Adam Serwer, back in 2018 wrote in the Atlantic Monthly, "The Cruelty is the Point," in which he noted that the Trump mob celebrates thuggery. This is the glue which binds them.
There's a line in "Avenue Q" about the word "Schadenfreude" (joy at the misfortune of others)--"Oh, that IS German!"
Well, that is American, too.
Right back to the lynchings in the American South, which persisted into the 1960's. The kindred of photos of the grinning mobs jeering at Jews in Austria, who were forced to scrub the sidewalks with their toothbrushes juxtaposed with the grinning mobs at American lynching is striking.
It is the same character trait which drives the boy who puts a kitten into a microwave and delights in watching it fry alive.
There are certain behaviors which denote deep psychopathology--microwaving the kitten, placing fresh, defecated stool in a dresser drawer of folded laundry. At a medical school dorm at Yale, I once stepped into a toilet stall in a bathroom, and right next to the toilet was a steaming pile of stool in a wordless display of a deeply diseased mind.
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That is what you've seen at Trump rallies dating back to his first run for office, as he points to some dissenter in the crowd and tells the crowd to beat him up and carry him out. It's not just the gesture from the stage; it's the delight in the mob.
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The fact it's so open is important. All that it is is hiding in plain site. We are the champions. We are the irresistible horde, the orcs, the Wehrmacht, the Army of Northern Virginia, marching toward Antietam, the Roman legions, the Force.
Oddly, or perhaps significantly, the leaders are often deformed: the bald, corpulent Mussolini, the whole Nazi crew: Fair as Hitler, tall as Goebbels, lean as Goering the joke went. Hitler with that comically elephantine nose and the brush mustache attempting to distract the gaze, the dwarf Goebbels with his club foot, Goering who grew so fat he could not fit any uniform--like Homer Simpson who had to be fitted with a smock.
When Hillary Clinton, in a rare unguarded moment observed Trump and his fans were a "basket of deplorables" she touched a nerve and the reaction was so electric she followed her advisers' advice and retreated rather than doubling down on it. She had stuck the bull with the picadors' stakes and rather than rising to match Trump's rantings, she retreated.
But now, we can see she spoke the truth, too mildly and without enough conviction.
We can see the monsters. The Trump rallies are nothing short of the crowds along the route to the guillotine.
This is what marching those shaven men, shoving them down from behind the neck is all about. It is the old Sheriff Joe Arpiao marching men outfitted in pink underwear who had been arrested but not even arraigned, through the Arizona streets, while he stood atop his tank painted with flames along its flanks, the ultimate tough guy.
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It is amazing that someone so educated as Mad Dog could engage in such hyperbolic irrational nonsense as herein expressed. Defending the USA against foreign invaders is the responsibility of the President. I know Joe Biden was derelict in that responsibility, but you should know better. This is a classic case of Trump Derangement syndrome. Defense of our borders and the expulsion and imprisonment of gang members who entered our nation unlawfully with criminal intent is not in any rational way equivalent to lynching. To suggest that it is in some way the equivalent is pathetic politics.
ReplyDeleteI think it is also highly offensive to Jews to equate their horrendous victimization and genocide by Nazis with the offense of criminal aliens in the USA.
ReplyDeleteMad Dog why not show photos of the pro Hamas Columbia university student who want to eradicate Israel? Now there you would have a real modern day Nazi equivalent not the garbage analogy you post. The real Nazis are Ivy League rich white leftist elitists who refuse to recognize the right of the Jewish people to their homeland safe from terrorists and genocidal actors.
ReplyDeleteNew York Times headline right now is Trump wants to raise taxes on the rich. Another blow to rich pro Hamas white Ivy league elitists
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ReplyDeleteMy Jewish friends, admittedly all but one American Jews, are more appalled than anyone I know about what can only be described as Mr. Netanyahu's war of ethnic cleansing and genocide in Gaza.
In fact, I can take my cues from Bernie Sanders, who just this week said exactly that on the floor of the US Senate.
I do not believe Mr. Sanders to be anti-Semitic.
Nobody denies what Hamas did on Oct 7 was an atrocity, but to respond to that atrocity with ongoing, unrestrained and open ended atrocity is unjustifiable.
To be revolted by Israel's current actions is not the same thing as being revolted by Jews or the Jewish people, many, if not most of whom, are apoplectic about what Israel now says is its intention to expel all Palestinians from Gaza and to lay waste to that area. The only thing they have not done is to sow the fields with salt.
I'm not a historian, but I can read and I do watch YouTube and the Israeli stranglehold on Gaza looks like nothing less than what the Third Reich did to the Warsaw ghetto.
Mad Dog
Why don't you look at what berlin looked like at the end of WWII. The defeat of the Nazi Hamas war machine is the same struggle. Did you cry for the poor Berliners when you were taught WW2 history at whatever Ivy League school miseducated you? How illogical and distorted to equate Trump supporters with Nazis while you defend the supporters of HAMAS and the people who freely elected them and now live under their tyrannical rule. Who will liberate the people of Gaza from HAMAS and remove the threat to the western world posed by those sick savage terrorists? Will American leftists volunteer to fight HAMAS? Of course not, they celebrate the savages. You need to look in the mirror and think if who is really supporting the NAZI death cult when you accuse Israel the only democracy in the middle east of waging a war to liberate Gaza and end that savage nihilistic threat. Would you want to live down the road from terrorists who seek your genocide? You are living in a left wing antisemitic fantasy world and don't try to establish a pretext for your Jew hatred by relying on the deflection oh its only the Prime Minister you despise. The people of GAZA have no future with HAMAS.
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