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Mike McCue

Trump is promising that he will root out and round up “vermin”. I.e. anyone he considers an enemy. It could not be more clear that this election is a defining moment that will determine whether we go back to the 1930s or move forward and finally turn the page on this insanity.

“The rhetoric has been normalized. The next move is to normalize the practice.”

youtube.com/watch?v=O2dKnNbSU8

@mike

The message has been normalized because the media has failed us in the most spectacular way possible.

Thank you @mike for doing your part sound the alarm and hold the fourth estate to account.

@mike I agree. That's how the Nazis did it, too. Though "mainstream" antisemitism already existed before, deporting and killing Jews was still considered barbaric and unacceptable. So the Nazis started not with the Jews but by eliminating any opposition. Then, from 1935 on, segregation was implemented, Jews removed from public office, rhetoric became overtly hostile to the point where physical aggression became accepted. The 1938 pogroms were the litmus test, paving the way towards Holocaust.

@mike It doesn’t help that the press hasn’t been addressing the issue.

Instead they just been normalizing Trump. ‘That silly bastard is at it again. Invoking Hitler a Nazis. Is that a hoot?’

@mike this is so crazy. Wow I hadn't seen this. God this election is terrifying.