Democrat Party: The direct heirs and descendants of Hitler and Mussolini, of Nazism and Fascism
The rise of fascism and Nazism was not a reaction against the socialist trends of the preceding period but a necessary outcome of those tendencies
American Fascists: The Democrats who claim leadership in their party are reviving the ‘Big Lie,’ hate and race-baiting as effectively as Adolf Hilter ever did as they solidify absolute power in Washington. (Photo Montage: America’s Conservative Voice)
The Fascist Left has used a “smoke-and-mirrors” strategy to obscure the origins of the Democrat Party political philosophy in Fascism and Nazism. They perpetuate The Big Lie of their fraudulent party as champions of minorities, Capitalism, American freedom and liberty.
In reality they are a racist, mysogynistic, xenophobic party of hate, violence and power achieved at any cost. The Democrat Party was founded on slavery, built on a concentration camp style “economy,” perpetuated through lies and fraud.
The Left’s allegation against Donald Trump when he was first elected was that he is a Fascist if not actually a Nazi. “I feel Hitler in these streets,” actress Ashley Judd chanted around his inauguration. Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns terms Trump “Hitleresque.” Columnist Andrew Sullivan calls the GOP today a “Neo-Fascist party.” And MSNBC host Rachel Maddow said, “I’ve been reading a lot about what it was like when Hitler first became chancellor — because I think that’s possibly where we are.”
The charge that Trump and the Right are Fascists and neo-Nazis was used to establish Trump as an illegitimate president, the GOP as an illegitimate party and to justify getting rid of both “by any means necessary” — which is actually the name of one of the many so-called “antifascist groups” that are blatantly Fascist. The media barrage against Trump, the street violence of Antifa, BLM and other groups, were all based on the premise that the Left is fighting a modern incarnation of the Hitler movement of the 1930s.
There is, in fact, a Fascist strain in American politics today. I have to ask, though, who are the real Fascists? Is Fascism a phenomenon of the Left or the Right?
No one asks those questions in a serious way. The history books have long painted Hitler and that Nazis as right-wing reactionaries to Communism and Socialism. Nothing could be further from the truth than this false premise — one that is encouraged and promoted by our new Fascists in the Democrat Party.
Two imminent historians have begun to plow this ground and bring the Nazi face of the Democrat Party out of the shadows. The first is the economist Friedrich Hayek, whose The Road to Serfdom, first published in 1944, made the startling claim that Western welfare state democracies, having defeated Fascism, were moving inexorably in the Fascist direction.
Fascism is a phenomenon of the Left, as Hayek proved. Fascism is a cousin of socialism and progressivism. He warned, “The rise of Fascism and Nazism was not a reaction against the socialist trends of the preceding period but a necessary outcome of those tendencies.” While Hayek’s book was written in a pedantic, measured tone, appealing to progressives to learn from one who had witnessed firsthand the rise of Fascism in Europe, progressive scholars immediately set about reviling Hayek.
Historian Friedrich Hayek was one of the first to challenge the idea that Fascism is a right-wing philosophy, and establish the trend of post-war Democrats to embrace the political concept. (Photo: German Archives)
One of them, Herman Finer, accusing him of displaying a “thoroughly Hitlerian contempt for the democratic man.”
A familiar progressive ploy of seizing the Hitler card and playing it right back against Hayek shows The Big Lie at work. Hayek made a solid case for how progressives were moving — and continue to move — in the direction of Hitler. Without answering the charge and offering no supporting evidence whatever, the Left sends an attack dog who turns the situation around and accuses Hayek of being like Hitler.
Jonah Goldberg received pretty much the same treatment for his important book Liberal Fascism. Goldberg argues, “What we call liberalism — the refurnished edifice of American progressivism — is in fact a descendant of and manifestation of Fascism.” Goldberg points out accurately that Fascism and Communism, far from being opposites, are “closely related historical competitors for the same constituents.” Goldberg terms progressivism a “sister movement of Fascism” no less than Communism, displaying a “family resemblance that few will admit to recognizing.” The Left attacked him as a Fascist, too.
A left-wing laundry list that existed in the platforms of both Mussolini and Hitler is paralleled in modern American progressivism in the Democrat Party. There is even an odor of Fascism in modern progressive environmentalism, vegetarianism, holistic medicine and child care policies.
Fascism and Nazism both emerged out of a debate within socialism. The problem began when the central prophecies of Marxism failed to occur, that the working class would “rise up” and work together to achieve a kind of Utopia.
Obviously, that didn’t happen. This created a massive crisis on the Left, and essentially Marxism split into two camps: The first became Leninism and Bolshevism, and the other became Fascism and Nazism.
The American Left’s direct link to Fascism means it is also has an equivalent to Nazism. No one says that outloud very often, perhaps some fearing backlash like Hayek and Goldberg faced if they risk associating the Left with genocide and concentration camps. Nonetheless, in some ways the progressive Democrats are even closer to the German Nazis in that respect than to the Italian Fascists.
