Propaganda, streaming

In the most recent installment of Letters from an American , Heather Cox Richardson references recent writing about the current administration’s use of Nazi-like imagery and language in its social media accounts:

Instead of rooting itself in the real history of the United States of America, Ali Breland of The Atlantic noted on Wednesday, the Trump administration is embracing Nazi propaganda, trying to convince Americans that the nation’s roots are not in human equality but in the hierarchical system of European fascism. Rejecting the idea of liberty and equality proposed in the Declaration of Independence and defended by people like Abraham Lincoln as the nation’s foundational principle, they are trying to define the United States of America in an entirely new way: one made up of white Protestants who, in their minds, “belong” to the land here. Rather than a nation based in ideals, they want a nation based in “blood and soil.”

Here’s a gift link to what Breland wrote: “The Trump Administration Is Publishing a Stream of Nazi Propaganda.” That title is no exaggeration, and Breland assembles copious evidence to make the case.