Historical fascist photo-ops with tanks

From the New York Review of Books: Tanks for the Memories: A Historical Tribute to Trump’s ‘Salute to America.’  

Lame pun for a literary journal, but the fascism-and-tanks historical pictures are good.

United States, July 4, 2019

Mussolini reviews tank corps, October 1935

Timothy Egan in today's NY Times:

...Trump has compared himself to Abraham Lincoln, which is like comparing a noxious weed to a redwood tree. 

When the anti-immigrant Know Nothing party was at its height in the 1850s, Lincoln had this to say: “I am not a Know-Nothing. That is certain. How could I be?” He continued, “As a nation, we began by declaring that ‘all men are created equal.’ We now practically read it, ‘all men are created equal, except negroes.’ When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read ‘all men are created equal except negroes, and foreigners, and catholics.’”

The modern-day Know-Nothings are the pink-faced mobs calling for a wall at Trump rallies. They are the architects of a government policy that puts children in filthy cages and forces them to drink fetid water, that sees helpless and newly orphaned babies as subhuman — all while laughing at the cruelty...

And when Trump rolls out weapons of war to celebrate the birth of a nation that never even had much of a standing army until the 20th century, you can see why passionate pride in this country is at its lowest point since Gallup started measuring this sentiment in the modern era...

See also Why Trump likes tanks.