When challenged about the legacy of his regime, Trump crows: Look at my TV ratings! Look at my poll numbers among Republicans! Look at how I can fill stadiums with thousands of my cheering and enthusiastic supporters! Trump has a real talent for whipping up the audience with racist chants like BUILD THE WALL! LOCK HER UP! SEND HER BACK! But Trump is not a masterful and spell binding orator when compared to Mussolini and Hitler.
Hitler was the undisputed master for stuffing stadiums with tens of thousands of enthusiastic supporters waving swastika flags, wildly cheering, especially after the Nazi regime gained total control over the radio, newspapers, and all public media. Those Triumph of Will newsreels of cheering Nazi supporters were not doctored, there was genuine enthusiasm when Hitler shouted out his bile against Jews, after his string of successes in taking over the Ruhr Valley, Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Poland.
Mussolini was the inspiration for the up-and-coming Hitler, Hitler’s unsuccessful Beer Hall Putsch was trying to duplicate the success of Mussolini’s March on Rome. Mussolini had a steely glare that look straight through you, as a speaker he was mesmerizing.
We discuss:
• Mussolini seized power in Fascist Italy with his March on Rome, and how Hitler tried to copy his with his Beer Hall Putsch.
• How Trump has fully embraced Q-Anon at his rallies, giving the fascist salute.
• How the conspiracy theories of Q-Anon are similar to the anti-Semitic conspiracy theories in Hitler’s Mein Kampf.
• How the Jim Crow legal system was used as direct legal precedent by the German lawyers who wrote the initial Nazi Race Laws soon after Hitler came to power.
• How during the Jim Crow era, tens of thousands were murdered by lynchings and race riots against blacks.
• How Martin Luther King, in his Letter from a Birmingham Jail, compared the holocaust of black sufferings and lynchings over many decades to the Jewish holocaust during the years of World War II.
• How we have no record of Winston Churchill staging large public rallies before the start of the war. These are the World War II speeches we remember.
• How Hitler’s anti-Semitism was fueled by the Big Lie that the Jews were responsible for all the problems of the German state, how these lies were spread in Mein Kampf.
• How QAnon likewise spreads similar conspiracy theories today.
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