Given the support for Trump here, it’s little wonder that Tucker Carlson is so popular here with his zealous efforts in promoting and fundraising for the Heritage Foundation, on behalf of their benefactors like Charles Koch and maybe Peter Thiel. And in his efforts to “Make Hitler Great Again,” in normalizing Nazism/Fascism with his favorite historian, Darryl Cooper, as here: https://x.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1830652074746409246. With these parts most relevant: (45:04) How Would You Assess Winston Churchill?
(1:17:17) How History Is Rewritten and PropagandizedThe latter section must be listened to as a projection of what Tucker/Cooper, and the Trumpite New Right themselves are doing. With this not a defense of Churchill on my part, who as an Imperialist/Colonialist did himself cause much harm in the world. But nothing near the scale of what the subject of their Hitler panegyric did.
This is a follow-up to the article on Trump-whisperer John Yoo I sent earlier, with the link below a more accurate account of Trump’s “opposition to the Iraq War” lies he made: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/andrewkaczynski/in-2002-donald-trump-said-he-supported-invading-iraq-on-the. Putting aside issues of immigration per se, this is to focus on the issue of Trump’s, and no-prefix Conservative's, innate Authoritarianism, which we’re liable to get good and hard soon, far worse than the most extreme Goldwater Democrats.
Quote: "In the interview, which took place on Sept. 11, 2002, Stern asked Trump directly if he was for invading Iraq. "Yeah, I guess so," Trump responded. "I wish the first time it was done correctly.” TRUMP: Well, I think you have to see what is going to happen with Iraq. I think you have to see what is going to happen with North Korea. I happen to think North Korea may be a bigger problem than Iraq. But you have to see what is going to happen with North Korea."
That’s what The American Conservative magazine and the New Rightists/NatCons at Quincy Institute Trump campaign platforms reinvent as a “Right-wing Peacenik,” as what is called a “PsyOp theme.”
But for our post-WW II Imperial Wars, to especially include the Vietnam War that “deadender” Conservatives here still support, though not its post-war mass migration to the US which the Right-wing exploited with xenophobia as it happened (after so vigorously supporting the war), the Imperial Metropole (the U.S.) would have a much smaller population, and less hatred of immigrants. Though the wars aren’t the only cause of increased migration to the U.S., they were/are the accelerant of Islamophobic hostility. Especially the Republican driven/led Mideast wars since 1991, which Trump exploits so intensely today, and lies that he didn’t support them then (see Buzzfeed above).
It’s perverse that even people who profess to be anti-Islamophobic and pro-Palestinian, applaud the Trumpite’s campaign, as with The American Conservative magazine’s efforts to get Trump back as POTUS, after all he did against non-Jewish people who originated ethnically in the Mideast. Especially against Palestinians!
The Conservative Supreme Court denied certiorari in the case of Bahlul v. U.S. last week, whose Guantanamo appellate team I’ve remained on these many years, since 2009. That was not a surprise with a 6-3 Conservative majority, with Conservatives (no more of that NeoCon strawman deception, there was never an ideological distinction, as a comparison of Traditional Conservative Jeff Sessions, and NeoConservative Lindsey Graham proves), always leading the way for war against Muslims. And for lifetime “detention” at Guantanamo for all whom we could capture, with no restraints to torture. Look it up for those who lack memory capacity.
The Gaza extermination program interfered with 16 Guantanamo prisoners who had been approved for release. With a return of Trump as POTUS, we can expect a return to the no-release policy of this first administration, except as a favor to MBS: https://www.closeguantanamo.org/Prisoners
This extra-legal Military Commissions/Arbitrary Detention regime was deliberately modeled on past U.S. martial law practices that we had previously renounced before 9/11, updated with the latest Israeli totalitarian martial law methods and justifications in 2001. Here’s Trump’s position on this extra-legal regime put in place principally by Republicans, and maintained in place principally by Republicans, and legally “justified” by John Yoo.
BLUF: "Right before delivering his first State of the Union address, President Trump signed an executive order to keep the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, open and ready to accept new enemy combatants. . . . "Terrorists "are evil," and "when possible, we have no choice but to annihilate them," Trump said. "When necessary, we must be able to detain and question them. But we must be clear: Terrorists are not merely criminals. They are unlawful enemy combatants."
This is what Trump gave new life to, and can be expected to do the same in a 2nd administration:
We watched 20 Trump rallies. His racist, anti-immigrant messaging is getting darker.A POLITICO analysis of more than 20 of his rallies and campaign events shows Trump has demonized minority groups in all of them.
The Trump campaign said while the “media obsesses over rhetoric,” the former president is responding to voters’ concerns. “The American people care about results that impact their lives. President Trump will take action to deport Kamala’s illegal immigrants and secure the border on day one. That’s what Americans want to hear,” Trump press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement to POLITICO. Trump has long deployed racist attacks for political gain, including spreading conspiracy theories about whether former President Barack Obama, the nation’s first Black president, was born in the United States. And when he launched his first campaign in 2015, Trump said Mexico was “not sending its best,” calling immigrants from the country “rapists” who are bringing in crime and drugs. He also promised that day to build a “great big wall.” But times have changed, and so has he. The country has moved to the right on immigration — including the Democratic Party and Trump’s opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, the daughter of Jamaican and Indian immigrants. Trump repeatedly bashed Harris as “dumb,” questioned her racial identity and has called her a “DEI” candidate — perpetuating the idea that women and people of color can only be in positions of power because of quotas and preferential treatment. Harris has touted her record prosecuting transnational gangs, drug cartels and human traffickers and has promised strict enforcement at the Southern border — an effort to appease Americans’ concern about illegal migration. The vice president has vowed to go even further than the Biden administration’s crackdown on asylum. As the political conversation around immigration has shifted, Trump has not only intensified his rhetoric, but his policy plans. He has increasingly targeted specific communities, including Springfield, Ohio, Charleroi, Pennsylvania and Aurora, arguing that immigrants are destroying American towns and cities across the country and using those examples to call for large-scale federal response. Trump has spent the last month on the trail elevating the claims about those communities — even as local officials have been denying these allegations and asking the Republican nominee to stand down. Trump on Friday used false stories about gang takeovers in Aurora as he announced he would remove migrants connected to gangs under an “Operation Aurora” based on presidential wartime powers under the Alien Enemies Act. (While police in Aurora have encountered some gang activity tied to a Venezuelan group, there has been no gang takeover in Colorado.)
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