A collapse in approval ≠ a collapse in power

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What do you see?

What do you hear?

Megyn Kelly wants suffering:

So I really do kind of not only want to see them killed in the water, whether they’re on the boat or in the water, but I’d really like to see them suffer.

I would like Trump and Hegseth to make it last a long time so that they lose a limb and bleed out a little.

Like I’m really having a difficult time ginning up sympathy for these guys who ten seconds earlier almost got taken out by the initial bomb, but because they managed to get ejected, you know, a little too soon, had to be taken out in the water. I realize legally it may make a difference, but truly, Mark, this is a tough case to really gin up the sympathies of the American people.

Why?

MAGA is collapsing because it is un-American, but don’t mistake a collapse in approval with a collapse of power.

Think about the people raging alongside each other at a rally in Pennsylvania on Tuesday night, after being whipped into a frenzy of hate by the president of the United States. He is an opioid pusher, who anesthetizes his audience’s pain by telling them it is all the fault of the Somalis, or some other dark-skinned immigrant.

We had a meeting and I said, ‘Why is it we only take people from shithole countries’, right?” “Why can’t we have some people from Norway, Sweden?”

But we always take people from Somalia. Places that are a disaster – filthy, dirty, disgusting, ridden with crime.

He also mocked Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, a Somali immigrant and naturalized US citizen, about the “little turban” she wears, and said this too about her:

Throw her the hell out. She does nothing but complain.

I’m now going to share something evil with you that must be read slowly and precisely.

Think about it deeply.

Think about what it means, and what must be confronted — or not.

Do not look away from it.

Ignorance is not safety. It is surrender, and sometimes, death.

What I’m going to share is an excerpt from a speech delivered by Joseph Goebbels, titled “The Storm is Coming,” in July of 1932. It was a few weeks before the last German elections, which wouldn’t occur for another 17 years.

I have changed a total of 57 words/numbers (in bolded caps) from the speech below.

Twenty-two of them are changes of Germany to AMERICA.

Eight changes involve dates/numbers.

My request is that you evaluate the speech below rigorously, and see if it sounds fascist to you.

The men of November [1918] 2020 took power by lying to the people, by telling them they had won. They promised you, workers, citizens and creative Germans, AMERICANS a Reich COUNTRY of freedom and beauty and dignity.

They promised you socialism OPPORTUNITY, they promised a people’s state, they promised the broad masses the fulfillment of their dreams — peace, work and prosperity.

We have lived this lie for 14 4 years, we have worshipped this government; we have lived in want, suffered, sacrificed, starved, sometimes wept.

And now we see the worst results of these 14 4 years: the German AMERICAN economy is in ruins, there are huge budget deficits, the nation’s fortune is squandered, people are robbed of their inheritance, people are desperate and without hope, the streets of our big cities are filled with an army of millions of unemployed, the middle class is vanishing, the farmers driven from their land. To our shame and disgrace large areas of German AMERICAN territory have been lost.

Our territory is divided by the bleeding wound of the Polish corridor SOUTHERN BORDER and Germany AMERICA is drained by a stupid and unnatural tribute payments.

It is not hard to determine who is guilty, who bears the responsibility, to the people, to history and to God for these conditions.

It is those men and the parties CROOKED HILLARY AND CROOKED JOE who have misled the German AMERICAN people for 14 12 years, promising them lives of beauty and dignity, of heaven on earth, but who in the end gave us empty words and stones instead of bread.

They stand now before the court of the nation to give an account of the unparalleled disaster they have brought about in the last 14 12 years.

Five weeks ago TWO HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-SEVEN DAYS AGO the last cabinet ADMINISTRATION of this system fell.

New men came on the political stage and declared that they had the goal of replacing the November System A RIGGED SYSTEM and setting Germany AMERICA on a fundamentally new political course.

You men and women know that we viewed this attempt with suspicion from the beginning. We see the resurrection of our people as coming not from a small clique that has no strong connection to the people; only a movement of millions has the active strength and the ability to change Germany AMERICA…

You, men, women and comrades, are the bearers, witnesses, builders and finishers of this unique people’s uprising.

Our policies have not been popular. We have served the truth, and only the truth. For twelve years, they have insulted and outlawed and slandered and persecuted us. Now that we are standing at the doorway to power, Marxist WOKE lies have joined with bourgeois weakness to fight us. Were we only a party like all the rest, we would collapse under the offensive of our opponents.

