Trump gets raves from one of his biggest fans
by digby
That would be the white nationalist Richard Spencer, whose college protege and more recently Jeff Sessions' staffer, Stephen Miller, now works at the highest level of the Trump administration:
Prominent white nationalist Richard Spencer lauded President Donald Trump's statement commemorating International Holocaust Memorial Day that failed to mention Jews as a “de-Judification” of the Holocaust.
"President Trump’s press release was as seemingly banal as any other," Spencer wrote in a post on his website. "But the kvetching came quickly."
He complained that the Holocaust has become a standard rhetorical device in liberal "hyper-morality."
"We can’t limit immigration, because Hitler. We can’t can’t be proud of ourselves as a Europeans, because Holocaust. White people can be Christian, but not too Christian, because Auschwitz," Spencer wrote.
The Trump administration's statement mentioned the “victims, survivors, heroes” of the Holocaust and “the innocent," but broke from bipartisan tradition by failing to specifically mention Jews.
Spencer called the White House statement "especially Trumpian" for its "de-Judification" of the Holocaust. He argued that was "utterly defensible," going on to claim it is "unimaginable for Jewish activists" to see the Holocaust, during which 6 million Jews were killed by the Nazis, treated as "just another genocide."
It is "especially Trumpian" to say the Holocaust is "just another genocide." Trumpian indeed.
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