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Pub: NY Daily News May 16, 2025 Published Wait: 7 Days
Hometown: Utica, NY Writes: Lefty/Southpaw
Tags: Fascism · History

NEW YORK NIGHTS

Pub: NY Daily News May 16, 2025 Published Wait: 7 Days
Hometown: Utica, NY Writes: Lefty/Southpaw
Tags: Fascism · History

NEW YORK NIGHTS

We frequently hear Republicans indignantly scoff at any comparison of President Donald J. Trump to Adolf Hitler. Well, please consider this.

Hitler was elected after his supporters sacked and burned the German capitol building. He then blamed the Communists and the Jews for Germany’s problems, labeled non-white people as vermin threats to Germany, said “Only I can fix it” and started “disappearing” them to camps and prisons, with no due process. He stifled the arts and the media, called the free press the “enemy of the people” and had all news filter through Goebbels’ propaganda machine.

Is this sounding familiar at all? Finally, he declared himself “Fuehrer” and a united Germany did not have another free election for 53 years! We can’t believe this is actually happening in America either, Republicans. Yet reality tells us every day that it is in fact happening, quickly and relentlessly.

Maybe you should stop scoffing and start working with Democrats to stop him NOW!

— Jeff and Joan Ganeles, Utica, NY
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