Thread by @waitmanb, [THREAD] I admit, even I was skeptical, but, yep, this is just [...]

[THREAD] I admit, even I was skeptical, but, yep, this is just another example of the (failed) inside jokes and dog whistles to white supremacy that dominate the Trump administration and campaign.

So, let's take a picture tour. https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1278484113918431232

https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1278484113918431232

(And here is the receipt in case the Trump campaign is smart enough to remove this product).

First...America First.

Straight up nativist and a favorite saying of the Ku Klux Klan.

Read @sarahchurchwell on this. Her book delves deeply into this history (link to that below).

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Behold-America-History-First-American/dp/1408894807

Because some have claimed this is basically the official American version...Well, here is the eagle from the US coat of arms (which would have been a logical choice for a US presidential campaign but...)

Here is a Nazi armband in the collection of @HolocaustCentUK.

https://www.holocaust.org.uk/armband

Here is the eagle on Hitler's hat.

Here is the eagle on the Nazi battleship Graf Spee (WWII and after salvage)

https://www.dw.com/en/uruguay-nazi-eagle-from-german-warship-wreck-must-be-sold-court-rules/a-49304180

Here is the eagle on a Nazi stamp from 1942.

Here is the eagle on a Nazi political officer badge.

Here is the eagle on a Nazi award from 1939.

From recent pop culture, here is the eagle as a symbol of the fictitious Nazi-occupied United States from @amazon's Man in the High Castle series.

Here is the eagle in another present context, as a neo-Nazi symbol tattoo from the @ADL

Here is the eagle carved by a proud neo-nazi in Pennsylvania.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-07-07/potter-county-residents-decry-the-neo-nazi-next-door/11243672

Here is the eagle on the website of the Daily Stormer, a notorious white supremacist publication.

Here is the eagle on a fanfic flag for a nationalist, fascist America created for the Nation States computer game.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NationStates

So, we have reached the point where circumstantial eveidence seems to be completely overwhelming. The Trump campaign (Stephen Miller probably) is appropriating Nazi and white supremacist imagery.

No doubt Miller thinks the "sheeple" are too dumb to get his inside jokes.

But, they are pretty obvious, despite the obviously intentional counter of "you're just seeing things." These alt-right images and talking points always come with a built-in excuse that the rest of us are being hysterical.

I wrote about this for @hyperallergic before this t-shirt thing.

I still can't believe this is where we are in the US. https://hyperallergic.com/573716/trumps-sinister-appropriation-of-the-nazi-triangle-camp-badge/

Trump’s Sinister Appropriation of the Nazi Triangle Camp Badge

There is a dangerous chain of words, imagery, and even numbers appropriated from Nazi Germany and reintroduced into American political culture by the Trump campaign. While Trump’s brand of fascism is...

https://hyperallergic.com/573716/trumps-sinister-appropriation-of-the-nazi-triangle-camp-badge/

And, remember, support your local historian!

And punch your local Nazi (metaphorically, of course)