8221;
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Full segment on Fox &amp; Friends with the beautiful elegant Melania Trump! <a href="https://t.co/80YEhQmNLH">pic.twitter.com/80YEhQmNLH</a>
— Karli Bonne’ 🇺🇸 (@KarluskaP) <a href="https://twitter.com/KarluskaP/status/1851238555432915428?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 29, 2024</a></blockquote>
Melania said she&#8217;s more prepared this time around for life in the White House should Trump win re-election and said she wasn&#8217;t “anxious” to be first lady again.
“I’m not anxious,” Melania told the hosts. “Because this time is different. I have much more experience, much more knowledge. I was in the White House before, so when you go in, you know exactly what to expect.”
“You know what kind of people you need to get,” she added. “You need to have people, they are on your team. That they have the same vision as me. And to serve me, because they serve the country.”
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When pressed by one of the hosts about comments she made in her memoir “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/melania-trump-offers-glimpse-into-new-memoir-says-its-time-to-clarify-the-facts">Melania</a>” regarding being stabbed in the back the last time she was in the White House, the former first lady said it was important for people to hear her story, because there was “a lot of misinformation” and “mistruths.”
The former first lady also talked about the support Trump’s been getting and said the energy felt like 2016. However, she admitted, this time around, things are “much more dangerous” following two attempted assassination attempts on her husband.
“I’m very vigilant and very selective were I go, what do I do,” Melania said. “Because you never know. It’s one person. It’s dangerous out there. “
During an interview on Tuesday with <a href="https://x.com/WISN12News/status/1851369310121287804?_nlid=AgV66W9RUZ&amp;_nhids=pLzmHBvOB9">WISN-TV</a>, Kamala Harris was asked about her running mate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz labeling Trump and his supporters Nazis and fascist, and she didn’t denounce it.
“I have said what I have to say, which is, he is dangerous and unfit and increasingly unstable, unhinged…” Harris replied.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-country-is-suffering-melania-trump-talks-2024-election-in-first-interview-in-2-years" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8216;The Country Is Suffering’: Melania Trump Talks 2024 Election In First Interview In 2 Years</a>

US-POLITICS-ELECTION

‘It’s Terrible’: Melania Reacts To Trump And Supporters Being Labeled Nazis, Fascists

