The MAGA Influencers Rehabilitating Hitler

[DemocratSinceBirth]

The story we got about World War II is all wrong,” a guest told Tucker Carlson on his podcast two weeks ago. “I think that’s right,” replied Carlson. The guest, a Cornell chemistry professor named David Collum, then spelled out what he meant: “One can make the argument we should have sided with Hitler and fought Stalin.” Such sentiments might sound shocking to the uninitiated, but they are not to Carlson’s audience. In fact, the notion that the German dictator was unfairly maligned has become a running theme on Carlson’s show—and beyond.

Last September, Carlson interviewed a man named Darryl Cooper, whom he dubbed “the most important popular historian working in the United States today.” Cooper’s conception of honest history soon became clear: He suggested that British Prime Minister Winston Churchill might have been “the chief villain of the Second World War,” with Nazi Germany at best coming in second. The day after the episode aired, Cooper further downplayed Hitler’s genocidal ambitions, writing on social media that the German leader had sought peace with Europe and merely wanted “to reach an acceptable solution to the Jewish problem.” He did not explain why the Jews should have been considered a “problem” in the first place.

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https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/09/maga-hitler-anti-semitism/684078/

[bucolic_frolic]

1. Amazing how generations of our brightest scholars missed the whole story!!

These MAGA Clown pundits are playing history with ideologies, mixing and matching to their heart's delight.

Are these the people Trump is re-opening the insane asylums for?

[Liberal In Texas]

2. These people are despicable.

Today with the internet their crackpot ideas have gotten a larger ability for exposure.

[popsdenver]

15. The main culprit to all of this

is FOX NEWS....................it continues to be watched all day, every day by countless Trumphumpers and taken as the gospel.....

Leading psychiatrists have stated for years, that exclusively watching Fox News, RW Radio, and Rush Limbaugh would very effectively BRAIN WASH any individual............

With complete re-enforcing by the entire U.S. Main Stream Media being almost completely owned/operated by UBER rich people and corporations....

[Swede]

3. I have a subscription on Facebook that daily posts a different victim of the Holocaust.

School kids, old men, athletes, young women, scholars, and on and on. What "problem?"

[mountain grammy]

16. Yes, I get a daily post from the Holocaust Museum

Remember their names and that a two year old is somehow a "problem"

Sadly, I believe that is how Palestinian children are seen..

[KS Toronado]

4. So they are saying "Fascism is a good thing"

Preparing everyone for the big takeover.

[Kid Berwyn]

5. Tucker deserves to be held up as an example.

[czarjak]

23. Would'nt It Be Nice

[PatSeg]

6. Very Orwellian

Truth is what they say it is and even that could change tomorrow.

[Wounded Bear]

7. When Hitler's Germany attacked Stalin's USSR, there were no good guys on either side...

Probably the most brutal campaign in human history, because both sides were fanatical and brutal.

[mountain grammy]

8. I think I'm gonna barf

[TygrBright]

9. THIS is the money shot:

Carlson and his fellow travelers on the far right correctly identify the Second World War as a pivot point in America’s understanding of itself and its attitude toward its Jewish citizens. The country learned hard lessons from the Nazi Holocaust about the catastrophic consequences of conspiratorial prejudice. Today, a growing constituency on the right wants the nation to unlearn them.

That is EXACTLY it.

They want to make othering okay, on a large scale. They want to Make Racism Great Again.

Short game: They want their terrified, empty, pathetic loser followers to feel superior by making others inferior.

Long game: The groundwork for multiple homeland genocides right here.

Take it to the bank.

disgustedly,
Bright

[Mr.Bee]

10. The Parallels

I see Winston Churchill as Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
'Won't you please help me? They're attacking my country!!'

[Montauk6]

12. What's next? They start calling him "Dolf the Hitman"?

[orangecrush]

13. Tucker and friends

Need a "visit" from some Jewish advocates for an educational encounter.

Just a suggestion to find a "solution" for his "Jewish problem".

[peggysue2]

14. Hitler's 'jewish problem' says it all

Carlson and others would like to whitewash the horror of Nazi Germany especially the concentration camps, executions and ovens. I read one apologist say that Hitler was merely reducing the suffering of those marched into the camps. It was either march to the ovens or starve.

Hitler did both.

Trying to pretty-up an obscenity, a crime against humanity, is beyond the pale. Carlson and his cohorts are disgusting propagandists.

Hitler also murdered the disabled, homosexuals, political/ideological opponents, intellectuals and anyone who dared push back against his diabolical schemes. To defend such a creature says more about Carlson and his fanboys than Hitler.

Soulless!

[Bev54]

17. This revising history all starts with Putin. He doesn't care whose history he rewrites but if

he can get his puppets to rewrite history in US and Germany and others, then he can get away with rewriting Russian, Ukraine history as well. He promotes these history ignoramuses' to push his own agenda, just look at the influencers he has already paid a great deal of money to.

[Mr. Evil]

18. Well, Carlson is wrong (as usual) and,

so is his new boy toy, Cooper. What we did in WWII was follow the tenet of 'the enemy of my enemy is my friend.' Until our common enemy was done for. Then we should've taken Gen. Patton's advice and attacked the USSR. Sort of like two birds, one stone so to speak. We already had our forces there. Stalin was an equal opportunity murderer, too. We (and our allies) could've simply said no to carving up Germany and letting the Soviets take control of of other areas and taken care of business.

Think of it this way; no Soviet Union then, no Russia later on and certainly no Putin today and Ukraine would be alive and well among many other aspects of humanity today.

[Mblaze]

19. Peace through occupation

Is not peace.

[Solly Mack]

20. Sick

[MLWR]

21. Actually, the only good thing hitler did was to shoot himself.

[maxrandb]

22. And AIPAC and ADL helped bring these fucksticks to complete, unchecked power

[czarjak]

24. Or, as Charles Manson said:

"Hitler was just lowering the Karma Level of the Jews."