The first guy waited until he became Chancellor of Germany and used the Reichstag fire as a pretext to start rounding up enemies and building concentration camps. A front-page story in the New York Times this morning tells us that our own Chancellor-in-Waiting, Donald J. Trump, isn’t waiting to be elected, or for a pretext. He has an SS team in place that is already making plans to round up tens of millions of immigrants and house them in camps they plan on building “on open land in Texas near the border,” according to Stephen Miller, who Trump has appointed to be his own personal Heinrich Himmler to handle the matter of immigration if he is elected president next year.
I have read several articles from other reporters about this issue and trmp’s speech. No one put any of it together as you did. I shared the entire article on Facebook because everyone needs to see it. The people who still support him need to read it, even if they don’t get it the first time. Trmp is now as crazy as a shithouse rat in a trailer park meth lab. He needs to be locked up, but no one in his family will do that except for Mary his niece.
Thank you for your accuracy and factual analysis, Lucian. People have to stop pussyfooting around this evil maniac. Now.
1) not to take Trump’s words and “plans” at face value; and
2) to assume there is anything about our history, values, and institutions that ensures “it can’t happen here.”
That, in a nutshell, is what the 2024 election is about, and the bad guys (within and without) are already hard at work.
They are playing asymmetrically, using our laws and norms when it helps…violating them wantonly when it doesn’t; repeating outageous lies enough that they become credible narratives to the gullible. And they are working to undermine governance, foment division, invite instability and foster crisis that can give them momentum. All in plain daylight.
As we contest that pathway to dystopia, and we must, our agency and fortitude now needs to be the stronger.
This is the most chilling and frightening description of what we would face with a Trump presidency and the evil, and morally corrupt, actions of henchmen like Stephen Miller. What do we do? We have to mobiilze people to oppose this and to vote against this evil potential future. I am beginning to lose faith in this thing we call the American experiment. What are people willing to do to destroy this? So sad and scary.
Nov 13, 2023·edited Nov 13, 2023Liked by Lucian K. Truscott IV
Thank-you,Lucien, for your wise words (I don’t know you personally but feel like I can address you on a first name basis).I have no doubt that should TFG become POTUS again that I and many, many others will be on his revenge list.I did notice yesterday in one NYT article whose author I can’t recall ,discusses the horrific plan for our country that Trump has made no secret of dispensing should he win again.I am going to quote some poignant words from Heather Digby Parton that pretty much says it all in regards to our msm elevating Trump to the presidency “The press needs to keep in mind that this relentless recitation of polling numbers showing Trump slightly ahead a year out is setting in stone a narrative that will serve Trump’s purposes very well if he loses.He won’t say the polls are wrong.He’ll say that they prove the election was rigged.”She is right on the money and our media need to heed this and start discussing the absolutely vile and fascistic plan that Trump and company have in place should they win in 2024.
The upcoming election is truly a fight for democracy. The choice could not be clearer. I thought the American version of House of Cards became utterly ridiculous at the end. I had no idea that Trump viewed it as a blueprint.
I think Joe Biden is a wonderful president who deserves a second term. But if he needs to make way and step aside to save America if that's what it takes to stop Trump, I’m sure he'll do it to prevent the nightmare that Trump has promised should he ever become President again.
The Republicans in the Senate committed the greatest act of political malpractice in this country's history when they failed to convict Trump at the second impeachment trial and had the chance to bar him from ever holding office again. Now look where we are.
I visited Dachau with my college chorus on a singing tour of Europe in the late 1970s. Most of the barracks are gone, but there is a museum that uses photographs, text, and artifacts to document in soul-shatteringly explicit detail just what the Nazis did to the mostly Jewish abductees who arrived by train at Dachau. General Omar Bradley was adamant that everything be documented when the camps were liberated, to ensure that no one could deny the horrors the Nazis had inflicted on six million people.
One of the places we forced ourselves to visit were the crematory ovens. And there, we saw an example of American obliviousness and crass insensitivity that still flabbergasts me. As we came into the little courtyard in front of the ovens, there was a young American couple with their toddler. They had just lifted the toddler up and seated her in the opening of one of the ovens. They proceeded to take her picture there while we looked on, dumbfounded. When we pointed out that these were the ovens where the bodies of countless murdered Jews had been cremated, the wife snapped, "Mind your own business," and they walked off in a huff with their child.
It's the ugliest act of casual amorality I have ever personally witnessed. (And yes, I lead a sheltered life.)
My Uncle was an ambulance driver in Patton’s 3rd Army, so he was one of the first on scene. He committed suicide in his 80’s after decades of struggling with PTSD. I’m not saying Dachau caused it, but it certainly didn’t help.
What's truly terrifying is that there are plenty of sick and evil people in this benighted country who would be more than happy to carry out Trump's plans, and that there are all too many others who would simply shrug and turn away under the assumption that nothing will happen to them. I wish I knew what to do to stop this, but I have no answers.
