From the Bulwark: Tim Miller and Bill Kristol take on the Trump administration’s bizarre new Department of Labor ad campaign — a “white nationalist” throwback full of 1950s imagery.
A new campaign from the Trump Administration’s U.S. Dept. of Labor has drawn sharp comparisons to Nazi-era propaganda, raising alarms about the racial and gendered vision of America it promotes.
From The Voice: At first glance, the campaign might appear to be a harmless throwback to World War II recruitment posters. But as The Black Wall Street Times reports, its messaging is anything but neutral. The aesthetic centers white masculinity as the symbol of national strength, evoking imagery used by Nazi Germany to elevate Aryan men while erasing women and minorities from public life.
“In the 1930s, Joseph Goebbels’ Ministry of Propaganda popularized posters of blond, muscular men as the “ideal German worker.” Women appeared only as mothers, while Jews, Roma, and others were erased altogether. The Trump Administration’s posters, Nehemiah D. Frank writes, follow a chillingly similar script: White men as the emblem of loyalty, patriotism, and progress.”
Only freshly scrubbed white dudes are featured as real workers in the U.S Department of Labor’s months-long “Blue Collar Boom” ad campaign, which uses Nazi-like propaganda posters on Instagram and X to promise prosperous days ahead. (See a few examples below.)
Ironically, the ad campaign uses AI, and not real Americans — white men or otherwise — to create its propaganda posters promising these glorious new jobs.
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