Donald Trump Jr has come under fire for equating the Democrats’ platform and that of the Nazi party in an attempt to dismiss the concerns of “kids in dreadlocks running around screaming about fascism” in the US.

Trump made the remarks at the premiere of Dinesh D’Souza’s new film, ‘Death of a Nation: Plantation Politics and the Making of the Democratic Party,’ which argues Adolf Hitler was a progressive liberal.

“I’ve been hearing the left talking about these things ― fascism, Nazism on the right, and when you look at the actual history of how these things evolved, and when you actually look at that [Nazi] platform versus the platform of the modern left, you say, wait a minute, those two are really heavily aligned and frankly contrary to the right,” Trump Jr. told One America News Network.

Prominent Conservatives Attend Screening of New D'Souza Film https://t.co/9IKmI2HUx3 via @YouTube@JackPosobiec#OANN

— One America News (@OANN) August 2, 2018

The eldest of Trump’s children went on to say people can’t repeat what they learn in history class because academia has been “strongly influenced” by the left.

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“You see the Nazi platform from the early 1930s and what was actually put out there, and you look at it, compared to the DNC platform of today, you’re saying, ‘Man, those things are awfully similar.’ To a point where it’s actually scary! It’s the exact opposite of what you’ve been told,” he said.

Donald Trump Jr’s comments generated a fierce backlash from Democrats on social media, many of whom were quick to highlight similarities between his father’s supporters and campaign, and Nazis.

Couldn't this get reported as "Trump Jr. Tells 17 Lies during 5 Minute Interview" rather than repeating the completely disingenous and inane drivel from the current US administration and its lackeys?

— altEPA (@altUSEPA) August 3, 2018

Lmao. GOP's slogan is Make America Great Again and they constantly lie while insisting the press are the ones lying and are enemies. That is literally exactly what the Nazis did in Germany.

— Ziggyfly Jen (@ZiggyflyJen) August 3, 2018

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— RC deWinter (@RCdeWinter) August 3, 2018

Sounds more like the Republican platform Jr. I think you are confused.

— Feisty Redhead ☘️ (@colleen_benn) August 2, 2018

Now we know the kind of sexy talk he used to lock down Kimberly Guilfoyle.

— Benjie Gordon (@ReverseBenj) August 2, 2018

He responded to the outcry by tweeting a promotional clip from the film in which D’Souza points to elements of the Nazi platform, including “state controlled health care, state control of education, media and the press, moneylenders and profiteers punished by death, seizure of land without compensation,” which he says sounds like it was written by Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders.

So the left spends the last 3 years falsely calling my entire family NAZI’s, but the second I point out the similarities between the economic platform of the National Socialists and the Democrat Party, they scream bloody murder. Here’s what I was referring to. #factspic.twitter.com/kTmwG1NDO8

— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) August 2, 2018

President Donald Trump pardoned D’Souza in May, after he had pled guilty to violating campaign finance laws. D’Souza has claimed President Barack Obama may have ‘staged’ the Charlottesville white supremacist rally in which activist Heather Heyer was killed, and has referred to the former president as being a ‘grown-up Trayvon,’ referencing Trayvon Martin, the unarmed black teenager who was killed in 2012.

https://www.rt.com/usa/435024-trump-jr-nazi-democrats/

Decent write-up even though author is trying to debunk Qanon

QAnon: Meet a real-life believer in the online, pro-Trump conspiracy theory that's bursting into view

By Isaac Stanley-Becker / The Washington Post

After I wrote about QAnon, an online conspiracy theory that leaped on Tuesday from the far reaches of the Internet to the audience at President Donald Trump's rally in Tampa, an email arrived in my inbox from a man named Paul Burton.

He described a colleague and me as "Bezos' boys," referring to Jeff Bezos, the owner of The Washington Post, and asked, "How's your fishbowl?" meaning, I presumed, a place open to public view and subject to critique. "LOL!" he added.

I responded, asking if he would be interested in speaking with me about his belief in QAnon. Much about the philosophy remains mysterious, even contradictory. But the central idea, which has no basis in observable reality, is that "Q" is the government insider, or cadre of insiders, leaving clues on digital message boards about a countercoup underway to vanquish deep-state saboteurs and their ring of elite allies, from Hillary Clinton to George Soros.

Less clear to me, given the anonymity that shrouds the threads on which the theory has spread, was the nature of the people who believed in this. How did they come across Q's "crumbs" of information? What made the tenets of QAnon - tinged with racism and anti-Semitism - convincing to them? What were their day jobs?

We had a short back-and-forth in which Burton suggested several resources to expand my understanding of Q and its mission, which I read. He said they would convince me that the theory had merit, which they did not; QAnon is a hodgepodge of outlandish ideas.

He then he called me. We spoke for 45 minutes early Friday morning.

Burton, 55, doesn't claim to be representative of QAnon's following. He is a resident of the Atlanta metro area, working in real estate. He hasn't met any other believers in person but estimated they number more than 1 million. (Based on activity on message boards and membership in Facebook groups, this appears to be an exaggeration.)

But Burton is one example of the flesh-and-blood Americans who have bought into a theory whose growth online has had actual consequences, including inspiring an armed man to descend on the Hoover Dam in June, demanding the release of a Justice Department report about James Comey and Hillary Clinton that had already been released. In the spring, QAnon gave fuel to a fanciful effort undertaken by an armed group called Veterans on Patrol to find evidence of a child sex-trafficking ring in Tuscon.

What became clear from our conversation is that Burton's belief in QAnon stems from his frustration with how authority over information and verification is allocated. He resents what he perceives to be the self-righteous assumption of expertise made by members of the media and academia. He told me he worked in academia, and when I asked him to elaborate, he said he meant he was "an armchair philosopher. I make my impact where I can. I have no desire to be high profile."

More here:

https://www.dothaneagle.com/news/trending/qanon-meet-a-real-life-believer-in-the-online-pro/article_9bd3107b-f378-5a9a-a4bf-1e22aa678310.html