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If it launched with a Nazi salute … where do you think it ends?

On Monday, January 20th in the Capitol Rotunda, tech billionaire Elon Musk threw what appeared to be a Nazi saluteduring the inauguration of Donald Trump as US president. In case we missed it (or misinterpreted it), he made the emphatic gesture again.

The lame explanations offered for it must be roundly rejected. It doesn’t matter if Musk genuinely intended that gesture to have another meaning. Neo-Nazis were swift to celebrate it. And there’s no one on the planet who doesn’t know its symbolism.

It’s impossible to respond to every offensive comment or gesture that comes out of Musk, Trump, and their cronies. Their relentless offensiveness serves as a convenient smokescreen for their greed-driven, hate-fueled policy changes. From renaming the Gulf of Mexico to threatening to seize Greenland, these headline-grabbing shockers are part of Trump’s narcissistic personality – and have been integrated into the political strategy of his backers.

But that Nazi salute deserves our attention. We fought and died in WWII to halt that symbol and all it stands for. Its appearance during an inauguration (or anywhere) should have sent us pouring into the streets in outrage. Any public figure or government appointee caught making anything that remotely........

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