Top of Drudge: Trump "Hitler did a lot of good things"

[acptulsa]

How so?

Are you baiting him because you can't see what a tool Drudge is, or because it was always a tool and the only difference is the mask has been taken off now?

 

[Invisible Man]

Are you baiting him because you can't see what a tool Drudge is, or because it was always a tool and the only difference is the mask has been taken off now?

Mainly because I think that the reason DamianTV thinks Drudge has been "co-opted" is because Drudge isn't a Trumper and DamianTV is. It may be more accurate to say that DamianTV is the one who got co-opted, and he's mad at Drudge for not getting co-opted along with him.

 

[tod evans]

Mainly because I think that the reason DamianTV thinks Drudge has been "co-opted" is because Drudge isn't a Trumper and DamianTV is. It may be more accurate to say that DamianTV is the one who got co-opted, and he's mad at Drudge for not getting co-opted along with him.

Drudge changed.

Regardless of which suit one favors.

 

[Anti-Neocon]

Mainly because I think that the reason DamianTV thinks Drudge has been "co-opted" is because Drudge isn't a Trumper and DamianTV is. It may be more accurate to say that DamianTV is the one who got co-opted, and he's mad at Drudge for not getting co-opted along with him.

I was thinking the same thing.

 

[Working Poor]

Drudge changed.

Regardless of which suit one favors.

Yes they did and it was before Trump came on the scene

 

[Danke]

Noone is perfect. So what if Hitler got a couple things wrong. He was probably an otherwise decent guy.

I think his heart was in Texas.

 

[Krugminator2]

Trump was raised an FDR Democrat. Had a picture in his home growing up. He was basically a Democrat of sorts his whole life. He has said in the past comments like the economy just works better under Democrats.

Trump's view about Hitler and the economy was the standard view used by left wing economists for decades.

From The Nation in 2004

. But in the Jan. 26 issue of The Nation, columnist Alexander Cockburn puts yet another twist on the issue. Hitler, you see, may have been a nasty warmonger, but he was also far-sighted enough to adopt progressive economic policies that greatly benefited the German people.
As Cockburn writes, "Hitler, genocidal monster that he was, was also the first practicing Keynesian leader. ... There were vast public works, such as the autobahns. He paid little attention to the deficit or to the protests of the bankers about his policies. ... By 1936, unemployment had sunk to 1 percent."

. In a lecture to the American Economic Association's annual meeting in 1971, economist Joan Robinson, a close colleague of Keynes, said, "Hitler had already found how to cure unemployment before Keynes had finished explaining why it occurred."

In 1977, John Kenneth Galbraith, the famous Harvard economist, wrote in his book, "The Age of Uncertainty," that Hitler "was the true protagonist of the Keynesian ideas."

Keynes himself even explained that his theories were not incompatible with national socialism. In the forward to the German edition of his book, "The General Theory" (1936), Keynes wrote that "the theory of output as a whole, which is what the following book purports to provide, is much more easily adapted to the conditions of a totalitarian state, than ... under conditions of free competition and a large measure of laissez-faire."