Republicans hold super-rally in NY city

[packman]

Complete with super-sized George Washington banner, flags and another banner proclaiming "Stop prosecution of Christian Americans"




Oh, shit - sorry- it's a 1939 American Nazi rally - so confusing these days

Side note: Believe banner on left side reads "Read Marcus Garvey - The Free American"

Confused me and had to read about his anti-Jewish, pro KKK involvement for it to make sense at this rally

https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/marcus-garvey

[walkingman]

1. It sure appears we are heading in that direction. Hoping that reasonable people

outnumber the Christian Nationalists and bigots.

[getagrip_already]

2. isn't this the subject of rachels new podcast? n/t

[jonstl08]

3. Mind Boggling

Seen a lot of history documentaries on this era and it still boggles my mind we had Nazis in this country who thought Hitler was a good guy. Reminds me today of all these people on the right doing the same thing with Putin.

HISTORY IS INDEED REPEATING ITSELF

[Johnny2X2X]

4. America First

This was part of the America First movement right before WW2, a group of American Nazi sympathizers who desperately were trying to persuade the US from entering the War.

And before America First, there was Germany First, and actual Nazi slogan.

Trump got his slogans from the best people, believe me.

[hedda_foil]

5. America First was related but the Madison Square Garden rally was the German-American Bund.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. The left side banner says "Read America's Fearless Paper . The Free American!"

As far as I can determine by search, The Free American was the Bund's newspaper:

https://www.loc.gov/item/sf86004039/

I don't think the rally had anything to do with Marcus Garvey