"To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, to give one Nazi salute is unfortunate, but to give two, well that’s simply political carelessness. After all, surely even in its bastardized, post-literate, post-moral, pro-Trumpian state, America in the year 2025 has a residual memory of the fact that the Nazis were very, very, very bad people."
~ Sasha Abramsky
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https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-assault-american-democracy/
"Yet, Musk’s itchy arm, so similar to that of Dr. Strangelove in Stanley Kubrick’s classic nuclear-apocalypse satire, apparently simply couldn’t resist the lure of the Sieg Heil gesture.
And that, I think, is an apt metaphor for this first week of Trump’s foul second presidency."