Rump's America First slogan was popularized by Nazi sympathizers

[MoonRiver]

President Trump declared Friday that his new administration would have an old slogan: “We assembled here today are issuing a new decree … from this day forward, a new vision will govern our land. From this day forward, it’s going to be only America First. America First!” The White House website pledges an “America First Energy Policy” and an “America First Foreign Policy.”

Trump isn’t quite promising “America über alles,” but it comes close. “America First” was the motto of Nazi-friendly Americans in the 1930s, and Trump has more than just a catchphrase in common with them. When he began using the phrase last year during the campaign, the Anti-Defamation League had asked him to stop.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/01/20/president-trumps-america-first-slogan-was-popularized-by-nazi-sympathizers/?utm_term=.3798c88a5d15

also: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-inauguration-america-first-slogan-us-nazi-sympathisers-a7538241.html

[Mc Mike]

1. I bet daddy Friedrich was a bund member, too. nt

[MoonRiver]

2. No doubt.

Racism and fascism usually go hand in hand.

[Mc Mike]

3. He was caught running with the klan in that era,

and the family really seem to be proud of their german bloodline, despite being name-dropping immigrants.

Li'l donnie has quite a few nazi and anti-semitic buddies, too.

[MoonRiver]

4. Yep

[Gothmog]

5. Who is surprised by this?

Trump was elected by the KKK, Nazis and other racists

[MoonRiver]

6. I'm just glad some of the media are reporting it.

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[Cha]

7. That means Billionaires first.. the rest of America can go to hell

Fascist slugs

[MoonRiver]

9. And the right wing lemmings just keep marching toward that cliff.

[jmg257]

8. Good article in the New Yorker...

"In 1940, Lindbergh, who had by then returned to the U.S., was recruited to speak on behalf of America First, an antiwar group founded by several Yale students (including Gerald Ford, the future President, and Potter Stewart, the future Supreme Court Justice) who saw the Second World War as an awful consequence of the First—and who were determined to avoid another disastrous war. The group attracted a wide range of supporters, from celebrities to pacifists (including the leader of the Socialist Party, Norman Thomas, who was my great-grandfather); America First also included more than its share of people whose views had less to do with the catastrophes of the First World War than with their nativism and xenophobia. At its peak, it had eight hundred thousand dues-paying members, many in the Midwest. Lindbergh was the ideal spokesman: charismatic, handsome, brave, sympathetic. His appeal was democratic—until it wasn’t."
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A few days ago, the Times interviewed Trump again, and Sanger returned to the phrase. “Think about its historical roots,” Sanger said.

“To me, America First is a brand-new modern term. I never related it to the past,” Trump said. People had pointed out that it was, as Trump put it, “a historical term,” but he denied the resonance. He might as well have said, as his campaign at first had about Melania Trump’s plagiarized speech, that “America First” used “common words.” It may be that he really doesn’t care that some people hear disturbing echoes. He may not have thought a thing when the Anti-Defamation League asked him to stop using the phrase, in March, and redirected fifty-six thousand dollars in donations from the Trump family to anti-bullying and anti-bias causes.

http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/america-first-for-charles-lindbergh-and-donald-trump

[MoonRiver]

10. Thanks for this.

If he weren't so demented, I'd be seriously worried.