Who was Who in Weimar Germany (video) -- Timothy Snyder

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https://snyder.substack.com/p/when-anti-antifa-means-pro-nazi-video

At Tuesday’s presidential “roundtable” on “antifa,” the villain du jour, one of the speakers said that its origins were to be found in Weimar Germany.

The wrongdoers of history, we are instructed from the White House, were those who tried to prevent Hitler from coming to power.

In a busy week, this is a statement worth noting — not just for its shocking character, but for what it reveals about the manufactured “antifa” panic: that the true target is American constitutionalism, American law, and American liberties.

From the comments:

When “anti-antifa” becomes a rhetorical shield for authoritarian nostalgia, we’re not debating tactics, we’re enabling historical amnesia.
From a behavioral lens, this is incentive distortion at scale: redefine resistance as threat, then reward alignment with power.
The goal isn’t clarity—-it’s control through confusion.
Thanks for surfacing this. The architecture of memory matters.

I think it's very revealing to put those who tried—albeit in vain—to prevent Hitler on the same level as terrorists. It's clear where the speaker and his cronies stand politically. I'll stick to my usual conviction: fascism is getting worse every day. Not acting is not an option. As a German, I know very well what I'm talking about. The train from Alligator Alcatraz will end up in Auschwitz.

Promoting historical amnesia is one of the primary goals of the Republican Party.