Donald J. Trump and his team have now openly declared that he is above the law rather than, as our Constitution provides, a public servant whose duty is to faithfully execute the law.
His administration is taking numerous steps that move us in the direction of a Trumpian dictatorship by defeating the rule of law… .
David Cay Johnston, DCReport Editor-in-Chief
Terror and repression were highly selective in their application. Workers associated with left-wing parties were thrown into concentration camps in their thousands, especially during the initial onslaught of the new regime… .
Repression was aimed at the powerless and unpopular sections of society. Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, beggars and other ‘anti-social elements’ also fell under the lash of Nazi terror and oppression. Police harassment was far more prevelant in working-class than middle-class areas of big cities. There was no assault on the farming and small property-holding population of the countryside.
Little or nothing was done against the ‘big battalions’. Industrialists, landowners and bankers were left untouched.
Most of the ‘intelligentsia’, apart from the minority of intellectuals forced into emigration, needed no terror to make them fall in line with Nazi ‘Gleichschaltung’ (‘coordination’). Indeed, ‘self-coordination’ applied to many sections of society which willingly cooperated in the early Nazification of their professioanl and representative bodies.
From: Repression and Power, in Hitler by Ian Kershaw. Longman Group UK Limited, 1991.
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When election results on 6 November 2024 showed Donald Trump had won the Presidency, for me it was like getting punched in the face, repeatedly. I mean – repeatedly!
