Lutz Bachmann has been the primary spokesman for PEGIDA in Germany where ultra-nationalist protests have been shockingly large. After this photograph was aired, he fell back to the standard Fox News / Megyn Kelly cop: it was a satire ... but Santa Claus really is white and Hitler really is a god.
Note: if this was a joke then it was one he had been carrying a day or two or he wouldn't have all that beard stubble. No chance that mustache is freshly trimmed.
The German human rights record is up with the best in the world and even they are not immune to what they typically call 'ultra nationalists' these days whereas in all previous times they were known as Fascists. Ukraine is riddled with them and Poroshenko even claimed today it was Ukraine that liberated Auschwitz. This came as a bit of a surprise to the Russians who really did it.
PEGIDA is in the GOP as well and we saw it with Steve Scalise recently as he is the one with direct association with the Louisiana Ku Klux Klan and David Duke. Most Republicans want only financial responsibility from the government but that's only a small part of what the GOP does and they don't even do it very well.
The same thing happens in England with UKIP as xenophobia, particularly with regard to Muslims, is rampaging and is being heavily-fueled by the media. For example, the Je Suis Raif campaign is receiving a great deal of support in protest of the extreme punishment of a Saudi blogger but the botching of executions in American prisons in multiple states gets scant attention and any protest of American police brutality gets shouted down by the GOP. I feel for Raif but much more I feel for us all as it will come to everyone eventually. That's what happened the last time.
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