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“The greatest leader of all time”Justin Barrett on Adolf Hitler, 2024

In 2024, responding to a question on X, Justin Barrett posted an image of Adolf Hitler and described him as “the greatest leader of all time”. It was not a first; it was a continuation. The sourced record is below.

I. The post

In 2024, asked a question on the platform X, Mr Barrett responded by posting an image of Adolf Hitler with the description that he was “the greatest leader of all time”. The statement was reported by the Sunday World. Sunday World

II. The earlier entries

The 2024 post is consistent with a record that long predates it:

  • 2000. Guest of honour at a rally of the German neo-Nazi National Democratic Party (NPD) in Passau, at which anti-semitic speeches were delivered, peppered with quotations from Mein Kampf. RTÉ News Wikipedia
  • 2001–2002. Attended and spoke at events of the Italian neo-fascist party Forza Nuova, in Milan and Bologna. The Irish Times
  • October 2002. Initially denied the German and Italian appearances and threatened libel actions against the newspapers reporting them, then conceded the appearances. RTÉ News
  • 9 November 2023. Appeared on the steps of Leinster House wearing a Nazi SS uniform; he was jeered. The Phoenix

Read in sequence, the 2024 post is not an outlier. It is the plainest statement of a position the record had already documented for twenty-four years. The fuller version of the uniform incident is on its own page.

III. A note on this page

The text is original. The quotation “the greatest leader of all time” is reproduced as reported by the Sunday World; no quotation has been invented. No claim is made that is not supported by the linked source. Published in reliance on the truth (s.16) and public-interest (s.26) defences of the Defamation Act 2009. Corrections of fact, supplied with a public source, are welcome at info@justinbarrett.ie.

Better Barretts, better Justins · and one electorate

“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese, XLIII (1850) · a better Barrett

We counted, too: 10,997 votes in 2004; 183 in 2021.

“Reason directs those who are truly pious and philosophical to honour and love only what is true, declining to follow traditional opinions, if these be worthless.”
Justin Martyr, First Apology, ch. II (c. AD 155), trans. Ante-Nicene Fathers · a better Justin

The name comes from the Latin iustus: just, upright. Some bearers took it seriously.

“183.”
The electorate of Dublin Bay South, by-election, July 2021 (0.68% of first preferences) · the record

Eleventh of fifteen candidates. The electorate has not been asked to elaborate.

“10,997.”
The electorate of the East constituency, European Parliament election, 2004 (2.4%) · the record

Seventeen years later, in Dublin Bay South: 183.

“1.”
In-person attendance at the September 2024 National Party meeting called to remove him · The Irish Times

The Electoral Commission ruled that meeting invalid. A later one was not.

“We have been stood on since 1745. We mention it only for context.”
The steps of Leinster House, in a statement they did not make

That one is fiction, and labelled as such. The November 2023 incident it refers to is not.

Every quotation here is verbatim and in the public domain, or is a figure from the published record. No words have been put in Mr Barrett’s mouth. The one fictional speaker is a flight of steps, and says so.

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