Alaska’s voice of Trumpism spreads Hitler fiction
Suzanne Downing, the voice of Trumpism in Alaska, whined Sunday about those comparing Trump’s rally to a pro-Nazi event held at the Garden in 1939.
Downing, who advertises herself as “A Force for Good,” falsely claimed that Hitler headlined an event at what she called “Madison Square Gardens.”
There is no evidence that Hitler traveled to the United States or that the old Garden was plural.
According to Downing’s logic, which she claimed is the Democrats’ way of thinking, all of those who have ever appeared at the Garden are now to be branded as Nazis.
Because Hitler was there, JFK is a Nazi. Bill Clinton is a Nazi. And FDR is a Nazi, according to Downing. She said this all follows because Trump is like FDR and if Trump is a Nazi, FDR was a Nazi. Makes perfect sense to her.
“Henceforth, anyone who has an event at Madison Square Gardens will be smeared with the same Nazi brush, since it was a venue once used by the leader of Germany,” said Downing.
In her edict, Downing did not say if the Knicks and the Rangers are Nazis.
Downing, 70, was honored in July by Sen. Dan Sullivan with an obsequious tribute that he had inserted in the Congressional Record. “It is grueling to write as much as she does,” said Sullivan, who always gets glowing reviews from Downing.
Downing claimed Sunday that when FDR spoke in “Madison Square Gardens” on October 31, 1936 he was speaking “like Donald Trump does now, except that the Democrats now see that as Nazism.”
Downing has a habit of superimposing her opinions on others and misrepresenting reality. She did this in an extreme manner with her Hitler fiction and her claim that Democrats are “now smearing the Nazi brand” on FDR.
What she didn’t say, as it doesn’t fit the philosophy of “Trump good, Democrats evil,” is that the recent focus on Hitler and fascism arose because of the public remarks of John Kelly, the retired Marine general and former Trump chief of staff, and Mark Milley, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Kelly, who spent a lot of time with Trump behind closed doors, says the former president does not understand the U.S. Constitution and meets the dictionary definition of a fascist. Kelly said that Trump likes to say that Hitler did some good things and Trump wanted generals as loyal as Hitler’s.
Kelly said Trump’s recent comments about using the military to go after Americans should be regarded as a serious threat. That prompted him to make his fears more public, Kelly has told reporters.
“He certainly prefers the dictator approach to government,” Kelly said of Trump.
Milley, who was chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under Trump, told reporter and author Bob Woodward that Trump is a “fascist to the core.”
“No one has ever been as dangerous to this country as Donald Trump,” Milley said. “Now I realize he’s a total fascist. He is the most dangerous person to this country.”
Historian Heather Cox Richardson had an important analysis of the Trump campaign’s fascist rally at the Garden. Read it here.
She said in part:
Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden began in the early afternoon. The hateful performances of the early participants set the tone for the rally. Early on, comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, who goes by Kill Tony, delivered a steamingly racist set. He said, for example: “There’s literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now. I think it’s called Puerto Rico.” He went on: “And these Latinos, they love making babies too. Just know that. They do. They do. There’s no pulling out. They don’t do that. They come inside. Just like they did to our country.” Hinchcliffe also talked about Black people carving watermelons instead of pumpkins.
The speakers who followed Hinchcliffe called Vice President Kamala Harris “the Antichrist” and “the devil.” They called former secretary of state Hillary Clinton “a sick son of a b*tch,” and they railed against “f*cking illegals.” They insulted Latinos generally, Black Americans, Palestinians and Jews. Trump advisor Stephen Miller’s claim that “America is for Americans and Americans only” directly echoed the statement of Adolf Hitler that "Germany is for Germans and Germans only.”
Trump took the stage about two hours late, prompting people to stream toward the exits before he finished speaking. He hit his usual highlights, notably undermining Vance’s argument from earlier in the day by saying that, indeed, he believes fellow Americans are “the enemy within.”
DUNLEAVY’S WAY OUT: More evidence that Gov. Mike Dunleavy wants to quit—he attended the Trump rally in Madison Square Garden. Former Gov. Sarah Palin attended just to be seen. Dunleavy is likely looking for a job and an excuse to depart the governor’s office.
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