Ted Rall for February 17, 2017

I’m a wrestling fan, but considering Vince McMahon and family were major campaign donors to that guy in the White House, well played.

At the time, Germany was not the proud land of the Teutonic Knights, Karl Benz, and Friedrich Krupp, and Goethe, but was a bitter, defeated, frustrated land wondering what had happened to their Empire and would they end up like Russia after the Bolsheviks took over. Besides, “anti-Semitism” ran deep in the culture since Martin Luther and before.

Sad, but so true..

Trump, like Obama ran on a populist platform; promising the downtrodden something for nothing. Those who could not adapt economically supported their candidate because they believed their message ‘others are to blame for your woes’.

@JRMERM1. WE didn’t “hire” him. He lost the popular vote.

2. He’s off to a terrible start. He has managed to alienate many of our closest allies, is badly informed, and is still LYING about his “big win” weeks after he enter the Oval Office!

3. Racism? How about his right-hand man, an open white supremacist and leader of the “alt-right,” which is a modern Nazi by any sensible definition? How about his Holocaust Remembrance Day statement where he not only failed to mention the Jews, he doubled down on that statement later! Not to mention his past history, helping to keep people of color out of the housing developments he and his father built with government money. Yes, that’s fully documented. Oh, or his continuing to try and convict the Central Park Five after it was established CONCLUSIVELY that they were innocent…

Perhaps you shouldn’t say things like this without actually knowing something about the subject!

There’s a Yuge Trump Chump rally scheduled for this weekend. …Using the Goebbels Nazi playbookk to a T

The Nazis NEVER won a majority in any national election. The vast majority of Germans were split between two working class parties who failed to unite against their common foe. Hitler was appointed Chancellor by President Hindenburg in order to put a halt to the socialist revolution. And BTW, Trump did not win a majority. Neither did Clinton. Half of eligible voters rejected both candidates, and still do.

After a month, people still can’t believe anyone voted for Trump. America the home of the Whopper, Britney Spears, Survivor and McMansions. How could any civilization, no matter how tacky, embrace a lying, racist, maniac?

Hitler’s party received only 33% of the vote in the last free election in a country in dire economic circumstances. Bickering among the other parties made it impossible to form a government. Billionaire industrialists urged the appointment of Hitler as chancellor and the rest is history. Nearly half the voters went for Trump in the most powerful and prosperous country in the world. I am baffled.

Maybe Germany had limousine liberal cartoonists who campaigned against Hitler’s opponent because he wasn’t ‘socialist enough’? I wonder if Hitler’s opponent had to deal with the childish “Bernie or Bust” attitude like we did?

A friend who as a small child welcomed Hitler into her native Austria, with her parents, sees a rather terrible repeat of history with anyone who cheers for Trump.

Scripted wrestling and monster trucks are not the only things that show that.