The Alt Reich

“Until a few months ago, such thinking flourished only on the wilder shores of the alt-right. But now the far-right has found a home in the White House, in the form of Breitbart publisher turned senior presidential counsellor Steve Bannon.” From The Guardian: Calling the Holocaust ‘sad’ is the first step towards denying it ever happened.

+ Sean Spicer chimed in on the debate: “The statement was written with the help of an individual who is both Jewish and the descendants of Holocaust survivors. To suggest that remembering the Holocaust and acknowledging all of the people — Jewish, gypsies, priests, disabled, gays and lesbians — I mean, it is pathetic that people are picking on a statement.” I am the “descendant” of Holocaust survivors. And like me, they think that is a giant load of bullshit. (I’m translating from the Yiddish.)