Sorry, Washington Post: Whitewashing a Nazi sympathizer isn't "debate" [View all]

Sorry, Washington Post: Whitewashing a Nazi sympathizer isn't "debate"
Legendary aviator Charles Lindbergh was America's leading pro-Nazi voice — a fact that can't be laundered

By Mike Lofgren
Contributing Writer
Published September 21, 2024 5:45AM (EDT)


(Salon) Readers of my previous articles here will have noticed a heavy focus on history: historical periods as intriguing analogies to current events; distorted history as propaganda; history as warning; perhaps above all, the question of who gets to control our history.

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JD Vance, the Republican aspirant to the second-highest office in the land, has even invoked the Civil War as a morality play in which Southern slaveholders were the good guys and the North consisted of woke socialists. Using the supposed lessons of history to prove some inane or horrifying right-wing talking point is also performed with other defining events: the founding of the country and the framing of the Constitution, the Great Depression and World War II, Vietnam and Watergate.

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That presents an unfortunate contrast to the present, when the Washington Post, the daily diary of the Beltway illuminati, has now published an opinion piece by a seemingly reputable historian vindicating by implication the America First argument with a lot of hypothetical what-ifs, and whitewashing the movement’s most prominent advocate, Charles Lindbergh.

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Anyone who was remotely aware of Donald Trump’s threats when president to withdraw from NATO, or the Vladimir Putin-friendly statements of key Republicans (including Trump and Vance), would have to be willfully blind not to comprehend the obvious ideological connection between the current GOP and the America First movement of the opening stages of World War II. ..................(more)

https://www.salon.com/2024/09/21/sorry-washington-post-whitewashing-a-nazi-sympathizer-isnt-debate/