It’s Official: With “Vermin,” Trump Is Now Using Straight-up Nazi Talk He’s telling us what he will do to his political enemies if he’s president again. Is anyone listening?

I feel pretty safe in saying that we can now stop giving him the benefit of that particular doubt. His use—twice; once on social media, and then repeated in a speech—of the word “vermin” to describe his political enemies cannot be an accident. That’s an unusual word choice. It’s not a smear that one just grabs out of the air. And it appears in history chiefly in one context, and one context only.

  • beebarfbadger@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    One is saying that somebody is to be deplored and the other is saying that somebody belongs to a category of animals that are usually to be exterminated where found. Can you see the difference?

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      1 year ago

      They're both off hand insults about their opponents' supporters. I think you'd agree with me when I say NOTHING Trump has ever said has any deeper meaning. He's an idiot just saying what pops into his head.

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        1 year ago

        No, Trump says whatever pops into his head to get cheers.

        It has no meaning to him, but it has meaning

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          It's also very telling where his mind goes to pillage ideas. You never hear him spontaneously spurt out "thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself" and go on a wild tangent from there. There may be no direction to his streams of consciousness, but the pond he's ambling around in says a lot about him.