The American Midnight – Trump is Fascism

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Harris decries Trump after Kelly says he wanted generals like Hitler’s

Kamala Harris said today that comments praising Adolf Hitler reportedly made by Donald Trump to his longest-serving chief of staff offer a window into who the former president “really is” and the kind of commander in chief he would be.

In interviews with The New York Times and The Atlantic published Tuesday (local time), John Kelly warned that the Republican nominee meets the definition of a fascist and that while in office he suggested that the Nazi leader “did some good things”.

Harris, the vice president and Democratic nominee, repeated her increasingly dire warnings about Trump’s mental fitness and his intentions for the presidency.

“This is a window into who Donald Trump really is, from the people who know him best, from the people who have worked with him side by side in the Oval Office and in the Situation Room,” Harris told reporters outside the vice president’s residence in Washington.

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The comments from Kelly, the retired Marine general who worked for Trump in the White House from 2017 to 2019, built on past warnings from former top Trump officials as the election enters its final two weeks.

Kelly has long been critical of Trump and previously accused him of calling veterans killed in combat “suckers” and “losers”. His new warnings emerged as Trump seeks a second term vowing to dramatically expand his use of the military at home and suggesting he would use force to go after Americans he considers “enemies from within”.

“He commented more than once that, ‘You know, Hitler did some good things, too,’” Kelly recalled to the Times. Kelly said he would usually quash the conversation by saying “nothing (Hitler) did, you could argue, was good,” but that Trump would occasionally bring up the topic again.

In his interview with the Atlantic, Kelly recalled that when Trump raised the idea of needing “German generals,” Kelly would ask if he meant “Bismarck’s generals,” referring to Otto von Bismarck, the chancellor who oversaw the unification of Germany. “Surely you can’t mean Hitler’s generals,” Kelly recalled asking Trump. To which the former president responded, “Yeah, yeah, Hitler’s generals”.

Trump is fascism.

Apologists who attempt to gloss over his perverse attacks on Democracy are the slavish thralls of political corruption.

Trump inherited his economic good fortune from Obama’s hard work and then blew it all on a huge tax cut that benefited the 1%.

He capitulated to authoritarian thugs internationally and terrorised his domestic population.

Trump knows what to do this time, he will embark upon a dizzying descent into an authoritarian nightmare where he will use his experience to launch a never ending assault on every standard of decency.

 

There is no way NZ should be considering any AUKUS arrangement that will tie us any closer to the American Military Industrial Complex under a cult of personality as demented as Trump.

Apologists claim comparing Trump to Hitler is offensive and that Trump’s record somehow suggests he isn’t the fascist he actually is.

I believe the comparisons between Hitler and Trump are totally legitimate.

“So this is how democracy dies, with thunderous applause, Hulk Hogan and Kid Rock”

I have always been fascinated by Hitler’s rise.

I try and think about how the fuck such evil was allowed to occur, how educated people with values and true moral and ethical character could so blithely turn a blind eye to hateful and evil policies.

I read a lot to try and understand those things because the rise of the Nazi’s is one of the great lessons civilisation needs to carry with it. A bit like Atlantis, which is funny because Atlantis is part of this blog, alongside Captain America.

But I’m getting ahead of myself.

I believe there are many cultural red flags in terms of genuine comparisons with the rise of Hitler and Trump.

History doesn’t repeat but it rhymes and right now Trump may as well be called Bitler.

I want to look at the similarities between Hitler’s rise and Trump’s rise because I sincerely think a Trump win would usher in an Orange Fascism and would begin an American Midnight that could take the planet down a path we fought World War 2 to prevent and seeing as NZ is part of the Washington Consensus (that none of us consented to) our Government has to answer to te American Government.

The Queen may technically be the head of State in NZ, but we all know it’s really the President of the United States of Western Paranoia who we have ultimately answer to.

So who runs America matters to us.

A lot.

