Republican Party - On the Eve of a Civil War?

[maxparrish]

An interesting article in The Atlantic, written in 2012:

...some of the first people who met him (Hitler) did take him quite seriously. Truman Smith, who was a junior military attaché in the 1920s, came away from meeting Hitler and said, "This is a marvelous demagogue who can really inspire loyalty." It was the same with Karl von Wiegand, a Hearst correspondent who was the first American journalist to interview Hitler back in 1922. He was struck by Hitler's oratorical skills and his ability to whip people into a frenzy.

Then you had this period after the Beer Hall Putsch where Hitler came out of prison and a lot of people had forgotten about him. After the Great Depression hit, suddenly the Nazi Party became a major contender for power. Yet you had Americans meeting Hitler and saying, "This guy is a clown. He's like a caricature of himself." And a lot of them went through this whole litany about how even if Hitler got into a position of power, other German politicians would somehow be able to control him. A lot of German politicians believed this themselves.

If you look back to the very beginning of Hitler's rhetoric about Jews, it was all there -- the talk about extermination and vermin. He didn't spell out exactly what would happen in the Holocaust, but he gave a pretty good indication of its overall thrust. When someone lobs those kinds of rhetorical bombs, it's sort of a natural human tendency to say, "Oh, that's just a figure of speech. They don't really mean it. It's just a way to whip up supporters."

But at a certain point, people began to witness things that were unbelievably horrifying. And of course, there was Kristallnacht. After that, even the people who at first wanted to dismiss every incident as local people getting out of control began to take the problem seriously. There's quite a difference between being socially anti-Semitic and seeing people beaten on the streets.

http://www.theatlantic.com/national...urnalists-reported-the-rise-of-hitler/254146/

 

[Sarpedon]

The person they draft must be:

A. Eligible to serve as President.
B. Of sufficient stature, having served as a member of the establishment in a high office.
C. Stupid enough to drink this poisoned cup.

So, what's Dan Quayle up to these days?

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

Even in today's poisonous political campaigns, sometimes good things happen

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/rep-molly-white-loses-re-election-muslims

A Tea Party lawmaker who once demanded Muslim visitors to her Capitol office pledge allegiance to the U.S. and renounce terrorism lost her re-election bid by just over 100 votes this week, The Dallas Morning News reported.


Texas state Rep. Molly White wrote on Facebook that "after prayers and conversations" with supporters, she plans to request a recount of Tuesday's Republican primary race, which she lost by just 118 votes.
White refused to apologize last year after her anti-Muslim Facebook post about a Muslim lobbying day went viral.


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Goodbye you silly woman!

 

[untermensche]

An interesting article in The Atlantic, written in 2012:

If you look back to the very beginning of Hitler's rhetoric about Jews, it was all there -- the talk about extermination and vermin. He didn't spell out exactly what would happen in the Holocaust, but he gave a pretty good indication of its overall thrust. When someone lobs those kinds of rhetorical bombs, it's sort of a natural human tendency to say, "Oh, that's just a figure of speech. They don't really mean it. It's just a way to whip up supporters."

But at a certain point, people began to witness things that were unbelievably horrifying. And of course, there was Kristallnacht. After that, even the people who at first wanted to dismiss every incident as local people getting out of control began to take the problem seriously. There's quite a difference between being socially anti-Semitic and seeing people beaten on the streets.

http://www.theatlantic.com/national...urnalists-reported-the-rise-of-hitler/254146/

Hitler was a disturbed individual in different ways from Donald Trump.

He was severely abused as a child, practically killed.

He was a failure in his one passion, art.

He was traumatized by the first WW.

Trump is just a self centered jerk looking for self aggrandizement. He's never been hungry, never been cold. He's been pampered his entire life.

He has no violent plans of expanding lebensraum. He just knows what rhetoric will work on people who could easily be driven to violence.

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

Meanwhile, back at the ranch....


http://www.politicususa.com/2016/03...blicans-lose-seats-due-obstructing-obama.html

[h=1]Devastating Polls Show 8 Senate Republicans Could Lose Seats Due To Obstructing Obama [/h] By Jason Easley on Fri, Mar 4th, 2016 at 12:56 pm



PPP polls of Iowa, Arizona, North Carolina, and Missouri revealed that four long-term Republican incumbents could lose their seats if they obstruct President Obama's Supreme Court nominee.
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Earlier polls of Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, and Wisconsin showed that Democrats could beat four vulnerable blue state vulnerable Republicans due to the growing outrage over the Senate Republican plan to not consider President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee.