If Trump wins Trumpism will be like Naziism but have it's own unique chilling definition , by Hal M. Brown, MSW

 

Trump spoke in Aurora, CO where he says Haitian immigrants are eating cats and dogs while standing in front of signs that said "Occupied America" showing photos of purported gang members. He not only wants to deport criminals, he wants to deport legal immigrants. As if this isn't fascistic enough, he wants to prosecute his political enemies. This may sound like Naziism but while it may be similar it is a new brutal authoritarianism. It won't be fully defined as Trumpism unless he wins the election.

Here's how a Colorado newspaper covered what he calls "Operation Aurora":

In speech, Trump paints violent picture of immigration in Colorado, says he’ll call his mass deportation efforts ‘Operation Aurora’

Excerpt:

In his remarks, Trump declared, “I love this state. This state has to flip Republican,” to raucous cheers. 

He said he could be spending time on the most beautiful beaches in the world but instead, he came to Colorado to figure out what “the hell happened to Aurora.” 

He blasted Gov. Jared Polis, referring to him as a coward, a fraud and pathetic. He also blamed Vice-President Kamala Harris for the surge in new immigrants arriving in the country in the past two years. 

“Kamala has imported an army of illegal alien gang members and migrant criminals from the dungeons of the third world,” said Trump. “And she has had them resettled, beautifully, into your community to prey upon innocent American citizens, that’s what they’re doing. And no place is it more evident than right here.”

He has also claimed numerous times that illegal immigrants take jobs from Blacks and Hispanics. The term "illegal" is irrelevant because to his base even legal immigrants aren't real Americans and should be deported. Of course this is a ploy to get votes but it isn't true. Consider the following:

Data shows migrants aren’t taking jobs from Black or Hispanic people, despite what Trump says (read AP article)

Excerpt:

What has Trump said?

Trump, who often uses anti-immigrant rhetoric, has referred during his campaign to immigrants he says are taking “Black jobs” and “Hispanic jobs.”

At a recent rally in Reading, Pennsylvania, Trump said, “You have an invasion of people into our country.”

“They’re going to be attacking — and they already are — Black population jobs, the Hispanic population jobs, and they’re attacking union jobs too,” Trump said. “So when you see the border, it’s not just the crime. Your jobs are being taken away too.”

Trump's rhetoric about jobs has been widely condemned by Democrats and Black leaders who have called it a racist and insulting way of implying that Black and Hispanic Americans take menial jobs.

Janiyah Thomas, the director of Team Trump Black Media, told The Associated Press that Democrats “continue to prioritize the interests of illegal immigrants over our own Black Americans who were born in this country” and that Biden-era job gains in the labor market were primarily due to illegal immigration.

None of what Trump says is true. This doesn't matter to him. Whether or not he knows this only matters when you want to make a differential diagnosis of him to determine whether he is mentally challenged, a manipulative psychopath, or clincially delusional. I'd go primarily with manipulative psychopath since demonizing a segment of nation's population is chapter one in the dictator's handbook.

Here's a glimpse of how our European allies view this. It is from the English version of France 24. Of course France was occupied by the Nazis during World War II and of the 340,000 Jews living in metropolitan/ continental France in 1940, more than 75,000 were deported to death camps, where about 72,500 were murdered. (Wikipedia)

'Occupied America': Trump further demonizes immigrants in Colorado campaign speech

If Trump wins it doesn't take any imagination to think about how our allies will react as they watch the United States turned from a democracy into a ruthless dictatorship where "undesirables" are rounded up and deported, or in the case of political rivals, imprisioned. 

Just yestereday Gen. Michael Flynn, who may very well end up with a high position in a Trump administration said some chilling things. He recently escalated violent rhetoric against Vice President Kamala Harris by calling her "an enemy of America" and saying we're at "war," was reportedly asked if he would consider "executing the swamp." 

"General Michael Flynn was asked at the Rod of Iron Freedom Festival Friday night if he'd 'sit at the head of a military tribunal to not only drain the swamp, but imprison the swamp, and on a few occasions, execute the swamp.' General Flynn says 'What your sentiment is about is accountability' and that 'I definitely believe we need accountability,'" he reported Saturday.

"There's a way to get after this, but we have to win first," Flynn further said, according to the weekend report. "These people are already up to no good, so we gotta win first. We win, and then [Katy] Bar the door. Believe me, the gates of hell, my hell will be unleashed." (reference)

This is what another general said, only this was about Trump:

“He is the most dangerous person ever. I had suspicions when I talked to you about his mental decline and so forth, but now I realize he’s a total fascist. He is now the most dangerous person to this country.”

These are the words of Gen. Mark Milley who was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under Presidents Trump and Biden. Read article.

From demonizing and getting rid of undesirables to taking away women's right to chose with the consequenses of climate change denial to making up "facts" to suit a political agenda it is Scream inducing to think what Trump will turn this country into if he wins. 

Trump won't bring in Naziism which is defined in the dictionary here.

He will have his own noun, Trumpism. We won't know exactly how it will be defined years from now, but we do know it will be horrific.

Update from Politico:

The article concludes as follows:

Vivid imagery, such as telling crowds of rally attendees that migrants will “cut your throat,” are now a staple of Trump’s speeches. He cites cases of U.S. women and girls allegedly murdered by immigrants in the country illegally, even as studies have shown that immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than U.S.-born Americans.

But Trump says they are — because they are inherently worse people. He’s told nearly all-white crowds in the past that they have “good genes,” even before his explicit suggestion this week that non-white immigrants are genetically inferior — when he told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt that migrants have “bad genes.”

“What is so jarring to me is these are not just Nazi-like statements. These are actual Nazi sentiments,” said Robert Jones, founder of the Public Religion Research Institute, the author of “The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy” and a vocal critic of Trump’s rhetoric. “Hitler used the word vermin and rats multiple times in Mein Kampf to talk about Jews. These are not accidental or coincidental references. We have clear, 20th century historical precedent with this kind of political language, and we see where it leads.”

You can see why I wrote yesterday's blog:

Friday blog: A message to good people, those who are caring, moral, and ethical, and who believe in democracy, and still are voting for Trump

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