As a long time amateur historian on World War II, anti-Semitism, Nazism, and Hitler, I have long been sensitized to Hitler's pronouncements about Jews poisoning the bloodstream of the German people. Now Donald Trump has made several of his recent Trump rallies listen to similar statements about first Mexicans and now all immigrants from all over the world as "verming", poisoning our bloodstream.
Now is Trump lying now about his alleged lack of familiarity with Hitler's Mein Kamp? Or was he lying to reporter Marie Brenner in a 1990 article she wrote about Donald and Ivana Trump that included reactions to his wife Ivana's claims tht he kept a copy of MY NEW ORDER by Adolf Hitler by his bedside. Trump reacted to that by saying that the book was not MY NEW ORDER but instead MEIN KAMPF and was a gift to him by a "Jewish friend" named "Marty Davis", a Paramount films executive. Marie Brenner followed up with Marty Davis who told her:
1. The book I gave him was MY NEW ORDER, a collection of Hitler speeches;
2, "I am not Jewish."
Exact 1990 Vanity Fair quote is below:
My educated guess based on Trump's statements and recent policy statements about "obliterating" all opposition including RINO's, "fake press," "deep state (all federal civil service employees), Prosecutors and other accusers of him, General Milley, etc., etc., is that Trump most likely CLOSELY READ both MY NEW ORDER and MEIN KAMPF. I believe that he has closely studied histories of Fascist and Nazi leaders, analyzing their mistakes. It appears to me that his statement denying knowledge of MEIN KAMPF is still another lie.
How long until a re-elected and empowered Trump decides that Evangelical Christians who might belatedly catch on to him are "vermin" and "poisoning our bloodstream." I fear, given recent polls, that this is a distinct possibility. I hope I'm wrong, but I fear I'm right.
Below is one of the many comments in MEIN KAMPF about "poisoning bloodstream.
I am still working on my review of Mark Satin's new book UP FROM SOCIALISM. If you want to read it soondf for yourself -- it is an interesting history of important segments of the New Age Movement from 1980s through present, it is available from Amazon.
Stay tuned,
Constance