Even before the embers from the recent Milwaukee race riot, sparked by a black officer shooting a fleeing, armed black suspect, had cooled, Donald Trump gave a speech in the Milwaukee exurb of West Bend—99 percent white—ostensibly about how “law and order” will save law-abiding African Americans (none discernible in the audience) from “crooked Hillary” who is guilty of “a war on the police” in league with (black) criminals.
Trump’s predictable and only “solution”: elect him as maximum leader to run rough shod over the Bill of Rights, rip up trade agreements with China and Mexico, and keep out “illegal hordes” who rob African Americans of jobs as well as presumed Muslim crazies who won’t be allowed to immigrate to the U.S. unless they can recite the Constitution backwards-and-forwards in the King’s English.
Trump’s speech, which was blessed by Wisconsin’s Governor Scott Walker, who previously denounced Trump as a bane on conservatism but now instead attacks Hillary for allegedly somehow “inciting” the Milwaukee riot, coincided with the revelation in the Forward by reporter Josefin Dolstin of the splash on the Internet by “Trump Youth,” an organization modeled on “Hitler Youth” by founder Jayme Louis Liardi, a self-described “anti-globalist” and “white nationalist” who adores both Adolf and Donald.
On his personal web site, Liardi muses: “If you have no identity, one will be installed into you by the kosher forces of The State. Make no mistake, they may say that they are for ‘multiculturalism’ ‘diversity’ and ‘equality’ but their actions would say otherwise. This is the ideology that brought us colonialism, slavery and the chain stores of suburbia. This is our current world—the world of Globalism.” Of the Fuhrer, he writes: “I wanted to understand the mind of the supposed most evil man in history. And yes, I read Adolf Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’. I quickly realized that I was not being given all of the facts—that what passes for history is merely rehashed propaganda from the war.”
Candidate Trump initially had a memory burp preventing him from identifying—or repudiating—the support of David Duke. Trump probably really doesn’t know who Liardi is. But great minds are drawn to each other—and Despicable Donald has now drawn into his orbit an American Hitler jungen in his own image.
We now also learn that Trump has finally found his official Goebbels (Fox’s Sean Hannity informally has filled that role up to now). Stephen Bannon, the executive chairman of Breitbart News, will become the Trump campaign’s chief executive, with current campaign manager Paul Manafort—damaged by recent revelations of his role as a bag man for Putin’s Ukrainian mafia—essentially kicked upstairs to a more ceremonial role. With Fox’s disgraced Roger Ailles (who got his start as a hatchet man for Richard Nixon’s 1968 law-and-order campaign) reportedly whispering presidential debate prep advice into one of Trump’s ears, Bannon will fill the other ear with encouragement for “Trump to be Trump” by ignoring the councils of moderation and going whole hog in the direction of a (white) nationalist campaign.
Trump’s law-and-order rhetoric in Milwaukee was delivered in a Queens accent, but his rhythms echoed Nuremberg.
Trump’s Orthodox son-in-law, Jared Kushner, was said to be vacationing in Europe while all these un-kosher doings unfolded.
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