Sunday, October 12th, 2025
Author: Thom Hartmann
Source: Raw Story
Publication Date: October 11, 2025 | 10:00AM ET
Link: This Nazi philosopher’s playbook explains everything Donald Trump does
Stephan:
I have been telling you since before Trump was inaugurated the last time that he was going to follow and is following Hitler’s playbook. That’s what Project 2025 was all about. I was going to write a paper on this, but haven’t had time. Now Thom Hartmann has done it, so I don’t have to. The media lacks the courage to speak the truth about this, but as the United States becomes more and more a fascist society, maybe a few others than Hartmann and I will speak out. As you can see from the image heading this article, the Germans already recognize Trump and his vassals for who and what they are.
The endgame for Donald Trump, JD Vance, Kristi Noem, and Pam Bondi is coming into clearer focus, and it’s nearly a one-for-one, step-by-step implementation of Nazi jurist/philosopher Carl Schmitt’s ideas that created and sustained the early Third Reich. Vance has even gone so far as to directly quote Schmitt.
The concepts aren’t particularly complicated, and it’s easy to see how Trump and his enablers are implementing them:
Third, the way to get past the guardrails built into constitutional republics (like the German 1930s Weimar Republic or today’s American republic) is by invoking “emergency” powers, even if it’s necessary to create an emergency to justify the invocation.
First, Schmitt taught, “there is no law, there is just power”: democracy is a messy anachronism in which whomever controls the political majority inevitably imposes their will on everybody else, stifling individuality and freedom, both in thought and behavior. The cure for this messiness of democracy, he argued, is a strong leader who transcends politics, understands the people and reflects their true desires, defends their racial and religious identity, ignores inconvenient laws, and thus leads the superior/majority race […]