The author is an attorney and a lifelong Democrat.
By William Seikaly
Are you still considering voting for Trump? You might remember your parents' admonition to “Be careful who you associate with.”
There was an interesting story this weekend in the Livingston Daily in Livingston County. One group of White Supremacists demonstrated in Howell, Michigan, chanting, “We love Hitler, we love Trump.” Another group in a different part of the city chanted “Heil Hitler" while holding banners supporting “white lives matter” and “Stop the war on white children. “
It all happened on the same day that Donald Trump and running mate J.D. Vance were appearing at a rally in Grand Rapids.
This was all disgusting to me, but not surprising.
After all, even Trump’s Vice-Presidential pick Sen. J.D. Vance compared Trump to Hitler in 2016, and we all recall Trump’s famous line about the Nazi demonstrators in Charlottesville, Va.: There were some “very fine people on both sides.”
So, no, I am not surprised. What did surprise me was the lack of condemnation by the Michigan Republican Party or the local Trump campaign.
I have looked. Not a word. Silence. Crickets. Some of Trump's local supporters claim, according to Deadline Detroit, that it must have been outside agitators paid by some left-wing group supported by the Soros family. I do not want to be overly picky, but police identified these people. Does anyone want to try and fact-check who they were and where they came from?
But I am getting off point. It should be no surprise that Nazis support Trump. After all, if you listened to his acceptance speech the other night, which was supposed to be focused on unity, it was filled with the kind of hate and racism that would appeal to such vile groups.
For example, he promised “mass deportations like this country has never seen.” His view is that we have become a third-rate nation and that people laugh at us; we need to “fight, fight, fight,” but apparently not for everyone, only those who support him and his agenda.
I know and care about people who plan to vote for Trump. I am willing to have a disagreement. That being said, I don't believe they realize who they are associating with.
Nazis and the writers of Project 2025 intend to change this country in ways that I believe they will find unacceptable. I believe that the real Trump base has become a cult, not a political movement.
Your mom and dad may have had a point; be careful about the crowd you associate with. People may think that you are just like them.
