Elon Musk’s raised arm during an event organized for Trump’s inauguration is an illustration of this: in the United States, the discourse rehabilitating Nazi theses and glorifying Hitler returns, carried above all by the Trumpist movement. This trend is indeed largely guided by influencers Maga, who disseminate and standardize these references in their speeches, on social networks, in podcasts and on television, explains The Atlantic.
“The story we heard about the Second World War is completely false”declared a guest during a podcast hosted by Tucker Carlson, former flagship figure of the Fox News channel. “We can defend the idea that we should have put ourselves on the side of Hitler and fight Stalin”continues the professor of the University of Cornell, while Tucker Carlson nods. Last year, the far -right influencer Candace Owens wrote on X: “Many Americans learn that the history of the Second World War is not as clear that we have taught it and that certain details have been voluntarily omitted from our textbooks.”
Where their messages were once more nuanced, the speeches of these influencers openly display revisionist positions. And unfortunately, these craftsmen of the rewriting of the Reich are far from being marginal figures. “Carlson’s emission is one of the most popular podcasts in the United States”underlines the media.
The man spoke to Donald Trump during the last evening of the National Republican Convention and his son is also a deputy press officer of Vice-President JD Vance. Candace Owens has millions of subscribers and is currently prosecuted by Emmanuel Macron for his repeated statements that the French First Lady was actually born a man.
Why rehabilitate Hitler?
The Second World War was a turning point in the understanding that the United States has of themselves. Like many other countries, they had to draw from the Nazi episode of severe lessons on the disastrous consequences of prejudices and conspiracy theories. But according to The Atlantic, the right Trumpist would like the nation to unleash them.
The figures of the far right, like Carlson, believe that transforming American politics involves a rewriting of the national story and its past. These influencers support the idea that the founding values (such as the fight against anti -Semitism, for example) of American society, which they consider false, would be at the heart of the degradation of Western civilization.
All then resume in unison the idea that the Jews would control all the key sectors of the company, from banks to the media, including entertainment. “Hitler was right about you”said Myron Gaines, a podcaster gravitating in the Manosphere, speaking of Jews, “You arrive in a country, you push your pornography there, you push your fucking central banking system, you push your degeneration there, you push the LGBT community, you push all these bullshit in a company, you destroy it from the inside”.
Twenty years ago, Carlson’s revisionism and his accomplices would have stumbled against the testimony of those who had experienced history. Today, with the disappearance of these witnesses, a new generation grows without direct holocaust and without family stories to raise awareness.
At the end of 2024, David Shor, Expert in data science within the Democratic Party, questioned 130,000 people about their opinion of the Jewish people. “Almost no one among the over 70s has expressed unfavorable opinion. Over a quarter of the under 25s have done so ”concludes the media.