Melania Reacts To Trump And Supporters Being Labeled Nazis, Fascists

Kamala Harris

Media

Melania Trump

As you’ve probably heard by now, Donald Trump held a Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden on Sunday. Sure, it wasn’t a Nazi rally by name. He didn’t call it a Nazi rally. There wasn’t any Nazi paraphernalia or Nazi flags or swastikas. There wasn’t anything Nazi related at all. But he did hold his rally in a venue where Nazis held a rally back in 1939. Is that a coincidence? The Nazis rallied at Madison Square Garden and then suddenly, practically the very next day — or, like, 31 thousand days later, give or take, but who’s counting — Donald Trump and his MAGA minions are gathering at the exact same spot. What other conclusion can we draw here? 
If Nazis were in a certain venue and then 85 years later other people are in the same venue, are we not forced to conclude that the second group of people must also be Nazis? Is it conceivable that two different groups, separated by nearly a century, could gather in the same building for different reasons? No, it is not conceivable. It is, in fact, impossible.
That’s the math that the media and the Kamala Harris campaign are doing. Here was Tim Walz sending up the warning flag before the rally:
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A direct parallel, he says. What is the parallel? Well, how much more explicit can it be? There were Nazis in that building 85 years ago. Then on Sunday other people were in the building. The Nazi building. What would they be doing there, except Nazi stuff?
This is the point that many high profile Democrats made. Hillary Clinton denounced the rally as a Nazi gathering. 
As she put it, Trump is “reenacting” the Nazi rally:
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No, we can’t ignore it. She’s right. 
MSNBC made the case as well: 
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There you have it. If you aren’t convinced, you can read the Washington Post column <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/28/trump-rally-madison-square-garden/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published on Monday</a> with this headline: “Another night at the Garden: How Trump’s rally echoed one in 1939.” You should read the piece, but in case you don’t have time: it echoed the Nazi rally because it was in the same place as a Nazi rally. That’s the whole argument. And what other argument needs to be made? It’s utterly decisive.
Meanwhile, Mika Brzezinski appeared as a guest on &#8220;The View&#8221; on Monday, where she nearly brought the collective IQ at the table to room temperature level. It was slightly above room temperature before she got there. Mika warned that we are in the “final hours” and must do everything we can to stop the man who holds “Nazi-type rallies”:
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Now you might ask: isn’t Madison Square Garden a major venue where lots of events are held every week? Yes, and that should tell you the scope of this problem. In fact, I went on Ticketmaster this morning and saw that there is a Cyndi Lauper concert — the “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” tour — happening at Madison Square Garden this week. This is tragic for her fans, but the conclusion is inescapable: Cyndi Lauper is a Nazi. Girls just wanna be Nazis, apparently. Duran Duran is holding a Nazi rally the very next day at MSG. Nazism is absolutely rife in the 80s music scene. 90s bands aren’t much better. As you can see if you check the events schedule, Dave Matthews Band and Creed are having their own Nazi rallies at Madison Square Garden in November. I’m not surprised about Creed, frankly, but I’m very disappointed in Dave Matthews.
Here’s an interesting and disturbing note: The New York Knicks are having 41 Nazi rallies at Madison Square Garden in the next few months. Nazism is alive and well among NBA players, just as we always suspected.
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This is the way it works now. Every large gathering of people is a Nazi rally if it happens at a place where there was once a large gathering of Nazis. Of course, needless to say, this doesn’t count the 1992 DNC held at Madison Square Garden, or the Ralph Nader Green Party rally in 2000. There are exceptions to every rule. Let’s not dwell on those. Let’s just get back to the main point, which is that Donald Trump is literally a Nazi.
Maybe you aren’t convinced yet. Maybe, in your wild imagination, you have concocted fanciful hypothetical scenarios where Trump held a rally in Madison Square Garden because it’s a really big arena that fits lots of people, and not because Nazi sympathizers gathered there eight and a half decades ago. I find that sort of speculation to be ludicrous, but fine. Then how do you explain the other parallels between Trump and Hitler?
