Can You See Where This Is Headed?

Candace Owen is apparently another of the right-wing's token black "conservatives" who seems to have even less on the ball than most of them. Speaking to a group of UK conservatives:

I actually don’t have any problems at all with the word nationalism. I think that it gets — the definition gets poisoned by elitists that actually want globalism. Globalism is what I don’t want. So, when you think about whenever we say nationalism, the first thing people think about, at least in America, is Hitler. He was a national socialist, but if Hitler just wanted to make Germany great and have things run well, OK, fine.

“The problem is that he wanted — he had dreams outside of Germany. He wanted to globalize. He wanted everybody to be German, everybody to be speaking German, everybody to look a different way. That’s not — to me, that’s not nationalism. So, in thinking about how we could go bad down the line, I don’t really have an issue with nationalism. I really don’t. I think that it’s okay.

“It’s important to retain your country’s identity and to make sure that what’s happening here, which I think is incredibly worrisome in terms of just the decrease in the birth rate that we’re seeing in the U.K., is what you kind of want to avoid. So I’m not — I have no problems with nationalism. It’s globalism that I try to avoid.

Keep in mind that "globalist" is Nazi-speak for "vast Jewish conspiracy."

The reality is that we live in a global society already. It starts with economics -- there's a lot of trade between and among the countries of the world, facilitated by an international banking system and a multitude of treaties. There is also, and has been for centuries, is not longer, an interchange of ideas. People, at least some people, seem to have this idea of all these little societies existing in their own little vacuums and having no contact with each other. Horsepucky. We've seen over and over again how technology, religion, even languages get spread around among different groups. As time has gone by, it's just gotten bigger and more complex.

Bottom line: Globalism is here to stay, barring the complete collapse of human civilization.

Given Owen's admiration for Hitler, perhaps this should come as no surprise:

U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) urged Acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker early Friday afternoon to investigate career Dept. of Justice employees to ensure they are loyal to President Donald Trump. . . .

"I would hope that wisdom in you as Attorney General," Congressman Gohmert told Whitaker at the Judiciary Committee hearing, "would be to look at the backgrounds, look at the people who are political hacks, and figure out, 'Oh, they're giving me advice on this? This is not for my well-being, this is to hurt the President of the United States.'"

He then urged the Acting AG to ensure career DOJ officials are loyal to the President and the Attorney General.

Granted, Gohmert is the stupidest member of Congress (although he has lots of competition for the title), but this is beyond the Pale, even for him.

Government officials take an oath of loyalty to the Constitution and the country, not to some fat dictator wannabe.

This is what the Republican party has come to.