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“Though Trump has trademarked it, the slogan did not originate with him, nor even with Butler’s Jarret character—the 1980 Reagan-Bush campaign used it, as Matt

• 082349872349872 6y ago
  Not so far off, if condensed for our impatient times, from the 1933 entrance of the Nazis into government: https://www2.landesarchiv-bw.de/ofs21/bild_zoom/bild.php?drehen=&zoom=100&rahmenGroesseX=&rahmenGroesseY=&gamma=1&jpegQualitaetZoombild=80&scopeid_besta=13064&originalBilddatei=05_0000147700_0001_5-147700-1.png https://www2.landesarchiv-bw.de/ofs21/bild_zoom/bild.php?dre... [1] (note the graphic design!) > "Der Reichspräsident, Generalfeldmarschall von Hindenburg, hat uns berufen mit dem Befehl, durch unsere Einmütigkeit der Nation die Möglichkeit des Wiederaufstieges zu bringen. ... Die Regierung der nationalen Erhebung will arbeiten, und sie wird arbeiten. Sie hat nicht 14 Jahre lang die deutsche Nation zugrunde gerichtet, sondern will sie wieder nach oben führen." President von Hindenburg has tapped us to give the country the possibility, through our unanimity, to become great again. ... The government of national uplift intends to work, and it will work. It hasn't spent 14 years ruining[2] germany, but instead will lead it back to greatness. (more literally: Wiederaufsteig: climbing up again, reascent Erhebung: uplift, which can be literally, as in raising an arm, or the high point of a mountain chain, or symbolically, as in raising to nobility, or prizing above all else. nach oben: towards the top) See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24409361 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24409361 (Nota Bene video of the 1933 Sportpalast speech is available at https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn1000331 https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn1000331 and so TIL Stern editorialised out the clear anti-marxist slant of the event.) [1] for those who don't read Fraktur: https://ghdi.ghi-dc.org/pdf/deu/Proclamation_Reich_1933_GER.pdf https://ghdi.ghi-dc.org/pdf/deu/Proclamation_Reich_1933_GER.... [2] Among the apparent sins of the Weimar Republic: women in business and politics, as well as reduced penalties for abortion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_Nazi_Germany#Background https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_Nazi_Germany#Backgrou... Edit: Sorry, made footnote 2 more accurate, according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_in_Germany#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_in_Germany#History original text quoted by acqq below. compare https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24107148 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24107148 I was misled by Stefan Zweig's accounts of sexual morals in Berlin and among the Wandervögel to believe that, in a pre-pill age, abortion must've been more decriminalised than the actual laws on the books indicate. (then again, maybe they were just more careful, the 1920s US having been an era of petting parties, and I read something more into Zweig's edwardian shock than was occurring?) For the record, while Zweig is mostly nostalgic for the pre-WWI era, he thinks the post-WWI youth are much better off for avoiding the sexual repression of his day. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23791112 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23791112
  • acqq 6y ago
    > Among the apparent sins of the Weimar Republic: one person one vote, equally counted, for all men and women over 20, as well as legalised abortion. Back to the U.S. I recommend this 2020 book on that issue: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-power-worshippers-9781635573435/ https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-power-worshippers-97816355... "The Power Worshippers -- Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism" by Katherine Stewart "Stewart pulls back the curtain on the inner workings and leading personalities of a movement that has turned religion into a tool for domination. She exposes a dense network of think tanks, advocacy groups, and pastoral organizations embedded in a rapidly expanding community of international alliances and united not by any central command but by a shared, anti-democratic vision and a common will to power." Also, from 2013, "The Not-So-Lofty Origins of the Evangelical Pro-Life Movement": https://religiondispatches.org/the-not-so-lofty-origins-of-the-evangelical-pro-life-movement/ https://religiondispatches.org/the-not-so-lofty-origins-of-t... "as Randall Balmer has succinctly put it: “the religious right of the late twentieth century organized to perpetuate racial discrimination.”" And "How Republicans Became Anti-Choice": https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2018/11/08/how-republicans-became-anti-choice/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2018/11/08/how-republicans-... "in the late 1960s and early 1970s, many Republicans were behind efforts to liberalize and even decriminalize abortion; theirs was the party of reproductive choice, while Democrats, with their large Catholic constituency, were the opposition." The book I've mentioned first explains why and how the change happened and what is happening now, really fascinating.