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    Die Republikanische Partei hat ein Nazi-Problem

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    2. theatlantic on

      Since the start of Donald Trump’s second term, Republicans have deployed Nazi imagery and rhetoric, and espoused ideas associated with the Nazi Party, Tom Nichols argues. He explores how a dark fringe reached the center of the GOP:

      In recent months, 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; and “even federal agencies are modeling Nazi phrasing,” Nichols writes. 

      When Nichols joined the Republican Party in 1979,  the national GOP was a moderate institution, he writes. In 1990, while working in the Senate, he encountered extremism among his boss’s constituents but was reassured by the leadership of the party. The country and the GOP were in the hands of George H. W. Bush, “the ultimate moderate, but extremists were making inroads to power,” Nichols writes. He watched as the populist demagogue Pat Buchanan challenged Bush in 1992. Then, a few years later, Representative Newt Gingrich carried Buchanan’s culture war into the House speakership. 

      Later Republican presidential nominees such as John McCain and Mitt Romney “represented the moderate coalition that had brought people like me into the party,” Nichols continues. But soon after McCain’s loss to Obama, the Tea Party movement barreled into American politics—and by the time Romney ran against Obama in 2012, Trump had launched his political career by pushing the “birther” lie.

      Critics of the GOP argue “that something like the Trump movement, and the emergence of a new American Nazism, was inevitable,” Nichols writes—but it’s because the GOP, as an institution, has weakened over time “that it could be hijacked by an aspiring dictator.” Republican leaders who warned against Trump in 2016 “discarded conservative principles to protect their jobs,” Nichols continues. “Their eager amorality has allowed extreme elements to use the GOP as a vehicle for bigotry and rage.”

      At the link, Nichols explores what Americans must do to face a major political party’s moral rot: [https://theatln.tc/LonuPzSG](https://theatln.tc/LonuPzSG) 

      — Grace Buono, assistant editor, audience and engagement, *The Atlantic*

    3. QueenMagik on

      It *is* a Nazi party.  Every single one of them is a nazi.  Even your mom.

    5. Lostinthestarscape on

      I love how they went from „why do you call us Nazis, it diminishes the term“ to „oh shit, we have too many nazis in our party“.

      Well Benny, that’s what you get for covering for Nazis and shoving a generation of men into right wing ideology.

    8. mexxonmobil on

      Lol typical Atlantic. Ten years too late and only speaks up when it’s affecting israel 

    10. throwthatoneawaydawg on

      Look at their sub to find the evidence, click on any of their threads. It’s sad that individuals like that still exist

    11. syrion22 on

      How f’n old is this? They had a nazi problem in 2017. They purged the party of any non-nazis by 2020.

    12. Additional-Signal327 on

      If you own a bar and allow Nazis in the bar you have a Nazi bar. GOP is now a Nazi party. 

    13. UncontrolledInfo on

      If you are fine with some Nazis at your party, you are now at a Nazi party.

    15. wilhusta63 on

      The Overton window has shifted so far that we are now normalizing actual fascists. History will not look kindly on this.

    18. paolilon on

      The only problem the Republicans see is that they’re getting called out on it…I‘ve seen zero effort to do anything more than that.

    20. Fickle-Molasses-903 on

      „Stand back and stand by,“

      Among those who voted, 60% of white men and 53% of white women supported a racist, fascist, sexist pedophile.

    21. diastolicduke on

      Wow it took you all this long to figure out something that’s been obvious to anyone who paid attention

    23. AMCorBUST2021 on

      I live in Scottsdale. I have been approached at least twice by people in positions of power gauging whether I was a Nazi or would join. I’m blonde blue eyes and German. And I can’t count the number of Nazi tattoos I’ve seen. America def has a Nazi problem.

    24. preventDefault on

      Meanwhile the “liberal media” will be like *“While it’s true the republicans have a Nazi problem, is the democratic rhetoric about this issue too divisive?”*

    28. danielbgoo on

      The Republican Party he a Nazi problem 10 years ago.

      Now the Republican Party is a Nazi Party.

    30. roadsidefoto on

      If you have a nice, tasty turkey sandwich, and you put even a little bit of shit in or on it, it’s now a shit sandwich. The shit-to-sandwich ratio is completely trivial.

      It’s the same with nazis.

    35. cnn795 on

      I think we’ve known this since *checks notes* at least 2016 (if not earlier).

      The person the republicans voted for in 2016 was openly supported by Nazis. Full stop. Every single person saying “I didn’t vote for this” need to understand you voted the same as literal Nazis and can’t live that down.

      What was the Charlottesville “protest” if not a pure Nazi rally.

      Side note: Nazi love to wear masks now just look at ICE AND Charlottesville.

    36. Any_Reason_2588 on

      Doesn’t seem like they see it as much of a problem. More a lifestyle.

    37. Comfortable-Ad-3988 on

      The „Southern Strategy“ had the explicit goal of marrying the racists in the US to the evangelical movement, and has been very successful. They invited the vampire into the house, hard to pretend he doesn’t live there.

    38. JDogg126 on

      Pat Buchanan started courting nazis back in the 80s in an attempt to beat George W Bush from the right but failed. However that started a spark that Gingrich nurtured and today the republican base is anchored by Nazis living in the United States.

    41. swiftekho on

      If a Nazi is drinking in your bar and you don’t kick him out, he will bring his friends. You will have a Nazi bar in no time.

    42. jtmonkey on

      This is like saying McDonald’s has a French fry problem. It’s what they ordered. 

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