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‘Fight! Fight! Fight!’: RNC’s ‘Chilling’ MAGA Chant Echoes Trump – and ‘1930’s Germany’

Echoing Donald Trump’s fist-pumping and shout immediately after his ear was nicked by a would-be assassin who killed an innocent bystander Saturday, attendees on the first day of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on Monday broke out into chants, yelling, “Fight! Fight! Fight!”
“Having finished the prayer and pledge, and rendition of ‘God Bless America,'” LaPolitics Weekly editor and publisher Jeremy Alford reported, “RNC delegates almost immediately begin chanting the same war cry @realDonaldTrump emitted upon being shot: ‘Fight! Fight! Fight!’ ”
Baptist minister Brian Kaylor, who has a PhD in political communication, is the author or co-author of five books, including “Sacramental Politics: Religious Worship as Political Action,” and “Baptizing America: How Mainline Protestants Helped Build Christian Nationalism.”
He writes: “Delegates yelling ‘fight!’ during RNC shows the danger of what Trump’s instinct was on Saturday.”
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Attorney and SiriusXM host Dean Obeidallah posted a short clip of the moment, remarking: “Bone chilling to see at #RNCConvention people chanting ‘Fight’ in unison with one arm punching in the air. Instantly conjures up rallies from 1930’s Germany. There is no other way to put it.”
The fist-pumping is very visible in the bottom portion of the frame:
Bone chilling to see at #RNCConvention people chanting “Fight” in unison with one arm punching in the air. Instantly conjures up rallies from 1930’s Germany. There is no other way to put it: pic.twitter.com/dTmEEEjNra
— (((DeanObeidallah))) (@DeanObeidallah) July 15, 2024
Author Stephen Beschloss responded: “Here’s the Trump Republican Party’s ‘unity’ message: Fight.”
Professor of history and fascism and authoritarianism expert Ruth Ben-Ghiat also responded, writing: “You know what to do, Americans. We can avoid this nightmare. Never become resigned or fatalistic. That’s what they want.”
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Greg Bluestein, also an NBC News/MSNBC contributor, also posted a clip, and remarked: “Expect to hear this a lot this week.”
Expect to hear this a lot this week: RNC delegates are now chanting “fight” as Trump did after the assassin bloodied him. pic.twitter.com/yw1rpm6PJ2
— Greg Bluestein (@bluestein) July 15, 2024
Watch the videos above or at this link.
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