Upside Down?

For some of us who went to college in the late 60’s and early 70’s, we may very well remember the following quote, published on a poster, attributed to Adolph Hitler.  It is thought to be fabricated in nature.  The quote appeared on a poster, with a small American flag turned upside down, at the bottom of the quote, under the name of Adolph Hitler.
 
"The streets of our country are in turmoil. The Universities are filled with students rebelling and rioting. Communists are seeking to destroy our country ... Without law and order our nation can not survive." 
 
The following is an excerpt from President Trump’s address given July 3, 2026 at Mount Rushmore:
 
“…There is now a resurgence of the communist menace in our land, including from newcomers to our country who embrace ideas totally opposed to our way of life and our great success. These are not mere political disagreements like differences over taxes or regulations. Communism is a mortal threat to American liberty.
 
It is the greatest threat to our country, including World War I, World War II, Pearl Harbor, or even 9/11. Uh, we're not gonna let this happen to us. Believe me, we're not letting it happen. Because communism is the enemy of free people everywhere, everywhere in the world. Never works. It's the enemy of the Constitution.
 
Above all, it's the enemy of July 4th, 1776. It is the enemy indeed. Even while the radicals and extremists attack our incredible history at every turn, they are silent on the miserable history of communism itself because it never worked. Thousands of years, if you look at it under different names, under somewhat different ideologies and systems, that system has led to more death and destruction than any system ever tried.
 
It killed 100 million people just in the last century alone. Communism is the exact opposite of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It's death, tyranny, and the pursuit of evil. The godless communist morality states that anything is justified to bring about inhuman visions and a pro- -- and to really propose what's good.
 
They don't want good. They don't love God and they don't want God. They don't love religion and they don't want religion, and they won't have it, but we will not let them win. They have no chance against us. They have no respect for law, justice, principle, tradition, or your God-given rights. It's an ideology of mass theft, mass control, mass lies, and mass murder.
 
Such doctrines can be given no quarter in a democracy because the first thing they do when they get into power is turn around and destroy it. It always is destroyed just as communists have done in other countries all over the world, no matter where you look. Very simply, communism represents the worst ideas and abuses in history by the worst people…”
 
While some may draw similarities to supposed quote of Hitler and the speech of the President, I have elected to just let each form their own conclusions.  However, there are some “things” in Trump’s address I would like to dissect.
 
First, beyond the obvious denouncing communism, why has the President been so reticent to help the Ukraine fight communism and Vladimir Putin?
 
If Putin’s communism is death, tyranny, and the pursuit of evil, why has the President threatened to leave NATO, which would leave Europe and satellite countries of Europe vulnerable to the threat of Putin?

Second, even though the President claims “Thousands of years, if you look at it under different names, under somewhat different ideologies and systems, that system has led to more death and destruction than any system ever tried”, he should be aware that Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels developed a revolutionary socio-political theory known as Marxism.  And when was their work published?  1848.  Not thousands of years ago.  Just to put things into perspective, Christ was born approximately 2026 years ago.  For those interested, the published work of Engels and Marx is entitled, ”The Communist Manifesto”, which indicates there are not different ideologies and systems of Communism.  There is but one ideology and system for Communism, merged with a totalitarian government.
 
Third, the President states “They have no respect for law, justice, principle, tradition, or your God-given rights. It's an ideology of mass theft, mass control, mass lies, and mass murder.”  I couldn’t agree more.  But…”no respect for law, justice, principle, tradition, or your God-given rights…mass theft, mass control, and mass lies”…in my studies of government, I was often told by my professors that I should take note of a leader who accuses another leader (for example, Putin) of gross injustices, because there is a very good chance those accusations are exactly what the accuser is doing.  

The President has ignored legislation to present the Epstein Files.  The President has filed a failed Supreme Court appeal to void his conviction of sexual abuse on E. Jean Carroll.  The President has tried to consolidate the power of the government into the executive branch alone (Think executive order to abolish birthright citizenship).  The President has amassed a small fortune because of his position in government which borders on the violation of the Emoluments Clause (Think Qatari jet as an example).  The President has spoken half truths throughout this administrative term (Think June of 2025, when the President proclaimed we have obliterated Iran’s capability to produce a nuclear weapon, yet we are now engaged in a war to prevent that very thing from happening.)
 
The Fourth of July marking the 250 years of Independence has come and gone.  The address delivered by our President sounds similar to the poster from the late 60’s and early 70’s.  So the question that begs to be asked is “Do we need to hang the American Flag upside down?”