It’s Official: With “Vermin,” Trump Is Now Using Straight-up Nazi Talk He’s telling us what he will do to his political enemies if he’s president again. Is anyone listening?

I feel pretty safe in saying that we can now stop giving him the benefit of that particular doubt. His use—twice; once on social media, and then repeated in a speech—of the word “vermin” to describe his political enemies cannot be an accident. That’s an unusual word choice. It’s not a smear that one just grabs out of the air. And it appears in history chiefly in one context, and one context only.

  • @escaped_cruzader
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    -51 year ago

    Other Israeli political, military and religious leaders have at different times described Palestinians as “a cancer”, “vermin”, and called for them to be “annihilated”.

    Not Nazi talk, it’s Israeli talk

    • ormr
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      51 year ago

      Wrong. It’s the talk of authoritarian extremist politicians in all countries.

    • @Captain_PatchyOP
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      11 year ago

      You’d think that they’d be the LAST group to talk about others like that. But we live in this world.