US President Donald Trump always finds an enemy. He talked about 'these people'. He set the crowd against journalists.
He suggests a law should be enacted that people who burn the US flag go to jail for a year.
He talks about people who break the law and refers to them as 'people who may not be from our nation'.
And this for logic: 'We're riding high because you know we are going to win in October.
He says this about someone: 'a very dumb son-of-a-bitch'.
At the beginning he talks about the billions he has spent on the military and then later in the speech he criticises the military-industrial complex.
This man is a street brawler but isn't that exactly what Adolf Hitler was. And like Hitler, Trump always has to have an enemy. For Hitler it was the Jews, the Poles, the Russians, anyone to insult, and that's what Trump does. Watch Trump scream and roar and then read Max Frisch's 'The Scapegoat'. And the way Trump sneers. He exudes nastiness. But all so cleverly done. It appeals to an underbelly and he knows how to do that.
His similarities with Hitler become more evident with the passing of every day.
And then the roars of the people. They are infatuated with him.
What is it about violence and thuggery that appeals to people? And Trump has developed the dark art to perfection.
This from today's Guardian.
Earlier in the hearing, Dr Anthony Fauci, the US’s top infectious disease expert testified that the country will be doing more Covid-19 testing, not less, hours after the president insisted he was serious when he said at a rally at the weekend that he had called for testing to slow down in the US.
Coronavirus cases have continued to rise in about half of US states, but Trump said at the rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that increased testing was making the US look bad and that he had asked staff to slow down. His press secretary later said the remarks were “in jest” but the president stood by them on Tuesday, telling reporters that the comments weren’t a joke.
2 comments:
Michael, did you know that Germany has made public burning of the EU flag or that of another country punishable by up to three years in jail?
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-52674809
Interesting and thank you for that information.
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