Discussion: Top Trump Aide: Cruz Is Using 'Gestapo Tactics' To Scare Delegates

Wow - the disconnect is stunning … this comment coming from the same Trump organization that is threatening non-Trump delegates to the Republican Convention, saying they will release the names and hotel room numbers? I think that Cruz and Trump are locked in a contest to see who can best emulate the “best” of the Nazi regime.

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will we be seeing families taken hostage soon? meathooks? hammer to the feet?

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Those who make Nazi comparisons usually have not the remotest idea of what Naziism really was.

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And you know who else made Nazi comparisons without the remotest idea of what Nazism actually was? Yeah, that’s right . . . um.

Okay, yeah, it doesn’t really work this time.

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“Beware of the evil you see in others, it might be the evil within yourself.”

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And from their presentation on TV you know they look in the mirror…a lot.

The Gestapo and the Sturmabteilung never really did get along. Plus ça change…

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They use Gestapo tactics, we use Schutzstaffel tactics, the important thing is that we are all Nazis.

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Ah, the sweet, sweet song of a Republican accusing another Republican of being a Nazi.
Happy Sunday everybody!

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Pot, meet kettle.

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TPM:

“Well, he’s threatening, you go to these county conventions, and you see the tactics, Gestapo tactics, the scorched-earth tactics —” Manafort said, before he was interrupted.

Conservative are shocked - shocked I tell you! - that Conservatives are acting like Conservatives.

“Gestapo tactics? That’s a strong word,” host Chuck Todd said.

Chuck Todd is shocked too.

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From what I’ve heard of these conventions all Tronald has to do is discretely videotape the coming and goings of ‘guests’ to the fence sitting delegates’ hotel rooms. That should buy him enough ‘goodwill’ to get him over the top on the nomination.

PS: Cruz is going nowhere in NY so I don’t expect affair/prostitute revelations before then. The Keystone state has a quasi bible-belt feel; to it so I’m guessing if Tronald has a bombshell to drop it will drop before Pennsylvania. At least that’s what I hope.

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My favorite album ca 1969,

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Even more ironically, it kind of does.

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I know you’re talking about people who make Nazi comparisons, but with Manafort, et. al., we’re also talking about Conservatives, and while I could be wrong (and often am), I’m pretty sure Conservatives can’t see their reflection in a mirror.

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So many people surprised by the hyperbole, and that Trump’s campaign would be applying it to others.

This is standard operating procedure. Manafort is going to fight dirty and fight hard and fight nasty, so the first thing he does is accuse the opponent of doing that.

Is that an old picture of Manafort, or did he go for a heavy makeover for his new job?

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Well, to the extent that it was the most “making this shit up as I and the thugs in my inner circle go along” totalitarian ideology ever, that’s quite true. As demonstrated by the fact that everyone who’d made the mistake of thinking there was a real coherent ideological content in it came down with a very serious case of dead on the Night of the Long Knives.

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