{"id":1478429,"date":"2024-07-21T16:50:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-21T20:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1478429"},"modified":"2024-07-21T16:50:00","modified_gmt":"2024-07-21T20:50:00","slug":"is-left-wing-trump-as-hitler-iconography-in-the-mainstream-media-responsible-for-the-attempt-to-assassinate-the-45th-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/is-left-wing-trump-as-hitler-iconography-in-the-mainstream-media-responsible-for-the-attempt-to-assassinate-the-45th-president\/1478429\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Left-Wing ‘Trump-As-Hitler Iconography’ In The Mainstream Media Responsible For The Attempt To Assassinate The 45th President?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is Left-Wing ‘Trump-As-Hitler Iconography’ In The Mainstream Media Responsible For The Attempt To Assassinate The 45th President?<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Richard Truesdell and Keith Lehmann via American Greatness,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

So many of us watched in horror last Saturday when a 20-year-old assassin aimed at Donald Trump\u2019s head just after he started his remarks at his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. How and why did this happen? Did the mainstream and social media enable a radical to commit murder?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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The June issue of the far-left publication\u00a0The New Republic<\/em>\u00a0featured on its cover a vile photo of the faces of Trump and Adolf Hitler merged together. At the time it was released, we had no idea of what would transpire on July 13, 2024, when Thomas Matthew Crooks, using an AR-15 from 400 feet away, attempted, at the highest level, to interfere in the 2024 presidential election.<\/p>\n

But should we be surprised? Hardly.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s been an open secret among leftist elites that regime-approved violence falls somewhere between\u00a0\u201cit\u2019s okay to punch a Nazi\u201d<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0\u201cyour speech is violence, while our violence is speech.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0Media outlets like The Intercept\u2019s\u00a0Prem Thakker<\/a>\u00a0claim that Crooks was a registered Republican but he also made a small donation to Act Blue, a far-left PAC.<\/p>\n

Regardless of party affiliation, the 20-year-old shooter was shockingly motivated to commit murder. Did it come to him in a dream? Was he personally harmed and looking for justice? Did he conclude that this was a logical and necessary act for the protection of society at large?<\/p>\n

No. His motivation was driven by a firehose of personal hatred and\u00a0outrageous propaganda promulgated by media platforms<\/a>\u00a0(and Democrats) that utilize Hitler imagery and Nazi narratives that are embedded in our minds as murderous, dangerous, and anti-human, all the while tying them to Donald Trump. If anyone thinks that the concept is outlandish, one only has to look at the past decade and see how this imagery and narrative have been pushed to influence the weak minds and radicals among us.<\/p>\n

In reverse chronological order, let us examine three of the most egregious examples of the left using Trump-Hitler iconography to spew their disgusting narrative.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The New Republic<\/a>\u00a0(June 2024)<\/p>\n

For its June 2024 issue, Owner and Editor-in-Chief Win McCormack and Editor Michael Tomasky were rightfully savaged on X\/Twitter for the cover merging the faces of Trump and Hitler together. On X\/Twitter, this was their rationalization and justification.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe chose the cover image, based on a well-known 1932 Hitler campaign poster, for a precise reason: that anyone transported back to 1932 Germany could very, very easily have explained away Herr Hitler\u2019s excesses and been persuaded that his critics were going overboard. After all, he spent 1932 campaigning, negotiating, doing interviews\u2014being a mostly normal politician. But he and his people vowed all along that they would use the tools of democracy to destroy it, and it was only after he was given power that Germany saw his movement\u2019s full face.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cToday, we at The New Republic think we can spend this election year in one of two ways. We can spend it debating whether Trump meets the nine or 17 points that define fascism. Or we can spend it saying, \u201cHe\u2019s damn close enough, and we\u2019d better fight.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWe unreservedly choose the latter course. And so we have assembled herein some of our leading intellectual historians of fascism; a member of the fourth estate who learned firsthand what the Trump lash feels like; a leading expert on civil-military relations; a great Guatemalan American novelist with a deep understanding of immigrants\u2019 lives; one of our most incisive cultural critics; and a man with all-too-real experience in living under a notorious authoritarian regime. The scenarios they describe are certainly grim. We dare you to say, after reading these pieces, that they are impossible.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

It should be noted that\u00a0The New Republic<\/em>\u00a0is barely profitable. One can hope that, because of its lack of editorial integrity, even left-wing elite intellectuals will abandon it before the 2028 presidential election so that it will go bankrupt and sink below the waves into historical irrelevance.<\/p>\n

The Washington Post<\/a>\u00a0(December 20, 2023)<\/p>\n

Back in December, author and attorney Mike Godwin opened his WaPo op-ed\u00a0Opinion: \u201cYes, it\u2019s okay to compare Trump to Hitler. Don\u2019t let me stop you<\/a>,\u201d with a side profile graphic of Trump and Hitler back-to-back.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy very minor status as an authority on Adolf Hitler comparisons stems from\u00a0having coined \u2018Godwin\u2019s Law<\/a>\u2019\u00a0about three decades ago. I originally framed this \u201claw\u201d as a pseudoscientific postulate: As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.\u2019 (That is, its likelihood approaches 100 percent.)\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Godwin continues,\u00a0\u201cBut when people draw parallels between Donald Trump\u2019s 2024 candidacy and Hitler\u2019s progression from fringe figure to Great Dictator, we aren\u2019t joking. Those of us who hope to preserve our democratic institutions need to underscore the resemblance before we enter the twilight of American democracy.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

