Trump crosses the Nazi line: Maybe Muslims should wear special ID badges

[KansDem]

The Republican presidential frontrunner refused to rule out requiring Muslims to carry special identification showing their faith — which the Third Reich required Jews to do with a yellow badge that resembled the Star of David.

“We’re going to have to do things that we never did before,” Trump told Yahoo News. “Some people are going to be upset about it, but I think that now everybody is feeling that security is going to rule.”

The Nazi policy was based on an anti-Semitic practice in Medieval and Renaissance European nations, and historians say it played a large role in paving the way for acceptance of the Holocaust.

“The German government’s policy of forcing Jews to wear identifying badges was but one of many psychological tactics aimed at isolating and dehumanizing the Jews of Europe, directly marking them as being different (i.e., inferior) to everyone else,” according to the Holocaust Center. “It allowed for the easier facilitation of their separation from society and subsequent ghettoization, which ultimately led to the deportation and murder of 6 million Jews.”

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[Lizzie Poppet]

1. Little gold crescents, one presumes.

The fact that this clown shoe is polling so well constitutes one of our larger national humiliations in recent memory...and there's no shortage of competition for that "honor."

[Glassunion]

16. Between this ass-hat and the ass-hat mayor in VA wanting to re-open the internment camps...

We will have ourselves a little bit of Nazi Germany right here at home before you know it.

[merrily]

2. Imagine being the mom or dad who had to sew those on your babies.

[Blue_In_AK]

18. My grandchildren.

[olddots]

3. Donald Trump is not qualified

to make a pie filling .

[FiveGoodMen]

4. And he polls well, proving that the US is full of Nazis-at-heart

[JustAnotherGen]

5. He's awful

And any weak willed sniveling wimp who agrees with him should be made to wear adult diapers for the rest of their life on the outside of their clothes.

He's operating from and feeding a place of fear.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. Heck, why stop with IDs? Those can be lost or stolen.

How about tattoos on their forearms?

Because of Donald tRump, Godwin's Law has been suspended for the duration of the primary season.

[COLGATE4]

9. No no no. We do THAT after we lock them up.

Hlopefully unnecessary

[Contrary1]

7. And assholes don't need a "special ID badge"...

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They make themselves easy to spot.

[hedda_foil]

8. I've gotten Nazi vibes from Herr Trump for months.

Muslims wearing yellow crescents, internment/concentration camps for "illegals," with the illegal population growing ever larger. And somebody convince me that the Donald would let congress or the courts -- even the Supreme Court -- get in the way of what he wants to do.

[smirkymonkey]

21. He's gone completely off the deep end.

I think his poll results have completely gone to his head and he is on some kind of megalomaniacal tear. I really fear what he might do if were ever actually elected to office.

[Fred Sanders]

10. Publically going full-Nazi....if the corporate mass media paves this over it is going to be fun!

The man should be disqualified....that he is not disqualifies the mass media from the debate.

Fearmonger bastards! Time to put them to rest once and for all! And the fucking mass media needs to start doing their jobs or at least stop helping the insane hate-talkers.

[Liberal_in_LA]

11. Ugh. How quickly Americans forget American values

[NightWatcher]

12. Remember when we all said Never Again, well it's time to make sure

Trump needs to be soundly criticized and driven from competition for the nomination after this.

[angrychair]

13. This guy

Redefines "batshit crazy" but it is but a peek into the vile gifs and comments that people happily share with everyone while calling themselves "Americans" and "christian".

Lastly, these are the type of people we would want a Democratic president to compromise with? I'd rather die than concede anything to vile assholes like this.

[Maedhros]

14. All the people on DU who are making the claim that Islam is a fundamentally violent religion

are playing directly into the lunacy being strewn about by Trump and others of his ilk.

[Douglas Carpenter]

31. and they are playing into the lunacy of ISIS/Daesh as well

[starroute]

15. It's getting to be "I am Spartacus" time

[Blue_In_AK]

17. This affects my family,

and is beyond the pale. Fuck this guy...

[NutmegYankee]

19. I had commented that he seemed quite fascist.

And now it's confirmed.

[Yavin4]

20. Make folks were badges, but we can't regulate guns.

Got it.

[spanone]

22. fuck the don.

[beam me up scottie]

23. My s/o's son is engaged to a Muslim, she's also pregnant.

Will he be able to go with his wife and child to the camp or will it be for Muslims only?

[Behind the Aegis]

29. This isn't a surprise to me.

I have been noticing his speeches for awhile now and have expressed to my husband how close they are to rhetoric I hear, well, let's just say "someplace" and historically, from the Third Reich in regards to Jews and other "undesirables". He actually had one speech that we both stopped and looked at each other because we had just watched a Holocaust documentary with excerpts from a speech from Goebbels and the parallels were scary as shit!

And, no, it won't be for "Muslims Only". Those kinds never stop with just one "other"!

[beam me up scottie]

30. Now that you mention it I do see the similarities.

And you're right, it starts with one kind of undesirable but never ends there.

I am glad my mother isn't alive to see this being considered, it would break her heart.

[napkinz]

24. ...

[RichGirl]

25. Better idea....

A piece of duct tape covering Trumps mouth so we aren't exposed to his insanity.

[backscatter712]

26. Do it right, and it'll rip off that moustache...

You know the moustache I'm talking about...

[napkinz]

27. ...

[MattBaggins]

28. We should force T-rump supporters to wear

Obnoxious yellow rugs on their heads

[Gothmog]

32. Trump is scary

[napkinz]

33. posted by Bernardo de La Paz

see http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027365481

[Octafish]

34. That is EXACTLY what he did.

Would help make certain people stand out in a crowd.