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March 28, 2024

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I’m going to come right out and say what nobody else will tell you: we are all capable of great acts of evil, particularly when our moral compass gets twisted around. My dad was a history teacher who read countless books on the World Wars and the inter-war years. My dad slowly gave me all of his history books over the last twenty years of his life, and I consumed them too. I learned a tremendous amount about history, particularly the history of the World Wars.

Everyone thinks Hitler was evil, and we should – he was evil. But do you know who did not think Hitler was evil? Hitler. Hitler was even able to talk most of the German people into following his evil. Do you know how? Part of it was charisma. Part of it was just being a gifted orator. Part of it was tailoring his message based on crowd reaction – when Hitler said things that the crowd really went wild over, he said those things more, and when he said things that got less of a reaction, he said those things less. He tailored his speeches and his positions based on crowd reaction.

But more than that, Hitler was 100% confident in his own moral purity. Hitler would go on and on in speeches about how he and he alone had the moral courage to do what must be done.

People compare Trump to Hitler, and you know what? I see the similarities. Trump uses similar mannerisms. He has the same bombastic tone. He uses the same sort of ‘only I can’ language – language that is repeated in the same way by his followers. It is almost as if Trump sat back one day and thought, “Who can I emulate to gain power,” and began studying Hitler, borrowing all of the mannerisms and speech patterns that made Hitler popular. I totally see it.

But that is where the similarities end.

I don’t know Trump, but I know people who do, and they all say he is thoughtful, caring, and not at all egotistical in person. They say he is an active listener who thinks deeply about what he is told. Those who actually know him on a personal level say he is one of the nicest and most sincere people they have ever met. Never having met Trump, I have to assume his personal persona is different from his public persona.

I don’t care for his public persona.

Now. I’m going with DeSantis in the Michigan primary, but if Trump wins the nomination, I will absolutely vote for him in the general election. Do you know why? Because I don’t see 100% moral certainty coming from him in regard to any of his policy decisions. THAT I see only on the left, and while certainly, not all Democrats have that level of total moral confidence in the policies they support, those that do not are, for some strange reason, unwilling to denounce those that do. Trump is more cause-and-effect, problem-and-solution oriented. If you can convince him there is a better solution to a given problem, he’s shown a willingness to change positions.

It was not the bombastic language or hand gestures that made Hitler dangerous. It was his race-based hate mixed with an absolutely unshakeable conviction in his own moral superiority. Hitler was 100% convinced that Europe would be a better place if he got rid of all of the Jewish people, all gypsies, and all Slavic peoples (his post-war plan for Poland and Ukraine was to kill off the Polish and Ukrainian people to make more room for Germans), all sexually deviant people (other than himself – his own sexual deviancy drove his niece mad), all people born with any mental or physical disability, etc., etc., etc., and he was 100,000% positive not only that doing so was the morally correct thing, but that he was the only person with the moral conviction to do it.

The lesson is that evil need not know it is evil. Evil performed with moral certainty is the most dangerous evil of all.

Trump and DeSantis are called evil because they want to stop the moral purists on the left from taking tyrannical control over the United States before people like John Kerry can implement regulations that will reduce 90% of our food supply. People like John Kerry and Bill Gates seem to have absolute moral convictions that they are doing what must be done.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has absolute moral conviction in her Green New Deal, ridding us of cheap and affordable energy and food. The rest of ‘the squad’ shares this absolutely unshakeable sense of moral superiority.

Joe Biden has no moral certainty. As we saw from a recent Air Force Academy graduation, our President isn’t even always aware he has feet. But those actually calling the shots have 100% total confidence in their moral superiority and in the morality of their actions.

Those with the moral confidence to be dangerous are all on the left. That’s not to say everyone on the left is like that, but the left, by and large, votes for it.

How about skewed moral compasses? Does the left teach love and compassion or division and hate?

Osama bin Laden raised followers for Al Qaeda by going into the poorest regions of the Middle East and telling those he found there that their lot in life was not their fault, and by promising to show them how to strike back at those whose fault it was. ANTIFA recruits with an almost identical message, the difference being that the vast majority of ANTIFA members are rich white kids believing they are acting to eliminate the oppression of other people rather than their own oppression. Ironically, this only makes them feel even more confident in their absolute moral conviction.

Our schools teach the same basic message: either you actively work to overthrow the supposed oppressive nature of our country, or you are a part of the oppression that needs to be hated and ostracized. We teach children from a very young age to have absolute moral conviction in the leftist orthodoxy of division and hate, and just to make sure their moral compasses are sufficiently broken, we teach our children to call this ‘love.’

Love and hate go hand in hand. Hitler had a love of Aryan purity while hating everything else. The political left loves a tolerance for immoral behavior and hates everyone who believes in morality. You might even say that tolerance for immoral behavior has become the left’s only moral virtue.

Let’s put that together. The left teaches hate, is 100% convinced of its own moral purity, is happy to take any radical actions that support the positions its sense of moral purity leads them to, and has a very twisted moral compass.

Note that while Trump only resembles Hitler in terms of arm gestures and things like that, the political left resembles Hitler in all of the ways that made Hitler a mass murderer.

And we teach that in our schools. Should we really be surprised that when we use the exact same brainwashing in our schools that Osama bin Laden used to get people to fly airplanes into buildings, some of our kids decide to shoot their schools up?

Perhaps more to the point – what kinds of world will the children, raised to hate, vote for? The answer to that question will be the subject of my next piece: Cultural War Wokeism and the Activist Agenda.

  • Wallace Garneau

    Wallace L. Garneau, political commentator and professional author, brings a unique blend of expertise to the airwaves. Raised in a family of historians, Garneau's roots in history and economics run deep, with a particular focus on Europe between the World Wars. With a background in information technology and a keen business mind, Garneau authored "The Way Forward: Lean Leadership and Systems Thinking for Large and Small Businesses." His knack for breaking down complex ideas in clear, accessible language makes him a standout author and a powerful voice in the radio and podcast sphere. Beyond the corporate world, Garneau's culinary passion shines through in his social media presence, where he shares grilling and smoking techniques. A two-service military veteran (Marine Corps and Army), family man, and father of two, Garneau embodies dedication both personally and professionally. Listeners can expect insightful commentary on politics, economics, and culture. His unique perspective, rooted in historical understanding, sets him apart. Join Wallace Garneau on the America Out Loud network—his is a voice that not only informs but resonates, helping make sense of today's complex world through a lens of experience, knowledge, and a touch of culinary flair.

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