Donald Trump believes in eugenics. He really does. Of course, his understanding of it is purely based upon his own belief in his superior genes and good "German blood." He's said it many times in public
When he said during his first term that he didn't understand why the U.S. allowed people from "shit-hole countries" to emigrate to the U.S. and suggested that we should encourage people from Norway to come instead, it wasn't hard to figure out what he meant by that. His xenophobia never applied to white European immigrants. After all, he married two of them and they are the mothers of four of his five children. His problem is with people of different races.
If someone of a different race expresses devotion to him then of course he likes them. Think of Kim Jong Un, whom he considers to be one of his greatest allies. But it's a very individual thing. For the most part, Trump believes that people from the "shit-hole" countries are genetically inferior to people like him with his good German blood.
Trump's out campaigning in earnest now as the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary are just weeks away. And if anyone thought he was going to soft-peddle the "Hitleresque" rhetoric, they were way off base. His basic stump speech is all about banning immigration by those who don't "share our ideology" (whatever he means by that), and rounding people up here in the U.S. and putting them in camps. He's not being subtle about who he's talking about.
Trump's out campaigning in earnest now as the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary are just weeks away. And if anyone thought he was going to soft-peddle the "Hitleresque" rhetoric, they were way off base. His basic stump speech is all about banning immigration by those who don't "share our ideology" (whatever he means by that), and rounding people up here in the U.S. and putting them in camps. He's not being subtle about who he's talking about.
Trump's out campaigning in earnest now as the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary are just weeks away. And if anyone thought he was going to soft-peddle the "Hitleresque" rhetoric, they were way off base. His basic stump speech is all about banning immigration by those who don't "share our ideology" (whatever he means by that), and rounding people up here in the U.S. and putting them in camps. He's not being subtle about who he's talking about.
The "blood and soil" chant comes right out of the Third Reich and it's also echoed in Trump's repeated reference to "poisoning the blood of the country." Wikipedia defines it as "a nationalist slogan expressing Nazi Germany's ideal of a racially defined national body ("Blood") united with a settlement area ("Soil"). By it, rural and farm life forms are idealized as a counterweight to urban ones." Does that sound familiar at all?
And he may be right, at least as far as the Republican base is concerned. They may not be aware of, or care about, the echoes of Hitler in his words but they like what they are hearing. According to a new poll by the Des Moines Register, "43% of likely Republican caucusgoers [] say they are more likely to support him." Asked about his statement that immigrants are "poisoning the blood of the country," 42% say the same thing. And 43% say "It doesn’t matter that Trump said he would have 'no choice' but to lock up his political opponents."
Back in the early days of the internet, there was a thing called Godwin's Law which held that "as an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches." It was assumed to mean that the discussion had devolved into absurdity and should be abandoned when that happens. I fear that too many people may end up assuming that about these discussions as well. But the man who coined the adage, Mike Godwin, wrote a clarification a few years back, after the events in Charlottesville
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