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“The SA men are the first men in the party,” Aldof Hitler told his opponent, private prosecutor Hans Litten in 1931. Then, in response to Kurt Ohnesorge, the judge who moderated the hearing, Hitler said that the ” “Red killers” on the left were the real problem: “If an SA man really goes beyond the bounds of self-defense, you can’t hold a man responsible for that.”
Compare this to Donald Trump’s signals to his base. During the presidential debate on Tuesday, he was asked: “Are you willing tonight to condemn the white supremacist groups and militias and say that they must withdraw and not increase the violence?”
He replied, “I’d say almost everything I see is from the left wing, not the right wing.” He continued, “Proud guys, stand back and wait.” Then came the justification: “But I’ll tell you something, someone has to do something with Antifa and the left. Since this is not a right-wing problem, it’s a left-wing problem. “
Trump is wrong to claim that the left is responsible for the violence on the streets of the United States. Between January 1, 1994 and May 8, 2020, white supremacists and other right-wing extremists in the United States carried out attacks that left 329 dead. In the same period, a single attack by an anti-fascist resulted in a murder.
