At what point do we officially get to call them Nuremberg Rallies?
At what point do we officially get to call them Nuremberg Rallies?
We've got the flying in on an official plane, the specifically chosen music playing, the signs distributed to the crowd, the choreographed supporter from the crowd embracing the dear leader.
I mean, maybe they didn't pray at the rallies, per se, but I'm thinking that's not a disqualifier for the moniker. Nobody's claiming this is an historical reenactment. Not to mention that it's crossing a major religion favoring line to recite The Lord's Prayer. Uncool. And his supporters may swallow that ridiculously scripted bit about gosh, he had no idea what his wife was going to say! but nobody else believed it.
This is terrifying.
http://www.vox.com/2017/2/18/14659952/trump-transcript-rally-melbourne-florida
http://www.vox.com/2017/2/18/14659952/trump-transcript-rally-melbourne-florida
We've got the flying in on an official plane, the specifically chosen music playing, the signs distributed to the crowd, the choreographed supporter from the crowd embracing the dear leader.
I mean, maybe they didn't pray at the rallies, per se, but I'm thinking that's not a disqualifier for the moniker. Nobody's claiming this is an historical reenactment. Not to mention that it's crossing a major religion favoring line to recite The Lord's Prayer. Uncool. And his supporters may swallow that ridiculously scripted bit about gosh, he had no idea what his wife was going to say! but nobody else believed it.
This is terrifying.
http://www.vox.com/2017/2/18/14659952/trump-transcript-rally-melbourne-florida
http://www.vox.com/2017/2/18/14659952/trump-transcript-rally-melbourne-florida
FWIW, academics who have studied fascism as a phenomenon (as opposed to those people who are only nattering on about Nazi Germany) have predicted that any genuinely American fascism would put much more emphasis on religion than most other forms of fascism (where in this way it would be similar to the Spanish Falangism)
ReplyDeleteThank you Karl-Johan Norén, there was this vague, I can't quite pinpoint it thing in my head when I wrote that and now you have remembered for me!
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