Initially, there is the temptation to ponder the connection between these three (3) seemingly disparate matters Hitler, Hannity and Hypocrisy and dismiss them as completely unrelated to each other.
After all, what similarity or connection can possibly exist between, Adolf Hitler [leader of the NAZI party in Germany in the 1930’s], Sean Hannity [political pundit on Fox News in 2020], and Hypocrisy?
Well, let us examine that connection in detail!
To begin with both Hitler and Hannity were/are fascists. They both adhered/adhere to a fascist ideology that relies upon hypocrisy to justify their belief in fascism.
A hallmark of Nazi Germany was FASCISM and Fox [Faux] News pundit Sean Hannity espouses fascism on his program!
Furthermore, a hallmark of FASCISM is Hypocrisy [the proverbial “do as I say, NOT as I do”]!
On a recent broadcast, Sean Hannity asserted that Donald J. Trump [Titular head of the fascist GOP political party] and the recent murder victim George Floyd [murdered by 4 Minneapolis police officers] have something in common.
According to Hannity, they are both victims. Victims of “corrupt cops” [a few bad apples] and therefore analogous to each other as VICTIMS! Never mind that one is dead, murdered by police and the other is very much alive and promoting police violence against peaceful protestors.
No, folks, I am not kidding! Hannity actually made that comparison between the investigation of Donald J. Trump in 2016 [Russia Collusion] and the murder of George Floyd by police in 2020.
While repeatedly denying that he was making any such comparison [think hypocrisy here] Hannity
made the comparison over and over and over again ad nauseam!
He engaged in the most egregious hypocrisy imaginable in order to make a comparison between Trump and George Floyd as mutual “victims” of police corruption!
Comparing the investigation of Donald J. Trump in 2016 for his collaboration with a hostile foreign power [Russia] and the murder of George Floyd by four [4] Minneapolis police officers in 2020 is not only egregious in its hypocrisy, it is offensive to the memory of the murdered George Floyd.
More importantly, though, Sean Hannity was being serious! He actually meant to compare Trump to Floyd as “victims”!
Hannity professes that the titular head of the fascist GOP, Donald J. Trump, designated by Attorney General William Barr as “above the law”, is comparable to the murder of victim George Floyd!
This is how fascism works, folks!
The fascist is portrayed as the “victim”! The fascist cannot be held accountable for their behavior because they were being “victimized” by a deep state “out to get him”!
“Victimization” by, of and for the fascist is used to justify violence against those accused of causing their “victimization”!
It grants the fascist “victim” the “right” to use unrestrained violence to overcome those who are accused of causing their victimization!
In other words, “victimization begets and justifies violence” to oppress others accused of causing the victimization of the fascist.
However, put the shoe on the other foot, wherein violence is used to overcome the oppression BY fascists and fascists will accuse those who do so to protect themselves from fascists as being “unlawful criminals” unworthy of democratic protections and rights! They will accuse peaceful protestors exercising their constitutional rights as “looters” and “terrorists”
This “rule” applies for fascists even to peaceful protestors who are expressing their constitutional right to protest! Even peaceful protestors are deemed a threat to the fascist who, according to such logic, assert that they are being “victimized” by such peaceful protests!
If such logic seems insane, that is because fascist “logic” has nothing whatsoever to do with sanity or reality! It has to do with power and GREED!
That is how hypocrisy works! Accuse others of doing what they themselves as fascists do to others and then cry “victim” whenever they are caught and called out for that violent behavior!
Never mind that the President of the United States, by dint of office, is deemed to be the most powerful human being on the earth! Never mind that Trump has systematically used the power of the presidency to undermine every democratic principle upon which we rely as citizens to preserve and protect us from fascism!
Fox News is a political arm of the fascist GOP! Effectively, it is GOP TV! It was founded by Roger Ailes with the funding of Rupert Murdoch to be the political expression of GOP principles and ideals. Chief amongst them, FASCISM!
Only those people who embrace and express that GOP TV fascist ideation are allowed to achieve ascendancy on the political programs promoted on Fox News. Sean Hannity is such a persona!
Fox [Faux] News is used to turn the titular head of the GOP, the fascist Trump, into a “victim” of police corruption!
So, now you can see and recognize the connection between Hitler, Hannity and Hypocrisy!
Racism is a tool used by fascists to undermine our constitutional republic. Racism did not destroy our constitutional republic. Our Civil War, fought over the issue of racism, did not destroy our constitutional republic! However, hypocrisy expressed as a repudiation that racism exists in our democratic republic is a very real threat to our democratic republic!
If anything works to destroy our constitutional republic, it will by Hypocrisy, a hallmark of fascism!
Always remember and never, ever forget we are dealing with FASCISM and FASCISTS! The goal of fascism and fascists is the utter, total and complete destruction of our democratic republic in pursuit of GREED [Get Rich Eviscerating Everything Democratic]!
The GOP and Fox News [GOP TV] are both fascist entities dedicated to the destruction of democracy! They work together in synergism to achieve their fascist goals!
Fascism puts profit before people in an endeavor to destroy the fundamental principle that underpins our democratic republic: The Rule of Law [equal justice under the law]!
Fascism seeks to transform the Rule of Law into the “Law of the Ruler[s]”!
Under fascist ideology, the Rule of Law is no longer fundamental to the expression of freedom. What becomes transcendent is the “Law of the Ruler[s]” wherein “We, the people” are enslaved in a society in which the sole pursuit is the accumulation of power and wealth to satiate the GREED [Get Rich Eviscerating Everything Democratic] of those in power: of the fascists who pursue their fascism!
Again, Racism and Hypocrisy are hallmarks of fascism. So is misogyny! Fundamental to the Hitlerean concept of fascism is “domination” of the masses.
And, as the Titular head of the Fascist GOP, Donald J. Trump, infamously said, “You have to dominate them [the protestors].”
According to Trump, “unless you dominate them [the masses] you appear weak.”
You may rightly and justifiably substitute “oppress” and/or “subjugate” them for “dominate”!
Because a free people cannot be allowed to openly express their opposition to fascism manifested as police brutality! Absolute and total submission to police authority by the masses is fundamental to fascism. Under fascist ideology, freedom is antithetical to “domination” and “rule over” the people!
Opposition must be crushed under fascism!
If anything can destroy our constitutional republic based upon the fundamental principle of “the Rule of Law” it is Hypocrisy as expressed by a modern-day neo-fascist Hitlerian Sean Hannity!
So, there is a very real connection between Hitler, Hannity and Hypocrisy! That connection threatens to undermine and destroy our constitutional republic expressed as a democracy!