But we are a people’s movement. That is our good fortune. Here and everywhere else in the land, the red shining Swastika MAGA flag flies over people of all camps, parties, classes, occupations, and religious confessions. Our opponents laughed at us in the past, but they laugh no longer.

You men and women standing before me, a hundred or two hundred thousand in number, with heads high, upright, proud and brave, the carriers of Germany’s AMERICA’S future, in your eyes it is written:

We think no longer in terms of class. We are not workers or middle class. We are not first of all Protestants or Catholics. We do not ask about ancestry or class.

Together we share the words of the poet:

“People, rise up, and storm, break loose!”

Comrades, men and women, fate has given us a last chance. We have one more opportunity to speak to the people. Our campaign spreads to all of Germany AMERICA, and once again the ears hear, the eyes see, the heart beats faster and the senses clear:

“The day of freedom and prosperity is coming!”

So our dead comrade Horst Wessel ASHLI BABBITT wrote, and we are fulfilling his HER prophesy.

The others may lie, slander, and pour their scorn on us — their political days are numbered.

Adolf Hitler DONALD TRUMP is knocking at the gates of power, and in his fist are joined the fists of millions of workers and farmers. The time of shame and disgrace is nearly over.

You are the witnesses, the builders, the will-bearers of our idea and our worldview.

The party hacks of the Socialist DEMOCRAT Party are suddenly remembering the people.

For a decade, the illustrated magazines pictured them only in frock coats and cylinder hats at tables filled with oysters and champagne bottles. Now they wear workers’ caps and fill their newspapers with urgings like “People, wake up!”

Well, we the people have awakened! We have risen against oppression, 15 million people have joined in an army of revenge.

Our answer:

“The good old days of party bigwigs are over. A new Germany AMERICA is coming, an Germany AMERICA raised on the Spartan laws of Prussian CHRISTIAN duty.

It is a Germany AMERICA not grown fat, but one that is starving! It is a Germany AMERICA with strength, with will, with idealism!

It is a Germany AMERICA that is done with Marxist WOKE betrayal and bourgeois white gloves.”

And you are the witnesses of this Germany AMERICA. You, people, have affirmed this Germany AMERICA. And we, people, speak in your name. We the leaders of this exciting movement of the millions, we come from you, the people. We too, comrades, were once unknown men marching with the gray masses.

People, we have shared in our hearts your torture, your misery, your tribulations, your desperation. We are a piece of the people. When the bourgeois ELITE know-it-alls ask what we have accomplished, you, men and women, must save us from the necessity of giving answer. When they ask what we have done, you 15 million must answer: “They have given us faith once more, they have given us hope. They have awakened a sleeping Germany AMERICA.

They have organized and mobilized millions and set them to march. These millions are in motion, following the laws of history. Just as this small sect grew from seven unknown men to a movement of 15 77.3 million so, too, I swear to you, will this movement of 15 77.3 million grow to encompass a people of 65 344 million.

The parties must go! The political hacks must be thrown out of their chairs. We will give no pardon. We will not allow Germany AMERICA to sink into disgrace. We will give back to Germany AMERICA a reason for its existence, a meaning to life. That is why you men and women are here, an army of two hundred thousand. Never has the Reich MAGA capital seen a popular movement of such force. You have come here from everywhere. The middle class has come from the west, the workers from the east and north. You have come from dark and joyless apartment houses. My S. A. PROUD BOY comrades are before me, heads high, as if they were the kings of Germany AMERICA.

I know, comrades, that there are some among you who do not know where tomorrow’s meal will come from. We have shown these materialist party hacks that idealism is alive in Germany AMERICA.

We have shown them that even in the midst of hunger, sacrifice, and need, the people can be shown the way to betterment. We pledge loyalty to this people. We solemnly raise our hands and pledge:

As long as we breathe, we are obligated to the German AMERICAN people.

We came from the people, and return ever to it. The people is the center of all things to us. We sacrifice for this people, and if necessary are ready to die for it.

Loyalty to the people, loyalty to the idea, loyalty to the movement, and loyalty to the Führer LEADER! That is our pledge as we shout:
Our Führer LEADER and our party — Hail victory!

I wrote this piece using this Goebbels speech on January 25, 2025. How did it hold up?

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