Consider this. Donald Trump, as you may have noticed, almost always wears suits. It seems kind of odd. In an era where most politicians are dressing more casually, Trump insists on the suit. Sort of a strange quirk. It doesn’t really make sense. Until you connect the dots. 
As you can see here, someone else has also been documented wearing suits:
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This is deeply troubling. Adolf Hitler was known to sit at a table and eat dinner. Donald Trump has also been documented sitting at tables and eating dinner. Is this just a “coincidence,” or is it yet another Nazi MAGA dog whistle? <a href="https://t.co/BeJLoT2UmZ">pic.twitter.com/BeJLoT2UmZ</a>
&mdash; Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1850898838564827437?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 28, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The parallels run even deeper. Recall that infamous photo of Trump eating a taco salad on Cinco De Mayo. That was traumatizing already just for the cultural appropriation alone. Not to mention the fact that he didn’t even have guacamole on his taco salad, which is a totally bizarre and inexplicable choice. 
Instead, think about how he was eating the salad. He was sitting in a chair at a table. Again: that seems strange. You think to yourself: why is he eating at a table? Why a table, of all things? Well, it turns out that someone else was also photographed eating dinner at a table: 
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This is deeply troubling. Adolf Hitler was known to sit at a table and eat dinner. Donald Trump has also been documented sitting at tables and eating dinner. Is this just a “coincidence,” or is it yet another Nazi MAGA dog whistle? <a href="https://t.co/BeJLoT2UmZ">pic.twitter.com/BeJLoT2UmZ</a>
&mdash; Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1850898838564827437?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 28, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Have you seen enough yet? How many coincidences do you need? Hitler sat at a table. Trump sat at a table. Hitler wore a suit. Trump wore a suit. People who liked Hitler went to Madison Square Garden once. Trump went to Madison Square Garden. The conclusion follows with mathematical certainty: Trump is a Nazi. Cyndi Lauper is a Nazi. The Knicks are Nazis. The dots all connect. Once you see it, you can’t unsee it.
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I think I’ve proven the case beyond any reasonable doubt at this point. But I do want to address the most outlandish rebuttal from the Nazi sympathizers. They will sometimes point out that Trump was actually already president. He was in office for an entire term. If he’s a fascist dictator, then we should be able to look and see that he did a whole bunch of fascist dictator stuff while in office. But, as these naysayers point out, he didn’t. In fact, Trump was the first president in decades to refrain from starting any new wars or invading any new countries. 
Trump did not use his presidential powers to install himself as a dictator for life. He did not end democracy. He did not take any steps to make himself into the autocratic ruler of the country. In fact, Trump signed fewer executive orders than Obama, Bush, and Clinton. If you’re judging Trump by how he actually governed, you are forced to conclude that he was the least power hungry president in the past 100 years. He was remarkably restrained, if anything. At least that’s how the argument goes.
I find it deeply unconvincing. Just because Trump didn’t do something in the past, that doesn’t mean he won’t do it in the future. Indeed, the fact that he didn’t do it in the past only means that he will do it in the future. Think about it. As an analogy, Trump was the burglar casing the house before he makes his move. Just because the burglar drives away without stealing anything, doesn’t mean that he won’t in the future. Of course, in this case, the burglar was actually in the house, for four years, and didn’t do anything. Actually if a burglar is in your house for four years and doesn’t steal anything then it’s really good evidence that he’s not a burglar. So that analogy isn’t helpful. But forget about that. 
The point is that this is all part of Donald Trump’s plan. He refrained from anointing himself Supreme Ruler during his first term, only so that we would be lulled into a false sense of security. He is like a snake, coiled up and waiting to strike. He is a Hitler who didn’t govern like Hitler, so that later he could govern like Hitler. It’s all part of the plan, part of the spell that he casts. And you know who else casts spells? Well, that’s Voldemort actually. But also Hitler. Think about it.

