Newsweak claims Trump "weaponizing Christmas" to appeal to white nationalists

"Newsweek" was once a print mag that competed with Time.  Brilliant decisions by its leftist owners and execs pushed the rag into insolvency, so the owners tried to sell the whole thing.

No takers.  Hmmm...

They finally ended up selling the entire company for...hmm, can't seem to recall the amount.  Oh wait, that's right: one dollar.

Of course being very, very smaht, they learned from this experience.  So when Newsweek publishes something, you bettah listen.  And to show how smaht they are, check out the article these brilliant journalists posted on Christmas Eve.

You really need to look at it.  I mean, you can practically feel the smaht dripping off of each word.  Wow!

The article--again, posted on Christmas Eve--featured three university professors claiming President Trump is using Christmas to advance white nationalism.

Yes, you read that right.  One professor explicitly compared Trump's boosting of "Merry Christmas" to tactics used by the Nazis in 1930s Germany.

Yes, you read that right too. 

A quote that seems to show where Newsweek is coming from:

"...Trump is promoting a version of the holidays that excludes members of other religions, and that his crusade to bring back Christmas is part of a larger attempt by the president to define America as a country for white Christians alone.

That's funny:  I didn't notice Trump saying "We wish white people a Merry Christmas," did you?  Not sure where Newsweek spotted Trump shoehorning "white" into "Merry Christmas" but then again...they're super-smaht journalists, so they probably read better than we do.

In case the quote above didn't convince you that Trump's "crusade to bring back Christmas" is really "part of a larger attempt by the president to define America as a country for white Christians alone," author Maza adds that "the fight to end the war on Christmas is exclusionary politics at its most flagrant."

Wait, I've heard Left-wing talking heads repeatedly laugh that "there never was a war on Christmas."  Now Maza seems to be admitting there was?  Hmm...  Which way y'all wanna jump on this one?

According to the three academics interviewed by Newsweek’s Cristina Maza, Trump's vow to "end the war on Christmas” and promising his supporters they can say “Merry Christmas” again is just a “dog whistle” for white identity politics.

Professor Richard King says “such invocations of Christmas [are] what some would call a dog whistle.”  King "studies how white supremacists exploit culture."  I am not making that up.

In case you're not plugged in, smaht journalists coined "dog whistle" for a secret racist term aimed at the knuckle-dragging mouth-breathers who voted for Trump.  Example:  If you say "Refusing to stand for the national anthem is bad," you just used a dog whistle, showing you're a raaaacist.  See?

Professor King summarizes: "Christmas is a way to talk about peril, to assert...white nationalism.”

Newsweek's Maza claims that "by weaponizing Christmas in this way, Trump is bringing a dangerous tradition of politicizing religious holidays."  Did you realize Trump was "weaponizing Christmas"?  That's amazing!  Is there anything he can't do?

Wait, I thought the media were constantly shrieking that Trump is the dumbest person ever to be president!  And yet he's able to "weaponize" Christmas.  It's a real mystery how he can do so much if he's really dumb, eh?

Professor Joe Perry (Georgia State U) wrote Christmas in Germany: A Cultural History, examining how the Nazis used Christmas to spread fascism.  He claims Trump is using the same tactics the Nazis used!  But Perry thinks Trump's tactics are designed to encourage...anti-Semitism. 

So wait...who is Newsweek claiming Trump's "weaponization of Christmas" is designed to target: blacks, Muslims, or Jews?  Wait, got it:  everyone who isn't white and Christian.

Perry claims the “far right” has used the war on Christmas to warn people against multiculturalism and secularization.

Maza summarizes that "members of the religious right support Trump’s most nationalist, race-baiting form of political rhetoric, including his re-claiming of Christmas."

Surprisingly, author Maza admits Trump hasn't (yet) called for genocide like Nazis did. However, Maza defers to the university “experts” who claim that the way Trump talks about Christmas “coexists with reemerging white identity politics.”

Too amazing.