It’s a good bet that a Nazi-admiring racist, eugenics-spouting putz like Stephen Miller knows a bit of Nazi history. Elon Musk, the genius who is going to immediately fix things for wealthy white men once and for all, certainly knows a good deal about Hitler. He loudly supports the current German iteration of the old NSDAP and has promised to bankroll them in the next German election. He also sometimes gives the old Seig Heil salute, as he did on live TV to members of that Nazi-inspired party who were invited to Trumpie’s inauguration. The Hitler salute Musk never denied giving, the one the corporate media contorted itself to insist maybe it wasn’t a Hitler salute at all. Trump, who kept Hitler’s Collected Speeches next to his bed, used many of the Führer’s most effective crowd favorites during his recent campaign — hoards of dangerous, inferior people, criminal and insane, raping (and sodomizing, a brilliant Trump embellishment) white girls, poisoning the blood of the Master Race. He put his own inimitable stylistic touches on the old Nazi line with genius improvs like “they’re eating the dogs, they’re eating the cats!” but the basic outline is always faithful to the spirit of the omnipotent German psychopath. They seem to especially like repeating Hitler’s favorite PR moves.

Like Hitler, Trump is an innovative user of new technology. He revolutionized the use of social media trolling, weaponizing the powerful tool of mass influence. He was the first president to fire subordinates, and change the law, by Tweet, he used his phone to attack judges, prosecutors and everyone else in simple, bullying language anyone can understand, he announced policy decisions to the country and the world in real-time while sitting on the toilet, thumbs tapping away.

Hitler and his team were masters of the new technology of radio and during his 1932 campaign Hitler became the first person to broadcast an address to the nation live from an airplane. He addressed his faithful Germans while flying high above the Polish Corridor, which I remember reading was called the Burning Corridor. The contested strip of land attached to the city of Danzig/Gdansk, taken from Germany and given back to Poland after World War I, (and again after World War II) was a bone in the throat of German nationalists. I can’t find anything online referring to this historic broadcast, but historians of Nazism will all be aware of it. At any rate, the effect on ordinary Germans, of a political candidate magically addressing them from the clouds, promising revenge as he looked down on the very land he promised to seize, was a show of superhuman, godly power that apparently had a galvanizing effect on many German voters.

On Super Bowl Sunday, Trump and his team took to the air, in a luxury private jet (probably Airforce One) and he flew over the newly renamed Gulf of America. During a live video broadcast from high above the Burning Gulf, Trumpie played up the historic importance of taking back this beautiful gulf, illegally and immorally named for the Mexican coast line which forms a good part of it (virtually the entirety of it was, prior to 1845, Mexico itself), and announced the first glorious Gulf of America Day, perhaps more significant than the Super Bowl itself. None of his fans had the fleeting thought that this was as moronic as taking a Sharpie and crudely changing the hurricane map to prove that he was right and America’s top climate scientists were all very wrong about the path of the storm. Very wrong, in the adorably petulant phrase of Boof “I Like Beer” Kavanaugh, dismissing the dissent in a Covid era election ruling he authored. The dissent was, of course, completely right, and Boof, who had the votes needed to summarily dismiss all arguments, was very, very wrong. I know you are, but what am I?!

Everything to a Nazi is a deadly battle of will. We fight like hell, because if we don’t fight like hell we won’t have enemies to vilify and attack and then, uh, you’ll start fighting like hell against us, which we will never allow, even though, admittedly, we are bringing the pain to you contemptible, uninformed, powerless assholes. It would be very, very wrong to stop fighting our enemies like hell. Or, possibly, if it is to our advantage, very very right. Words mean only what we say they mean, which is why it’s so crucial to rename the Gulf of Mexico with the full force of our willful idiocy, which is very right, or very wrong, or whatever you like, because we are currently building concentration camps for fuckers just like you.