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On the eve of Operation Barbarossa, Adolf Hitler’s long-desired invasion of the Soviet Union, the German high command issued a chilling edict to the Axis armies waiting for their marching orders, setting the tone for one of the most horrific and prolonged episodes of mass barbarity ever recorded. 
“This will be a war of annihilation,” said the German Army chief of staff, General Franz Halder, relaying the wishes of his Führer. “Commanders must make the sacrifice of overcoming their personal scruples.” 
Beyond the scope of Hitler’s four million-man operation spanning a front line some 1,200 miles from Finland to the Black Sea, it was the viciousness, indeed the racial hatred, that underpinned the assault on the detested Slavs, Bolsheviks, and, of course, Jews, that made this crime and others of Hitler and his Nazi hordes so unique in the annals of warfare. 
Barbarossa was the ultimate expression of Hitler&#8217;s megalomaniacal zeal to eradicate tens of millions of those whom he considered unworthy of sharing the same continent with his master race. The orgy of mass murder his loyal soldiers inflicted upon the people of Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and the Baltic States was the equivalent of over six 9/11s each day, every day, for over 1,400 days. The 27 million dead would be added to the tally of millions more murdered Poles, Greeks, French, Dutch, Belgian, Danes, British and British Commonwealthers, Americans, Norwegians, Czechs, Yugoslavs, and others, to the point where Adolf Hitler, in his hate-filled descent into bona fide madness, could claim direct responsibility for the deaths of over 36 million people. This does not even include Axis dead.
This is the man to whom a desperate Democrat Party is once again shamelessly trying to link their GOP opponent, Donald Trump. Such lack of shame in making so ludicrous an analogy actually beggars the mind. More so when you consider how many Americans on the left blindly accept this comparison as even remotely valid. As such, although not surprisingly, Trump has been the target of three assassination attempts due to such demonization. After all, when you draw a nexus between him and the architect of Barbarossa, The Holocaust, and other atrocities, it is easy to see how not just the mentally unstable, but even many otherwise normal Americans fearing for their nation&#8217;s future can want the man dead. In fact, <a href="https://www.christianpost.com/news/one-third-of-democrats-wish-trumps-assassin-didnt-miss-poll.html">almost one-third</a> of Democrats surveyed expressed disappointment that Trump was not felled by the bullet that took the life of an innocent father of two. That is self-evidently disturbing.
But who is Donald Trump really, when you strip away the bizarre, visceral hatred for the man? As it turns out, he was a politician who was already President for 1,447 days. And the nation survived with its bedrock civil liberties well intact while the world was at relative peace. This was a man who firmly supported the Jewish state of Israel, and was, in fact, the only President in my adult lifetime to refrain from starting yet another ill-conceived war.
Indeed, the only atrocities I ever saw him commit while in office were his hairdo, fast food diet, and sometimes undisciplined tongue. And, yes, he should have been more forceful in his words to try and stem a four-hour riot on Capitol Hill.
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With that said, I have often wondered if those who somehow compare Donald Trump (or anyone really) to Hitler have ever even heard of such nightmarish places as Auschwitz, Treblinka, Belsen, Sobibor, or Dachau. And these infamous death factories, run with the Nazis’ knack for dispassionate efficiency, are just a handful of the <a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/how-many-concentration-camps">over 6,000</a> concentration camps set up throughout Germany and the conquered territories from 1933-1945. And the millions of innocents murdered in these grisly places do not even include the inhumane POW camps into which millions of Red Army prisoners were dumped and condemned to die of starvation, summary execution, torture, and disease.
As just one example of the atrocities about which I’ll guarantee you the “Trump is Hitler” crew are unaware, consider Babi Yar. In September 1941 as the Wehrmacht moved through the Ukraine, Hitler’s roving SS assassins called the <a href="https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/einsatzgruppen" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Einsatzgruppen</a>, along with elements of the regular German Sixth Army, sent out an order that all Jews in Kyiv were to report for relocation. They were instructed to bring ID, money, and warm clothing. The unsuspecting Ukrainian Jews were ignorant of the Nazis’ rabid anti-Semitism; until the invasion, Stalin had forbidden negative press re: Germany as part of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Non-Aggression Pact. Some 33,000 showed up and were subsequently ushered to the ravine of Babi Yar. Hitler’s executioners then systematically massacred them all…men, women, children, the latter of whom were often lined up and shot three at a time with one round to save ammunition. It has been said that before there was “Shoah by gas&#8221;, there was &#8220;Shoah by bullets.” And the Nazis were just getting started. Not only was Hitler fully aware of this and countless other atrocities in his name, he enthusiastically encouraged them.
As for the broader Ukraine, Hitler and his Nazi henchmen vowed to strip “Europe’s breadbasket” of its grain harvest which would be spirited away to the Reich. In what they unashamedly labeled “der Hungerplan,” Hitler gleefully expected that his edict would condemn some 30 million to die of slow starvation. The very well-fed Hermann Göring, echoing his Fuhrer’s sentiments, boasted that the population would have to “eat Cossack saddles!” 
Those allowed to live and work the land at the behest of their German overlords would be relegated to slaves, modern helots. It is not difficult to see where Tolkien’s inspiration for his “Lord Of The Rings” series — featuring Sauron’s malice, lust for power, conquest, and drive to inflict suffering upon the people of Middle Earth — originated.
Like many of us in the post-war world, I’d grown up knowing about Hitler and his crimes. But it was not until I began researching my <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Another-Time-Place-Brad-Schaeffer/dp/1682616630">first book</a> that I came to understand just how close to pure evil this man was. Indeed, for Europe, Hitler’s ascent to power, and the unfathomable suffering and devastation he unleashed upon the continent in his six-year rampage of gore, was, quite simply, the worst thing to happen since the Black Death.
Yet, now we must endure the latest round of “Trump is Hitler” from the Left that will try any and every approach to save Kamala Harris’ sinking campaign.
Do such dubious equivalences stem from ignorance? Is it desperation? I don’t know. But I do know this: The more the “H” word is casually bantered about as the go-to analogy for anyone the Left finds disagreeable, the less the actual crimes of Hitler himself are properly remembered. Like his morally anesthetized soldiers, we become inured to them. And that is dangerous. Because, as Mark Steyn said, “When everybody’s Hitler, nobody’s Hitler.” How, then, will we know if a true successor to the man the historian Hugh Trevor-Roper referred to as “the coarsest, cruelest, least magnanimous conqueror the world has ever known” is among us?
That a president should choose to use his Constitutionally granted authority to secure the border and sit across the table from bad actors who command nuclear arsenals, so as to prevent a Third World War (from which humanity would never recover), while placing U.S. interests above those of the other 192 nations, does not make him the new Führer.
To compare Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler only serves to shamelessly insult and belittle the memory of the Nazis’ tens of millions of victims. This is a truly grotesque tactic deployed at the eleventh hour to score cheap political points to salvage a campaign that is rapidly sinking under the weight of its own candidate’s incompetence, mendacity, and astounding vacuousness. When this campaign is over, no matter who wins, the Democrats will owe not just Trump, but Hitler&#8217;s victims, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/auschwitz-survivor-blasts-kamala-for-comparing-trump-to-hitler">some still living</a>, an apology.
It is time to banish the “Hitler” analogies from the political landscape once and for all. Otherwise, I fear that, given our lack of understanding of just how horrific the real Hitler was, we may not recognize his true reincarnation when we see him. And like those poor souls of Babi Yar, we won’t come to realize just how mistaken we have been until it is too late.

