"The official social-media channels of the Trump administration have become unrelenting streams of xenophobic and Nazi-coded messages and imagery. The leaders of these departments so far refuse to answer questions about their social-media strategies, but the trend is impossible to miss: Across the federal government, officials are advocating for a radical new understanding of the American idea, one rooted not in the vision of the Founders, but in the ideologies of European fascists."
"On January 10, the Department of Labor posted a video with the caption "One Homeland. One People. One Heritage," which sounds eerily similar to the Nazi slogan " Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer" ("One people, one realm, one leader"). The post has 22.6 million views. One week ago, the Pentagon's research office posted silhouettes of Revolutionary-era troops with glowing white eyes."
Multiple U.S. federal agencies have posted social-media content using Nazi-coded language, neo-Nazi aesthetics, and ethno-nationalist references. The Department of Labor posted a video captioned "One Homeland. One People. One Heritage," closely echoing the Nazi slogan "Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer," and attracted millions of views. The Pentagon research office posted Revolutionary-era silhouettes with glowing eyes and a red-cyan filter associated with neo-Nazi "fashwave" and Right Wing Death Squad memes. The Department of Homeland Security posted imagery and lyrics nearly identical to lines from a song tied to a far-right folk group connected to the Völkisch movement. Agency leaders have declined to explain their social-media strategies.
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