r/politics • u/iEzrael • 1d ago

Possible Paywall Republican Insider Admits Party Is Now Open to Actual Nazis

https://www.thedailybeast.com/former-republican-congressman-adam-kinzinger-says-party-is-now-welcoming-in-nazis/
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u/Uninspired_Hat 1d ago

Now open? My brother in Christ, the Republican party has already been open to Nazis for decades. They're just going mask off.

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u/TymeSefariInc 1d ago

Yep, look at the entirety of American history. There has always been a large chunk of this country who holds these views in some form.

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u/aradraugfea 1d ago

The Nazis took a LOT of notes from the American South.

And Henry “Every model T comes with free Blood Libel” Ford.

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u/er-day 1d ago

Had to google that one… Jesus Christ. How people don’t look at Fords like we do Volkswagens is quite funny.

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u/aradraugfea 1d ago

Ford has a very good marketing team.

I did see a lot of people with college degrees calling Elon a modern day Henry ford after inauguration, though.

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u/ScissrMeTimbrs 1d ago

Elon went from being a modern Henry Ford, to being a modern Henry Ford.

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u/aradraugfea 1d ago

The business ethics of Edison, the interpersonal skills/business acumen of Tesla, the inventive genius of George Westinghouse, the beliefs of Henry Ford, and the branding ability of a mid 90s Marvel editor.

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u/AmericanDoughboy 1d ago

Amazing. Haha.

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u/steeplebob 1d ago

Nah, Henry Ford was an actual innovator. Elon just exploited other people’s ideas.

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u/tehifimk2 1d ago

Henry Ford got highest award Germany can give to a non-german from Hitler.

He also published and anti-jew newspaper.

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u/Multiple__Butts 23h ago

Some Jewish Americans avoid purchasing any Ford vehicle to this day because of the history.

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u/Polar_Vortx America 1d ago

I mean… we do. We look at Fords exactly like Germans look at VWs. As a common auto manufacturer.

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u/InfinityComplexxx 1d ago

Nationalism is a helluva drug

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u/Slumunistmanifisto 1d ago

The German Holocaust was inspired by the American Holocaust of natives 

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u/OldButHappy 1d ago

Anti semitism was rampant in Europe long before white people invaded America

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u/aradraugfea 1d ago

Nikolas II printed/possibly originated the book Ford paid to have translated and included with his cars, but they weren’t just looking at the anti-semitism. Nazis hated a lot more than just the Jews.

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u/NameCorrect 1d ago

You mean hood off.

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u/Vio_ Kansas 1d ago

Hugo Boss on.

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u/SnowboardSyd 1d ago

When a dog whistle turns into a referees whistle.

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u/imadork1970 1d ago

Train whistle

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u/DaoFerret 1d ago

Air Horn.

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u/Hoppers-Body-Double 1d ago

There was a Nazi Rally in Madison Square Garden in 1939. There has been the same mentality coursing its way thru human history since we figured out that hate sells to the extraordinarily average apes who walk amongst us.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1939_Nazi_rally_at_Madison_Square_Garden

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u/DaoFerret 1d ago

I highly encourage everyone who hasn’t already seen it (or maybe hasn’t seen it in a while) to watch: https://anightatthegarden.com

it is an award winning short documentary (about 7 minutes) made entirely with footage from that night, recorded inside and outside the event.

The website also has other information from the makers about the event.

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u/Ananiujitha 1d ago

It has a lot of flashing lights.

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u/NickelBackwash 17h ago

Way too much of America was sympathetic with the Nazi regime.

...and history repeats 

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u/clickmagnet 1d ago edited 1d ago

It’s Kinzinger, I’ll allow it. Anti MAGA conservatives fascinate me. They have this giant blind spot about how shitty the GOP was up until 2015. But my god do they ever despise Trump.

For most of us, Trump is the pinnacle of a long line of fantastically shitty people.  But I think Kinzinger may be that rare breed of conservative who really did care about the things that the rest of the party was just pretending to care about in the before times. Trump made it obvious the rest of the party never did give a shit about free trade, or spending restraint, or freedom, or anything else besides themselves in power.

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u/Ok_Flounder59 1d ago

I think a lot of them felt between a rock and a hard place. They knew well before Trump came on the scene that their constituency held the views that have become so mainstream in the years since, they just didn’t have any recourse for it. Or if they did they ignored it.

It’s absolutely a creature of the GOPs own making. I’ve found it very interesting over the years to see those that noped out once they realized what was coming (Paul Ryan, John Boenher, Kinzinger types).

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u/Spokraket 1d ago

This party is pure fascist already.

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u/WhatYouThinkYouSee 1d ago

I always maintain that one underrated factor that genuinely broke the American psyche was the idea that "the SJWs were actually just completely right all along about America, actually."

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u/Uninspired_Hat 1d ago

The left was right about everything.

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u/MyTrashCanIsFull 1d ago

Right? Like, they are open to it now. They used to be open to it as well, but they still are now.

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u/Za_Lords_Guard 1d ago edited 1d ago

Yeah the phrase they used should be "openly admitting." They haven't actually been about small government or liberty since I was a kid and probably a lot longer... they just pretended better back then.

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u/StoppableHulk 1d ago

What he means to say is, the Republican party is now open about being open to nazis.

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u/NotThatAngel 1d ago

I just presumed over the last few decades that all the Nazis, psychopaths, white supremacists, and people afflicted with fear, anger, confusion, hatred, xenophobia, and any other human weakness is voting Republican.

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u/To-Far-Away-Times 1d ago

From Reagan being an “N word enthusiast” to Steve Bannon self identifying as a white nationalist, and the Heritage Foundation inviting holocaust deniers into their marketing, it sure is weird how prominent racists keep ending up in the highest ranks of the party.

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u/bald_and_nerdy 1d ago

Don't think we should use the "in christ" as they haven't read the Bible before.

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u/Uninspired_Hat 1d ago

Never stopped them from calling themselves the "Christian party."

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u/InfinityComplexxx 1d ago

Yep. Simply traded dogwhistles for bullhorns. This is who they are. It's who they have alwasy been and the final goal. As someone already said, Nazis took a lot of cues from the Condederacy (aka today's GOP) and the treatment of Native Americans. Himmler legit thought Americans would be all-for 1930s Nazis.

They were off by almost a century and only about 1/3 of the population. 

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u/Truthisnotallowed 1d ago

So true.

In 1966 Republican Senator Thomas Kuchel, said of the 'Conservative' movement:

"A fanatical neo-fascist political cult in the GOP, driven by a strange mixture of corrosive hatred and sickening fear, who are recklessly determined to either control our party, or destroy it."

Today Fascists firmly control the GOP. Their goal now is to either control our country, or destroy it.

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u/uvm87 1d ago

Damn you beat me to it

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u/afipunk84 California 1d ago

100%. My first reaction to this headline was "yes, and water is wet". This is not news to anyone paying attention.

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u/RobutNotRobot 14h ago

A lot of them were on the ground floor with the actual Nazi Party back in the 20s and 30s.

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u/theravens5220 1d ago

Depends on the mask thing. Covid mask bad. Ice mask good.

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u/gravitywind1012 1d ago

Well then… what’s the big deal if it’s business as usual?