Occult:

The Nazi’s had a deep sense of the occult as part of their underlying philosophy. Hitler was a protege of Dietrich Eckart who was the Nazi’s spiritual father (Hitler dedicates the first chapter of Mein Kamph to him).

The forming Nazi members had a spiritual connection to beliefs about Atlantis. Many were members of The Thule Society who believed the survivors of Atlantis had their DNA most concentrated in Germany.

And England for some reason.

Atlantis of course was the fictional Island mentioned in Plato’s works Timaeus and Critias as part of an allegory on the hubris of nations.

That it became warped into Nazi cosmology as a justification for horror seems utterly unhinged.

Part of the drive was to delegitimise Science, the way Qanon MAGA anti-vaxxers did recently in America.

MAGA has become a movement of conspiracy and utterly demented reality perspectives where Atlantis probably actually features somewhere.

The Nazi conviction in the Occult alongside their Atlantis fantasies are similar to the depth of belief the Evangelical Vote in America feel. They believe that actively antagonising conflict in Israel will speed up the Rapture and Armageddon as prophesied in the Book of Revelations, so both movements, MAGA and the Nazis are inspired by occultist conspiracy theories.

 

White Supremacy:

Part of the core belief of the Nazi’s were that these Atlantans were racially superior, Aryan, and that these genes rested with the Germanic People, MAGAs appeal draws heavily from white supremacy and white fragility as well.

The way race will be weaponised in this election highlights how similar the drives are.

 

The similarities behind Hitler and Trump:

There are many cultural red flags in terms of genuine comparisons with the rise of Hitler and Trump.

Use of Resentment as a Political weapon: Trump understands resentment as well as Hitler did and Trump manipulates it in the same way.

Failed Putsch: Both attempted take overs by violence and both were defeated.

Using Court Trial as propaganda tool: While in jail for the Beerhall putsch, Hitler realised he could use the Court process as a propaganda tool and he was on the front pages of German Newspapers with all his anti-immigrant and anti-Semetic attack lines, in the exact same way Trump has also used those Court cases.

Realising violent over throw can’t work: While in prison, Hitler realised he couldn’t over throw a Democracy by violence, but that you had to get elected. Trump learnt the same lesson

Big Lie and the Other: Both Hitler and Trump use ‘Big Lie’ mind control tactics, Hitler described it, Trump used it with his Election theft claim.

 

Aquaman + Captain America + Trump as a Cartoonish Criminal President Supervillain:

Which brings me back to Captain America, Nazi Occultism and Aquaman…

The Dark Link Between the Nazis and the Legend of Atlantis 

Not everyone in the Nazi Party hierarchy believed in Atlantis, astrology, ice giants or primeval gods. It’s unlikely that Hitler himself was a believer, and attempts to promote such narratives often encountered resistance within the party. However, the desire to ground race theory and occultism by means of scientific methods, to weld the supernatural to the unnatural and thereby forge a new superman, was not limited to a platonic craving for the sublime and with esoteric journeys to jungles and deserts, which today stir more ridicule than fear. Documents submitted in the Nuremberg Trials speak about the bodies of Jews that were slated to be added to the Ahnanerbe’s anthropological collection of skeletons in Strasbourg, and cite a telex sent by Wolfram Sievers asking his superiors what should be done with them in light of the Allies’ advance. (“The collection can be stripped of the flesh and thereby rendered unidentifiable,” he stated. “This, however, would mean that at least part of the whole work had been done for nothing… since it would be impossible to make plaster casts afterward. The skeleton collection as such is inconspicuous.”)

The medical “experiments” performed by the think tank’s staff to ground their theories were not a marginal effort of the war, but one of the most appalling methods for justifying it. The subordination both of magic to the service of science, and mythology to the authority of ideology, played a part in what historian Uriel Tal, in his 2004 book of essays, “Religion, Politics and Ideology in the Third Reich,” calls “political theology,” which rests on the “total revaluation of all values; the apocalyptic condition according to which catastrophe must precede redemption; the struggle between the forces of light and those of darkness.”

