A theme emerging in commentary now after the Kimmel silencing: the Nazi echoes and parallels, a comparsion that corporate media have tried to shut down:

"Dividing a population into friends and enemies is a tool of authoritarians, clearly articulated by Nazi political theorist Carl Schmitt, who is enjoying a burst of popularity right now in the American right wing."

~ Heather Cox Richardson

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https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-18-2025

September 18, 2025

Since he took office in 2017, President Donald J.

Letters from an American

H.E. Bibbs notes the inversion tactic the US right has used for some years now: you're the racist if you discuss and challenge racism; you're the fascist if you use that word. Bibbs says,

"According to the President of the United States, comparing 'wonderful Americans like Charlie to Nazis… is directly responsible for the terrorism we’re seeing in our country.'”

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https://www.liberalcurrents.com/hitlers-shadow-trumps-shield/

Hitler’s Shadow, Trump’s Shield

How calling Trump the “N-word” sparked the free speech RICO.

Liberal Currents

"The administration is now arguing that words themselves—specifically comparisons to Nazis and Hitler—are responsible for violence. And yet, in much of the mainstream coverage of this crackdown, as in the mainstream eulogies of the late Charlie Kirk, the very words at the heart of the controversy have been erased from the record."

#Trump #CharlieKirk #JimmyKimmel #Hitler #Nazis #fascism
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"It is vital for writers and journalists to name the contested language at the center of Trump’s crackdown. Remember, this all began when three brave women organized a demonstration at a restaurant in D.C., where they loudly declared, within a few feet of the President’s face: 'Free D.C., Free Palestine, Trump is the Hitler of our time.'”

#Trump #CharlieKirk #JimmyKimmel #Hitler #Nazis #fascism
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"What we learn from the State’s response is that the one association Trump despises—perhaps even more than Epstein—is his association with Hitler. ...

Our obligation [is] clear: to say, loudly and plainly, that Trump is using the death of Charlie Kirk in almost the same way Hitler used the Reichstag fire."

#Trump #CharlieKirk #JimmyKimmel #Hitler #Nazis #fascism
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"His chief of staff, Stephen Miller, appears to be using Kirk in the same myth-making way Joseph Goebbels used Horst Wessel. That must remain fair ground for public discussion."

#Trump #CharlieKirk #JimmyKimmel #Hitler #Nazis #fascism
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"I’ve always had a healthy regard for how quickly fortunes can change—being the granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor will do that to you—but the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s murder has made Republicans’ effort to bring any ideological foes to heel feel that much more immediate."

~ Marisa Kabas

#Trump #CharlieKirk #JimmyKimmel #Hitler #Nazis #fascism
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https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/jimmy-kimmel-free-speech-trump

The high cost of free speech

Jimmy Kimmel's suspension shows us that nothing will ever satisfy Trump's unquenchable thirst for power.

The Handbasket

Oliver Markus Molloy reprises statements in the German media (Deutsche Welle, especially) drawing the Trump-Hitler parallel. He says,

"When Germans look at Trump, they see Hitler 2.0."

#Trump #CharlieKirk #JimmyKimmel #Hitler #Nazis #fascism
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https://www.fascism.link/p/german-news-report-about-the-charlie

German news reports about Charlie Kirk, Jimmy Kimmel, and the Nazification of America.

When Germans look at Trump, they see Hitler 2.0.

MAGA = NAZI

"Today, Trump openly admitted that networks are not allowed to cover him in a negative light, and if they do, their licenses could be revoked. ;They’re 97% against, they give me wholly bad publicity...I mean, they’re getting a license, I would think maybe their license should be taken away,' Trump said.

~ Aaron Parnas

#Trump #CharlieKirk #JimmyKimmel #Hitler #Nazis #fascism #FreeSpeech
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https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/news-republicans-embrace-cancel-culture

NEWS: Republicans Embrace Cancel Culture as Trump Targets The View

The very voices that decried cancel culture now deploy it as a partisan weapon, reshaping the boundaries of speech and dissent.

The Parnas Perspective

"Writer and activist Marcie Bianco calls fascism 'the slow, methodical stripping away of civil liberties until people look around and realize they are living in a cage.' Or, put simply, fascism is what happens when capitalism gets mean.

So yes, this is fascism."

~ Jacqui Lewis

#Trump #CharlieKirk #JimmyKimmel #Hitler #Nazis #fascism #FreeSpeech
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https://jacquilewis.substack.com/p/this-is-what-fascism-looks-like

This Is What Fascism Looks Like

I am writing this with fire in my bones.

Fierce Love

"Calling the current moment a 'war' is not simply a provocation; it’s a strategic move. In wartime, many rules fall away. Crying 'war' is the public-discourse equivalent of declaring martial law; 'war' means the norms and laws change."

~ Negin Owliaei and Maya Schenwar

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https://truthout.org/articles/jimmy-kimmels-suspension-is-shocking-but-the-worst-could-be-yet-to-come/

Jimmy Kimmel’s Suspension Is Shocking, But the Worst Could Be Yet to Come

The ouster of comedian Jimmy Kimmel signals a broader crackdown on media. Let’s double down, not back off in response.

Truthout

"State-sanctioned murder — including mechanisms like an increased use of the death penalty and state-justified police-perpetrated killings, as well as jailing and confinement without due process — become not only admissible, but normalized practices."

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"The censorship, lies and disappearance create, like a jigsaw, an alternative universe where Trump won in 2020, climate change no longer exists, and the covid vaccines never worked. More chillingly, it’s a place where certain minority groups no longer exist in data or in the mind."

~ Benjamin John Worthy

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https://www.liberalcurrents.com/trumps-war-on-transparency/

Trump’s War on Transparency

Information is power, and information removed is power weakened.

