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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]1601, you are missing the same point as the other genius.  Just because someone is a Trump supporter doesn't mean they are a Nazi.  What would you say if someone came up and asked you about Lenin or Stalin or communism, all of which have strong relationships with the left side of our democracy?  [/quote]

I would certainly not deny that Communism exists. I might even explain to them about the history of the CPUSA, and how they were opposed by both liberal Dems and Socialists of the Norman Thomas variety, about  the 1948 election where liberals mostly supported anticommunist Truman over soft on Communism progressive Henry Wallace, etc, etc. Because that history is close to me, as someone with relatives who lived in fiercely divided NYC at the time.

So, not all Trump supporters are Nazis. Got it.  This particular young man was.  For some odd reason a bunch of people on this thread take great offense at the implication that his being a Nazi had ANYTHING to do with his crime. I am not sure why. Though it MIGHT be because Trump himself has been about as ambivalent towards people like this (such as in his initial comments on Charlottesville) as Henry Wallace was on Stalinism.

(BTW, Stalinism is not the same as Leninism - in addition to communists vs the non communist left, the 1940s was charecterized by bitter hostility between Stalinists and Trotskyite Leninists, who hated Stalin.  One faction of them drifted to the right, and some became Social Democrats, and a few became Republican neocons.)[/quote]

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