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Two former senior advisers for Vice President Mike Pence strongly refuted General John Kelly&#8217;s claims that Donald Trump once praised Adolf Hitler&#8217;s generals during a discussion with White House officials.
An article written by The Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg quoted Kelly, Trump&#8217;s former chief of staff, who accused Trump of saying he wanted the &#8220;generals that Hitler had.&#8221; According to Kelly, who has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/john-kellys-history-of-anti-trump-activism-and-smears" target="_blank" rel="noopener">disparaged Trump</a> in the past, the former president was fond of Hitler&#8217;s generals because they &#8220;were totally loyal to him.&#8221; Kelly served as Trump&#8217;s Homeland Security Secretary for six months in 2017 before Trump tapped him to serve as his chief of staff from July 2017 until January 2019.
Kelly&#8217;s comments to The Atlantic led to Vice President Kamala Harris holding a short press conference on Wednesday where she slammed Trump, saying, &#8220;It is deeply troubling and incredibly dangerous that Donald Trump would invoke Adolf Hitler.&#8221; Later on Wednesday during a town hall with CNN&#8217;s Anderson Cooper, Harris <a href="https://x.com/Acyn/status/1849256946362359929" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called</a> the Republican nominee a &#8220;fascist.&#8221;
Retired General Keith Kellogg — Pence&#8217;s former National Security Adviser — and Nick Ayers, Pence&#8217;s former chief of staff — released statements on Wednesday blasting the general&#8217;s claims.
&#8220;Vice President Harris is a fraud. I was in the White House at a senior level much longer than General Kelly. He is complicit in this fraud and has lied to the American people. His lies, as well as John Bolton&#8217;s, are a disservice to [the] Nation at this critical time. So are the VP&#8217;s,&#8221; Kellogg wrote on X.
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Vice President Harris is a fraud. I was in the White House at a senior level much longer than General Kelly. He is complicit in this fraud and has lied to the American people. His lies, as well as John Bolton&#39;s, are a disservice to Nation at this critical time. So are the VP&#39;s. <a href="https://t.co/2b77pMsVVl">https://t.co/2b77pMsVVl</a>
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Ayers called Kelly&#8217;s comments &#8220;patently false,&#8221; writing, &#8220;I’ve avoided commenting on intra-staff leaks or rumors or even lies as it relates to my time at the White House but General Kelly’s comments regarding President Trump are too egregious to ignore. I was with each of them more than most, and his commentary is *patently false.*&#8221;
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I’ve avoided commenting on intra-staff leaks or rumors or even lies as it relates to my time at the White House but General Kelly’s comments regarding President Trump are too egregious to ignore. I was with each of them more than most, and his commentary is *patently false.* <a href="https://t.co/T167w9GSv1">pic.twitter.com/T167w9GSv1</a>
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The Atlantic story, which was published just two weeks before Election Day, also accused Trump of complaining about a murdered soldier&#8217;s funeral bill in 2020. Those claims have also been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-atlantic-accuses-trump-of-disparaging-slain-soldier-the-soldiers-family-responds" target="_blank" rel="noopener">refuted</a> by former Trump administration officials and the slain Army private&#8217;s family.
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Trump slammed Kelly in a Truth Social <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113359044153318787" target="_blank" rel="noopener">post</a> on Wednesday, calling him &#8220;a total degenerate.&#8221;
&#8220;This guy had two qualities, which don’t work well together. He was tough and dumb,&#8221; Trump added. &#8220;The problem is his toughness morphed into weakness, because he became JELLO with time! The story about the Soldiers was A LIE, as are numerous other stories he told. Even though I shouldn’t be wasting my time with him, I always feel it’s necessary to hit back in pursuit of THE TRUTH.&#8221;

