While it's doubtful Republican politicians will continue the offensive Hitler-style rhetoric in the massive quantity of that by
Adolf Hitler was admired greatly by FDR and his Democrat intellectuals. Don't you know anything but what your handlers repeat over and over?
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Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg. It's all about you and yours.
P 64 Indeed, he [Hitler] would rail against the unearned wealth of the city's aristocrats and the need for social justice.
P67 Young Hitler showed up at a meeting of the German Workers' Party ready to dismiss it as just another left-wing fringe group. ... The title of Feder's talk that night: "How and by What Means Is Capitalism to Be Eliminated?"
P 68 He would become National Socialism's greatest salesman, not its creator. Even while Hitler was still pondering whether he should join the German Worker's Party, he received a membership card in the mail. He'd been recruited! He was given party number 555. Needless to say, it wasn't long before he was running the show.
P 70 ... the Nazis campaigned as socialists.
P 71 The Nazi ideologist - and Hitler rival - Gregor Strasser put it quite succinctly: "We are socialists. We are enemies, deadly enemies of today's capitalist economic system with its exploitation of the economically weak, its unfair wage system with its exploitation of the economically weak, its unfair wage system, its immoral way of judging the worth of human beings in terms of their wealth and their money, instead of their responsibility and their performance, and we are determined to destroy this system whatever happens!"
The most basic example is the Nazi use of the color red, which was firmly associated with Bolshevism and socialism. ... The Nazi flag - a black swastika inside a white disk in a sea of red - was explicitly aimed at attracting communists. ... Party members were referred to as comrades.
P 73 What distinguished Nazism was that it forthrightly included a world view we now associate almost completely with the political left: identity politics.
P 102 Nearly the entire liberal elite, including much of FDR's Brain Trust, had made the pilgrimage to Moscow to take admiring notes on the Soviet experiment. Their language was both religiously prophetic and arrogantly scientific. Stuart Chase reported after visiting Russia in 1927.. .. "the burning zeal to create a new heaven and a new earth which flames in the breast of every good Communist."
Lillian Wald visited Russia's "experimental schools" and reported that John Dewey's ideas were being implemented "not less than 150 percent." Dewey himself visited the Soviet Union and was much impressed. Jane Addams declared the Bolshevik endeavor "the greatest social experiment in history." Sidney Hellman, John L. Lewis, and most of the other leaders of the American labor movement were effusive in their praise of "Soviet pragmatism," Stalin's "experiment," and the "heroism" of the Bolsheviks.
WEB Dubois... "I am a Bolshevik."
P 103 The heroic success of fascism, according to [Lincoln] Staffers, made Western democracy - run by "petty persons with petty purposes" - look pathetic by comparison. For Staffers and countless other liberals, Mussolini, Lenin, and Stalin were all doing the same thing: transforming corrupt, outdated societies.
P 104 But he [Wilson] warned elsewhere, "If you are not a progressive... you better look out."
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