And we’re BACK from the 100th commercial break for a magic beet product. @ASavageNation continues, “This man (Bernie) is the most dangerous man in American history.” He is a “very evil dangerous man whose rhetoric will “result in violence.”
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“Voters and opposition politicians alike came to believe the government needed special police powers to stop violent leftists. Dictatorship grew attractive. The fact that the Nazis themselves were fomenting the violence didn’t seem to matter.”
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“In the court of public opinion, accusations of mayhem and chaos in the streets will, as a rule, tend to stick against the left, not the right... Today, right extremists are going around the country staging rallies...” in places they know there will be confrontations.
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“...they pick places where they know antifascists are present, like university campuses. They come spoiling for physical confrontation. Then they and their allies spin it to their advantage.”
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”This violence, and the rhetoric about it coming from the <Trump> administration, are echoes – faint but nevertheless frightening echoes – of a well-documented pattern, a pathway by which democracies devolve into dictatorships.” - written in 2017 for the
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Here is the full article written in 2017. It is well worth the read with citations and links to all its claims. https://theconversation.com/how-should-we-protest-neo-nazis-lessons-from-german-history-82645?utm_medium=amptwitter&utm_source=twitter …
@ASavageNation and@realDonaldTrump’s rhetoric is nothing new - and we’re all playing into it.Show this thread
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