But the Nazis did not heed Plato’s ancient warning. The 1,000-year Reich they wished to forge sank, like a mythical island, in the face of the heirs of the ancient democracy of Athens, and their military and technological might was no match for the wrath of the gods embodied by the Allies.

Even as the latter pounded the Nazis at sea, in the air and on land, another force sought to strike them on paper: Aquaman. On a mission from his co-creator, Mort Weisinger, the son of Jewish immigrants from Austria, the superhero made his debut in 1941, rescuing refugees from a German submarine attack, in More Fun Comics #73.

He wasn’t the only superhero to be mobilized for battle by a Jewish artist, of course. Fighting shoulder to shoulder with Aquaman were the super-types who were brought to life by those whom the Nazis classified as subhuman: Superman (created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster), Captain America (by Jacob Kurtzberg, aka Jack Kirby; Hymie, aka Joe, Simon, and Stanley Martin Lieber, aka Stan Lee) and others. The conquest of Atlantis by Nazi occultists resounds with another warning in addition to the one embedded in hubris: the danger of subjugating myth to justify ethos, of coercing the imagination. If we ever forget that, our fate, too, will be to sink like a stone in mighty waters.

…the Cartoonish manner in which Trump embodies a Criminal President Supervillain is part of his appeal.

Trump is a sexist racist homophobic joke made amongst friends who won’t be offended and most importantly won’t snitch on you.

This gallows humour will be used to gloss over the Militarisation of ICE, the massive detention camps and the numerous acts of violence Trump will keep pushing until the laughs are cold and empty.

If Trump wins in November we inch towards an American Midnight with all the charm of the Handmaid’s Tale on a 7 day meth bender.

We are so fucked if Trump wins.

 

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64 COMMENTS

  1. “The American Midnight – Trump is Fascism”
    And so was Ford, Johnson, Nixon, G.W. Bush etc etc etc…Trump, is just more bullshit.
    Where ever there is the mythology of freedumbs an’ that marketed by the equally mythological concepts of democracy without the mandated requirement to vote there is, in reality, as plain sight makes available to all but the deaf, blind or the terminally stupid, fascism.
    Sooner or later some vile cunt comes along and fucks things up unless we’re all required to watch each others backs by having to vote. YOU. MUST. VOTE. But you won’t will you. Freedumbs an’ that.
    In my opinion, not voting is tantamount to treason. A crime one allows to be committed on one’s neighbours because one’s too fucking lazy to get out of bed to go and vote. Or perhaps worse, to vote without first doing your research. For example: Just who or what is david seymour? I don’t know who or what it is. All I have to go on is what he tells me and fuck that. Democracy isn’t a democracy if you don’t participate in it. It’s even less of a lucky dip or a lottery.
    The only good thing is, is that I have two more years to rub it in.

    • So which one do you vote for? Harris? Trump? One of the also-rans as a protest vote? What is achieved by a “lesser of evils” vote? How do you really know which is the lesser evil until it is too late? What if you make the “wrong” choice? Are you culpable for whatever Harris or Trump might do? Alternatively, what is achieved by a protest vote? Sorry, you have often advocated mandatory voting but have never explained how it might help to make a better world.

