Walter Brasch compares Republicans to Hitler. Nice.
What’s that old internet meme? Anybody who compares his opponent to Hitler has lost the argument.
I hope 40 Muslim immigrants move on to Walter Brasch’s block.
Israel has taken zero Syrian refugees but Walter Brasch does not mention that.
Notice how this Jewish journalist singles out Trump for his northern European heritage. No other person in the article has his genetics noted. I guess Brasch instinctively hates goyim.
Walter Brasch responds:
first, if you read the column thoroughly you would note that I did NOT comp[are candidates to Hitler—just the rhetoric. I do know the extreme right wing compares Dems. directly to Hitler. Second, why shld Israel take Syrian refugees? There are vArab countries who won’t – and many that will—and Israel has taken hundreds of thousands of refugees over the years. As to 40 Muslim immigrants moving to my block—no problem. Why should it be—un;less I am a racist or Islamophobe. I grew up in Sabn Diego and Ontario, Calif. (near you) – in neighborhoods that were largely Hispanic and Black. Didn’t have a problem then – why wou;ld I have problems now? As to Trump—I singled him out because he’s top Rep. candidate—BUT, if you read the column, you’d note that I also mentioned others. But, Trump was the most outspoken against allowing refugees into US. As to you using the word “goyim.” Really? In polite company, we don’t use “goyim”—just as we would hope others don’t use the word “kike.” Bottom line: This column has gotten very strong positive response from the Jewish community.
Fear, laced with paranoia, is driving the American response against allowing Syrian refugees into the United States.
President Obama has said he would accept 10,000 refugees, all of them subjected to intense scrutiny before being admitted to the country. France, with a population about one-fifth that of the United States, despite the worst attack on its soil since World War II, will accept 30,000 refugees.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) told the Senate, “We are not a nation that delivers children back into the hands of ISIS because some politician doesn’t like their religion.” Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.), a Jew, said the nation should “not allow ourselves to be divided and succumb to Islamophobia,” and that when “thousands of people have lost everything—have nothing left but the shirts on their backs—we will not turn our backs on the refugees.”
…Donald Trump, with a northern European heritage and currently the leading candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, had previously declared if he was the president he would build a wall between the U.S. and Mexico and round up and deport 11 million undocumented aliens, actions clearly in the fairy-tale netherland of impossibility, but definitely in the land of rhetoric meant to pander to his extreme right-wing following. In response to the murders in France, he says he would close mosques. However, not one terrorist attack in the United States was hatched and carried out in a mosque. More important, Trump’s actions would be a violation not only of the First Amendment but everything the Founding Fathers believed…
During the early 1930s, there was a politician who blamed Jews for his nation’s problems, and who used the rhetoric of fear, hate, and paranoia to become the elected leader of his countrymen. None of the Republican presidential candidates or their right-wing followers rise to the level of that politician who became a dictator. But, their poisonous hate and Islamophobic rhetoric matches that of Hitler.
