Trump Admin borrows from Nazi, Soviet, Fascist Propaganda

Mulberry Heel said:
As that painting represents America's Manifest Destiny, I guess it is pretty appropriate for this administration, although certainly not in the positive way they think. See those Native Americans being pushed west off their ancestral lands? Yeah, I'm sure that the new right-wing public school curriculum won't be doing much critical analysis of this painting's symbolic images and what they mean.
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If it is any consolation, I cover this extensively in American History. We've started doing comparisons of WWII era propaganda campaigns to what is being vomited out of this administration as well.
 
Mulberry Heel said:
I know it shouldn't be surprising, but it is still something at just how blatantly and deliberately similar so many of these propaganda posters are to Nazi propaganda posters. Just eerie, and very, very disturbing. The mindset of the people who ordered this shit has got to be terrifying - I would certainly imagine that Stephen Miller has had a hand in ordering them made and posted.
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This. I love the WWII exhibit at the American History Smithsonian, mainly because it captures how the war was narrated to America as opposed to Germany. Trump's propaganda machine could have embraced historically "American" imagery and rhetoric. But it chose instead to channel Nazi propaganda, changing only the nation, not the message. That was certainly not an accident.

The good news is I don't see it working, at least not nearly in the same way it did in 1930s Germany. Trump is enjoying the unfettered power that a deeply misguided electorate gave to him in 2024, but he is not winning Americans to his side. He is becoming less popular and less able to move public opinion in his direction as we go. Thanks to a complicit Supreme Court and a cuckolded congressional majority, Trump has the ability over the next few months to continue his destruction of all that truly makes America great. But I continue to hold out hope that this enormous overreach will be the turning of this tide once and for all. The Republican Party needs to pay an astronomical price for supporting Trump's Nazi-inspired agenda. I can't wait to see that happen.
 
lawtig02 said:
This. I love the WWII exhibit at the American History Smithsonian, mainly because it captures how the war was narrated to America as opposed to Germany. Trump's propaganda machine could have embraced historically "American" imagery and rhetoric. But it chose instead to channel Nazi propaganda, changing only the nation, not the message. That was certainly not an accident.

The good news is I don't see it working, at least not nearly in the same way it did in 1930s Germany. Trump is enjoying the unfettered power that a deeply misguided electorate gave to him in 2024, but he is not winning Americans to his side. He is becoming less popular and less able to move public opinion in his direction as we go. Thanks to a complicit Supreme Court and a cuckolded congressional majority, Trump has the ability over the next few months to continue his destruction of all that truly makes America great. But I continue to hold out hope that this enormous overreach will be the turning of this tide once and for all. The Republican Party needs to pay an astronomical price for supporting Trump's Nazi-inspired agenda. I can't wait to see that happen.
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I am not as hopeful as you are.
 
nycfan said:
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A clarifying note: There is no evidence that German or Spanish fascists actually used this phrase, despite utilizing collective punishment. Many authoritarian regimes have used collective punishment, but the phrase is not inherently fascist or linked to a fascist source.
 
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