The 1876 House Rule reinstatement models Hitler's means to create his authoritarian regime.

[TheBlackAdder]

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One of the first things Hitler did, when he got into power, was to purge the government of Non-Loyalists.

The following article reminds me of this fact, and ties it closely to their planned takeover and purge.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trumps-purge-of-non-loyalists-takes-shape_us_586f9b3ee4b08052400ee18c?section=us_politics



Trump’s Purge Of Non-Loyalists Takes Shape

This week’s move by the GOP Congress to revive an 1876 rule that allows them to cut any federal employee’s pay to $1 sets up the purge of non-loyalists that Donald Trump’s team has been talking about, for months.

This summer, Reuters reported that then-Trump Transition chair, Governor Chris Christie, had told a group of Trump insiders that, if he won, Trump would seek new ability to purge the government of non-loyalists. Reuters reported, at the time:

One of the things I have suggested to Donald is that we have to immediately ask the Republican Congress to change the civil service laws. Because if they do, it will make it a lot easier to fire those people,” Christie said.

He said firing civil servants was “cumbersome” and “time-consuming.”

As I explained at the time, this kind of purge of civil servants is often one of the first moves of an authoritarian, and, ironically and frighteningly, getting legislation to do so was also one of Hitler’s first moves, upon taking power.

The Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service was passed just two months after Hitler became Chancellor of Germany. It was such a major piece of his plan to ultimately become dictator, that the Holocaust Museum notes it on their timeline of events.

Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service (Gesetz zur Wiederherstellung des Berufsbeamtentums)

https://www.ushmm.org/learn/timeline-of-events/1933-1938/law-for-the-restoration-of-the-professional-civil-service


So, if anyone objects to Paul Ryan's 115th House or the Trump fascists as being Hitlerian, they might thing twice.

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[Angry Dragon]

1. Let the purge begin

[TheFrenchRazor]

2. i'm sure they'll use this law to "make america great again;" NOT. nt

[Ohioblue22]

3. i cant blame him i'd do tbey same thing and it's what pres

obama should have done

[Merlot]

4. If trupm were impeached tomorrow the repubs would still move forward

with all this stuff. Although trupm is reprehensible, thinking that he's the sole reason for all of this is a big mistake. The repubs have been working up to all of this since the impeachment of Bill Clinton. Everything trupm has said is right in line with the repblican pary platform.

We've got bigger problems than trupm, he's just the most obvious symptom.

[Crunchy Frog]

5. He's just the head of a boil that's been festering under the surface for decades.

[Crunchy Frog]

6. Comrade Trump is fortunate to have a roadmap

laid out by the pioneers who came before him.