The film Trump used to incite supporters on Jan.6 was textbook fascist, anti-Semitic propaganda

[babylonsister]

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The film Trump used to incite supporters on Jan.6 was textbook fascist, anti-Semitic propaganda
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Friday February 05, 2021 · 11:40 AM EST


Most of the media reporting concerning the events of Jan. 6 has naturally focused on the stunning and unprecedented visual spectacle of the perpetrators physically invading the Capitol, trashing the chambers of the House and Senate, and committing assorted acts of physical violence. The reports have also typically included a clip or two of Trump’s most incendiary statements to incite the crowd immediately prior to the attacks: “Fight like hell, or you’re not going to have a country anymore”; "You don't concede when there's theft involved”; “Our country has had enough. We will not take it anymore,” and more.

Receiving considerably less attention has been a brief, two-minute film the Trump campaign played for the crowd immediately before they began their destructive onslaught of the Capitol. And It may be that journalists accustomed to covering Trump’s rallies over the past year simply consigned it to yet another piece of agit-prop previously deployed during Trump’s political campaign.

But, in the context of Trump’s invocation to insurrection on Jan. 6, it was far more than that. As analyzed by Jason Stanley and Justin Hendrix for Just Security, the film was a carefully crafted bit of fascist, anti-Semitic propaganda, teeming with dog whistles and tropes calculated to inspire hatred, anger and violent action against Jews, Democrats, and other perceived “enemies” among Trump’s base.

The film, which was played to the crowd gathered at the Ellipse immediately after Rudy Giuliani’s speech, is now (oddly) difficult to find on the Internet, but was preserved in video of the event itself taken by spectators and a right-wing YouTube channel. Here is a copy posted by Justin Hendrix, who assisted Stanley in editing it for the Just Security article.

Link to tweet

As Stanley observes at the outset, the film utilized familiar techniques characteristic of Nazi and other fascist-inspired propaganda to convey a specific message to its viewers.

To a scholar of fascist propaganda, well-versed in the history of the National Socialist’s pioneering use of videos in political propaganda, it was clear, watching it, what dangers it portended. In it, we see themes and tactics that history warns pose a violent threat to liberal democracy. Given the aims of fascist propaganda – to incite and mobilize – the events that followed were predictable.

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[UpInArms]

1. Full video at this link

Link to tweet

[dalton99a]

3. +1. It is a must-see.

[PatrickforO]

5. This is scary, scary stuff. Straight out of the scripts Joseph Goebbels and Leni

Riefenstahl used back in the 1930s and 1940s in Nazi Germany.

F-ing Trump. What a colossal traitor he is.

[tulipsandroses]

2. I saw it on tv recently, can't remember if it was MSNBC or CNN. It was shocking

Everytime I think I can't be shocked anymore, there's something else.

The first thought I had, these people wrap themselves in the flag, declaring themselves to be patriots. They love the constitution they say. Yet, when you watch this video, nothing in it shows democracy.

[Mike 03]

4. Triumph of the Shill

This is completely shocking.

Everyone should see this film and then read the interpretive breakdown to see it decoded.

and Bookmarked.

[ancianita]

6. Here's the vimeo version.

https://vimeo.com/508134765

[bucolic_frolic]

7. Don't know why the media and everyone else is so reluctant to connect the dots

Nazis. Didn't he praise his German heritage at one point about early 2018, telling us how smart he is? It was straight out of a Bund rally.

What's on those tax returns? Where were the loans sourced?

I refer to Ludlum's "The Holcroft Covenant". Ludlum lived much of his life in NNJ, he must have heard rumors, fascist-terrorist anti-democratic ties were a primary theme linking most of his books together.

Oh well. I give up.

[Miigwech]

8. trumpism is a collection of the mentally ill, personality disordered folks, meth heads

in need of mental health that are being used by the the very cynical leaders ..... this is abuse of our Disability Laws .... the trump folks have gone after the very low IQ, people that need mental health and Nursing Homes (Non compos mentis ).... reports are that the MAFIA controls many private Nursing Homes ... follow the money !!!!!

[wnylib]

9. This is the first that I heard that such

a video exists and was shown at the rally. I hope it is used as evidence at the Senate trial. I don't think it will change the votes of Senators who supported the coup attempt (and still do), but the general public needs to see the way it was used and the goal of the rally in arousing the mob to violence.

[bluecollar2]

10. Well written essay...n/t

[Hermit-The-Prog]

11. Strangely similar to films coming out of North Korea.