To those in the Democrat Party who wish to replace President Biden on the Presidential ticket, Reid said “Let me know, when you guys are finished fighting amongst yourselves, who I gotta vote for in November to keep Hitler out the White House.”
Joy Reid’s comparison of Trump to Hitler is her opinion. But Donald Trump has a political record. Accordingly, hard facts abound showing exactly what Trump did during his four years as President. Which of those facts would give an iota of support to Reid’s inane assertion that “Trump is Hitler?”
Joy Reid is a 1991 Harvard Univ. graduate with a “concentration” on “film studies.” What seems patently clear is that Reid seems to lack even the least passing knowledge of Hitler and his Third Reich. No person with a scintilla of intellectual integrity who has read William L. Shirer’s The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, or studied WWII, would ever compare Trump — or any other American politician — to Adolf Hitler.
Here is a timeline of Hitler and his deeds:
January 1933: Hitler become German Chancellor;
February 1933: Reichstag destroyed by fire; Nazis blame Communists;
March 10, 1933: Nazi burn books opposite Berlin University;
March 1933: Enabling Act passed. Hitler given power to rule by decree for 4 years;
Hitler proclaims Nazi Party the only permitted political party in Germany. All other parties and trade unions are banned. German states stripped of autonomous powers. Nazi officials become state governors;
February & March 1933: Mass arrests of Left-Wing opponents;
March 1933. Dachau Concentration Camp [“CC”] goes into operation;
April 1933: Communist Party banned;
May 1933: Socialists, trade unions and strikes banned;
Spring/Summer 1933: Early “CCs” are set up throughout Germany;
June 1934: Hitler eliminates all opposition within Nazi Party. Hitler personally arrests Ernst Roehm, his Chief of Staff. When Roehm refuses to use the pistol offered him to end his own life, he is shot to death — executed — without prior trial;
July 1934: President Hindenburg dies. Hitler abolished the office of the President, and names himself “Fuehrer and Reich Chancellor;”
1935: Hitler decrees military conscription;
September 1935: Nuremburg Laws strip Jews of citizenship; makes them “subjects:”
July 1936: Sachsenhausen “CC” begins operations;
July 1937: Buchenwald “CC” starts operations;
December 1, 1937: 7746 prisoners now in “CC;”
March 1938: Hitler orders the German Army to invade and seize Austria. Austria annexed;
June 1, 1938: First official execution in “CC;”
June 30, 1938: About 24,000 prisoners now in “CC;”
September 1938. Hitler threatens war with Czechoslovakia. To avoid war, Chamberlain and France agree that the Czechs shall cede the Sudetenland to Germany. Hitler promises he has “no further ter-ritorial ambitions in Europe;”
November 1938: Crystal Night. 7,500 Jewish shops are destroyed; 400 synagogues are burnt. The attack is portrayed as a spontaneous reaction to the death of a German diplomat by a Jewish refugee in Paris. It is actually orchestrated by the Nazi party;
November 1938: About 50,000 prisoners now in “CC;”
March 1939: In violation of the Munich Agreement, Hitler troops the seize rest of Czechoslovakia;
May 1939: Ravensbrück “CC” for women starts operations;
August 23, 1939. Germany and Russia sign a “Non-Aggression Pact;”
September 1, 1939. Hitler “blitzes”/overruns Poland;
April 9, 1940: Hitler attacks and occupies neutral Denmark and Norway:
May 10, 1940: Neutral countries Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg are bombed and invaded in furtherance of Hitler’s invasion/war on France:
June 1940: Auschwitz “CC,” in German occupied-Poland, begins operation;
September 7, 1940 to May 11, 1941: Hitler’s air force bombs/blitzes England, including London and Coventry;
June 1941: Beginning of “euthanasia” of mentally-deficient and ill prisoners;
June 1941. In violation of his Non-aggression Pact, Hitler invades Russia;
September 1941: First mass-gassing of Soviet prisoners-of-war in “CCs;”
December 1941: Some 80K prisoners in “CCs:”
January 1942: Wannsee Conference to provide for the “Final Solution” for “Jewish question;”
Spring 1942: Mass transportation of Jews to Auschwitz begins;
Spring/Summer of 1942: SS establishes first gas chambers at Auschwitz-Birkenau;
September 1942: About 110,000 prisoners in “CCs;”
February 1943: Mass deportations of Gypsies to Auschwitz begins;
August 1944: 524,000 prisoners in “CCs;”
Early 1945: 700,000 prisoners in “CCs;”
So, Ms. Reid, when during his four years in office, did Trump commit any act comparable to any of the acts committed by Hitler, listed above?
When did Trump order the mass-burning of disapproved books? Rule by decree under an Enabling Act? Outlaw opposing political parties? Ban unions? Strikes? Order Mass arrests of political opponents? Of Democrats? Of Republicans? Set up concentration camps? Order the mass arrest of Jews? Invade neutral countries? Bomb them to bits? Order mass execution of any prisoners? Pass a law stripping anybody of their citizenship? Bomb population centers? Exterminate the mentally ill? Gypsies? Millions of Jews? Approve a “Final Solution?”
Joy Reid has expressed her opinion of Trump comparing him to Hitler. Where are the underlying facts to support her opinion? Or is her opinion of Trump based solely on irrational political hatred?
Trump can fairly be accused on childishly calling his opponents names — of being a “bull in a china shop.” But neither Biden nor Trump can rationally be compared to Hitler.
And Ms. Reid, if Biden goes “comatose,” what unnamed, unelected individual will be our secret “acting” president? It doesn’t seem to matter to Ms. Reid.
First Published in the Moline Dispatch and Rock Island Argus on July 10, 2024.
Copyright 2024, John Donald O'Shea
Copyright 2024, John Donald O'Shea
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