Making Magda Goebbels Proud

     Donald Trump and those involved in handling his Twitter account have a habit of retweeting racist tweets for the purpose, probably, of courting the vilest Republican voters.  This past weekend, a tweet on his account showed a picture of Hillary Clinton's face collaged with a carpet of cash and a six-pointed star, technically a hexagram but obviously with reference to Jews being moneylenders, a trope used as official propaganda by Germany's Nazi Party from the 1920s to 1940s.  Today's white American anti-Semites can count on their own orange American anti-Semite (who claims an unsurpassable love for Israel) to feed back to them, in Twitter, their own already chewed food.
     Trump's mouthpieces, of course, had "innocent" explanations for the anti-Semitic tweet.  The six-pointed star is "just a star," or, it's a "sheriff's badge."  I'm reminded of Trump's own accusations of dirty-mindedness against anyone suggesting his Megyn Kelly menstruation comment--"she had blood coming out of her wherever"--was deliberate and misogynistic.  When he makes a horrible statement or does something reprehensible, it's always the fault of anyone pointing out his badness.  Thus, in his words, Elizabeth Warren is a "racist" because she's claimed descent from Native Americans, while he frequently calls her "Pocahontas," proving his own bullying racism, which appeals to the rabble attending his rallies.  Deeper than that, through Twitter, he reaches the variety of white moron who believes Hitler was a misunderstood genius who had nothing to do with slaughtering millions of Jews, as well as Gypsies, political enemies, and Slavic Europeans.
     Trump, I believe, knows the Holocaust happened, but around the same time that Elie Wiesel, Auschwitz survivor and world famous author, died, he, or one of Trump's employees, retweeted an image suggesting, in its bluntness, that Hillary Clinton is funded by Big Jew.  It took a few days for the image with the Star of David (or, if you're an idiot, sheriff's badge) to be replaced by the same Hillary-cash image, but with a circle over the six-pointed star.  Nevertheless, the circle is just undersized enough to retain the star's six points.  Was that on purpose?  Was Trump saying, "Sorry, Nazis.  Had to obliterate Jew star due to complaints from over-imaginative news media.  Political correctness is ruining this great country!  #Retake Sudetenland."
     It turns out this is not an isolated occurrence.  Trump has, according to news media people who have scanned his Twitter feed (a job akin, I imagine, to having to read and grade 200 freshman English essays at semester's end), retweeted racist tweets seventy-five times.  That's a pattern of behavior suggesting sympathy with white supremacists.  Since Trump is not the kind of man I can imagine actually hanging out with Neo-Nazis or KKK members, he's probably not a true believer, but he'll accept their support, since they represent a chunk, not a huge one but big enough, of America's electorate.  That he courts their support rather than the support of women, Latinos, and African Americans, is hard to figure if he actually plans on winning in November.  Meantime, the spectacle of the Republican Party's presumptive nominee race baiting causes the mild scolding outrage typical of the feckless GOP.  Whining about how Trump needs to stop doing such things, as Paul Ryan has done, overlooks the fact that there are some little kids who will look right into your eyes, undeterred as they defile your living room wall with a crayon, oblivious to pleading or threats.
     If your candidate for president has already proven he's a racist, in just his Twitter account a total of seventy-five times, and the election is still four months away, it's time to either reject him or accept him wholeheartedly.  Paul Ryan and other lights in the Party may try to defend its honor by saying, "That's not who we are," but their handling of Trump thus far shows that they too, by supporting him, the damn fools, have become what he is: a Neo-Nazi propagandist.
     Josef Goebbels's petrol-covered body didn't burn outside the Bunker for nothing, after all.

                                                                            Vic Neptune