A writer on a March 11 letter, “Far right propaganda,” states “Fascism being the hallmark of conservatism.”
Once again it demonstrates the liberal propensity to twist history in order to provide fallacies for the foolish.
Liberal universities and mainstream media have long associated Nazism with Republicans.
It’s my opinion that 1930s Communism and Fascism were two left-wing socialist parties that hated each other, hated capitalism and killed their own people. Hitler, like the Soviets, also nationalized some industries.
Nazi is an acronym for the National Socialist German Workers Party.
If you wish to believe the Republican party is socialist and wants to nationalize American industry, do, but it’s not true.
Now, let’s consider white supremacy, which grew out of the Confederacy’s loss of the American Civil War, long before Fascist Aryanism.
Early Klu Klux Klan leaders were Confederate generals — George Gordon and Nathan Bedford Forrest, both Democrats.
Gordon later served in the U.S. House for Tennessee.
In the next 100 years, the KKK, in alliance with southern Democrats, killed over 2,000 African-Americans and over 1,000 white Republicans, according to Wikipedia.
In 1963, John F. Kennedy used federal troops to force Southern Democratic governors to follow federal law and integrate their schools and universities.
Remember the infamous words of George Wallace, the Democrat governor of Alabama: “Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.”
If you want to believe “white supremacy” is a hallmark of the Republicans, do, but it’s not true.
Violence and lynchings in the South are almost nonexistent since the 1980s when Republicans began taking over southern governorships.
Len Grim
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