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We Are The Third Man
The quote "we see candidates for public office who walk and talk like Nazis" comes from Garrison Keillor. He wrote a short piece on aging (what else, he's now 83 years old). The quote is a reference to one feeling like one wakes up in a foreign country after reading the news of the day. Boy did I ever identify and I'm not 83 - yet 
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Of course because of the news of the day seeing 'Nazi' alongside 'candidates' running for public office, *Platner comes to mind (because of wild narratives about a Tattoo).
*Graham Cunningham Platner is an American oyster farmer and Marine Corps veteran who is a candidate for the Democratic nomination in the 2026 U.S. Senate election in Maine, seeking to challenge incumbent Republican senator Susan Collins.
I have not seen anybody coming forward who has actually known Platner, who claims he walked or talked like a Nazi. So why did this quote resonate so well? Because we do have candidates running for public office, some people serving in public office (some elected, some appointed) who seem to brag about walking and talking like Nazis. This opinion is formed by very real statements and media profiles. Look at how Nazis portrayed themselves. Look at their propaganda - the movie reels, the pamphlets, newspapers, journals and public statements of the Nazi party in Germany pre the invasions of neighboring regions and nations. We see it every day in America. Often masked as "patriotism" of a hyper kind -- just as the Nazis portrayed themselves appealing to the general populace of Germany, as well as to the ethnic enclaves in neighboring regions.
I'm not claiming candidates running for public office, some people serving in public office (some elected, some appointed) are truly Neo-Nazis, just that some walk and talk like the old Nazis.
www.theatlantic.com
[Over the past few months, during his agency’s chaotic crackdowns in Chicago and Minneapolis, the U.S. Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino has worn an unusual uniform: a wide-lapel greatcoat with brass buttons and stars along one sleeve. It looks like it was taken right off the shoulders of a Wehrmacht officer in the 1930s. Bovino’s choice of garment is more than tough-guy cosplay (German media noted the aesthetic immediately). The coat symbolizes a trend: The Republicans, it seems, have a bit of a Nazi problem.
By this, I mean that some Republicans are deploying Nazi imagery and rhetoric, and espouse ideas associated with the Nazi Party during its rise to power in the early 1930s. A few recent examples: An ICE lawyer linked to a white-supremacist social-media account that praised Hitler was apparently allowed to return to federal court. Members of the national Young Republicans organization were caught in a group chat laughing about their love for Hitler. Vice President J. D. Vance shrugged off that controversy, instead of condemning the growing influence of anti-Semites in his party. (In December, at Turning Point USA’s conference, Vance said, “I didn’t bring a list of conservatives to denounce or to deplatform.”)] - quotes
.Of course because of the news of the day seeing 'Nazi' alongside 'candidates' running for public office, *Platner comes to mind (because of wild narratives about a Tattoo).
*Graham Cunningham Platner is an American oyster farmer and Marine Corps veteran who is a candidate for the Democratic nomination in the 2026 U.S. Senate election in Maine, seeking to challenge incumbent Republican senator Susan Collins.
I have not seen anybody coming forward who has actually known Platner, who claims he walked or talked like a Nazi. So why did this quote resonate so well? Because we do have candidates running for public office, some people serving in public office (some elected, some appointed) who seem to brag about walking and talking like Nazis. This opinion is formed by very real statements and media profiles. Look at how Nazis portrayed themselves. Look at their propaganda - the movie reels, the pamphlets, newspapers, journals and public statements of the Nazi party in Germany pre the invasions of neighboring regions and nations. We see it every day in America. Often masked as "patriotism" of a hyper kind -- just as the Nazis portrayed themselves appealing to the general populace of Germany, as well as to the ethnic enclaves in neighboring regions.
I'm not claiming candidates running for public office, some people serving in public office (some elected, some appointed) are truly Neo-Nazis, just that some walk and talk like the old Nazis.
The Republican Party Has a Nazi Problem
How did the GOP become a haven for slogans and ideas straight out of the Third Reich?
www.theatlantic.com
[Over the past few months, during his agency’s chaotic crackdowns in Chicago and Minneapolis, the U.S. Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino has worn an unusual uniform: a wide-lapel greatcoat with brass buttons and stars along one sleeve. It looks like it was taken right off the shoulders of a Wehrmacht officer in the 1930s. Bovino’s choice of garment is more than tough-guy cosplay (German media noted the aesthetic immediately). The coat symbolizes a trend: The Republicans, it seems, have a bit of a Nazi problem.
By this, I mean that some Republicans are deploying Nazi imagery and rhetoric, and espouse ideas associated with the Nazi Party during its rise to power in the early 1930s. A few recent examples: An ICE lawyer linked to a white-supremacist social-media account that praised Hitler was apparently allowed to return to federal court. Members of the national Young Republicans organization were caught in a group chat laughing about their love for Hitler. Vice President J. D. Vance shrugged off that controversy, instead of condemning the growing influence of anti-Semites in his party. (In December, at Turning Point USA’s conference, Vance said, “I didn’t bring a list of conservatives to denounce or to deplatform.”)] - quotes
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