Nazi Trump? Listen to Trump Himself Answer the Question
By Lester Golden,
Medium
| 05. 10. 2021
When people repeatedly announce who they are in their own words, listen. The core of Nazi ideology is racial darwinism, the belief that humanity is divided into a hierarchy of inferior and superior races. For the umpteenth time last September 19 in Minnesota Trump advertised that he subscribes to this core belief of Nazism:
“President Trump’s riff about the “good genes” found among the people of Minnesota — an 80 percent white state — wasn’t a dog whistle. It was a train whistle, folding in Trump’s long-held belief that some people, himself especially, are simply born with superior traits to others. “You have good genes, you know that, right?” Trump said during his Saturday rally in front of a nearly all-white crowd in Bemidji. “You have good genes. A lot of it is about the genes, isn’t it, don’t you believe? The racehorse theory. You think we’re so different? You have good genes in Minnesota.” (https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/trumps-touting-of-racehorse-theory-tied-to-eugenics-and-nazis-alarms-jewish-leaders/ar-BB19J2wO)
To complete the picture of the Nazi ideological well he drinks from, put this together with Trump’s:
“I’m German; I like order...
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