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Mary Miller, a newly elected Republican representative from Illinois, told a crowd of protesters that Hitler was right on one thing.
Miller was speaking Tuesday in Washington, D.C., to a crowd of Donald Trump supporters, according to Margot McGowan Staebler, a law student at Michigan State University who posted the video on Twitter. Supporters of the president, including a range of extremist figures and groups, have gathered in the capital for a mass rally to protest the election results as Congress meets to ratify them.
Speaking in view of the Capitol building, Miller was discussing her emphasis on family values and the importance of convincing voters to elect Republicans when she invoked Adolf Hitler.
Hitler was right on one thing: He said, whoever has the youth has the future, Miller said. Fill your childrens minds with what is true and right and noble, and then they can overcome evil with good because they can actually discern between what is evil and what is good.
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Shocked? Yeah, me neither.
tenderfoot
(8,438 posts)eom
Behind the Aegis
(53,975 posts)There was a white power flag raised on the Capitol too.
dustyscamp
(2,224 posts)They revel in it
misanthrope
(7,421 posts)were solely his realizations. He was only right about how easy it is for strongmen to manipulate desperate people, about how they appeal to hatred, about how to divide the population and employ scapegoats. Thing is, plenty of despots and ambitious politicos -- including some in this nation -- have known the same so that hardly makes the Little Corporal especially insightful or smart.
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,335 posts)Maru Kitteh
(28,342 posts)what a rubbish human.
SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)what her fucking parents were like.
TeamPooka
(24,242 posts)njhoneybadger
(3,910 posts)Senator Josh Hawley
IronLionZion
(45,496 posts)and isn't nearly as dumb as Trump so it would be worse
njhoneybadger
(3,910 posts)PCIntern
(25,572 posts)There is no question that Miller and Trump and of course their minions, used Hitlers techniques because, quite frankly, they were incredibly successful in inculcating that form of nationalism in a population which was much more sophisticated and aware than ours. When the history of this is written there will be many heroes of the resistance.
Behind the Aegis
(53,975 posts)Of course, that anti-Semites love that they can invoke Miller because it just adds to the whole "Jews are puppeteers" and poor ole' shit-for-brains was the real victim. It should be interesting to see what happens to Jews in the next couple of weeks.
PCIntern
(25,572 posts)Behind the Aegis
(53,975 posts)...just wait!
N_E_1 for Tennis
(9,770 posts)People forget history.
Gothmog
(145,481 posts)IronLionZion
(45,496 posts)LeftInTX
(25,504 posts)lame54
(35,313 posts)Pulling the trigger in the bunker