Liberal Currents

"This was the terrifying end point that numerous 20th century writers warned about and which is behind the concerns of a new dark age. Hannah Arendt hoped, sometimes against hope, that facts and the truth will out. Others were less sure. Primo Levi wrote in the Drowned and the Saved of how the guards in Auschwitz would taunt the prisoners that ‘no one will ever believe this happened’."

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Noting a New York Times headline on 4 February 1939, "Goebbels Ends Careers of Five 'Aryan' Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime," Gene Weingarten draws a clear, explicit parallel between the Trump regime and Hitler's regime.

As he says, Hitler never dirtied his hands with attacking comedians, but delegated this to Goebbels: now enter Brendan Carr.

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https://geneweingarten.substack.com/p/goebbels-drives-a-carr

Goebbels Drives a Carr

The following headline appeared in The New York Times on February 4, 1939:

The Gene Pool

"The same American-born neo-fascist fight clubs surging in numbers across the US and around the world, have capitalized on the assassination of far-right commentator Charlie Kirk, to entice new recruits with promises of vengeance and racist camaraderie."

~ Ben Makuch

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/19/active-clubs-charlie-kirk-killing-new-members

A US neo-Nazi fight club is using Charlie Kirk’s killing to recruit new members

‘Active clubs’ are capitalizing on assassination of far-right commentator to entice recruits with promises of vengeance

The Guardian

“'Active clubs are exploiting the assassination of Charlie Kirk for recruitment purposes, specifically urging white men to join the movement,' said Joshua Fisher-Birch, a professional analyst who researches the far right. 'In online posts, active clubs have also stated that the current environment presents an opportunity to expand the movement, claiming that regular people are receptive to their ‘radical message.’”

#Trump #CharlieKirk #JimmyKimmel #Hitler #Nazis #fascism #FreeSpeech
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"Pentagon leaders are considering a new recruiting campaign that would encourage young people to honor the legacy of assassinated conservative activist Charlie Kirk by joining the military, according to two officials familiar with the planning.

~ Courtney Kube

#Trump #CharlieKirk #JimmyKimmel #Hitler #Nazis #fascism #FreeSpeech #Pentagon #military
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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/military-leaders-consider-recruiting-campaign-centered-charlie-kirk-rcna231971

Military leaders consider recruiting campaign centered on Charlie Kirk

Possible slogans discussed include “Charlie has awakened a generation of warriors.” There is talk of using Turning Point USA chapters as recruitment centers.

NBC News

John Ganz points to Helmuth James Graf von Moltke, who resisted Hitler and lost his life as a result, as "someone worth remembering" as we face the Trump regime's assaults. Ganz says,

"If you were writing a hackneyed novel or film about an authoritarian America, it would go exactly like this:"

#Trump #CharlieKirk #JimmyKimmel #Hitler #Nazis #fascism #FreeSpeech
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https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/this-is-it

This Is It

Obedience and Support are the Same

Unpopular Front

(continued from /19):

"a figure close to the regime is assassinated, a massive shrill and sanctimonious hue and cry rises over the martyred dead, hysteria is whipped up about terrorism and public disorder, leaders in the regime and movement promise vengeance, private citizens are mobbed and lose their jobs for expressing anti-regime sentiments at the encouragement of regime officials and regime-aligned demagogues,"

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(continued from /20):

"and, then, the power of the state is brought to bear against public figures who oppose and criticize the regime."

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Many folks don't seem to understand yet that just as Hitler and the Nazis pretended to represent Christianity while hollowing it out and perverting its teachings and symbols, the MAGA movement and Christians supporting it are doing precisely the same now. As Brian Kaylor writes,

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https://publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/weekly-roundup-sept-19

Weekly Roundup: Sept. 19

Here’s the weekly roundup from A Public Witness. In addition to a report on a conference advocating for religious liberty in public schools that is free for anyone to read, paid subscribers to A Public Witness received a look at a new bill from Sen.

A Public Witness

"A far-right politician in the United Kingdom who also works for the UK branch of Kirk’s Turning Point organization, argued at a [recent] rally, 'We’re under no illusion. Meek and mild, turn the other cheek is over. Each and every one of you should be radicalized by what has happened!'"

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And the crowd responded by shouting, 'Christ is king! Christ is king!' It’s really odd to shout

'Christ is king' to affirm someone literally arguing against a key teaching of Christ."

Video footage — horrifying — of the rally is linked in Brian Kaylor's article.

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@wdlindsy

the most horrifying thing about that is

you *cannot* contradict them - your cannot tell them "you are wrong"...
Christ IS King (at least when you're Christian)

even, of course, if this has not the same meaning for all...

it's just 😱

@wdlindsy

it is always possible to oppose *a man*...

but how can you oppose God (or his son) ?

that would be "Blasphemy !!!"

seems to me they are just as fanatic as islamist movements...

@RainbowFrog I'd say there are lots of titles that have been and can be applied to Christ, and the king title is especially suspect when he himself absolutely repudiated the role or title of Messiah, with its royal implication. The one title we can fairly well say the historical Jesus actually claimed was Son of Man — and that was it.

@wdlindsy
You're right about that
Christ didn't see himself as King
The two biggest qualities he had, imo, were humility and kindness - two things politicians generally lack badly, those now in power more than most 🤷

My point was more about the difficulty to oppose people who pretend to stand behind Christ

Using Christ as a banner makes it very problematic. The word "crusade" comes to mind, and I don't like it more than "djihad"

Thanks for all your threads and analysis
Please Stay safe 🙂

@wdlindsy *we need better, kinder options for that "I need to join something" human need. *