In this YouTube segment, Dennis Prager confronts the claim that former President Donald Trump exhibited fascist tendencies. Prager argues that labeling Trump a fascist is unfounded and serves as a pretext for political violence, noting that such accusations would historically have justified assassinations of figures like Hitler. He contends that the real source of censorship and suppression of dissent comes from the political left, citing repeated propaganda that distorts truth. Prager references historical analogies, comparing a planned Trump rally at Madison Square Garden to a 1939 Nazi rally, and likens the post‑January 6 crackdown on participants to the Nazi use of the Reichstag fire to suppress liberty. He claims that political prisoners are now a reality in the United States and warns that the left’s rhetoric cheapens terms like “Nazi” and “fascist,” rendering them meaningless. Throughout, Prager frames the discussion as a battle over language, historical memory, and the perceived threat of left‑wing authoritarianism.
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What exactly about Donald Trump in his 4 years exhibited fascistic tendencies? This is— it's as unprecedented as the— as all— well, all of it is unprecedented. It's as unprecedented as the persecution of of Donald Trump, taking him to court on trumped-up charges, no pun intended at all. I'm not the first to note that if in fact he is Hitler and fascist, a fascist, why does that not give the green light to would-be assassins? I mean, if somebody had killed Hitler in the 1930s, you know how many lives would have been saved? So if he is Hitler or an admirer of Hitler, be the first admirer of Hitler to have a Jewish child and Jewish grandchildren, I might add. One of the few things Jews agree on is that Hitler was a bad man. It's sickening. Yes, somebody will absolutely be affected by this rhetoric. Okay, next please. Tim Walz.
Look, I don't say this lightly because I didn't, in my 60 damn years, I didn't think I'd ever see a candidate for president praising Adolf Hitler's generals or talking about using the military against their enemies. And per se. I mean, this is— it's pretty stunning. And I said, look, I recognize I'm on the top of his list, but don't kid yourself, you're somewhere on that list too if you disagree with these people. That's who they are.
Wow. 99% of the censorship of dissent in this country comes from his party, comes from the left. And he's acting like this is all coming from the right. I have lived to see the truth of if you repeat anything enough times, people will believe it. People believe men give birth because it's been repeated enough. But not all. Half the country knows these people are consummate liars. That truth is not a left-wing value. It's a liberal value and a conservative value, but not a left-wing value. Half the country knows that. And half the country thinks the opposite. What is he talking about? I don't know what he's talking about. You're on the list. I know he's on the list. Of what? I know, to be rounded up, presumably, yeah. And don't kid yourselves, you're on the list too. It's so utterly projection. That's how these people think. That's how what? You mean how claiming that's how right-wing people think? Please play Hillary Clinton. Okay, it's not coming up.
And you know, one other thing that you'll see next week, Caitlin, is Trump actually reenacting the Madison Square Garden rally in 1939. I write about this in my book. President Franklin Roosevelt was appalled that neo-Nazis, fascists in America were lining up to essentially pledge their support for the kind of government that they were seeing in Germany.
So I don't think we can ignore So he's having a rally at Madison Square Garden, and therefore the analogy is to a 1939 Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden. Well, they, they do have something in common— Madison Square Garden. That's all you need. This is all cover for everything that they do. The suppression of liberty, the, the political prisoners. For the first time in American history, we have political prisoners. The sadism involved with the January 6th people who did nothing but enter the Capitol. I'm not defending the entry to the Capitol. I condemned it the day it happened. But there are people who did nothing who were sent to prison and put in solitary confinement. I said on January 7th that they will use it the way the fascists in Germany used the Reichstag fire. And I said I'm not calling them Nazis, I'm just comparing the use of it. That's exactly what's happened. How did the Nazis use it? They used it to suppress liberty in Germany, and they used January 6th to suppress liberty in America. Do you really fear being rounded up by a conservative government, a Republican government? If you do, you're paranoid. But there's every reason to fear being rounded up by a left-wing government. Well, that's quite a trio, those three. But when you want to win on the left, you could say anything. What's happened is though the word Hitler and the word fascist, the word Nazi have been cheapened for the first time since World War II. Now it means nothing. When I say that Hamas are the modern-day Nazis, it means nothing to most young people because after all, Trump is a Nazi. So big deal. Nazi doesn't mean anything thanks to the damn left.
