{"article":{"id":294225,"heading":"What ThisMeans, How This Happened, What to Do Now","author":"Nathan J. Robinson","created":"2016-11-12 13:03:24","modified":"2016-11-29 20:24:38","last_modified":"Wed, 30 Nov 2016 03:24:38","article":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Nathan J. Robinson is editor of Current Affairs. <br><br> to read his article published on November 9, 2016, click on <br>  <br> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.currentaffairs.org\/2016\/11\/what-this-means-how-this-happened-what-to-do-now\">https:\/\/www.currentaffairs.org\/2016\/11\/what-this-means-how-this-happened-what-to-do-now<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","contact":"marc1seed@yahoo.com","link":"www.freembtranslations.net","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"This election is a repudiation of the establishment which means the wisdom of pundits, experts, and elites has been proven hollow...Trump won because of his appeals to racism and sexism and his vicious misogynistic lies about Hillary Clinton...Media is responsible for creating Trump.","numcomment":2,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2016\/11\/294225.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":294249,"heading":"The New York Times' First Profile of Hitler","article":"nytimeshitler-2\r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2016\/11\/the-new-york-times-first-profile-of-hilter.html\r\n\r\nIn 1922\u2014at the dawn of Hitler\u2019s budding nationalist movement\u2014The New York Times published its first profile, and explained his demagoguery away. The article, titled \u201cNew Popular Idol Rises in Bavaria,\u201d begins with several alarming subheadings: \u201cHitler credited with extraordinary powers of swaying crowds to his will,\u201d \u201cforms gray-shirted army\u2026 They obey orders implicitly,\u201d \u201cLeader a reactionary,\u201d \u201cAnti-Red and Anti-Semitic.\u201d It then goes on to undermine these charges.\r\n\r\nAccording to \u201cseveral reliable, well-informed [unnamed] sources,\u201d we\u2019re told, \u201cHitler\u2019s anti-Semitism was not so genuine or violent as it sounded,\u201d though \u201cthe Hitler movement is not of a mere local or picturesque interest.\u201d\r\n\r\n    He was merely using anti-Semitic propaganda as a bait to catch masses of followers and keep them aroused, enthusiastic and in line for the time when his organization is perfected and sufficiently powerful to be employed effectively for political purposes. \r\n\r\nWhat purposes? The paper quotes one admiring \u201csophisticated politician\u201d as saying, \u201cYou can\u2019t expect the masses to understand or appreciate your finer real aims. You must feed the masses with cruder morsels and ideas like anti-Semitism. It would be politically all wrong to tell them the truth about where you really are leading them.\u201d Where might this be? The shadowy source did not say. We cynically expect all politicians to lie, to feed us \u201ccruder morsels.\u201d But assuming that racism, bigotry, and scapegoating\u2014whether sincere or not\u2014will go down so easily with so many people constitutes a very dark view of \u201cthe masses.\u201d\r\n\r\nTen years later, after Hitler was released from prison for treason and had begun his candidacy for president, many, even more complimentary, articles would follow\u2014as Rafael Medoff documents in The Daily Beast\u2014all the way up to Time magazine\u2019s naming him \u201cMan of the Year\u201d for 1938.  \u201cWhy did many mainstream American newspapers portray the Hitler regime positively,\u201d asks Medoff, \u201cespecially in its early months? How could they publish warm human-interest stories about a brutal dictator? Why did they excuse or rationalize Nazi anti-Semitism? These are questions that should haunt the conscience of U.S. journalism to this day.\u201d\r\n\r\nOne reporter in a 1933 Christian Science Monitor dispatch from Germany informed his readers that \u201cthe train arrived punctually\u201d\u2014indulging a trope about fascists making the \u201ctrains run on time\u201d that has astonishingly come back in circulation via former Cincinnati mayor Ken Blackwell. \u201cTraffic was well regulated.\u201d The correspondent found \u201cnot the slightest sign of anything unusual afoot.\u201d The word we often hear for what happened during the 30s is \u201cnormalization,\u201d a process by which the most harrowing portents were blended into the landscape, rendered signs of nothing \u201cunusual afoot.\u201d\r\n\r\nThe normalization of Nazism in Germany involved a tremendous propaganda effort, much of it aimed at children. In the U.S., the press seemed more than willing to turn an ethno-nationalist movement with frightening\u2014and plainly stated\u2014objectives into an ordinary, rational state actor. Anti-Semitism was described as legitimate political resentment or reasonable anger at German Jews\u2019 \u201ccommercial clannishness.\u201d Somehow the victims of Nazism had to be responsible for their own murder and persecution. \u201cThere must be some reason,\u201d wrote The Christian Century in an April, 1933 editorial, \u201cother than race or creed\u2014just what is that reason?\u201d Few people, it seems, could or would allow themselves to imagine that the new German F\u00fchrer actually meant what he said.","author":"www.openculture.com","parent_id":294225,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2016-11-16 18:58:00","modified":"2016-11-16 18:58:00","fileurl":""},{"id":294322,"heading":"John Oliver: Donald Trump &quot;Is Not Normal&quot;","article":"http:\/\/deadline.com\/2016\/11\/john-oliver-donald-trump-not-normal-1201853810\/\r\n\r\n&quot;America proved that no grandpa is too racist to become leader of the free world...\r\n\r\nTrump is like a Magic 8 Ball, every time you shake him gives you a different answer...\r\n\r\nThe media supposed to catch a serial liar failed.  Some blame lies with the mainstream media who waited far too long to take Trump seriously and gave him billions of dollars worth of free media...&quot;","author":"www.booktv.org","parent_id":294225,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2016-11-29 20:24:38","modified":"2016-11-29 20:24:38","fileurl":""}]}