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‘Go Back To Auschwitz’ Shout at Trump Rally Is No Fluke

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Lior Zaltzman

Digital Fellow Lior Zaltzman March 14, 2016

A man exiting a Trump rally this past Saturday yelled at a crowd of protesters, “Go back to Auschwitz, go back to f—king Auschwitz,” while seemingly imitating the Nazi salute. And he was caught on film.

The Trump-Hitler comparison has been running rampant on the internet for a while now, and Trump himself told CNN it was a “terrible comparison.” But was it?

Lately, Trump rallies have been evoking imagery and speech that create some very uncomfortable flashbacks, from to this more recently captured video above. And then there’s this photo:

Anyone who has spent time on Twitter lately knows that one doesn’t have to dig very deep to find connections between white supremacists and Trump supporters.

In fact, Trump himself retweets these white supremacists on his own official Twitter account.

Is Trump actually a Hitler-style fascist? Who knows. But one thing we can tell for sure is that he hasn’t done anything to distance himself from supporters who are overtly and frighteningly racist. His rants against “political correctness” seem increasingly tantamount to condoning racist speech and violent action. These are scary times.

Lior Zaltzman was the Forward’s Digital Fellow. Follow her on twitter @liorca.

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