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David Frum, longtime columnist, pundit, and former speech-writer for president George W. Bush, penned an article in The Atlantic that, were I a psychology professor, I would present to my class as a prime example of projection. In the words of the great litigator Vincent LaGuardia Gambini: “Everything dat guy just said is b*****t.”
Following the assassination attempt on former President Trump, Frum published an article in The Atlantic titled “<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/07/donald-trump-democracy-dictator/679006/">The Gunman and the Would-Be Dictator.</a>” It would be easy to go through his article line-by-line and offer the classic admonition that people who point fingers often have three pointing back at them at every period. And, indeed, that is what projection is all about. 
Frum was my first editor at New Majority and FrumForum. He was a very nice guy and a generous host. His latest article is a disappointment and, in my view, irresponsibly slides right back into the “Trump is Hitler” narrative — in this case Mussolini — that brought the violence down upon the &#8220;Bad Orange Man&#8221; in the first place. He has learned nothing from what took place over the weekend, and what it truly means to those Americans not holed up in the Trump Derangement ward at Cedars Sinai. The assertions he makes are, quite simply, astounding in both their lack of self-awareness and distance from the experiences of the average American.
Here are a few that stuck out at me. Frum starts his piece by bringing up the hammer attack on Paul Pelosi — and the admittedly tasteless satisfaction some in the Trump camp expressed, as well as their floating a story that Pelosi was involved in a dispute with a gay lover. Is Frum saying political figures shouldn’t spread falsehoods, especially character assaults, for political points? He fails to mention the steady dirge of slanderous falsehoods aimed at Trump and his family for years, courtesy of the leaders of the party he pretends to oppose (he doesn’t) as well as the legacy media who serve as the DNC’s megaphone. He makes no mention of Mr. Pelosi’s mendacious wife, then-speaker of the house Nancy Pelosi, who knowingly pushed the lie that Trump was a Russian agent, supported the fabricated Steele dossier and the subsequent two-year, multimillion dollar Mueller witch hunt. Or how, as speaker of the house, she labeled then-President Trump an “imposter” before tearing up his SOTUS address on live television.
Frum goes on to write an utterly inflammatory and demonstrably false statement that is far more applicable to the Democrats for whom he carries backbreaking volumes of water than the Trump supporters he apparently believes to be as “deplorable” as the woman he voted for in 2016.
<blockquote>Trump and his supporters envision a new place for violence as their defining political message in the 2024 election.</blockquote>
The hypocrisy beggars the mind. For months in 2020, in over 200 cities, leftist mobs from Antifa to BLM acted as the Democrats’ brownshirts; they rioted, looted, committed arson, assaulted over 1,500 police and murdered some two dozen innocents while committing $2 billion in property damage. How many &#8220;MAGA extremists&#8221; were in those crowds? How many Biden voters? In fact, I’d like to ask Frum a simple question: The night before the 2020 election, in cities throughout the USA, businesses were boarding up their windows and storefronts. What were they concerned about? Trump voters becoming violent if Biden won, or Biden voters losing it if Trump won? He knows the answer.
He goes on:
<blockquote>The 2024 election was already shaping up as a symbolic contest between an elderly and weakening liberalism too frail and uncertain to protect itself and an authoritarian, reactionary movement ready to burst every barrier and trash every institution.</blockquote>
“Elderly liberalism”? One imagines a kindly New Dealer in a cardigan just trying to put a chicken in every pot versus a jackbooted authoritarian hellbent on destroying the Republic. If he were given a political version of a blind taste test and then asked to pick the authoritarian group, who would he pick? My guess is he would choose the side that weaponizes the IRS to harass political opponents, supports not a four-hour riot but rather months of mass mayhem, does everything in its power to prevent the duly elected president from governing as per the will of the people, either by tying him up in sham investigations courtesy of a corrupted intelligence and law enforcement apparatus, holds two show trial impeachments, deploys politicized AG offices to financially ruin and even jail his political opponents with ludicrous misapplications of the law. Perhaps even the side that tries to assassinate a political threat?
Frum, like many in the “Never-Trumper” camp, warns us of impending “fascism” as if we are back in 1933 Germany and a bitter, eccentric Austrian corporal is about to become chancellor. But he faces one hurdle to this hyperbolic prognostication: We already had a four-year Trump administration. So then, what policies did Trump initiate that he finds to be reminiscent of the Führer or Il Duce?
Frum’s Atlantic piece shows, opposition to Trump is emotional, even personal, not analytical. Certainly not if the one who is claiming that the party of “They’ll put y’all back in chains!,” “Basket of deplorables,” “Get in their faces!,” “Put a bullseye on him,” is innocent of the heightened political tensions that define these days.
I expected lesser minds than Frum to deploy an oblique way of simply saying “Trump had it coming.” Yet, it reveals just how deep the Ceti Eel of Trump-hatred has burrowed into the mind of the DC establishment and how Frum represents their interests.
