The right wing MAGAts love to cite Godwin’s law while defending Drumpf (deflecting) from being justifiably / accurately labeled “Hitler”, and Drumpf’s supporters (themselves) from being labeled as “Nazis”.
Now let’s hear from the man himself -Godwin:
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/12/19/godwins-law-trump-hitler-00132427
Godwin’s comments from the article:
“What we have of Hitler’s speeches are mostly recorded, and they’re not always particularly coherent. What you see in efforts to compile his speeches are scholars trying to piece together what they sounded like. So, it’s a little bit like going to watch a standup comedian who’s hitting all of his great lines. You see again and again Hitler repeating himself. He’ll repeat the same lines or the same sentiment on different occasions.
With Trump, whatever else you might say about him, he knows what kinds of lines generate the kinds of reactions that he wants. The purpose of the rallies is to have applause lines, because that creates good media, that creates video. And if he repeats his lines again and again, it increases the likelihood that a particular line will be repeated in media reporting. So that’s right out of the playbook.
You could say the ‘vermin’ remark or the ‘poisoning the blood’ remark, maybe one of them would be a coincidence. But both of them pretty much makes it clear that there’s something thematic going on, and I can’t believe it’s accidental.
The question is why do it on purpose. Well, my opinion is that Trump believes, for whatever reason, that there is some part of his base that really wants to hear this message said that way, and he’s caving to them. He finds it both rewarding personally for himself and he believes it’s necessary to motivate people to help him get elected again.”
Interesting…
I guess the MAGAts will have to find a different go-to deflection when they are rightly / accurately compared / equated to Hitler / Nazis.
*nods*
Now let’s hear from the man himself -Godwin:
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/12/19/godwins-law-trump-hitler-00132427
Godwin’s comments from the article:
“What we have of Hitler’s speeches are mostly recorded, and they’re not always particularly coherent. What you see in efforts to compile his speeches are scholars trying to piece together what they sounded like. So, it’s a little bit like going to watch a standup comedian who’s hitting all of his great lines. You see again and again Hitler repeating himself. He’ll repeat the same lines or the same sentiment on different occasions.
With Trump, whatever else you might say about him, he knows what kinds of lines generate the kinds of reactions that he wants. The purpose of the rallies is to have applause lines, because that creates good media, that creates video. And if he repeats his lines again and again, it increases the likelihood that a particular line will be repeated in media reporting. So that’s right out of the playbook.
You could say the ‘vermin’ remark or the ‘poisoning the blood’ remark, maybe one of them would be a coincidence. But both of them pretty much makes it clear that there’s something thematic going on, and I can’t believe it’s accidental.
The question is why do it on purpose. Well, my opinion is that Trump believes, for whatever reason, that there is some part of his base that really wants to hear this message said that way, and he’s caving to them. He finds it both rewarding personally for himself and he believes it’s necessary to motivate people to help him get elected again.”
Interesting…
I guess the MAGAts will have to find a different go-to deflection when they are rightly / accurately compared / equated to Hitler / Nazis.
*nods*
