Sunday, January 21, 2018

Trump’s Approach to Opposition Recalls Hitler’s Night of the Long Knives

Whatever your political opinions, painting the party you disagree with as “complicit in all murders committed by illegal immigrants” is dangerous. The quotes come from an online ad run under a banner of Trump. The ad shouts: “DEMOCRATS “COMPLICIT” IN ALL MURDERS BY ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS. If you care about American democracy, spend 30 second here: https://www.donaldjtrump.com/media/democrats-complicit-in-all-murders-by-illegal-immigrants
In the Night of the Long Knives, Hitler’s thuggish supporters carried out a series of political extrajudicial executions intended to consolidate Adolf Hitler's absolute hold on power in Germany.
That’s not about to happen here. But Hitler had more than 1,000 political opponents arrested for the good of the Nazi nation. 
Trump's repeated calls to turn the Justice Department on his political foes and media critics is a parallel.

When a U.S. president blames the minority party for “all murders committed by illegal immigrants,” we are entering uncharted territory for our nation. Political disagreement cannot be criminalized without destroying our democracy. 

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