Trump’s Social Media Account Shares Video Referencing "Unified Reich"

I have a number of Republican "friends" and acquaintances who continue to dismiss the threat Donald Trump (and his white Christian nationalist allies) pose to the nation should Trump and his circle of extremists regain power.  Likewise they cling to any and every far fetched article or "news" items in efforts to refute legitimate scientific and progressive positions.  I continue to have a difficult time grasping where their desperation to cling to the past and to demonize those they deem "other" comes from. Of course, they absolute height of their hypocrisy is that while they push a hate and ignorance embracing agenda, many continue to bleat about their Christian faith that utterly ignores Christ's sermon on  the mount and social agenda of welcoming strangers, helping the sick and the poor, etc.  Meanwhile, Trump continues to telegraph exactly what a second Trump regime would entail and that message ought to truly frighten who actually care about the values Christ taught and those who do not want to see horrors of the past repeated.  A piece in Politico looks at the latest frightening message from Trump and company and the pathetic effort to whitewash it.  Here are excepts:  

Donald Trump’s social media account on Monday shared a video referencing a “unified reich” in a post about how the country will change if he becomes president again.

In the video shared on Trump’s Truth Social account, while a narrator described “What happens after Donald Trump wins,” the screen twice flashed to a headline showing the words “Industrial strength significantly increased … driven by the creation of a unified reich.”

The German phrase “reich” refers to an empire, but also carries the connotation of Adolph Hitler’s “Third Reich,” another name for his Nazi regime.

“Donald Trump is not playing games; he is telling America exactly what he intends to do if he regains power: rule as a dictator over a ‘unified reich,’” Biden spokesperson James Singer said.

The video, which remained online as of Monday night, was posted shortly before Trump returned to the New York courtroom from a lunch break in his hush-money trial. It was not immediately clear who created the video.

The Associated Press first reported that the text appeared to be lifted verbatim off a Wikipedia entry for World War I, reading “German industrial strength and production had significantly increased after 1871, driven by the creation of a unified Reich.”

Trump in 2022 came under fire after having dinner at Mar-a-Lago with prominent antisemites Kanye West and Nicholas Fuentes, prompting the Republican National Committee to pass a resolution soon after condemning antisemitism. Trump has also faced heavy criticism for previous dehumanizing comments echoing Hitler’s rhetoric, including referring to political enemies as “vermin” and asserting that immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country.”

Singer, who warned Americans to “stop scrolling and pay attention,” went on to blast Trump’s “extreme vision of chaos, division and violence.”

Trump isn’t the first Republican presidential candidate this election cycle to face criticism related to a video featuring Nazi-related details. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis fired a staffer on his presidential campaign last year who created and publicly shared a pro-DeSantis video that included a sonnenrad symbol also used by Nazis.

Whether the reference is to the German reich that lead to WWI or Hitler's Third Reich, the language should make moral, thinking Americans open their eyes.  For MAGA cultist, seemingly nothing can erode their loyal to Der Trumpenfuhrer.