The Commonalities Between the Rise of the Nazis and the Tactics of the American Left

 

ARTICLE:
The Commonalities Between the Rise of the Nazis and the Tactics of the American Left Cannot be Ignored  by Steve McCann, 

This March 2021 article in the AMERICAN THINKER was so well-written and to-the-point I had to share some direct quotes. Note that I added some BOLD or italics for emphasis.   
Here is the direct LINK: americanthinker.com/articles/2021/03/the_commonalities_between_the_rise_of_the_nazis_and_the_tactics_of_the_american_left_cannot_be_ignored.html  

The article focuses on 6 areas of similarity:

• 1st racial division
• 2nd censorship, cancel culture
• 3rd propaganda & “fake news”
• 4th corporate and tech titan financial support for Dem Party
• 5th violent street riots – compared militant Antifa and BLM with Sturmabteilung (SA) 
  For more details on the SA, also known as Brown Shirts, visit USHMM 
  https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-sa#violence-and-purge-2 
• 6th using a manufactured crisis to advance its cause

Fifth -

“the Nazi Party routinely relied on street riots, property damage and gratuitous violence utilizing their militant cadre, the Sturmabteilung (SA), to project power through intimidation while blaming the communists for the violence.  Every time a riot was met with little or no response from the established authorities, the more emboldened they became.  [ NOTE: this could also be applied to the pro-Hamas, ant-Israel violence on college campuses ]

 

The American left revealed in the summer of 2020 that they too have the wherewithal and inclination to provoke street riots, property damage and gratuitous violence utilizing their militant cadre, Antifa and Black Lives Matter, to project power through intimidation while blaming white supremacy and police brutality for the violence.  ”

Sixth - creating a crisis event & using it to further their ambitions

“in January 1933, Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany.  Within four weeks a mysterious fire broke out in the Reichstag (Congress) Building which they blamed on communist agitators and that this was the opening salvo in a violent coup.  Using this pretext, the Nazis were able to force through the Reichstag The Enabling Act of 1933 in March of the same year.   This law embedded the Nazis as the sole dominant political party and ensured that only the Nazis could win future elections, if any were held.  They were the first modern proponents of never letting a crisis, real or manufactured, to go to waste. 

 

The left and the Democrat party seized upon the disturbances at the Capitol on January 6, 2021 to proclaim that it was an “armed insurrection” and the opening salvo in a violent coup attempt by white supremacists.  …..  

Further following in the footsteps of the Nazi Party, the Democrats almost immediately pushed to pass H.R. 1 (euphemistically entitled The For The People Act) which would overturn virtually all existing voter laws, embed the Democrats as the sole dominant political party and ensure that only the Democrats could win future elections.  

 

This list of parallels between the Nazi Party and the American left cannot be ignored.  ….

The manner in which a small fringe far-left socialist party was able to rise to power and how the left in America is emulating it should frighten all Americans.”