Repub Mo Brooks of Alabama Read Quotes From Adolf Hitler Aloud on the House Floor
Alabama Congressman Quotes Mein Kampf While Criticizing Democrats and the Media
Mo Brooks, a five-term congressman from Alabama, cited an anti-Semitic argument pushed by Adolf Hitler while condemning Democrats and the press for their "big lie" nigh collusion during a voice communication on the Firm floor Mon.
It appears Brooks was attempting to draw parallels between President Donald Trump'due south critics and Nazis. But the language he used, directly citing Mein Kampf, instead positioned himself, the president, and his party as the Nazis in his analogy and the Democrats as the Jews—victims of a vilification attempt rooted in part in the Nazi insistence that Jews were malicious liars.
While the "big lie" is at present thought of every bit a propaganda technique used by the Nazis—the propagation of a prevarication so enormous it is given acceptance because of its brazenness—the term was actually coined past Hitler and his followers. The large prevarication, according to Hitler, was by traitorous Jews who blamed the violently anti-Semitic German Gen. Erich Ludendorff for Germany's defeat in World War I.*
Brooks, apparently thinking reading from the book would drive dwelling the similarities between Democrats and Nazis, quoted Hitler's Mein Kampf verbatim during the Republican response to Chaser General William Barr's summary of Robert Mueller's written report:
A "big prevarication" is a political propaganda technique fabricated famous past Germany's National Socialist German Workers' Political party, but more on that later on. For more than two years, socialist Democrats and their fake news allies … have perpetrated the biggest political lie, con, scam, and fraud in American history. Chaser General Barr'due south executive summary of Mueller's written report has publicly confirmed what many of us have known for a long fourth dimension: The accusations of collusion betwixt President Trump and Russia in the 2016 elections are nothing merely a big prevarication. …
The Mueller study vindicates President Trump and his 2016 campaign from the socialist, baseless, reckless, and fake big prevarication charges of Russian collusion. … Socialist Democrats and their fake news media allies were shameless, shameless in their big lie scam that has inspired hatred confronting President Trump and violence against Americans who support America'due south foundational principles. If socialists in the fake news media had any honor, they would cleanse their souls and atone for their sins. … More likely, however, they volition double down and propagate even more big lies because doubling down is essential to big lie theory. In that vein, I quote from another socialist who mastered big lie propaganda to a maximum, and deadly, effect.
Brooks then began to straight quote from the 10th chapter of the first book of Hitler's autobiography, reading a full paragraph-long excerpt that began:
In the big lie, there is ever a sure force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more hands corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily autumn victims to the large lie than the small-scale prevarication.
With the drama of a large reveal, Brooks then ended:
Who is this big prevarication master? That quote was in 1925 by a member of Germany's National Socialist German language Workers' Party—that's right, Germany's socialist party—more normally known equally the Nazis. The author was socialist Adolf Hitler, in his volume Mein Kampf. Mr. Speaker, America can either learn from history or be doomed to repeat it. When it comes to big prevarication political propaganda in America, as the Mueller study confirms, America's socialists and their fake news media allies are experts and take no peers. Regardless, America must reject their large lies or succumb to the danger that lurks, and horrific damage that results.
Brooks is not the first Republican to falsely describe the Nazis, a fascist and correct-wing political party, as a socialist, leftist ane, and many in the GOP have gone out of their fashion to emphasize the "socialist" part of the party'due south name.
And it'due south non the get-go time Brooks has made historically dubious and racially charged claims about a grouping of people. He has compared border crossings by Latin American immigrants to the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, and he has accused the Autonomous Party of launching a "war on whites."
Correction, March 26, 2019: This mail service originally misspelled Erich Ludendorff's terminal proper noun.
Source: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/03/mo-brooks-mein-kampf-quote-big-lie.html
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