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My Struggle or My Revenge?
Which will it be and how soon will we know?
I have the feeling that while someone is reading Mein Kampf to Donald Trump nightly, we are in a holding pattern to see which chapter they’re on. That way we know which agency will be pillaged, reviled or decimated next. Right now, it’s as if he has heard parts of the chapters on ethnic cleansing, most of the policies regarding how to reshape or destroy public education, and snippets about how war can regenerate the race.
His Gauleiters-lite are muddling through but going unpunished when they slip up, because they haven’t read all of the script yet either. It doesn’t matter so long as private prisons are making extra cash from warehousing those in random capture mode.
When will we see paintings of Trump in full military regalia replete with medals? Will that be the solution to the painting in Colorado that he doesn’t like? Military attire might suit the second presidential term better.
Hitler spent a lot of time early on avenging the insult of 1923 and the scorn that had been piled on him by newspapers such as the Munich Post, but once he got started, it proved hard to catch up with him. Imagery was even more essential once he was in full power by 1934 and Hanfstaengel was the only photographer allowed to publish images of him. Representing the Master Race, Hitler couldn’t be…
