MAKING AMERICA HATE AGAIN

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It is said that those who won’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it. This is the book on the 2015 campaign that put Trump in office. Despite the overwhelming opinion of pundits to the contrary this book predicted Trump would win.

The 2020 election looms large not only because Nancy Pelosi opposes efforts to impeach Trump, but because even if the Democrats were to impeach Trump, the Senate with it’s Republican majority are is unlikely to act on impeachment by removing Trump from office.  It is essential to understand how Trump came to power in 2015 as we head towards the 2020 election…

Some seventy years after the defeat of fascism in Europe, the United States elected Donald Trump. As president Trump has ordered the deportation of millions of immigrants, placing immigrant children in brutal deportation camps where some have died, attacked freedom of the press, paraphrasing Adolph Hitler’ by labeling journalist enemies of the people, and stated that those who marched along side a Neo-nazi that murdered a young anti-fascist women at a  white supremacist rally were “fine young men”.

How is it possible that the nation that responded to fascism in World War Two by proclaiming “we have nothing to fear, but fear itself” could give rise to this?

This well documented text examines historic similarities between Trump and the campaigns that brought fascist to power in Europe, explores why so much of the electorate voted for Trump despite his hateful rhetoric, and is essential reading to those who would understand how to fight back.

I invite you leave a comment or question relevant to a discussion of the book below:

2 Responses to “MAKING AMERICA HATE AGAIN”

1. Gabriel says:

   December 5, 2016 at 11:48 am

   I am in the middle of reading your book “Making America Hate Again” In chapter 3 you stated that fascism comes into power through elections. However, my understanding is that Hitler was never elected. The Nazi Party never received more than 5% of the vote. However, they were eventually put into power by big banks and corporations.

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   • Elliot says:

     December 6, 2016 at 6:54 am

     Germany has a parliamentary system, so the voters did not vote for a national leader as happens in the U.S. Instead the voters vote for representatives and the political party that wins the largest number of seats is designated the majority party. Often times the majority party lacks enough seats to govern effectively, so they partner with other parties to form a coalition that can effectively govern. This is essentially what occurred in Germany.

     In the 1930 elections the Nazi’s, ran a campaign promising to make Germany strong again, tear up the Treaty of Versailles, put the unemployed back to work and bring about prosperity, and hatred of the Jews. The result was that a party that previous election had won less than a million votes astonishingly won 6.5 million votes, becoming the second largest party in parliament. Many industrialist who previously had previously considered Hitler a joke realized he could win popular support. Hitler also shared their desire to crush communist, socialist and trade unionist, leading some industrialist to begin meeting with Hitler and donating heavily to the Nazi party. In 1932 another election took place during which the Nazi’s received 13.5 million votes indicating mass support was growing. Although the Social Democrats remained in the majority they were unable to govern because they lacked sufficient support to gain acceptance for their proposals. This left the government paralyzed and dysfunctional, so in January of 1933 President von Hindenburg appointed Hitler Chancellor of Germany. Thus Hitler was duly elected by both the voters who put him in office, and the Social Democrats of the Reichstag, who elevated him Hitler to leadership.

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