it is astonishing that Holocaust denial is not an accidental brush with this campaign but something that keeps coming up over and over and over again and it's not just something that's like utree or impolite it's really consequential and it's really worrying that this is a recurring thing in this presidential campaign that this presidential campaign that this presidential candidate keeps churning up new associations with Holocaust deniers every few weeks or months because because why do people do this what what is Holocaust denial for what purpose does it serve Holocaust deniers don't think that there's been a big misunderstanding or that there's been sort of some good faith mistake about what really happened in history what Holocaust deniers are contending is that a deliberate lie has been concocted to make us believe something that isn't actually true to make us believe that the history we've been taught about what happened in World War II is a hoax a hoax perpetrated by the Jews to make Germany look bad when Germany doesn't really deserve that when Hitler really wasn't so bad Holocaust deniers say not only that the Holocaust didn't really happen but the myth of the Holocaust was invented as a hoax to make Nazism and fascism look bad when really they're not bad at all they're good right that's the first level implication of Holocaust denial and it's not only a bad and dangerous thing because it's an overt effort to rehabilitate Nazism and fascism and whitewash what is bad about those things it's also bad because it entails a conspiracy theory about the world today which ultimately demands that we get rid of democracy and get ourselves a strongman government instead because Holocaust denial isn't just you know oh I'm fuzzy on what really happened it was a long time ago holoc denial particularly the kind being promoted by the guy who JD Vance is about to appear with this variety of Holocaust denial is the contention that there is a conspiracy that is teaching you a lie that is trying to make you believe a myth about some bad thing having happened to the Jewish people that didn't really happen and why have you been taught this myth about a bad thing happening to the Jewish people when it didn't really happen well that's the Jews who are teaching you that myth because it serves Jewish interests because Jews are so powerful and so conniving that they've invented this fake history and made us all believe it the contention of the Holocaust deniers is that nothing bad actually happened to the Jews but you've been manipulated into believing that it did because Jews are secretly this unimaginably powerful cabal and their mind controlling us all for their own purposes to get what they want and what do they want they want white Christians to look bad so that they can can be in charge they want to destroy the white race they want to destroy Christianity they want to rule the world and the implication of this is that if there's a group that powerful conspiring against Christians everywhere well what could possibly stop them certainly there's no point in engaging in you know Democratic political processes because hey if the real power is in the hands of this secret evil Elite operating behind the scenes then nothing you do in so-called politics is going to ever matter the evil cabal will keep pulling the strings so don't bother participating in politics it's all a ruse it's all a hoax you know there's an evil conspiracy that's really running everything in that formulation democracy is for suckers right democracy is naive and maybe even evil if it allows these evil powerful groups like Jewish people to participate in Democratic processes along us the Christians who are ever more their victims so in the short term right before you rush to the eliminationist murderous ends that Holocaust denial inevitably leads to even before you get there the consequence of perpetrating this stuff the consequence of platforming this stuff the consequence of telling these lies of defining Jewish people as as perpetrating a hoax against white Christians or even of defining Jewish people as the secret power behind the government or culture or Finance or whatever the consequence of it what you're telling people is that we should give up on democracy because we're going to need to take Extreme Action Against these very very very very all powerful evil enemies within so maybe we'll start with camps for millions of people and long prison sentences for everybody we identify as an enemy and and what did he say it will be a bloody story so none of this is good I mean happy birthday North Korea I wish you all the best but none of this is good