Simulacrum Nazis

 There are Disney World Nazis marching today--or yesterday. Whatever.

RedState broke the code: They're Democrat Nazis!!

Uh huh,  RedState. Uh huh.

However. We all know the Disney Nazis are DeSantis Nazis. He kept shedding Nazis from his campaign like a vaccinated person shedding viral proteins or whatever the cool conspiracy is today.

But back up a minute. If we can point to Nazis--and there the Omnivore means 1488 Nazis--not just "republicans"--but people who fly the swastika (even if covertly) in or at least around GOP politics, does that mean we are seeing a resurgence of the 1930's Nazi Germany party?

A Simulacrum

A simulacrum is a copy of something that is explicitly NOT an exact likness of whatever it's supposed to be (classic example: Greek statues being larger at the top so they appeared to people on the ground to look like they were properly porportioned. Or, for example, a painting done of a photograph of a place).

Today's Nazis CANNOT be the same Nazis of WWII--we already have their history--their outcomes--their script. What we have today is a copy of what we discovered the Nazis to be when we rolled into their death camps.

In one sense this is cosplay. When Richard Spencer cut his hair in the SS style he was tyring to signify that he was the iconographically a legitimate person to be cast in the role of a Nazi Officer. Today we see Disney Nazis in black masks because they figured out showing their faces gets them canceled (the horror). In 1930, they might have covered up to throw a brick through a window--but on parade they were maskless.

They were as legitimate as today's Republican party. The Nazi party of the 1930s wanted to fight actual communists--real Trade Unionists (who also, The Omnivore has read, scared the upper middle classes). Today's Nazis want to fight imaginary communists and . . . uh . . . big corporations or something (The Omnivore never said they were smart).

The 1930s Nazi Party was a real political organism. Today's Nazi groups are insurgent / underground and disavowed by the GOP (well, sorta--not . . .  really).

This is because the simulacrum Nazis aren't really copies of the original. The Swastika was a powerful symbol taken from ancient cultures when Hitler glommed on to it. Today it's playing Helter Skelter while wearing a Charles Manson T-shirt.

See this way, we should treat the Nazis as something WORSE than the original. Their final form would be something logically evolved from where the real Nazis stopped. They accept all that baggage and wish to push further and deeper into the toxic wasteland that Hitler pioneered.

Disney Nazis are the worst.