The Italian fascists, for example, were much less racist than the Democratic Party in the United States. There are no parallels for the costumed racial terrorism of the Democratic Party-backed Ku Klux Klan in Italy, but there are certainly such parallels in Nazi Germany. Democratic policies of white supremacy, racial segregation, and state-sponsored discrimination were also completely alien to Italian Fascism but right at home in the Third Reich.
In Anatomy of Fascism, Robert Paxton said the KKK was the “earliest phenomenon … to Fascism” was the KKK, whom many have called the domestic terrorist wing of the Democrat Party. Photo Montage: America’s Conservative Voice")
Columbia University Professor Emeritus Robert Paxton, in his book Anatomy of Fascism, drew strong parallels between the Ku Klux Klan and Hitler’s Brown Shirts. In the U.S. “the earliest phenomenon that can be functionally related to Fascism is the KKK,” Paxton wrote. Long before the Nazis, Paxton points out, the Klan adopted its racial uniform of robes and hoods and engaged in the type of intimidation and violence that offered “a remarkable preview of the way Fascist movements were to function in interwar Europe.”
If this seems like a surprising concession by a progressive, Paxton protects his political side by omitting to mention that during this period the Ku Klux Klan was the domestic terrorist arm of the Democratic Party.
Racism in the Democratic Party in the U.S. far preceded the racism of the Nazis. Moreover, Nazi racism lasted for only 12 years. Democrat Party racism has lasted for well over 150 years and remains an unspoken policy, swept under the rug, of the Party today. Racism in the South was directly connected to the Democrat-run slave plantation and Democratic policies for the relocation and extermination of Native Americans.
“Genocide” and “concentration camps” are often thought of as unique to Nazism, but there is no term other than genocide to describe Democrat president Andrew Jackson’s mass relocation of Native American tribes. Jackson and his allies systematically sought to dispossess, disinherit and dismember the indigenous peoples, regarding them as less than human, as did the Nazis think of the Jews. The official United Nations definition of genocide makes it obvious that Jackson committed genocide against those tribes.
It is also easy to perceive the slave plantation as a type of concentration camp. How can anyone compare a forced labor system, however unjust, to Nazi camps designed for and used in killing people? History, though, tells us the concentration camps were also work camps. In the German camps and on the Democrat-run plantations, forced labor was employed using “human tools” solely with regard to the farming operation’s productivity and with little if any regard for the lives of the workers.
In the cases of the American black slave and the European Jewish slave, both were regarded as inferior and even subhuman. The analogy between the two worst compulsory confinement and forced labor systems in human history is not merely legitimate. It is long overdue.
One author claims that concentration camps (left) and Southern plantations (right) were both forced labor camps where many died of disease, malnoutrition and mistreatment. (Photos: U.S. 3rd Army, 101st Airborne/Mathew Brady)
Historian Stanley Elkins’ path-breaking book Slavery draws an elaborate comparison of the plantation as a “closed system” akin to a concentration camp. Even on some of the institutions and practices uniquely associated with the Nazis — from genocide to the concentration camp — the Democrat slaveowners got there first.
The U.S. Left has learned from the Nazis, and the Nazis also learned from the U.S. Left. It turns out that the Left provided the Nazis with some very important policy schemes that the Nazis then murderously implemented in Europe.
Hitler, for instance, specifically said he intended to displace and exterminate the Russians, the Poles and the Slavs in precisely the same way the U.S., in the Jacksonian era, displaced and exterminated Native Americans. Few know that the Nazi Nuremberg laws were directly modeled on the segregation and anti-miscegenation laws that had been implemented decades earlier in the Democrat South.
Forced sterilization and euthanasia aimed at eliminating racial “defectives” and producing a “superior” Nordic race were two additional schemes the Nazis got from American progressives. This is not my view of the matter, it is the Nazi eugenicists’ view of the matter. In the early twentieth century, eugenics and social Darwinism were far more prevalent in America than they were in Germany.
Margaret Sanger and her fellow progressive eugenicists didn’t get their ideas for killing off undesirables — or preventing their births — from the Nazis. The Nazis got them from their American counterparts who dominated the field of international eugenics. So there is a two-way traffic between Nazism and the American left.
This is a story that deeply implicates the heroes of American progressivism: Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt. Wilson was a veritable progenitor of American Fascism. One may say of him that he was Fascist even before Fascism became cool. In addition, he was a racist who was almost single-handedly responsible for the revival of the Ku Klux Klan, the organization that according to historian Robert Paxton is the closest American precursor to a Nazi movement.
Franklin D. Roosevelt was an avid admirer of Mussolini and one who closely collaborated with the worst racist elements in America, working with them to block anti-lynching laws and exclude blacks from New Deal programs and naming a former Klansman to the Supreme Court. Mussolini, for his part, praised FDR’s book Looking Forward and basically declared FDR to be a fellow Fascist. Hitler too saw FDR as a kindred spirit and the New Deal was widely praised as an American form of Fascism in the Nazi Party’s official newspaper Volkischer Beobachter and other Nazi publications.