In a display of utter detachment from reality and the voters upon whom he casts academically arrogant aspersions, he claims that Trump is different than other “dictators” (evidence of which has yet to be presented). He says they have no reason to be upset and thus should not gravitate towards the proverbial P.T. Barnum-like strong man. Things are great. He writes:
<blockquote>In 2024, U.S. troops are nowhere at war. The American economy is booming, providing spectacular and widely shared prosperity. A brief spasm of mild post-pandemic inflation has been overcome. Indicators of social health <a href="https://www.epi.org/blog/average-wages-have-surpassed-inflation-for-12-straight-months/#:~:text=Average%20hourly%20wage%20growth%20has,improve%20their%20standard%20of%20living.">have abruptly</a> <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/10/us/us-violent-crime-rates-statistics/index.html">turned positive</a> since Trump left office after years of deterioration during his term. Crime and fatal drug overdoses <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/nchs_press_releases/2024/20240515.htm#:~:text=Provisional%20data%20from%20CDC's%20National,drug%20overdose%20deaths%20since%202018.">are declining</a> in 2024; <a href="https://blogs.cdc.gov/nchs/2024/03/15/7567/">marriages</a> and <a href="https://www.axios.com/2023/10/04/birth-rate-fertility-rate-decline-data-statistics-graph-2022">births</a> are rising. Even the country’s problems indirectly confirm the country’s success: Migrants are crossing the border in the hundreds of thousands, because they know, even if Americans don’t, that the U.S. job market is among the hottest on Earth.</blockquote>
Did he read this aloud? We have 750 military bases in 80 countries; servicemen recently died in Jordan. Perhaps the American economy is “booming” in the sense that the stock market is on fire. But much of the gains have been offset by rising interest rates and inflation. He calls it “A brief spasm of mild post-pandemic inflation.” Is he serious? So are Americans just imagining that their dollars today are only worth seventy-nine cents compared to just four years ago? Have wages risen 20% in that time and we missed it? As for the rest, notice everything he says is about horrific rises in crime and drug overdoses declining in 2024, as if this is Year Zero. How are the indices compared to December 2020? No matter, I’m sure he can reply with numbers tortured to say what he wants, as per the Paul Krugman approach.
Frum barely touches on the millions of illegals pouring into the country that are now swamping even his new-found Democrat allies’ <a href="https://bradschaeffer.substack.com/p/new-yorkers-are-getting-what-they">cities</a>. Indeed, for him the mass invasion is just a sign of how great things are!
And the obfuscation rolls on. This is because Frum starts with a premise that Trump is an evil dictator and his followers are too ignorant to recognize it. He then searches far and wide for data points to give his narrative legs while completely ignoring the plank in his camp’s own eyes.
Outside the beltway, however, millions of Americans have a slightly different view of things. And it is not because they are under the sway of an orange Rasputin. Rather, they live regular lives, struggling to make ends meet with a paycheck that is only 79% of what it was just four years ago, while trying to shield their kids from gender theory at school and fentanyl on the streets.
Frum does get something right. Political violence in this country is certainly nothing new. He just conveniently forgets who is the worst offender over the past decade. Setting aside the entire summer of burning cities, he curiously never mentions the Bernie Bro shooter who targeted GOP congressmen and women at a softball game, or the attacker who put Rand Paul in the hospital, or those who bombed pro-life centers, or the many instances of bloody assaults on Trump 2020 rally attendees, or the attacks on conservative speakers across college campuses. Would Frum need the same security detail to speak safely at Hillsdale College as Ben Shapiro would at U.C. Berkeley? And I wonder if he sees any nexus at all between the leader of the Senate Democrats threatening two Supreme Court Justices by name and the plot to kill one of them shortly after.
The bottom line is this: If you want to find out what your opponents are up to, look at what they are accusing you of doing. If they remain too blinded by hatred for the man who will upset their well-paying, insular DC apple cart, that’s a reflection on them, not you. Time to get up and “Fight!”
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Brad Schaeffer is a commodities trader, author, columnist, and musician whose eclectic body of writing can be found in the Wall Street Journal, New York Post, New York Daily News, Daily Wire, National Review, The Hill, The Federalist, Zerohedge, and others. His latest book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Life-Pits-Rough-Tumble-Exchange/dp/B0CKPNCMQW/ref=sr_1_1?crid=FBF37276B680&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.vcOViovcNlulLDwCgSAL69F_A30PW0Mtp0XkDLFpRDI.e73HGuCpMYaPK8os1N9Y87Bb_hElkxrUd2FszkudrUk&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=life+in+the+pits+Schaeffer+book&amp;qid=1705421538&amp;s=books&amp;sprefix=life+in+the+pits+schaeffer+book%2Cstripbooks%2C100&amp;sr=1-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LIFE IN THE PITS: My Time As A Trader On The Rough-And-Tumble Exchange Floors</a> is available on Amazon and soon Audible. 
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Politicon 2017 – Day 1

