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The Warning with Steve Schmidt

JD Vance, Donald Trump & the Shadow of Fascism: Dorothy Thompson’s 1930's Warning

The Warning with Steve Schmidt

Steve Schmidt

News, Politics, Government

4.8784 Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

As Hitler’s 80th anniversary passes, the rise of Donald Trump & JD Vance reflects alarming historical parallels. Steve Schmidt breaks down the dangers of these ideologies and calls for immediate action to protect our democratic values.

Transcript

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It is April 30th, 2025.

0:03.0

Trump has passed 100 days in office.

0:06.0

This is the warning.

0:08.0

April 30th is a momentous day in world history and in American history.

0:13.0

80 years ago, Adolf Hitler and his thousand-year Reich

0:18.0

came to its end in a dank Berlin bunker when a bullet blew out the

0:23.3

grubby Fuhrer's brains and the back of his skull. His body, along with Ava Browns, was

0:28.9

wrapped in a blanket. It was taken upstairs, dumped into a crater, and lit on fire. That body was

0:35.7

recovered by Soviet forces, and in April of 1970, the remains of

0:40.7

Adolf Hitler, Ava Braun, Joseph and Magda Goebbels, and their children were ground to dust

0:47.3

and dumped in a German river, and thus ended the Thousand Year Reich. The lesson is not that Adolf Hitler did these things, these crimes,

0:56.6

which are unprecedented in the history of humanity, and therefore it is not possible for there

1:03.1

to be greater criminals or greater crimes. No, the fundamental lesson of Nazism is the story

1:10.6

of a lack of imagination and where it leads.

1:14.7

Willful blindness and where it leads.

1:17.7

Denialism and where it leads.

1:20.5

What happens when the truth and the lie meet in the ether and the truth is strangled by the lie.

1:28.3

And the people can no longer tell the difference between the two.

1:33.3

One of the most important American journalists that has ever been was Dorothy Thompson,

1:38.3

the first lady of American journalism.

1:40.3

And in the 1930s, she had the distinction of being the first American who was kicked out of Nazi Germany for being inhospitable in her writings to her Nazi hosts.

1:54.2

The furor most of all. You see, Dorothy Thompson wasn't nice to the Nazis. She didn't accommodate them. And she became a foremost student

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