      • @ G.F.
        Mandatory voting could mean that people might come to think about who they would vote for, in particular their policies. Since they then must now vote they might want to have their vote mean something so a closer inspection might be required. Psychologically, mandatory voting might be of benefit in terms of creating a new sense of social responsibility. That of becoming engaged in the day to day running of AO/NZ in they, the voters best interests, instead of what we’ve got. A fucking mess that only benefits most of the manipulative and undeserving rich who are, in reality, a minority voting block and that’s why they must bribe aka ‘lobby’ politicians leading into elections to get what they want. More money. It’s because the same politicians they bribe make sure that lobbying is never made as illegal as it should me. MMP is a logical fallacy in the regard. MMP gives the impression of representing minorities while, in fact, it does the complete opposite since all MMP parties are tenticles of the same beast. In AO/NZ’s case, the national party. ACT, for example, is roger douglas who was a two term labour confederate who stabbed his supposed friend Lange in the back, front and sides just to get the edge over old Labour. Now, the ACT abomination fathered by douglas is piloted by an alien called david seymour. NZ First’s winston peters is dodgy as fuck with natzo links who gives himself away by his very own Machiavellian actions. That photograph of him doing drinkies with don brash for example or the debacle that became the wine box inquiry is enough information for me to ban lobbying and mandate voting while pulling up a chair to watch a royal commission of inquiry go out there and fuck shit up.
        So to speak. The other way to look at [it] is what else have we got? We’re in deep shit. Our politic is in tatters, we have a fucking middle weight manager as PM and a nutty God botherer to boot. His MMP cohorts are fucking criminals in suits who give no fucks about us, as is clearly evident and we, the people, have no power and no control.

        • I take it from your reply that you are not actually suggesting that mandatory voting would change the outcomes of elections, especially given that you say that “all MMP parties are tentacles of the same beast”. It seems to me unlikely that mandatory voting would even alter which particular tentacle ended up being the one most closely wrapped around our collective throat.
          Your argument seems to be rather that “Psychologically, mandatory voting might be of benefit in terms of creating a new sense of social responsibility”.
          So let’s look at the people who don’t vote. I don’t vote, and I am not even registered on the roll (technically an offence) despite the fact that I do feel a sense of social responsibility. There are thousands like me who do not vote on principle, because they disavow the colonialist regime and its system of governance. Making voting mandatory would only end up filling the prisons with people such as myself, which might or might not be a good thing depending on your point of view.
          Let’s think about the other non-voters. About 22% of those on the electoral role did not cast a vote in the last parliamentary election. Among younger people – those under 45 years of age – the proportion of non-voters is higher, being consistently over 25%. So one in four of those who even bothered to enroll and the trend looks to increase over time.
          Why don’t these people vote? We can only speculate. Some because they don’t care or can’t be bothered. Some because they don’t feel they know enough to make a sensible choice. Some because they don’t see any party or candidate worthy of their vote. Some because they think that however they might vote the outcome will be the same. That last is probably the most common explanation, and it does fit closely with your owned stated view of the reality. In fact all these reasons for not voting are related one to the other and they all point to serious defects in the system.
          You can look at non-voting as a failure by prospective voters, to be fixed by a program of persuasion (“Use your voice, have your say” etc etc) or compulsion (mandatory voting) or you can look at it as a failure of the system which has not managed to convince the non-voters (and a large number of voters who are just going through the motions without conviction) that voting will make a difference and will give them a real say in how the country is governed.
          Blaming the public for the crisis of democracy would be a reasonable position if the corresponding “fixes” worked, but they do not. Persuasion is not working because the arguments in favour (essentially “voting for its own sake”) do not stack up. Compulsion will not work because people like myself will not submit, and the ones who don’t care will simply cast a vote at random.
          If the politicians themselves took responsibility for making their “product” attractive to voters – as a manufacturer of bread must make his product attractive to consumers – you would be looking to them to deliver a higher level of integrity, accountability, concern for the public and plain common sense. At the very least you would expect them to deliver on their promises. You would not expect to find that the supposedly wholemeal loaf you bought is actually pure white bread laced with rat droppings. But there is no sign that the politicians are becoming more concerned for or accountable to the public or that they are becoming any more moral over time. The reverse is happening. So even fewer people will vote.
          Is this a chicken or the egg scenario? If more of us voted, would the quality of politics improve? There is no evidence to suggest that. Rather, if more of us voted the politicians would only feel more empowered and emboldened. It is possible that if some of the barriers were lowered (for example the 5% threshold for representation and removal of the requirement to pledge allegiance to King Charles) then a single upright person might make it into parliament and from there form the basis of a movement, but there is scant chance that the current crop of politicians would allow that to happen.
          I believe that the colonialist system is doomed to collapse, that it cannot save itself and that there is nothing we can do to save it even if we might want to. Rangatiratanga is a far superior method of governance for our people and that is where our efforts should be focused.

