Who’s Trump Demonizing Next? Check the Fascist Project 2025 Playbook.

Trump demonizes minorities and stokes hatred.

"Since the presidential debate when he drew ridicule for his outburst regurgitating the lie that legal Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, were eating their white neighbors’ pets, Trump has used increasingly fascist rhetoric. By this weekend, he had fully embraced the idea that the United States is being overrun by Black and Brown criminals and that they, along with their Democratic accomplices, must be rounded up, deported, or executed, with the help of the military." - Heather Cox Richardson

Hitler dehumanized and devalued entire groups of people. Nazi ideology was racist, antisemitic, and ultra-nationalist. - Holocaust Memorial Museum

"Never forget that the first group Hitler went after were trans people. When fascists want a minority group to beat up on for political gain, this is the smallest minority out there, smaller than any racial or religious group, and thus the most defenseless. These Republicans are bullies and thugs." - Thom Hartmann

Trump copies the Nazi playbook

What's similar between the MAGA Republican proposal and how the Nazis persecuted the LGBTQ? What symbols did the NAZIs use to identify and stigmatize the groups they wanted to persecute? Who was Pastor Niemoller? What was the Pastor's advice about standing up to protect the vulnerable? Which groups are pushing this LGBTQ Identification scheme? Follow along with this audio clip and  infographic.

Pastor Martin Niemöller

Martin Niemöller (1892–1984) was a prominent Protestant pastor who emerged as an outspoken public foe of Adolf Hitler and spent the last seven years of Nazi rule in concentration camps, despite his ardent nationalism. Niemöller is perhaps best remembered for the quotation: “First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out...” - Holocaust Memorial Musuem

First they came for the Transgender and I did not speak out, because I was not Transgender.
Then they came for the Jews and I did not speak out, because I was not a Jew
Then they came for the Muslims and I did not speak out, because I was not a Muslim
Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me
- Pastor Niemoller poem (adapted)

How Trump's Nazi-like stereotyping works

"Nazis stereotyped Jews as rich, and devious, Attacking this vulnerable, long-persecuted, as repulsive and dangerous was the German far right’s way to activate loathing while evading the fact that they had no solutions for Germany’s real problems... Ron DeSantis and other GOP leaders are following the Nazi playbook, substituting transgender youth for the Jews. They industriously promote hatred, fear, and physical revulsion of this small group and pretend it’s out of concern for children.

It’s no coincidence that open antisemites actively harass LGBTQ events, nor that right-wing anti-LGBTQ rhetoric invokes anti-semitic tropes. In Nazi Germany, transgender people were viciously targeted alongside Jews. And although today’s GOP denies that it welcomes Jew-haters, they are comfortable working with anti-semites jointly attacking trans and LGBTQ people." - The Goodmen Project

Trump's mass deportation plan explained

TakeAway: Understand the Nazi playbook that Trump is following. Remember “Those Who Do Not Learn History Are Doomed To Repeat It.” You might be part of the next group Trump demonizes.

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