Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel sent a threatening tweet Wednesday, warning that those who do not get on board with the Trump agenda are “making a big mistake.”
Complacency is our enemy. Anyone that does not embrace the @realDonaldTrump agenda of making America great again will be making a mistake.
— Ronna McDaniel (@GOPChairwoman) June 14, 2018
Many interpreted the tweet as a demand for fealty to Trump — or else.
From a conservative Daily Beast columnist:
Will the RNC be offering an official Trump brand so everyone can sear His name on their bodies as a sign of loyalty?
Asking for a friend. https://t.co/pSU75thK9b
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) June 14, 2018
From Sen. John McCain’s daughter:
What in the actual hell…. is this a threat Ronna? https://t.co/HFz5zltzxK
— Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) June 14, 2018
From the editor-at-large at the Weekly Standard:
I’m old enough to remember when Ronna Romney McDaniel spoke in a way befitting a citizen of a free republic, before Ronna McDaniel started sounding like a spokesperson for an authoritarian government. https://t.co/Z4zAl5NMSj
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) June 14, 2018
She later clarified by giving the context of a comment she made from which the tweet was pulled.
Here’s the full context (https://t.co/TB89agUXoK) of my answer referenced in this tweet, which didn’t translate well with a 240-character limit: pic.twitter.com/MxcScW3QY1
— Ronna McDaniel (@GOPChairwoman) June 14, 2018
McDaniel is a true Trump acolyte, dropping her maiden name (Romney) when Trump made a derisive comment about it and reversing course to pour money into the Alabama special election senate race even when pedophilia allegations against former candidate Roy Moore surfaced.
The Dictatorship of the Deploratariat is getting closer by the minute.
So what’s next from the administration? A Department of Purity?
These people are just lining up like lemmings at a cliff’s edge to be radioactive when this perversion is over.
Are armbands available from the RNC giftshop yet?
Cults are bad, mmmmkay.
Under a decree issued by Reich Minister of the Interior Wilhelm Frick on 13 July 1933 (one day before the ban on all non-Nazi parties), all German public employees were required to use the “Hitler” salute. The decree also required the salute during the singing of the national anthem and the “Horst-Wessel-Lied”. It stipulated that “anyone not wishing to come under suspicion of behaving in a consciously negative fashion will therefore render the Hitler Greeting”. A rider to the decree, added two weeks later, stipulated that if physical disability prevented raising of the right arm, “then it is correct to carry out the Greeting with the left arm”. On 27 September, prison inmates were forbidden to use the salute, as were Jews by 1937.
By the end of 1934, special courts were established to punish those who refused to salute. Offenders, such as Protestant preacher Paul Schneider, faced the possibility of being sent to a concentration camp. Foreigners were not exempt from intimidation if they refused to salute. For example, the Portuguese Consul General was beaten by members of the Sturmabteilung for remaining seated in a car and not saluting a procession in Hamburg. Reactions to inappropriate use were not merely violent but sometimes bizarre. For example, a memo dated 23 July 1934 sent to local police stations stated: “There have been reports of traveling vaudeville performers training their monkeys to give the German Greeting. … see to it that said animals are destroyed.”
Santayana: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”