Yesterday someone here pointed out to me that the actual % of nazis in the US was closer to 12% than the short-hand 40% I was using in a post.

Technically, that may well be correct, but seen from Europe, increasingly, if you support a nazi, you’re a nazi, and as long as Trump’s popular support appears to hover at 40%, we think there are 40% nazis, and for all intents and purposes, it doesn’t matter if they carry a card, believe in white supremacy, etc. What matters is, they support the nazi-in-chief who, technically again, is not a real nazi, I know, but behaves like one and fosters their agenda.

Here is a joke I heard recently in my little village :

Trump visits a mental hospital. The patients give him the nazi salute. As he passes down the line he sees a man who isn’t saluting. “Why aren’t you saluting like the others?” Trump asks. “I’m the nurse,” says the man. “I’m not crazy!”

It’s not that funny, but it should tell you what the public perception is.