Here's the Drumpf quote that sends a shiver down my spine:

[Surya Gayatri]

(Unquestioned by anyone last night or by the talking heads this morning)

'I'm a leader, I've always been a leader. I've never had any problem leading people,' Trump insisted.

'If I say do it, they're going to do it. That's what leadership is all about.'

If this despotic, autocratic imbecile doesn't scare the bejeezus out of right-thinking people, then there's not much hope for the future of the US that I once knew.

(He's on every network screen as I speak, leading another of his 1930s, Nuremberg-style "rallies".)

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

1. I think that's his business side.

Basically, he's saying 'Everyone I tell to do things gets a paycheck from me, or expects to get something in kind from me.'

You see that sort of thinking in a lot of businesses. The boss thinks of himself as a 'leader', simply because nobody wants to lose a paycheck by telling him he's doing something stupid.

[Surya Gayatri]

2. Yes, the sociopathic narcissist lording it over his sycophantic minions.

I hate to quote Romney, but:

"His imagination must not be given the reins of power".

[earthside]

3. I loath Trump.

But I still think these allusions and direct comparisons to Hilter are counterproductive.

At this stage, anyway, it is the same kind of hyperbole that Trump and the Tea Party engages in.

[Surya Gayatri]

4. I am usually loathe to draw comparisons to anything Nazi, but the

parallels are uncanny. Have you seen the New York Times profile of Hitler from the 1930s?
Extremely disturbing.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027656556

http://www.vox.com/2015/2/11/8016017/ny-times-hitler

"But several reliable, well-informed sources confirmed the idea that Hitler's anti-Semitism was not so genuine or violent as it sounded, and that he was merely using anti-Semitic propaganda as a bait to catch masses of followers and keep them aroused, enthusiastic, and in line for the time when his organization is perfected and sufficiently powerful to be employed effectively for political purposes."

[yeoman6987]

5. Trump will never have the power that hitler had

I understand that at the time Germans didn't know about the killing of Jews and were shocked to find out after the fact. We have the Internet and larger media today. One hint of wrong doing and it will be known. Of course this is all moot since Hillary is our next president.

[Surya Gayatri]

9. While consolidating power in the 1930s, he merely demonized and scape-goated them.

He didn't start rounding them up and killing them until 1939 for the most part.

And, millions of Germans chose to ignore, if not participate in, the process. Their love of a strong, demogogic father-figure "trumped" their humanity.

[awoke_in_2003]

12. It can't happen here. nt

[Javaman]

6. as I have said before, he doesn't want to be president...

he wants to be CEO. which, I might add, a type of dictatorship.

my next question is: when will he appear in a military uniform with gold shoulder braids?

[Surya Gayatri]

10. I'm waiting for the jackboot transformation--as he consolidates his hold on the nomination.

[lamp_shade]

7. Commander trump...

[Surya Gayatri]

11. His pouting, sucking-baby mouth gives me the willies.

Sure physical sign of arrested development and narcissistic personality disorder.

[Doctor_J]

8. Candidates for president used to have, and be able to express, a vision for the country and how they

were going to implement that vision. that's gone now. Our leading candidates are a conservative whose whose main goal is to go down in history as the first woman president (and undo more pieces of the New Deal and War On Poverty), and a narcissistic TV host who wants to see if his bullying persona will play on the ultimate stage. He doesn't have a clue what he will do in his first day in office, since he's never administered so much as the Podunk City Council.

Something is really, really wrong in this country.