Tom Ritchford
1 min readJul 13, 2020

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Oh, sorry, I didn't think you were a Republican. My apologies.

My grandfather spent considerable time in a concentration camp during World War 2, so I have strong feelings about Fascism.

But as a Jew, doesn't it bother you that Trump uses explicit Nazi imagery so much?

I mean, remember when Trump put up Facebook ads about his political enemies - using exactly the same inverted red triangle symbol the Nazis used for their political enemies?

Facebook took them down, all 88 of them - each one having 14 words in the first sentence.

If you don't know what that means, the first link explains the 14-88 meaning, and then other two are independent verification of the claim.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/friction/202006/what-do-red-triangle-14-words-and-88-ads-have-in-common

https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/6/18/21295226/facebook-trump-campaign-nazi-symbol-antifa

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-trump/facebook-takes-down-trump-ads-over-organized-hate-policy-idUSKBN23P3AH

If you recall, the demonstrators in Charlottesville used explicit Nazi flags, chants, hand signals and symbolism, and Trump refused to condemn this - so it goes back a long way.

(Heck, Trump's grandfather, Fred Trump Sr, was an outspoken racist and KKK member as well as a German-American. FBI records about him disappear a few years before the war and only start again in the 60s. How strange.)

https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1910/S00036/the-america-of-trumps-father.htm

So I didn't intend to insult you personally, but if you care about being Jewish, what possible reason would you have to support Trumpism?

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