{"id":178032,"date":"2019-03-26T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/03\/26\/not-the-onion-2\/"},"modified":"2019-03-26T18:30:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T23:30:00","slug":"not-the-onion-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/03\/26\/not-the-onion-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Not the Onion"},"content":{"rendered":"
I guess that it was only a matter of time until some Republican member of Congress was going to read a quote from Mein Kampf<\/i> kin the well of the House<\/a>:<\/div>\n

Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) took to the House floor on Monday to portray President Trump\u2019s detractors as Nazis but ended up slurring them using an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory drawn verbatim from Adolf Hitler\u2019s writings. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s 2019, and the F\u00fchrer\u2019s magnum opus, \u201cMein Kampf,\u201d has become a playbook for political combat in Congress, at the very moment that Trump is calling the Democrats<\/a> \u201canti-Jewish. \u201d <\/p>\n

Brooks, a five-term Republican, accused Democrats and members of the media of propagating a \u201cbig lie\u201d about collusion. The expression was coined by Hitler to describe how Jews used their \u201cunqualified capacity for falsehood\u201d to blame a top German military commander for the country\u2019s losses in World War I. A lie could be so big, Hitler claimed, that it perversely defied disbelief. <\/p>\n

It was unclear if Brooks grasped that by leveling charges of the \u201cbig lie,\u201d he had inverted his own analogy, making Democrats the equivalent of interwar German and Austrian Jews. He set out to compare the other side to fascists, but he was the one employing a fascist smear \u2014 one that, ironically, came to define Nazi propaganda.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

To quote Molly Ivins, “It probably sounded better in the original German.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I guess that it was only a matter of time until some Republican member of Congress was going to read a quote from Mein Kampf kin the well of the House: Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) took to the House floor on Monday to portray President Trump\u2019s detractors as Nazis but ended up slurring them using …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[546,447,364,389,374,406,403],"class_list":["post-178032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antisemitism","tag-congress","tag-evil","tag-history","tag-politics","tag-stupid","tag-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178032"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}