Terrence Petty
@tcraigpetty.bsky.social
Retired AP journalist; author of two books on Germany: "Enemy of the People: The Munich Post And The Journalists Who Opposed Hitler," and "Nazis At The Watercooler: War Criminals In Postwar German Government Agencies"
With the release of Trump's national security strategy paper, America's 47th president becomes ringleader of global white supremacy
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December 8, 2025 at 11:17 PM
With the release of Trump's national security strategy paper, America's 47th president becomes ringleader of global white supremacy
MAGA, Germany's extreme-right, and their heartwarming embrace forward.com/opinion/7843...
As Trump officials cozy up to Germany's far right, everything alt is neu again
The cozy relationship between Trump administration officials, the MAGA movement and AfD offers discomfiting echoes of events of the 1930's.
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November 18, 2025 at 8:18 PM
MAGA, Germany's extreme-right, and their heartwarming embrace forward.com/opinion/7843...
Letter from Portland: The Latest From The Land Of The Protest Frog. forward.com/opinion/7784...
Demanding loyalty of the U.S. military, Trump hungers for 'the kind of generals that Hitler had'
The current American president is not the only leader who has sought loyalty towards himself, not his country.
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October 26, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Letter from Portland: The Latest From The Land Of The Protest Frog. forward.com/opinion/7784...
An appeal to Portland anarchists: Animal costumes, yes. Violence, no. Let's not do 2020 all over again. pluribusunravel.substack.com/p/twerking-a...
Twerking Animals, Yes. Violent Anarchists, No.
Portland’s image is on the line—don’t hand Trump another excuse to crack down.
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October 15, 2025 at 9:25 PM
An appeal to Portland anarchists: Animal costumes, yes. Violence, no. Let's not do 2020 all over again. pluribusunravel.substack.com/p/twerking-a...
If Trump is trying to push us into a second American civil war, it could be sparked in Portland, my hometown pluribusunravel.substack.com/p/is-trump-p...
Is Trump Pushing Us Into A Civil War?
He’s targeting Democratic cities—and Portland may be first.
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October 12, 2025 at 2:34 AM
If Trump is trying to push us into a second American civil war, it could be sparked in Portland, my hometown pluribusunravel.substack.com/p/is-trump-p...
Will Trump's Reichstag moment occur in Portland? Read the view of a Portland resident who writes about Nazi Germany. forward.com/opinion/7747...
October 10, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Will Trump's Reichstag moment occur in Portland? Read the view of a Portland resident who writes about Nazi Germany. forward.com/opinion/7747...
Reposted by Terrence Petty
This is an excellent op-ed in the @forward.com by retired AP journalist @tcraigpetty.bsky.social. He calls out how the Trump administration is violating protected free speech and is using claims of fake violence to use military force in Portland and other cities.
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Who needs a Reichstag fire when you can just pretend Portland's burning?
Donald Trump's demonization of Portand and other cities led by Democrats has a precedent in the playbook of despotism.
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October 9, 2025 at 8:23 PM
This is an excellent op-ed in the @forward.com by retired AP journalist @tcraigpetty.bsky.social. He calls out how the Trump administration is violating protected free speech and is using claims of fake violence to use military force in Portland and other cities.
forward.com/opinion/7747...
forward.com/opinion/7747...
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Trump In Wonderland: the bizarre world of the MAGAites, off in an upside-down reality all their own. Can their madness be explained? Read it here! And subscribe to pluribus unravel for free for more to come.
Trump In Wonderland: the bizarre world of the MAGAites, off in an upside-down reality all their own. Can their madness be explained? Read it here! And subscribe to pluribus unravel for free for more to come.
Trump In Wonderland
Off with their heads! Trump, Klepper, and the Logic of Madness
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October 6, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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Trump In Wonderland: the bizarre world of the MAGAites, off in an upside-down reality all their own. Can their madness be explained? Read it here! And subscribe to pluribus unravel for free for more to come.
Trump In Wonderland: the bizarre world of the MAGAites, off in an upside-down reality all their own. Can their madness be explained? Read it here! And subscribe to pluribus unravel for free for more to come.
Trump And The Playbook of the Third Reich
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Trump And The Playbook of the Third Reich
Authoritarianism arrived sooner than expected. What now?
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October 5, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Trump And The Playbook of the Third Reich
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In Trump's America, we need dissident heroes! European dissidents who won their freedom from Communism nearly four decades ago can serve as inspiration as American democracy teeters. www.msn.com/en-us/news/w...
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October 1, 2025 at 9:00 AM
In Trump's America, we need dissident heroes! European dissidents who won their freedom from Communism nearly four decades ago can serve as inspiration as American democracy teeters. www.msn.com/en-us/news/w...
One of the most heartbreaking things about Trump's steady dismantling of American democracy is how it serves as a betrayal of East European dissidents who fought for their freedom nearly four decades ago. My latest op-ed in The Forward. www.msn.com/en-us/politi...
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October 1, 2025 at 8:46 AM
One of the most heartbreaking things about Trump's steady dismantling of American democracy is how it serves as a betrayal of East European dissidents who fought for their freedom nearly four decades ago. My latest op-ed in The Forward. www.msn.com/en-us/politi...