This plays directly into the ongoing progressive left narrative that Trump presents an existential threat to American democracy. If elected, Trump will be a dictator, and the 2024 election will be the last to be held in America. It goes back to the words of Hitler\u2019s propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels\u2019 law of propaganda, who once said, \u201cRepeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth.\u201d We\u2019ve seen the media become sheep, often repeating the exact same talking point simultaneously, like for the last couple of years that Joe Biden is\u00a0\u201csharp as a tack\u201d<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0\u201cruns circles around staffers that are half his age,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0and that he\u00a0\u201cwould never ban gas stoves.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0We could go on.<\/p>\n

Many on the progressive left, including influencers like MSNBC\u2019s Rachel Maddow, serve up this pablum for the masses on almost every broadcast. Worst of all, their low-information audiences tend to accept and believe it, repeating it at cocktail parties inside the DC Beltway. It\u2019s like a self-fulfilling prophecy to them.<\/p>\n

The Daily Beast<\/a>\u00a0(January 13, 2018)<\/p>\n

The Trump-as-Hitler narrative didn\u2019t happen overnight. The villification started the moment Trump announced his candidacy when\u00a0he rode down the golden escalator with his wife Melania<\/a>\u00a0back on June 16, 2015. <\/strong>But it certainly accelerated when he dispatched his primary opponents, was nominated, and defeated Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election.<\/p>\n

Once in office, the attacks intensified, with no editorial guardrails to be seen. The mainstream media had the green light to engage in any attack, no matter how insane it might seem. The editors at the left-wing website, The Daily Beast, opined on January 13, 2018, just a year into the Trump Presidency, with the op-ed\u00a0Trump\u2019s War on the Press Follows the Mussolini and Hitler Playbook<\/a>. Not only did they compare the evil Orange Man to Hitler but to Mussolini as well. The graphic? A color image of Trump superimposed over a historic black-and-white photo of Hitler and Mussolini standing side-by-side. It stated:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe abasement of language by\u00a0Donald Trump and his assorted flacks began long before, but this concept was so naked, so novel and so unblinkingly forthright that it established the rules for the assault to come, just as the first salvo of an artillery barrage signals the creation of a new battlefield where there will be many casualties.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

But it didn\u2019t stop there.<\/p>\n

\u201cTrump has spent two years vilifying the \u201cdishonest\u201d media (including The Daily Beast), even invoking the Nazi chant of \u2018enemies of the people.\u2019 Aided by the alt-right zealots at Breitbart, he has successfully persuaded millions of Americans that\u00a0<\/em>The\u00a0New York Times,\u00a0<\/em>Washington Post,\u00a0CNN, and MSNBC are seditious forces bent on denigrating and destroying the man they elected.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Funny how, more than six years on, we have watched how all the media outlets cited above have turned out to be nothing more than stenographers for the Democrat Party, and since January 2021, for the most authoritarian presidency in our 245 years, the Biden administration until his dismal debate performance two weeks ago.<\/p>\n

The Basic Difference Between Right- and Left-Wing Media<\/strong><\/h2>\n

There are very few right-leaning popular culture magazines to find anything comparable to\u00a0The New Republic<\/em>, newspapers like the\u00a0Washington Post<\/em>, or web platforms like\u00a0The Daily Beast<\/em>\u00a0that would merge an image of Joe Biden with Forrest Gump to return the favor. You won\u2019t see mainstream conservative websites with a large following like\u00a0The Blaze<\/em>\u00a0or\u00a0Brietbart<\/em>\u00a0(or American Greatness<\/em>) publish anything like that. With the exception of Fox News and all the major broadcast and cable networks. ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, and especially MSNBC, lean left.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not because the imagery and political pushback are not deserved. It\u2019s because this is not a \u201cboth sides\u201d issue.\u00a0The violence here is solidly footed on the\u00a0<\/a>left. <\/strong>Antifa, BLM, Occupy Democrats, Just Stop Oil\u2026all left-wing organizations. And they\u00a0are<\/em>\u00a0organized, not nutty individuals with their own ideas at work. Violence is a common tool in the left\u2019s arsenal, and they are not hesitant to use it.<\/p>\n

Most likely, we will find that the 20-year-old who shot Trump is among that group. He was probably marinating in hate his entire young life. It likely began at home, where parenting has nearly collapsed, and was extended in the public school system, where kids are taught the\u00a0absolutist Marxist notion of \u201coppressors versus the oppressed,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0villains versus heroes, Good versus Evil. He would have been a fine candidate for the KKK back in the 1950s and 1960s.<\/p>\n

A media and political party that ties a man to Hitler, to a petty dictator, to an authoritarian, and to someone who needs to be defeated \u201cby any means necessary\u201d is complicit in this murder attempt<\/strong>. Democrats and the legacy media completely understand that\u00a0they can still influence weak-minded, radical people<\/a>\u00a0to do their bidding and hide their complicity under the veneer of plausible deniability.<\/p>\n

Of course, there will be no real media accountability here\u00a0aside from sharply declining readership and viewership<\/a>. The media will just move on, unapologetically changing the subject and hoping nobody will notice or remember the slanders.<\/p>\n

Politicians, however, push these extreme narratives at their own peril. They are creating an underclass of radicals that cannot be controlled, and once these murderers-in-training are set loose, the leftist politicians who made them will need to hide, for they could be the next target.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nSun, 07\/21\/2024 – 12:50<\/span><\/p>\n

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