          • Democracy in practice is fallible but it is the modern way of doing things, it just needs a polish-up. I support Maori, with their rotten experience of politics, whatever your approach is.

    • Doing one’s homework would cost the Wellington Mayor and the other Greens in politics their livelihoods,no one would vote for them.

  2. When you have the Democratic presidential nomination telling the US public, ‘We don’t want to go back to the last 4 years, we want a better USA for the people’
    When SHE has been part of the government last 4 years….
    Ohhhh dear, trump will win easily.
    But she is a walking talking train wreck who can’t even answer a question and waffles on…..remind you of another female of last few years who was a bit closer to home? (And now over there, thank goodness)

    • Probably would be a leap to say she was referring to his last four years. I’m Right you are idiot if you are using the ability to answer a question as the basis for supporting Trump. Ask him what a tariff is.

      • Wheel, ask Kamala ANYTHING and she has no answers….if she doesn’t waffle a non answer (I grew up in a middle class home….blah blah) then she just attacks Trump.
        Hell, even CNN are getting so pissed off with her interviews that there is open criticism of her in CNN, who would ever have thought that!!
        No….she will be well beaten at next week’s election.
        And to be honest in this instance the Democrats can’t really be shell shocked, they circumvented their democratic process for electing a new contender, they shot themselves badly in both feet with Harris and well, jezzzus her running mate is even worse when interviewed “I’m a knucklehead”….his quote about himself, pretty accurate!

  3. This is just panic. Trump is a big orange blow hard.
    Nothing much will change. The American debt is the real issue- that will take out western democracies once it cannot be serviced. Will make the great depression seem like a picnic.

  4. Democracy can elect fascists. Just like it can elect liberals, libertarians and communists . Hopefully Trump will be too lazy and too addicted to weekend golf a Mar del Lago to go full on Hitler when he is elected. General Kelly is worried that Trump with force the army to re enlist him so that he can be court martialed. The illegal immigrants,whom Vance numbered at 25,000,000 will be used as the Jews were by Hitler.
    In the end it will make no difference to us
    Amerika is a land of fuckin assholes and blue or red they fuck us over at their whim.

    • They’re telling us that Trump said “I need the kind of generals Hitler had” four whole years ago – and no one said anything about it until 12 days before the election. Just ease up on the bullshit, people.

  5. The most racist US president in history. A man who repeatedly smears black men as criminals and calls for their execution, and who actively condones police violence and brutality.

    A man who wants to impose biblical law at gunpoint, and wishes to outlaw abortion, homosexuality, birth control, transgenderism, and sex outside of marriage.

    A man who wants to arrest teachers for teaching evolution, or about homosexuality.

  6. ” There is no way NZ should be considering any AUKUS arrangement that will tie us any closer to the American Military Industrial Complex under a cult of personality as demented as Trump. ”

    Bit late for that Bomber. Approached , considered ( briefly ) bent over backwards and appeasement implemented.

    This current administration would remove the nuclear free legislation when and if it thinks it can get away with it.

    I wonder how many Hobbits would come out and protest its removal ?

  7. Marmalade Mussolini is going to be creamed by Harris.

    Following that it’s a few days or weeks to court time and sentencing for election fraud/(hush money) convictions.
    Then the Lord of the Lies will have pay up for the Business and tax fraud case against his business empire.
    Then it’ll be into court again to face Jack Smith on insurrection charges, perhaps time sharing those court appearances with appearing for the Georgia State racketeering and election fraud charges he faces.
    And at some future date, after Aileen Canon is removed from the case, to face Smith yet again on the theft of classified documents.

