Trump’s Nazi dog whistle: Trump wants to do what Hitler did do: End birthright citizenship for those the ‘fascist dictator’ does not like. Today’s Nazis know damn well that in 1935 Hitler rewrote German laws to declare Jews are Non-Citizens. Today’s Nazis also know that those laws Hitler rewrote led to the genocide of Jews.
So, even though Trump ‘had to’ voice his concern that a Nazi slaughtered 11 Jews in Pittsburgh, and even though Trump’s daughter is Jewish, to me, I find it is no coincidence that days after a Nazi slaughtered 11 Jews, Trump reiterates his declaration to do do what Hitler did do and end birthright citizenship.
Jews understand the dire consequences of a fascist dictator re-writing laws that end citizenship. In 2015, historian William F. Meinecke, Jr. wrote on The Holocaust museum website,
Today, however, the denial of citizenship has increasingly become a weapon, used to vilify and harass designated targeted groups as “alien” to the nation.
The Nuremberg Laws—the Reich Citizenship Law and the Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor—illustrate what can happen when a group is denied citizenship and barred from participation in the “Nation.”
Meinecke goes on to say
They revoked the citizenship of all Jews; overnight, Jews became mere “subjects” of the German state. They stripped more than 500,000 Jews of their citizenship and their identity as Germans.
They marked a crucial step on the road to genocide, since they allowed the Nazi state to precisely identify Jews and exclude them from broader society. German authorities set out to impoverish Jews and remove them from the German economy by requiring them to register their property and preventing them from earning a living.
Meinecke writes
It would be comforting to think the world has outgrown the abuse of law exemplified by Nazi legislation, but the legacy of Nuremberg remains disturbingly relevant. Some countries still use laws to define nationhood or citizenship in ways that exclude and vilify entire groups, fueling popular hatred.
In August 19, 2015, Trump told Fux News that he would “end birthright citizenship.” Not to be outdone, Ted Cruz and Rand Paul quickly jumped on Trump’s ‘Nazi legislation’ bandwagon and agreed with Trump to end birthright citizenship.
Days later, on August 21, 2015, GOP Rep. Steve King (R-IA), who has a reputation of being a neo-Nazi, tweeted that neo-Nazis at NumbersUSA supports King’s legislation (HR 140) to end the Constitution’s 14th. Amendment birthright citizenship clause.
I should note here that Southern Poverty Law Center considers the founder of NumbersUSA an anti-semitic, neo-Nazi and writes:
FAIR, CIS and NumbersUSA are all part of a network of restrictionist organizations conceived and created by John Tanton, the "puppeteer" of the nativist movement and a man with deep racist roots. As the first article in this report shows, Tanton has for decades been at the heart of the white nationalist scene. He has met with leading white supremacists, promoted anti-Semitic ideas, and associated closely with the leaders of a eugenicist foundation once described by a leading newspaper as a "neo-Nazi organization." He has made a series of racist statements about Latinos and worried that they were outbreeding whites. At one point, he wrote candidly that to maintain American culture, "a European-American majority" is required.
So yeah, as evidenced by Steve King’s legislation, and as evidenced by neo-Nazis at NumbersUSA endorsing King’s legislation; to me, today’s Nazis, know exactly what Trump means when he now, after a Nazi slaughtered 11 Jews, reminds his followers that he, Donald Trump, will rewrite US Laws (via Exec. Order) to end birthright citizenship … just like Adolf Hitler did in 1935.