Jason,
It's a pattern now.
When the Trump campaign slipped a reference to a "unified reich" in a recent ad, it was the latest horrifying example of Nazi rhetoric being used by an American candidate for president.
After the outrage, they took the video down. They blamed a junior staffer. They want the media to move on.
But here's the thing — they can't say it was an accident. Not after Trump himself has referred to his political opponents as "vermin" — not after he's said that immigrants are "poisoning the blood" of our society.
I've heard some say making Nazi references is just a joke to outrage Democrats. (Extremely funny, right?) It's also possible that Trump is trying to signal to neo-Nazis that they're on the same side — after all, he's refused to distance himself from the white supremacists in Charlottesville or the Proud Boys violence.
One of two things is true: Either Trump thinks using Nazi language is funny, or he's trying to wink at the most deplorable (yeah, I said it) wing of the Republican Party.
And let's be clear: Both are equally disqualifying — absolutely repellent to the voters who are going to decide this election, folks who might be on the fence but who tell pollsters they deeply worry about the threat Trump poses to our democracy. When they see him say he'll be a dictator on Day One, or promise to round up immigrants and put them in camps, or put Hitler's greatest hits into his stump speech, they refuse to vote for him.
Who's going to make sure those voters in battleground states know the truth? It has to be us — will you chip in to help lay out the threat in plain terms to these critical voters?
I'm asking you to own a piece of this work, because we can't afford to come up short.
Thank you,
Amy
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