Okay, I saw this tweet from Politico, a FAR left leaning Nazi organization dedicated to the erasure of all things American … especially Trump, and I just had to go read the article.

https://twitter.com/politico/status/1769355550414823569

It starts off actually talking neutrally about how Trump has used and still uses humor to get his message through. Most conservatives use and enjoy humor and laughter, you know, enjoying life. Humor and laughter are antithetical to the left. They hate anything resembling humor, they are, after all, victims from everything from math to the weather. They would rather suffer or appear to suffer than to live in peace. And they do suffer … mostly from their own torturous positions in life. But back to the article.
The article reads rather neutral … until the point where they make the connection between humor and Donald Trump, Joseph Goebbels, Benito Mussolini, and Joseph Stalin.

Excerpt from Politico article:

“A dollop of humor makes the anti-establishment rage go down,” as the writer Noah Berlatsky wrote in 2020 for Foreign Policy in a piece headlined “Fascists Know How to Turn Mockery Into Power. ” “Horseplay is necessary,” believed Joseph Goebbels, one of Adolf Hitler’s closest, most loyal advisers and the Nazis’ top propagandist. “Mussolini,” Ruth Ben-Ghiat, the author of Strongmen, told me, referring to 20th-century Italian fascist Benito Mussolini, “had the same twisted sense of humor” as Trump. And stenograms of Communist Party and Politburo meetings in the era of Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union show no shortage of notations of laughter — from jokes made at the expense of somebody about to be on the outs to a sort of forced or sycophantic fun. “There’s a lot,” Maya Vinokour, a scholar of Stalinism, told me, “and that even ends up being true as the purges start.”
Trump is not Hitler or Stalin or Mussolini. But they share a rhetorical style, experts say. That’s because the humor is not a bug. “It’s a feature of demagoguery,” Vinokour explained. “Laughter is going to be a weapon, because you laugh at something to diminish it and as preparation for casting it down or destroying it,” she said. “So I don’t think that Trump could get away with just fearmongering. I think he has to punctuate it with moments of levity.”

They hate him, they hate you, they hate me. They hate us for a multitude of reasons but it really galls them that in the midst of all the turmoil they’re putting us through, we still can laugh.

This picture is in the article … Trump supporters laughing and enjoying themselves … shame, shame, shame.

Politico article link:

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/03/17/how-donald-trump-uses-humor-to-make-the-outrageous-sound-normal-00146119