December 18,
2023
In a campaign
speech Saturday night and again on his social media platform following the
event, ex-President Donald Trump accused immigrants of “poisoning the blood of
our country.”
Trump falsely
accused the Biden administration of allowing “15, 16 million people into
country,” adding, “When they do that, we got a lot of work to do. They are
poisoning the blood of our country.”
The Republican
front-runner for president made his Hitlerian remarks while speaking before a
crowd of a few thousand fanatics in Durham, New Hampshire. Trump is the
favorite to win next month’s New Hampshire Republican presidential primary.
In his speech,
he invoked the antisemitic and anti-immigrant “Great Replacement Theory,”
declaring: “They’ve poisoned mental institutions and prisons all over the
world, not just in South America, not just the three or four countries that we
think about, but all over the world. They’re coming into our country, from
Africa, from Asia, all over the world they’re pouring into our country.”
Leaving no doubt
that his comments, lifted from the pages of Mein Kampf, were politically
calculated, following the event Trump posted on his social media site, in
capital letters, “ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION IS POISONING THE BLOOD OF OUR NATION.”
This is not the
first time Trump has employed Nazi language in attacking immigrants. In an
interview posted September 27, 2023 with Raheem Kassam, editor of the National
Pulse, Trump used the same “poisoning our blood” phrase. He said: “Nobody has
any idea where these people are coming from. ... We know they’re terrorist.
Nobody has ever seen anything like we’re witnessing right now. It is a very sad
thing for our country. It’s poisoning the blood of our country. It’s so bad,
people are coming in with disease. People are coming in with every possible
thing that you could have.”
Trump is a
longtime admirer of Hitler. He feels he can flaunt the language of fascism
because he knows that while the Democratic Party might object to certain
phrases, it and the ruling class as a whole agree that with both political
parties widely despised, working class struggles on the rise and broad masses
of youth mobilizing against war and genocide, it is necessary to dispense with
democratic rights to impose the brutal policies the financial oligarchy
demands.
In the same
speech, Trump reaffirmed his pledge to be a dictator on “day one” of a second
term. He announced that on his “first day back in the White House” he would
“stop the invasion” and “begin the largest domestic deportation operation in
American history.”
Democratic
politicians from Biden on down are competing with the Republicans to ban
student protests against the mass murder of Palestinians in Gaza and abolish
First Amendment rights, libeling protesters as antisemites. It is within this
context that Trump declared he would implement “strong ideological screening
for all illegal immigrants.”
“If you hate
America, if you want to abolish Israel, if you sympathize with jihadists, then
we don’t want you in our country,” Trump hissed.
Trump
personifies the alliance between antisemites, including outright neo-Nazis, and
Zionists in propping up the fascistic government of Netanyahu in Israel, a
critical client regime and military outpost of American imperialism in the
Middle East and beyond. The man who from the White House praised neo-Nazis
chanting “Jews will not replace us!” in Charlottesville, Virginia, declared on
Saturday that “radical left communists” and “Marxists” had “taken over our
universities” and “indoctrinated our youth” with “censorship and antisemitism.”
Trump pledged to
use the federal government to go after universities and “take away their
endowments” if they “discriminate against conservatives, Christians and Jews.”
The White House
released a statement pointing out that Trump “parroted Adolf Hitler” while
“running for president on a promise to rule as a dictator.” But Trump’s ability
to run for president, with a very real possibility of being reelected, is
entirely the responsibility of the Biden administration and the Democratic
Party. They responded to Trump’s failed coup on January 6, 2021 by seeking to
rehabilitate the Republican Party in the interests of defending the profit
system and maintaining bipartisan support for implementing a policy of global
war against US imperialism’s major rivals, particularly Russia and China.
Trump’s speech
coincides with negotiations by Biden and the Senate Democratic leadership with
Senate Republicans to obtain passage of $60 billion in new military aid for the
Ukrainian regime, itself allied with neo-Nazi forces, to continue Washington’s
proxy war with Russia. In exchange for Republican votes, Biden and the
Democrats are offering to further gut the right to asylum, imprison refugees
who come across the Southern border and resume mass deportations without any
form of due process.
