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1/31/2021 The January 6th Assault on Congress and the Fate of the GOP’s Faustian Bargain with Trump: Notes from German History News at Home by Jeffrey Herf Jeffrey Herf is Distinguished University Professor of Modern European History at the University of Maryland, College Park. His works on German history and Nazi Germany include The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda during World War II and the Holocaust (Harvard U. Press, 2006).
The attack on the Capitol of January 6, 2021 lent renewed urgency to the issue of whether or not Trump and Trumpism are a sort of American fascism. In spring 2016, I argued that Trump was not a fascist but that his rhetoric and appeal did echo both Lindbergh’s “America First” moods of the 1930s together with the conspiracy theories and yearning for the “strong man” associated with Hitler and Mussolini. Trump, many of us argued, was best understood as following in the footsteps of distinct ....