2026-10-03 13:36 UTC
When is the right time to compare US politics to the Nazi era? This expert on Christian nationalism says: now
“Just as Germans who backed Hitler and the Nazi Party after 1933 were fully aware of what they were joining, so Christians who have backed Trump and the MAGA movement a second time know and bear responsibility for what they are now endorsing…
“This dehumanising language, talking about immigrants as vermin, and this racial purity language, like they’re ‘poisoning the blood of our country’. What does that mean? If they’re poisoning the blood, what’s the pure blood? We know where that story goes,” he said.
Replies (6)
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@letsnotpolarize@piefed.social 2026-10-03 15:29
I think it is one of those things that we don’t really know until it happens. i.e. sending immagrants into camps. By then it will be too late. So, I don’t know if America is truly at a time when we are close to Hitler fascism. But by the time we will know a lot of damage will be done if we are.
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@cattywampas@lemmy.world 2026-10-03 13:44
We need to stop comparing US politics to Nazis. It’s much more accurate and more helpful to compare it to our own Jim Crow past.
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@Passerby6497@lemmy.world 2026-10-04 05:04
And yet so many in vulnerable populations are advocating for paths of actions that will entrench the Nat-Cs in power…
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@ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 2026-10-03 14:07
Rehashing Nazi propaganda phrases and literally sieg heiling during the innaguration wasn’t enough?
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@GreenBean@lemmy.today 2026-10-04 06:29
Years ago.
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@HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 2026-10-04 07:32