Democratic
Senator Chris Coons of Delaware, a Biden surrogate, defended the Democrats’
pledge to impose Trump’s border policy, telling moderator Margaret Brennan on
Face the Nation on Sunday: “For us to fail to come together and support Ukraine
... would be a huge gift to Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping and Hamas.”
The bipartisan
gang-up against immigrants follows last week’s passage by Congress of a
bipartisan Pentagon budget for 2024 that allots nearly $900 billion, a record,
to finance the current wars in Ukraine and the Middle East and prepare for war
against China.
Trump's Nazi rhetoric dominates latest rally
December 18, 2023
The first time Donald Trump talked
about immigrants poisoning the blood of the nation, he did so in an interview
with a right-wing outlet. For the next month, the straight-out-of-”Mein-Kampf”
meme disappeared from Trump’s campaign rhetoric, only to be replaced by an even
more obvious tip of the Hitler hat when Trump described his opponents as
“vermin” in a Veterans Day speech that threatened to erase the legacy of every
American veteran.
Now Trump is bringing the full-on
Nazi rhetoric to his rally speeches. As CNN reports, Trump’s weekend rally
featured a return of his talk about how immigrants are “poisoning the blood of
our country.” He mixed that theme into a speech that brought even more of his
regular shout-outs to authoritarian rulers and expressions of disdain for
democracy.
Trump is not just humming
Hitleresque themes, but bellowing full-bore Nazi slogans to his red-hat rally
crowds. It shows that just as he has done so many times in the past, he has
crossed the line and found that the white supremacist territory on the other
side suits him just fine. Trump is making his similarity to Hitler into the
core of his 2024 campaign.
As if quoting Hitler to his pale,
screaming crowd wasn’t enough, Trump also trotted out a quote from Vladimir
Putin about the “rottenness” of American democracy. Rotten, according to Putin,
because it goes after Trump. “Even Vladimir Putin … says that Biden’s — and
this is a quote – ‘politically motivated persecution of his political rival is
very good for Russia because it shows the rottenness of the American political
system, which cannot pretend to teach others about democracy.’”
As a side note, Putin’s most notable
political opponent, Alexei Navalny, who has been held as a political prisoner
since 2021 after surviving an attempt to kill him using a nerve agent,
disappeared from the prison where he was being held at the beginning of
December. He is still missing.
Trump once again ticked off names
from his authoritarian friends list, making his now-regular round of how much
he admires everyone who is ripping up democracy around the world. That included
reminding the crowd that he gets on well with Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, and
letting everyone know that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is “very nice.”
But it was the centerpiece return of
the Nazi theme of “poisoning the blood” that really stole the show at Trump’s
New Hampshire rally. On many occasions, Trump has tossed some loathsome
statement out to the public, stepped back for a moment to see how it went down,
then chased it up with something even worse when it turned out his supporters
either did not care or actively loved his hate speech. Could he get away with
going after Gold Star families? Could he dismiss prisoners of war as losers?
And could he endlessly elaborate on how Mexico is populated entirely by rapists
and drug mules? Yes, yes, and oh-hell-yes.
He’s not unaware that he’s repeating
Nazisms. He’s just erasing another line as he aspires to make the country a
dictatorship.
Now it seems that “poisoning the
blood” could be as big a part of Trump’s 2024 run as “lock her up” was in 2016.
A fulsome embrace of the white supremacism that has never been all that far
from the surface of Trump’s speech.
Back in a 1990 interview with Vanity
Fair, Trump’s then-wife, Ivana Trump, said that her husband had a copy of
Hitler's collected speeches, “My New Order,” that he kept in a bedside cabinet.
Trump insisted that the book had been given to him by a Jewish friend. Only
that friend wasn’t Jewish. He was just someone who thought Trump would find a
book of Hiter’s speeches “interesting.” Clearly, he was right.
This is not the first time that
Trump has put his nighttime reading to use in his campaigns, but now it seems
he no longer feels the need to disguise his plagiarism.
That 1990 interview also featured
this little tidbit.
Donald Trump appears to take aspects of his German background seriously.
John Walter works for the Trump Organization, and when he visits Donald in his
office, Ivana told a friend, he clicks his heels and says, "Heil
Hitler," possibly as a family joke.
It’s a whole lot less funny these
days.
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