This is a repeat performance of last spring's rally when Spencer and hundreds of his ilk showed up at Charlottesville, torches a'blazin', shouting 'Blood and Soil!'
Back then we could never quite articulate why this spectacle never bothered us. But now we've figured it out. 'Spectacle' is exactly the right word.
This was theater. This was performance art and man did Spencer and company ever put on a show. Vaudeville would be proud and we're surprised Spencer didn't say, 'Don't clap just throw money.'
Spencer and his guys kicked off a nationwide Nazi panic. The goons at the SPLC and the shysters and the ADL fell right for it, playing the role Spencer wanted them to play. They've made Spencer into a national figure.
Mel Brooks is fond of saying Blazing Saddles could never be made now. True. But neither could The Producers. Here a couple of Broadway losers defraud their investors by staging the worst play they can find. They choose Springtime for Hitler written by an unrepentant Nazi and turn the play into a musical.
Does The Producers trivialize the holocaust? No, idiots, it trivializes Nazis. Which was always the point. When the ADL and the other shysters raise the specter of Nazi power, said Nazis smile and think, 'Ya, der Juden still fear us.' But when The Producers came out, somewhere in Austria an old Nazi saw it and went apoplectic.
Can you blame him?:
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