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"Either this nation shall kill racism, or racism shall kill this nation." (S. Jonas, August 2018)
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"How do you spell ICE in German? GESTAPO." (S. Jonas, July, 2025)
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"First, they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out because I was not a socialist.
"Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist.
"Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew.
"Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak for me." Pastor Martin Niemoller (c. 1946)
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This column consists of a series of Comments that I have made on "Steve Schmidt Substacks," over time, in chronological order. Steve has written a series of outstanding columns. I hope that the comments on them (some slightly edited) will be of interest to readers of mine.
Jan. 11, 2026, on a column in part on the nationalities of Trump supporters:
"In referencing Stephen Miller, who is Jewish, as a Nazi, it is worthwhile noting that in Post World War I Germany there was formed an organization called the 'German National Jews.' They were right-wingers, mainly from wealthy families, and when the Nazis came to power, they generally supported Nazi political and economic policy. For which they became known colloquially as 'The Jews for Hitler.' Nevertheless, as did all German Jews, they lost their German citizenship with the Nuremberg Laws of Nov. 1935."
Jan. 16, 2026, on a column describing the gathering European support for Denmark and Greenland in fending off Trump [which seems to have worked]: "For those of us who were alive (as children, of course --- I am now 89) during WWII, seeing the word "Luftwaffe" on an aircraft and being happy to see it, is quite something for our generation. click here
Jan. 22, 2026, on Trump referring to Greenland as Iceland: "Just a brief historical note on Trump referring to 'the island in question' as Iceland, yesterday. Actually, he was not demonstrating confusion, but rather a very sophisticated knowledge of the history of the Viking empire. When, over the years, about 1000 years ago, Norsemen discovered the two islands now referred to as 'Iceland' and 'Greenland,' the intent was to name the much smaller one 'Greenland,' because it did have considerable vegetation and was in part 'green' during the summer months, and the larger one 'Iceland,' because as is well-known it is largely covered with ice, year-round. However, and the details on this are unclear, a Norse cartographer at one point got the names mixed up and attached to the two islands, the names by which we know them today. And so, congratulations to Trump! He did learn something in his grade-school geography class after all."
Jan. 23, 2026, from a column on Vance, et al: "Why does Vance look so happy? Because right now, with only minority support in the population, but with its hands on the major mechanisms of power (some legal, some not), his side is winning. Just as, at the beginning of the Third Reich, with the support of only a minority of the population (as in the last free Reichstag [he German parliament] vote of Nov. 1932), but with his hands on the levers of power, Hitler was winning also."
Jan. 24, 2026, Justice Department says Jack Smith report on Trump investigation 'belongs in dustbin of history.'" Click Here. As will U.S. Constitutional democracy be (in the dustbin of history) if TrumpRepubloFascism ( Click Here), continues on with the great success they have had so far in eventually carrying out every detail of P2025.
Jan. 26, 2026, on a column on Miller, Noem, et al: "If one doesn't think that these 'random' murders are not directly or indirectly sanctioned at the highest levels, as a tool for intimidating protestors, they have another think coming. And so, the murders will keep on coming. One need look at nothing else but the by now famous 'Stephen Miller Statement:' 'To all ICE officers: You have federal immunity in the conduct of your duties. And anybody who lays a hand on you or tries to stop you or tries to obstruct you is committing a felony. You have immunity to perform your duties. And no one, no city official, no state official, no illegal alien, no leftist agitator or domestic insurrectionist, can prevent you from fulfilling your legal obligations and duties. And the Department of Justice has made clear that if officials cross that line into obstruction, into criminal conspiracy against the United States or against ICE officers, then they will face justice.' "
Feb. 2, 2026, from a column comparing Trump's links to the U.S. ruling class to Hitler's links to the German one:
"In 2018 the English translation of a book by a French author, Eric Vuillard, entitled 'The Order of the Day' was published. The main text is a brief, entirely gripping description of the events that immediately preceded 'Der Anschluss,' the unopposed absorption of Austria into the Third Reich in March 1938. As it happens, for our purposes here, it is the book's 'Introduction' which is the most important part.
"As the Publishers Weekly entry for the book says, it begins with a brief description of '. . . a fateful February 1933 meeting of 24 German business leaders with Hitler that led to their funding the Nazis' campaign(s) . . ." This meeting occurred after the controversial appointment by the Weimar Republic's President von Hindenburg of Hitler as German Chancellor, on January 30, 1933. One can only speculate at this point, but it is highly unlikely that Hitler and the Nazi Party would have been able to move ahead as they did without that meeting and the endorsement that occurred at it.
"It happened that the attendees' list included virtually all of the major German 'Captains of Industry,' names still well known to anyone who knows anything about German industry, TODAY, e.g., Krupp, Schacht, Thyssen (who, as it happened, had recruited as an early U.S. supporter of the German Nazi Party [1923] one George Herbert Walker), von Siemens, Opel, Quandt, Reuter, as well as major corporate elements of German industry and finance, such as BASF, Bayer, Agfa, I.G. Farben, Allianz, and Telefunken.
"Hitler came to ask them for their approval, in general terms to be sure, of what he was planning to do. At that meeting in 1933, the assembled throng gave that support and approval to Hitler, apparently unanimously. History does repeat itself, and, as the Spanish philosopher George Santayana said: 'Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.'
"It is those US 'Captains of Industry' who have supported Trump, some from the beginning, others who have come along since they saw in fact how he is benefitting their interests, who bear the primary responsibility for his two Presidencies and the many personal and societal evils that they have produced. Without their financial and institutional support, Trump's name would have been a sometimes-noticed footnote to U.S. history."
Feb. 3, 2026, on a column on Trump's racism: "Since the beginning of his second campaign for the Presidency in 2015 (the first being on the single racist meme, 'birtherism,' in 2012) known as 'coming down the escalator,' Trump has made it very clear, over and over again, that he runs on three themes: "Racism, Sexism, and Xenophobia" (Click Here). He got to be President twice using them. Why should he stop now?"
Finally, Feb 4, 2026, on a column of JFK and Trump, and the latter's figurative and substantive destructiveness:
"First, Trump will forever be in JFK's shadow, as a man --- war hero v. draft-dodger --- and as a President, and as he knows it. And he will forever be there even if he totally disgraces and destroys The Kennedy Center. Second, on the assassination, JFK was killed (by whomever) for two primary reasons. First, in the famous "American University speech" of June, 1963, he announced that if re-elected he would be introducing a policy of peaceful coexistence with the Soviet Union. And, further, it was 'well-known' that if re-elected he would begin withdrawing US forces from Viet Nam. It was left to Nixon to unceremoniously do the latter, approximately ten years later, while it was left to Reagan to successfully conclude 'The Seventy-Five Years War Against the Soviet Union (Click Here).' "
(Article changed on Feb 05, 2026 at 11:53 PM EST)
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