We Love Him for the Enemies He Has Made

Those were the words used to introduce Fritz Kuhn before his keynote speech before the German American Bund (i.e., Nazi Party) rally at Madison Square Garden in 1939.

I confess that I was going to fisk a transcript of that Kuhn speech and contrast it to the MAGA hate rally at Madison Square Garden in 2024, but no such transcript appears to exist. Also, I wasn’t about to sit there and watch – much less transcribe – an actual Nazi speech given at a previous iteration of Madison Square Garden in 1939.

So, leave it at that. The Nazis loved Fritz Kuhn for the enemies he made. MAGA loves Donald Trump for the enemies he has. “Owning the libs” and performative cruelty are the hallmarks of contemporary Republican policy.

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