The irony about the weekend's adversion to a Larouchie pub to bulk out the bill of charges against Trump is how much he's Larouche's heir.
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I don't just mean in terms of Trump being a paranoid swindler with a lot of dim-bulb followers who range from stupid to mean and stupid.
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And obviously Trump has a lot more followers than Larouche ever did. Remember, kids, if at all possible try to be born rich!
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But when I was perusing the 1987 numbers of EIR - because that's what we've been reduced to - one thing jumped out pretty quick.
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Specifically the gestures in the direction of revalorizing Nazism in the name of anti-Communism. Larouche (and Pat Buchanan) got this going.
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For Larouche, some of this was self-serving: apparently some of his DoJ trouble came from an official who also hunted Nazis.
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So Larouche smeared the guy as at least the unwitting tool of the Soviet Union, specifically for prosecuting Nazi war criminals.
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Larouche's claim was that the DoJ was persecuting innocent men on the basis of trumped-up (as it were) evidence from the USSR.
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This connects to both the crypto-and-moreso white-nationalist Right's disdain for anti-hate groups like the SPLC, but not just that.
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It also connects to the durable if historically tiny (post-war) tradition of right-wingers who felt we were "on the wrong side" in WWII.
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Little known fact but in 1970s George Wallace complained out of the blue that USA fought on wrong side in WWII.
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and Joe McCarthy got his first publicity hit trying to derail the Malmedy massacre trial
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...and Bill O'Reilly has several times claimed that Malmedy was an Allied massacre OF Germans.
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