Politics & Power Quote by Julius Streicher

Streicher’s line is propaganda in its purest, most toxic form: it shrinks a complex democracy into a single, secret villain and then invites the audience to feel both cheated and entitled to revenge. The intent isn’t to describe American politics; it’s to delegitimize it. By declaring that “descendants of European immigrants” don’t govern, he flatters an in-group with the fantasy that power was theirs by right and has been stolen. That grievance is the fuel.

The subtext runs on conspiracy logic. “Made by the Jews and their lackeys” doesn’t just scapegoat Jews; it also marks any non-antisemite as a collaborator. It’s an elegant coercion: either you join the worldview or you’re recast as a traitor. “Lackeys” performs another trick, implying Jews pull the strings while others are merely puppets, a way to explain away political disagreement without engaging any facts. The statement erases institutions, parties, voters, and interest groups in favor of a single hidden hand. That simplicity is the point; it turns uncertainty into certainty and anger into a target.

Context matters because Streicher wasn’t a neutral “soldier.” He was a leading Nazi agitator and publisher of Der Stuermer, a paper devoted to dehumanizing Jews. This is the rhetorical bridge between prejudice and permission: if a nation is secretly ruled by an enemy within, then democratic norms become naive, violence becomes “self-defense,” and exclusion becomes “restoration.” It’s not analysis of America; it’s an instruction manual for hatred, exportable to any society by swapping in the chosen scapegoat.