    I’m looking forward to seeing him appear for repeat appearances in the courtroom box, particularly after he’s spent a few months in cells without access to wall mirrors, hairspray and facial spray tans.

    He’s going to be in a world of pain – and is deserving of every second of it.

  8. I think fascism can be understood better by looking at it as a progression, rather than individual figure heads.

    The failure of the Weimar Republic to enact the necessary social reforms to alleviate the suffering of the German people brought about by the global economic crisis of the Great Depression. Would have dampened support for the Nazis. Same for the refusal of the Obama and Biden administrations to soften the blows to the American people brought about by the GFC and global pandemic.

    “Cometh the hour, cometh the man”

    We can see the same process at work here.

    A number of commenters here have struggled to understand a weirdo like David Seymour.
    Understand a weirdo like Chippy, and his captain’s call not to tax the rich, explains a weirdo like Seymour.

    Instead of letting the banksters fail, Obama bailed them out, with money that could have been used to support the victims of the banking failure. At the same time Obama, instead of funding social programs to alleviate inequality, funded a hugely expensive escalation of the US led war in Afghanistan. (a war Trump called an end to, as a waste of money, giving the promised ‘peace dividend’ to the rich in tax cuts).
    Biden has followed down the same path as Obama, by funding a genocide in Gaza. Many have made the judgement that Trump will be even worse than Biden in helping Israel wage their genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza. But not if Biden and Harris end the genocide in Gaza before Trump takes office. (Something they have refused to do).

    The failure of liberal or even progressive governments to fulfill their supporters expectations is the handmaiden of fascism.

    • Hip hip, true. Trusting the rich (neoliberalism) is the natural trampoline for Fascism. Why the National Party leaders have been so horrible about recognizing what Trump is.

      Harris still has 10 days to do what the people want, but then her donors will abandon her. Like the donors threatened if Bernie had been selected in ’20. An oligarchy deserves a dictator. It will be humanity’s epitaph but true to the project.

  9. Going to be very interesting reading what all the rightie/maga anti Harris, anti Labour, anti Ardern, anti reality hate trolls here have to say after Trump goes down bigley, very bigley in November.

  10. Trump is a hypocrite and is only after the power to stay out of jail, by being in the position to be able to fire those wanting to put him in jail.
    He’s a hypocrite because he has previously donated generously to the Democrats when it suited him.
    He’s a hypocrite because he’s backtracking on abortion to be less toxic to women, after spending his first term stacking the Supreme Court with conservative judges so they could overturn Rowe v Wade.
    He’s a hypocrite because he wants to be tough on crime saying he would quickly stop serious crime in the US, when he’s actually a convicted felon, who tried to insight a coup d’état, and then did nothing about it for hours while it all unfolded and people died.
    He’s a hypocrite because he wants to be tough on immigrants, but he lobbied Republicans not to support a joint bill toughening immigration, because he wanted to keep it an issue. His actions helped maintain immigration through the southern border, so he could campaign against immigration through the southern border and appeal to prejudice, hence “they are eating the dogs, in Springfield…”.
    Trump Song – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALGkQq3RJ7k
    Trump Coup – https://www.tvnz.co.nz/shows/trumps-heist-the-president-who-wouldnt-lose

  11. Why anyone would vote for, or support a diaper wearing, doggy cushion seater, dementia ridden cheat and bankrupt idiot who can’t speak a complete literate sentence, is beyond me.
    Given his dietary habits, I seriously doubt he’ll live to see in the coming election. Either a stroke will wipe out what little memory he has, or a massive infarct will see him off.
    Any idiot who supports him was last in line when God was handing out brains and intelligence.
    Thankfully, in the six battleground states, Daipher Don Dementia Loser is between six and twelve points behind.
    That means USA gets its first female president.

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