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Trump will host an ‘awards gala’ for rioters who stormed the Capitol on January 6 (www.independent.co.uk)

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Just in case you had any doubt about whether he intends to stage another coup attempt if he loses.

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil -2 points 1 month ago

TL;DR: I think the notion that those 20,000 Nazis filling Madison Square Garden were mostly post-1918 German immigrants is… unlikely, to say the least!

about 25,000 people became paying members of the pro-Nazi German American Bund during the years before the war.

I mean, those numbers seem to tie out pretty neatly.

Looking at the chart, 25,000 would be only a small fraction of the total number of Germans who immigrated between 1918 and 1939.

Sure. But I'm not in any way suggesting all German migrants were Nazis. I'm saying that the American Nazi Party was primarily composed of first and second generation German migrants, heavily influenced by the media originating from their nation of origin.

In the same way, not everyone who moves from New York to Texas stays a Yankees fan. But most fans of the Yankees down in Texas have some familial relationship to New York.