Trump Cult: We Are Borg
The warning of a Unified Reich
Issue #620 The Choice, Thursday, May 30, 2024
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Uni.
Unity.
United.
Uniform.
Unify.
Unified.
Most often, when we think about the word ‘unity’, I suspect most of us tend to associate it with the positive. During the civil rights era, those on the front lines of the struggle for freedom and equality for Black people in America were united in a common cause to achieve a necessary change in society.
It was their unity of purpose that fused them together, and that resulted ultimately in the passage of legislation such as the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Civil Rights Act of 1968.
Anyone who knows the history of the movement knows that there were plenty of arguments and disagreements about how the movement should go, but at the end of the day they were united in their desire to achieve freedom by whatever means necessary.
In team sports, each team wears a certain uniform. They may be allowed to express themselves individually in other ways, but everybody on the team wears that same uniform. To show unity. Regardless of whatever squabbles they may engage in off the field or the court, once it’s game time, everybody knows what they need to do. It’s not often that the raggedy team wins.
But Hitler’s followers were unified too. And they also wore uniforms and proudly displayed their Swastika. Everywhere.
So maybe it’s not just being unified that’s such a good thing. It matters what you’re unified about. It also matters whether dissent and debate are allowed while you’re busy being unified. Because if all of those unified folk are required to kiss the ring of Dear Leader and can never say any bad thing about whoever that Dear Leader is, then you might want to question that type of unity. Sounds more like the Borg in Star Trek to me.
Resistance is futile.
But it shouldn’t be. In a healthy movement, you should still be able to use your brain. Which means you should still be able to openly disagree and argue. That’s how the best ideas get born.
But MAGA doesn’t want anything to do with the best ideas. They only want subservience and dominance.
Last week, Trump posted a video featuring a hypothetical news headline that purported to show his new vision of America if he gains a second term. The video indicated that it would be a “unified Reich.” From the AP, May 21:
Trump previously used rhetoric echoing Adolf Hitler when he said immigrants entering the U.S. illegally are “poisoning the blood of our country,” and called his opponents “vermin.”
The former president has also drawn wide backlash for having dined with a Holocaust-denying white nationalist in 2022 and for downplaying the 2017 rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, where white nationalists chanted “Jews will not replace us!”
At least one of the headlines flashing in the video appears to be text copied verbatim from a Wikipedia entry on World War I: “German industrial strength and production had significantly increased after 1871, driven by the creation of a unified Reich.”
What also happened last week was one of the most perverse- and also frightening - displays of political fealty ever seen in this country when a rotating group of Trump-supporting Congressfolk - including Speaker of the House Mike Johnson - suspended their duties to the United States Congress and the people each of them supposedly represent to scuttle over to New York and openly proclaim their loyalty to the Orange Godfather in his time of need who was standing trial for election interference. Hardly any of his supposedly rabid followers showed up outside the court house throughout the trial to demonstrate their solidarity, so Trump phoned in the back bench, and they came running - wearing the same red tie uniform.
Resistance is futile.
Only if you don’t resist.
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