I have read several articles from other reporters about this issue and trmp’s speech. No one put any of it together as you did. I shared the entire article on Facebook because everyone needs to see it. The people who still support him need to read it, even if they don’t get it the first time. Trmp is now as crazy as a shithouse rat in a trailer park meth lab. He needs to be locked up, but no one in his family will do that except for Mary his niece.
Thank you for your accuracy and factual analysis, Lucian. People have to stop pussyfooting around this evil maniac. Now.
I've said for several years if Trump wins in 2024 we will be reliving Germany in the 1930s. The article today and this column just confirmed it.
The most serious mistakes we could make are:
1) not to take Trump’s words and “plans” at face value; and
2) to assume there is anything about our history, values, and institutions that ensures “it can’t happen here.”
That, in a nutshell, is what the 2024 election is about, and the bad guys (within and without) are already hard at work.
They are playing asymmetrically, using our laws and norms when it helps…violating them wantonly when it doesn’t; repeating outageous lies enough that they become credible narratives to the gullible. And they are working to undermine governance, foment division, invite instability and foster crisis that can give them momentum. All in plain daylight.
As we contest that pathway to dystopia, and we must, our agency and fortitude now needs to be the stronger.
I find it interesting that a person of Jewish ancestry is planning, enabling justifying these efforts. Does he think he’s immune?
A truly remarkable essay. Thanks for collecting and connecting the historical facts and the present moment.
This is the most chilling and frightening description of what we would face with a Trump presidency and the evil, and morally corrupt, actions of henchmen like Stephen Miller. What do we do? We have to mobiilze people to oppose this and to vote against this evil potential future. I am beginning to lose faith in this thing we call the American experiment. What are people willing to do to destroy this? So sad and scary.
Thank-you,Lucien, for your wise words (I don’t know you personally but feel like I can address you on a first name basis).I have no doubt that should TFG become POTUS again that I and many, many others will be on his revenge list.I did notice yesterday in one NYT article whose author I can’t recall ,discusses the horrific plan for our country that Trump has made no secret of dispensing should he win again.I am going to quote some poignant words from Heather Digby Parton that pretty much says it all in regards to our msm elevating Trump to the presidency “The press needs to keep in mind that this relentless recitation of polling numbers showing Trump slightly ahead a year out is setting in stone a narrative that will serve Trump’s purposes very well if he loses.He won’t say the polls are wrong.He’ll say that they prove the election was rigged.”She is right on the money and our media need to heed this and start discussing the absolutely vile and fascistic plan that Trump and company have in place should they win in 2024.
The upcoming election is truly a fight for democracy. The choice could not be clearer. I thought the American version of House of Cards became utterly ridiculous at the end. I had no idea that Trump viewed it as a blueprint.
I think Joe Biden is a wonderful president who deserves a second term. But if he needs to make way and step aside to save America if that's what it takes to stop Trump, I’m sure he'll do it to prevent the nightmare that Trump has promised should he ever become President again.
The Republicans in the Senate committed the greatest act of political malpractice in this country's history when they failed to convict Trump at the second impeachment trial and had the chance to bar him from ever holding office again. Now look where we are.
I visited Dachau with my college chorus on a singing tour of Europe in the late 1970s. Most of the barracks are gone, but there is a museum that uses photographs, text, and artifacts to document in soul-shatteringly explicit detail just what the Nazis did to the mostly Jewish abductees who arrived by train at Dachau. General Omar Bradley was adamant that everything be documented when the camps were liberated, to ensure that no one could deny the horrors the Nazis had inflicted on six million people.
One of the places we forced ourselves to visit were the crematory ovens. And there, we saw an example of American obliviousness and crass insensitivity that still flabbergasts me. As we came into the little courtyard in front of the ovens, there was a young American couple with their toddler. They had just lifted the toddler up and seated her in the opening of one of the ovens. They proceeded to take her picture there while we looked on, dumbfounded. When we pointed out that these were the ovens where the bodies of countless murdered Jews had been cremated, the wife snapped, "Mind your own business," and they walked off in a huff with their child.
It's the ugliest act of casual amorality I have ever personally witnessed. (And yes, I lead a sheltered life.)
My Uncle was an ambulance driver in Patton’s 3rd Army, so he was one of the first on scene. He committed suicide in his 80’s after decades of struggling with PTSD. I’m not saying Dachau caused it, but it certainly didn’t help.
What's truly terrifying is that there are plenty of sick and evil people in this benighted country who would be more than happy to carry out Trump's plans, and that there are all too many others who would simply shrug and turn away under the assumption that nothing will happen to them. I wish I knew what to do to stop this, but I have no answers.
Lucian, wanted to thank you for doing what by and large mainstream media has been failing to do.
Someone please talk me off the ledge! I fully expect widespread chaos immediately after the election whether he wins or loses.
Lucian,
They have already had their Wannsee Conference. Now they just need to get control of the government to put it in action.
Be safe,
Steve Dundas
And they're still going to vote for him. Just unbelievable.
History does repeat, unless we stop it 😡‼️