This is the title of a new book by Mark Bowden and Matthew Teague documenting just how close Hair Gropenfuhrer and his Cristofascists came to destroying our democracy with their failed coup attempt :
“From the day he entered public life, Trump had chipped away at the vote, that cornerstone. He sowed and planted and nurtured widespread distrust of many things, of government, of institutional and academic expertise of any kind, of mainstream media, of judges, of whole industries, but most often and most insistently, he chipped away at trust in elections. And when he lost, he mobilized that distrust to try to stay in power.
This failed, stopped by the integrity of hundreds of obscure Americans from every walk of life, state and local officials, judges, and election workers. Many of them were Republicans, some were Trump supporters. They refused to accept his slander of themselves, their communities, and their workers, and they refused to betray their sworn duty to their office and their country. They were the true patriots.”
I really wish you would try harder to avoid name-calling (“Hair Gropenfuhrer”, “Cristofascists”, etc).
Sorry Tom but for me Trump will always be an orange parasitic bloated botfly trying to lay its offspring in your ear so its sickening larvae can burrow into your brain.
Communicating is difficult enough without censoring ourselves from perfectly good English vocabulary. I was raised by a poetic teacher Mom who reveled in the creative power of language.
There is a wide range of options between “Mr. Trump” and “Hair Gropenfuhrer”. Perhaps even your mother might have encouraged you to explore some of that middle ground.
I celebrated my 19th wedding anniversary just before Christmas. My German-born wife became a US citizen in February of 2020. She and her family had a very different experience during and after WWII than any American. I have become more sensitive to stereotypes about Germans and the implied Nazi references.
We are and will continue to be friends, in person and online. I’m sharing, as a friend, that at least in my case the primary effect of these epithets is hurt and embarrassment.
Tom, my grandparents emigrated to America around 1900 from Italy and were staunch anti-Fascists and hated its founder, Il Duce Benito Mussolini, Hitler’s mentor. My uncles fought in WW II against the AXIS powers — Germany, Japan and Italy. I am so proud of them for risking their lives as members of the Greatest Generation to save all of humanity from evil totalitarians.
My attack on Trump was not meant to hurt you or your dear wife, who I have met, and is a wonderful person. I consider both of you friends. Neither was it meant to stereotype Germans. I have many German-American friends and I am a student of German history and admirer of their great artistic achievements especially their musical giants — Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Wagner. As a humanist, I have often questioned how a country with such a rich cultural tradition like Germany — and Italy — could turn to fascism ? It is precisely because I admire their contributions to Western civilization — as I do my Italian cultural heritage (DaVinci, Michaelangelo, Verdi, Puccini) – that I denounce ANYONE who desecrates this humanistic history like Hitler and Mussolini through their fascistic attack on democracy and humanism.
Sixty million human beings were slaughtered in WW II because of these savage murderers.
LET US NEVER FORGET !
The “Lord of the Coup” just cancelled his 1/6 “news conference.”
What a LOOOOOOSER.
“Fascism is just another system for taking power from a democracy.” MADELEINE ALBRIGHT
Well, they tried to reserve a spot at the Four Seasons Total Landscaping but the placed was booked with a prior event.