David Frum And The Never-Trumper’s Convenient Amnesia

David Frum And The Never-Trumper's Convenient Amnesia

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A new Netflix World War II documentary series draws a straight line from Adolf Hitler to former President Donald Trump when it refers to an idyllic mountain retreat frequented by the Nazi dictator as &#8220;Hitler&#8217;s Mar-a-Lago.
The six-episode docuseries, titled &#8220;Hitler and the Nazis: Evil on Trial,&#8221; purports to dig into &#8220;Hitler and the Nazis&#8217; rise, rule and reckoning from pre-WWII to the Holocaust to the Nuremberg trials.&#8221;
Comedian, filmmaker, and documentarian Eric Abbenante posted a clip from the series, explaining, &#8220;Netflix&#8217;s WW2 documentary &#8216;Evil on Trial&#8217; describes Hitler&#8217;s holiday residence (The Berghof) as &#8216;Hitler&#8217;s Mar-a-Lago&#8217;: &#8216;It&#8217;s sort of like Hitler&#8217;s Mar-a-Lago, if you will. Gave Hitler the sense that he was on top of the world without having to deal with the messiness of everyday politics.&#8217; Yes because Trump&#8217;s government used the Nazi term &#8216;The Big Lie&#8217;, created &#8216;domestic terrorism&#8217; organizations that encouraged citizens to snitch on each other, and jailed political dissidents, just like Hitler. Oh wait, that was the Biden administration.&#8221;
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Netflix&#8217;s WW2 documentary &#8216;Evil on Trial&#8217; describes Hitler&#8217;s holiday residence (The Berghof) as &#8216;Hitler&#8217;s Mar-a-Lago&#8217;: 
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&#8220;It&#8217;s sort of like Hitler&#8217;s Mar-a-Lago, if you will,&#8221; Anne Berg said in the clip. &#8220;A kind of retreat in the Bavarian Alps that has a closeness to nature, the spectacular mountain panorama that gave Hitler the sense that he was on top of the world without having to deal with the messiness of everyday politics.&#8221;
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Abbenante further noted that the intentional comparisons between the Nazis in the 1930s and 1940s and Trump supporters in America did not end there.
&#8220;There is a constant refrain of &#8216;Make Germany Great Again&#8217; trying to draw parallels to the MAGA movement,&#8221; he said.
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There is a constant refrain of &#8216;Make Germany Great Again&#8217; trying to draw parallels to the MAGA movement.
— Eric Abbenante (@EricAbbenante) <a href="https://twitter.com/EricAbbenante/status/1801700995719663926?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 14, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://live-sas-www-history.pantheon.sas.upenn.edu/node/13114" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Anne Berg</a>, the University of Pennsylvania history professor who appears in the docuseries as herself, holds a PhD from the University of Michigan and &#8220;studies the histories of waste and recycling, film and cities, racism and genocide.&#8221;

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Netflix WWII Documentary Refers To Nazi Holiday Home As ‘Hitler’s Mar-a-Lago’

Netflix WWII Documentary Refers To Nazi Holiday Home As 'Hitler's Mar-a-Lago'

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