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Calling Trump a Nazi Is giving our own history a pass. The racism of MAGA is American.

By Nina Turner, Newsweek

Trump supporters and protesters gather outside a campaign rally (and accompanying anti-Trump protest) for President Trump and US Senate candidate Martha McSally.

Fascism is a populist political movement which advocates putting the nation first through a centralized, autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader who controls the economy and suppresses opposition. I do believe former President Trump is a fascist. He fits the description. Yet that does not make Donald Trump and his movement “Nazis” as a whole.

America’s history is dark enough that we do not have to export our comparisons to Nazi Germany. At the MAGA rally in New York, the bigotry and white supremacy spewed was American through and through.

My concern is that calling him a Nazi erases the American nature of his movement and makes it a foreign concept. It’s not foreign. The bigotry is not foreign, the white supremacy is not foreign, this movement is not foreign, it’s American and we must address it head-on to defeat it.

Moreover, the Nazi label diminishes the fact that millions of Jewish people and other ethnic groups, including people with disabilities, were mass murdered. And it completely erases the vile impact of the American slave system on Africans and their American descendants. Crimes against humanity happened on this soil.

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