The headline appears among messages flashing across the screen such as “Trump wins!!” and “Economy booms!” Other headlines appear to be references to World War I.
The video author wasn’t just randomly searching for “German unificaiton headlines” and then just completely missed that “the Reich” is associated with the Nazis. The only question is whether the campaign official knew about it before sharing, and frankly that Nazi dogwhistles can even get into a video they shared, accidentally or not, already requires a lot of big problems to already exist among their supporters and staff.
Trump is a Nazi sympathizer, but this video has nothing to do with that. It was a headline from 1871 about German unification.
If you don’t think Reich is suggestive of the Third one to English speakers, I don’t know what to tell you.
The video author wasn’t just randomly searching for “German unificaiton headlines” and then just completely missed that “the Reich” is associated with the Nazis. The only question is whether the campaign official knew about it before sharing, and frankly that Nazi dogwhistles can even get into a video they shared, accidentally or not, already requires a lot of big problems to already exist among their supporters and staff.