Thereās a big difference between a president who is aggressively using his limited powers creatively to get what he wants and a chancellor who burned down the whole system right after having gotten elected and arrested his political opponents.
But we forget our history quicklyā¦many presidents have aggressively went for their policies including Obama.
Rubio has a chance at uniting the middle because he has right leaning views, would be a Latino president which would rally the Latino vote AND would be the FIRST Latino president which would rally the moderate progressivesā¦
Rubio is close enough and distant enough from the MAGA movement that he would bring them into the fold too.
What is wrong with US nowadays? We used to have great leaders fighting it out in the primaries for the honor to be the candidate for President⦠Now we have a tiny guy in too big shoes he fills with toilet paper so they donāt fall off Color blind, so be prepared when he suddenly vote for the Dems
Spoken by a German, in relation to Reform UK, but also applies to the current American regime.
I grew up in a country where every history lesson, every memorial, every awkward family dinner eventually circles back to the same uncomfortable question: how did ordinary, decent people let it happen? How did a respectable European democracy slide, in barely a decade, into something that ended with six million Jewish lives extinguished, millions of others murdered alongside them, and a continent in ruins?
The answers are never simple. But the rhetoric ā the rhetoric was never subtle. And it is the rhetoric I want to talk about, because I have heard this song before.
A certain Austrian gentleman (you know the one) and his party told their country a very specific story. Listen now to what is coming out of Reform UK and Nigel Farage. Not the policies. Not the personalities. Just the language.
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1. āThe country is broken. The country has lost itself.ā
Hitler, in his first radio address as Chancellor on 1 February 1933, told Germans they had been blinded by promises, had forgotten the highest values of their past, and ā his exact words ā that āthe misery of our people is terribleā. (Source: Facing History archive, Hitlerās first radio address) Facing History
Nigel Farage on Twitter, December 2022: āBritain is broken.ā In Blackpool, June 2024, he expanded: nothing works any more, the country is in cultural decline, āweāve begun to forget who we areā. (Source: ITN/Reuters reporting of Farageās Blackpool speech) Xonenewspage
Same key. Different decade.
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2. āWe are being invaded by foreigners.ā
Hitler, addressing the Reichstag in January 1939, declared āGermany to the Germansā and said the nation must prevent the settlement on its soil of a strange people. (Source: Yad Vashem, transcript of Hitlerās Reichstag speech, 30 January 1939) Yad Vashem
Reform UK, August 2025, Oxford Airport: Farage said Britain was undergoing āan invasionā and described asylum seekers as a national security threat. April 2026, Reformās own home affairs spokesman Zia Yusuf: a Reform government will āreverse the invasion of Britainā. (Source: World Socialist Web Site reporting Farageās Oxford Airport speech; GB News on Reformās deportation plan) World Socialist Web SiteGB News
Same key. Different decade.
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3. āThe establishment has betrayed you.ā
Hitler, at his 1924 trial, called the surrender of 1918 āa stab in the back of the German nationā ā Germany, he said, had not really lost; the army had been betrayed by Jews, leftists and the Weimar elites. This single myth, repeated and repeated, did more than perhaps any other to bring him to power. (Source: Alpha History, transcript of Hitlerās 1924 trial speech) Alpha History
Farage, August 2025, on the grooming gangs scandal: āThe establishment has failedā. The drumbeat is constant: ordinary Britons have been sold out by Westminster, by the courts, by the police, by an entire metropolitan class. (Source: Wikipedia, āPolitical positions of Nigel Farageā) Wikipedia
Same key. Different decade.
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4. āThe country must awaken. We are taking it back.ā
Hitler at the Berlin Sportspalast, addressing the SA and SS: āGermany has now awakenedā. The nation, he told them, was the master of its own destiny again. (Source: USHMM Holocaust Encyclopedia film archive) Holocaust Encyclopedia
Farage at the Reform conference, 2024 ā his line which has since been painted across every Reform rally and bus: āBritain is broken⦠Britain needs reformā. Take our country back. (Source: The Spectatorās report on Farageās Reform conference speech) spectator
Same key. Different decade.
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I am not saying these men are the same. I am not saying Reform UK is the NSDAP. I am saying ā and I cannot be quiet about this, because my country knows what comes next ā the speeches are written in the same key.
And we know how that key ends.
Germans know it in our bones. We have spent eighty years apologising. Every schoolchild visits a camp. Every family, sooner or later, has the conversation. Every public building has a plaque. There is no statute of limitations on what our grandparents allowed, and there will not be one in eighty yearsā time either.
So I have to ask, neighbour to neighbour:
Have we really learned nothing?
Do British voters truly want to spend the next eighty years apologising the way Germany has had to? Because that is the road. It always starts politely. It starts with ājust asking questionsā and āconcerns about immigrationā and a respectable suit and a friendly smile. It never announces itself with jackboots. By the time it does, it is too late.
It is much, much easier to say no to this rhetoric now ā while it still wears the suit and the smile ā than to spend a lifetime explaining it to your grandchildren.
Iām just asking you if when you were crowing that trump ājust brokeredā a ceasefire, you were referring to the one that just ended and only lasted a day. Or if you were referring to something else. Cause bringing up that he just brokered a ceasefire when the ceasefire was already dead seems odd.