Presidents Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt were likely Fascists, Wilson perhaps being a Fascist before they were called that. Roosevelt admired Moussolini and may have delayed entering WWII because of his Fascist leanings. (Photos: National Archives)
These facts are known to many progressive scholars. But after Word War II, as this group came increasingly to dominate the academy — a dominance that was fully consolidated by the late sixties — the progressives recognized how crushing it would be if we Americans knew about the actual record of Progressivism and the Democrat Party. What if people, especially young people, knew the links between revered Progressive figures like Wilson and FDR on the one hand, and the hated Mussolini and Hitler on the other? Such knowledge would not merely topple Progressive heroes from their pedestal. It would be the end of Progressivism and the Democratic Party.
So progressives decided to tell a new story, and this is the story that has now become our conventional wisdom. In this story, the very Fascism and Nazism that were, on both sides of the Atlantic, recognized as left-wing phenomena from the outset now got moved into the right wing column. Suddenly Mussolini and Hitler became “right wingers” and the people who supposedly brought them to power became “conservatives.” The left, then, became the glorious resisters of Fascism and Nazism.
To make this story work, Fascism and Nazism had to be largely redefined. The big problem was that Mussolini and Hitler both identified socialism as the core of the Fascist and Nazi weltanshauung — or, “philosophy.” Mussolini was the leading figure of Italian revolutionary socialism and never relinquished his allegiance to it. Hitler’s party defined itself as championing “national socialism.” So the progressives had to figure out how to move these avowed left-wingers to the right, and how to get the “socialism” out of “national socialism.” That was not an easy task.
Taking a cue from the Marxists, the Left figured out as early as the 1960s that it had to suppress altogether the fact that Fascism and Nazism were systems of thought. So they set about deconstructing the factual narrative of what Fascism and Nazism were — political-economic systems based in Socialism.
The effort was quite effective, unfortunately. It remains largely unchallenged even now, 70 years later. For instance, according to left-wing historian Denis Mack Smith, “Italian Fascism originated not as a doctrine but as a method, as a technique for winning power, and at first its principles were unclear even to its own members.”
Another successful effort was undertaken by historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat, who is extensively quoted in the media linking Trump to Fascism. She has long insisted Fascism is “one of those words that is very hard to define precisely” because “Fascism was all about contradictions, and this kind of ambiguity has remained in Fascism.”
In reality such nonsense can only be sustained by refusing to take seriously the Fascists themselves. The Big Lie must continue to be told, and under the needlessly complex influence of the Marxist analysis of Fascism, Fascist statements are never analyzed as such. They are always “interpreted.” Fascists are never understood to mean what they say.
The Fascist Left Democrats for 70 years have been trying to deconstruct the philosophy, painting it as “ambiguous” and “indefinable.” They don’t want Americans to know the chief architect of Italian Fascism was devout socialist Giovanni Gentile. (Photo: Italian Archives)
As a consequence, there has been very little effort, to date, to provide a serious account of Fascism as an ideology. Instead the Left identified Fascism with amorphous tendencies that could just as easily be applied to numerous other political doctrines: Authoritarianism, Militarism, Nationalism and so on.
Think about this: We know the name of the philosopher of capitalism: Adam Smith. We also know the name of the philosopher of Marxism: Karl Marx. So, quick, what is the name of the philosopher of Fascism? Yes, exactly. You don’t know. Virtually no one knows.
My point is, that is not because there were no foundational thinkers behind Fascism — there were several, most notably Thomas Carlyle and Giovanni Gentile. But the Left had to get rid of them in order to avoid confronting their unavoidable socialist and Leftist orientation. This is The Big Lie in full operation.
If statism and collectivism are at the core of Fascism, National Socialism adds another explosive ingredient — anti-Semitism. This much is well-known. What the progressives have carefully disguised, however, is the degree to which Nazi anti-Semitism grew out of Nazi hatred for Capitalism. Hitler draws a crucial distinction between productive Papitalism, which he can abide, and finance capitalism, which he associates with the Jews. For Hitler, the Jew is the unproductive money-grubber at the center of finance Capitalism, the entrepreneurial swindler par excellence.
This hardly sounds “right wing”; in fact, with some slight modification, it echoes progressive rhetoric about greedy Wall Street investment bankers. Thus progressives realized the necessity of hiding the true basis of Hitler’s anti-Semitism, and to do this, anti-Semitism itself had to be redefined.
As you can see, we are dealing with a Big, Big Lie — a lie that keeps getting bigger, and one that encompasses many smaller lies. We need to understand The Big Lie in all its dimensions in order to be free of it. Once we are free of it, the Left is finished.
Their power over us is gone. They had the race card and now they have the Nazi card, but they have no other cards left. If they lose this one, they lose their moral capital and are exposed for what they are — the bigoted, thuggish, self-aggrandizing thieves of our lives and liberties.
The U.S. Democrat Party, ,Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Bernie Sanders and particularly the behind-the-scenes manipulators and handlers behind this crime cabal — Zuckerberg, Gates, Soros, Bloomberg, etc. — these are the true descendants of Mussolini and Hitler, and in defeating them we can finally lay to rest the ghosts of Fascism and Nazism.