To those Americans who remain silent -- are you sure you want to be complicit in this? forward.com/opinion/7645...
A Reichstag fire is blazing in Trump's America and we know exactly who is fanning the flames
The question isn't whether Trump has brought authoritarianism to our country; the question is what we're going to do about it.
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August 26, 2025 at 6:19 PM
To those Americans who remain silent -- are you sure you want to be complicit in this? forward.com/opinion/7645...
Trump and MAGA are like the radical-right perps of Germany's 1920 Kapp Putsch forward.com/opinion/7341...
Right-wing insurrectionists tried to topple the German government in 1920 — it's happening again in Trump's America
Like the Trump-supporting Jan. 6 Capitol rioters, the perpetrators of the Kapp Putsch escaped punishment and accountability.
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July 5, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Trump and MAGA are like the radical-right perps of Germany's 1920 Kapp Putsch forward.com/opinion/7341...
Lessons from the 3rd Reich [email protected] discusses his Jewish heritage and his fears of history repeating itself under Trump forward.com/culture/7275...
His parents fled the Nazis in 1937 — now he's using his chutzpah to fight Donald Trump
Oregon senator Ron Wyden discusses his Jewish heritage and his fears that history is repeating itself under Trump.
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June 15, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Lessons from the 3rd Reich [email protected] discusses his Jewish heritage and his fears of history repeating itself under Trump forward.com/culture/7275...
Trump joins Attila the Hun, Genghis Khan, Robespierre and Hitler in history's rogues' gallery. forward.com/opinion/7259...
If Trump is being compared to Hitler, who was Hitler before he was Hitler?
As he embraces authoritarianism, Trump takes his place in a rogue's gallery populated by such disreputable figures as Nero and Robespierre.
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June 8, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Trump joins Attila the Hun, Genghis Khan, Robespierre and Hitler in history's rogues' gallery. forward.com/opinion/7259...
Trump's power grab evokes an infamous Nazi lie forward.com/opinion/7136...
The dangerous Nazi legend behind Trump's ruthless grab for power
Trump has created an American version of Adolf Hitler's 'Dolchstosslegende,' also known as the "Stabbed-in-the-Back' lie.
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April 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Trump's power grab evokes an infamous Nazi lie forward.com/opinion/7136...
Trump has created an American version of the Dolchstosslegende, propagating a myth that the US was being led to ruin by Joe Biden, prosecutors who go after Trump, judges who rule against him, news media, and universities. This stabbed-in-the-back lie is at the core of Trump’s assaults on democracy.
April 21, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Trump has created an American version of the Dolchstosslegende, propagating a myth that the US was being led to ruin by Joe Biden, prosecutors who go after Trump, judges who rule against him, news media, and universities. This stabbed-in-the-back lie is at the core of Trump’s assaults on democracy.
From the Daily Kos: "While some scholars and historians have previously plowed this ground, Petty is one of the first to recognize that the Gleichschaltung process has been initiated by Trump’s White House."
April 5, 2025 at 7:07 AM
From the Daily Kos: "While some scholars and historians have previously plowed this ground, Petty is one of the first to recognize that the Gleichschaltung process has been initiated by Trump’s White House."
Trump's attempts to rule by decree, his emasculation of Congress, utter disdain for the rule of law, his dubious arguments to round up foreign students, his shakedown of universities and law firms — all of this is giving many of us a horrible feeling that American democracy is rapidly slipping away.
April 5, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Trump's attempts to rule by decree, his emasculation of Congress, utter disdain for the rule of law, his dubious arguments to round up foreign students, his shakedown of universities and law firms — all of this is giving many of us a horrible feeling that American democracy is rapidly slipping away.
How far will Trump go to appease Putin? forward.com/opinion/7044...
Neville Chamberlain taught us where Trump's appeasement of Putin could lead
As was the case with Chamberlain signing the Munich Agreement, Donald Trump's embrace of Vladmir Putin may have dire global consequences.
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March 16, 2025 at 12:29 AM
How far will Trump go to appease Putin? forward.com/opinion/7044...
In Trump’s assault on the media, disturbing flashbacks to the Third Reich forward.com/opinion/7020...
In Trump's assault on the media, disturbing flashbacks to the Third Reich
Trump's tactics recall the way Hitler consolidated his power by controlling, intimidating and punishing the press.
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March 8, 2025 at 2:40 AM
In Trump’s assault on the media, disturbing flashbacks to the Third Reich forward.com/opinion/7020...
This op-ed went viral. The Forward tells me it is their most-read article of 2025. It's on MSN, getting talked about on Reddit, Threads, Democratic Underground, and elsewhere. Feel free to keep sharing it! forward.com/opinion/7002...
The Germans have a word for what's happening in Trump's America
As the president lays waste to the rule of law, too many Americans are experiencing 'Gleichschaltung' — being brought into line.
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March 4, 2025 at 3:27 AM
This op-ed went viral. The Forward tells me it is their most-read article of 2025. It's on MSN, getting talked about on Reddit, Threads, Democratic Underground, and elsewhere. Feel free to keep sharing it! forward.com/opinion/7002...