I literally qualified the statement right after. If he's not a Nazi, it's pretty insane that we are giving people offices at the white house who do not have the awareness to not make gestures like that on the grandest of stages.
As for promoting idiocy that people know nothing about... that should literally be the motto of this board. You quite literally promoted something you know nothing about in your next sentence
I mean my God. "Were the Nazis socialists? No, not in any meaningful way, and certainly not after 1934...
To say that Hitler understood the value of language would be an enormous understatement. Propaganda played a significant role in his rise to power. To that end, he paid lip service to the tenets suggested by a name like National Socialist German Workers’ Party, but his primary—indeed, sole—focus was on achieving power whatever the cost and advancing his racist, anti-Semitic agenda.
Over the following years the brothers Otto and Gregor Strasser did much to grow the party by tying Hitler’s racist nationalism to socialist rhetoric that appealed to the suffering lower middle classes... By the late 1920s, however, with the German economy in free fall, Hitler had enlisted support from wealthy industrialists who sought to pursue avowedly anti-socialist policies.
Hitler allied himself with leaders of German conservative and nationalist movements, and in January 1933 German President Paul von Hindenburg appointed him chancellor. Hitler’s Third Reich had been born, and it was entirely fascist in character. Within two months Hitler achieved full dictatorial power through the Enabling Act. In April 1933 communists, socialists, democrats, and Jews were purged from the German civil service, and trade unions were outlawed the following month.
That July Hitler banned all political parties other than his own, and prominent members of the German Communist Party and the Social Democratic Party were arrested and imprisoned in concentration camps... Any remaining traces of socialist thought in the Nazi Party had been extinguished."
What's next? Are you going to tell me that modern-day Democrats were the same as Democrat slave owners? I bet that one gets a real kick out of your 70 year old friends who think buzzwords mean anything.
