Reprinted with permission from AlterNet.
While attending the premiere of conservative documentarian Dinesh D’Souza’s new film, Donald Trump Jr. echoed that movie’s preposterous claim that the Democratic Party is closely aligned the German Nazi Party — prompting Twitter users called him out over the ridiculous assertion.
“When you look at the movie, you’ll see that there is a very distinct and clear difference between what actually happened and what is being sold to our youth today,” he said at the screening of “Death of a Nation: Plantation Politics and the Making of the Democratic Party.” “You see the Nazi platform from the early 1930s and what was actually put out there, and you look at it, compared to the DNC platform of today, you’re saying, ‘Man, those things are awfully similar.’ To a point where it’s actually scary! It’s the exact opposite of what you’ve been told.”
He continued: When you have a bunch of kids in dreadlocks running around and screaming about fascism and all these things, it’s like… wait a second, have you actually taken a history class?”
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D’Souza, who was pardoned by President Donald Trump for violating campaign finance laws, is a conspiratorial conservative and professional troll who specializes in making ahistorical claims about progressivism’s roots in Nazism.
Many on Twitter were eager to point out how absurd offensive Trump Jr.’s claims were:
At least he was civil about it https://t.co/vBLURvpbA3
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) August 2, 2018
"Only a member of the race can be a citizen. A member of the race can only be one who is of German blood, without consideration of creed. Consequently, no Jew can be a member of the race."
Classic. Sounds just like the Democrats.
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) August 2, 2018
"Any further immigration of non-citizens is to be prevented. We demand that all non-Germans, who have immigrated to Germany since 2 August 1914, be forced immediately to leave the Reich."
Hostility to immigration? Definitely what the Democrats favor today.
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) August 2, 2018
"We demand freedom of religion for all religious denominations … so long as they do not endanger its existence or oppose the moral senses of the Germanic race. The Party as such advocates the standpoint of a positive Christianity"
Religious liberty for Christians? Check.
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) August 2, 2018
"We demand freedom of religion for all religious denominations … so long as they do not endanger its existence or oppose the moral senses of the Germanic race. The Party as such advocates the standpoint of a positive Christianity"
Religious liberty for Christians? Check.
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) August 2, 2018
Hey @DonaldJTrumpJr, there are Nazis running for office as Republicans (https://t.co/lKhroAvIfn) and your dad called people chanting Nazi slogans “very fine people.” Seriously Don Jr., you might be the only person whose intelligence @nbcsnl has exaggerated. Read a book. https://t.co/zEdDocCTFo
— Miranda Yaver (@mirandayaver) August 2, 2018
I don’t think he’s literate.
— John Tessitore (@JohnTessitore) August 2, 2018
Sarah Sanders refuses to say that the press is not the enemy of the people, while Donald Trump Jr. says the platform of the Democratic party is reflective of the Nazi party.
Could these people be more vile?
I fear the answer is "yes".
— Cody Swan (@Lampliighter) August 2, 2018
Hey asshat Donnie Jr., if you are comparing Democrats to Nazi Germany, then why is it the white supremacist Republicans who carry the Nazi flag at their marches?
— Lee Ann Lewman (@LALewman) August 2, 2018
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