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Hitler-Inspired ‘Trump Youth’ Website Is Taken Down

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By Josefin Dolsten August 18, 2016

A website for millennial supporters of Donald Trump that bore striking similarities to the Hitler Youth movement was no longer online Thursday morning, two days after the Forward broke the news of its existence.

Both the group’s name, “Trump Youth,” and its rhetoric evoked Hitler Youth, a wing of Germany’s Nazi party.

In a video posted to the site, the group’s blond leader spoke of having to fight a worldwide “parasite” enemy, which he later identified as “globalists.”

Nazi propaganda likened Jews to parasites and condemned them for their perceived lack of loyalty to their “host” countries.

“Our nations have been commandeered by an international criminal cartel and this parasite is feeding on our energy. It’s in Japan, it’s in China, it’s in Germany, it’s in America — now, if we don’t throw this parasite off our backs, the world will fall into chaos,” said Jayme Louis Liardi, the self-identified leader of “Trump Youth.”

In white-nationalist lingo, “globalism” represents the “oppressive” economic elite, often associated with Jews, that is hurting the lower class, said Peter Montgomery an expert on right wing politics at People for the American Way.

A Forward reporter received the following message when trying to view the “Trump Youth” website. Image by Screenshot

Trump’s message, including attacking political correctness and using racist tropes to oppose immigration, is “emboldening” white nationalists like Liardi to state their views more publicly than before, Montgomery said.

“He clearly thinks that using Trump’s name will attract people who are interested in his extremists beliefs,” Montgomery said. “That’s the kind of thing that should make Trump supporters do a lot of soul searching.”

The site did not reference the Republican presidential nominee other than in its name.

It was not clear who removed the site or why.

Contact Josefin Dolsten at [email protected] or on Twitter, @JosefinDolsten

Josefin Dolsten is a New York-based writer who has reported for the Forward, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, The Times of Israel and other Jewish publications. She currently works as an account director at Fenton Communications, supporting organizations that work to advance racial justice, LGBTQ+ equality, reproductive rights and more. Dolsten earned her B.A. in government from Cornell University and her M.A. in comparative religion and Jewish studies from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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