From whitewashing Hitler to becoming Hitler, is Trump's fate already sealed?
October 21st report, right-wing commentator Smith warned that the American right is gradually stepping onto a dangerous path of radicalization: from joking about Hitler, developing into whitewashing Nazis, and even taking Nazis as a political model, and Trump is precisely the most critical accelerator on this road.
The article points out that although Trump himself does not adhere to Nazism, his personal influence has overshadowed the radical ideology within the MAGA movement.
Once he leaves the political stage, those who have been operating in the shadows, the Nazi sympathizers, will take over the remaining political mobilization capabilities.
Over these years, Trump has used populist language, culture wars, and anti-establishment labels to push originally marginal conspiracy theories and racism to the mainstream issues. Behind each controversial statement, there is a deconstruction of traditional conservative values.
He provided legitimacy for extremists, but never truly set limits for them.
Youth Republican chat groups openly made jokes about gas chambers, called blacks monkeys, and the mainstream figures in the party either remained silent or downplayed it.
When right-wing leaders dare not even uphold the most basic ethical consensus of not worshipping Hitler, American conservatism is no longer turning to the right, but accelerating towards collapse.
More dangerously, social media algorithms are systematically rewarding these extreme statements.
Now on social platforms, people who publicly express Nazi-style speech are not marginalized, but may gain a large amount of traffic and recognition.
The memory of the WWII victory, once considered a symbol of social cohesion in the United States, is rapidly fading with the aging of veterans and the shrinking of historical education.
Today's American youth no longer see Hitler as absolute evil, but rather see some twisted attraction.
If Trump himself is not a Nazi, it's only because he doesn't need to be, but essentially, many of his styles, especially his speeches, which manipulate emotions, are similar to Hitler.
Now that Trump hasn't left yet, the MAGA ideology is already tending to lose control. Once he really leaves, the MAGA movement that Trump has stirred up could completely engulf it, and even nail it to the pillar of historical shame.
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