Trump Isnt Hitler

[struggle4progress]

Charles M. Blow
OCT. 19, 2017

... I prefer the boot of truth to slam down to earth like thunder, no matter the shock of hearing its clap.

The world has seen powerful leaders use lying as a form of mass manipulation before. It is seeing it now, and it will no doubt see it again. History recycles. But the result doesn’t have to be — and hopefully never will be again — a holocaust. It can manifest as a multitude of other, lesser horrors, in both protocol and policy, including the corrosion and regression of country and culture.

That is the very real threat we are facing. Trump isn’t necessarily a direct threat to your life — unless of course you are being kept alive by health care that he keeps threatening, or if you’re in Puerto Rico reeling in the wake of two hurricanes — but he is very much a threat to your quality of life.

The only question is: Are enough Americans sufficiently discerning to understand that this time they are the ones being manipulated?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/19/opinion/trump-isnt-hitler-but-the-lying.html

[Thomas Hurt]

1. Of course not....

Hitler and the Nazi party are specific to the time and region in which they existed.

Even the modern day a holes who call themselves neo-nazis are not real nazis.

Donald Trump and the ideology he espouses in act and word is fascist.

scapegoating, racist, militaristic, paranoiac, anti-intellectual, misogynist, jingoistic...fascism.

[gyroscope]

2. You don't have to be Hitler to be a fascist

Trump is not Hitler, but there are many disturbing similarities.

Like the GOP Trump prefers to kill you through their draconian policies, rather than shooting or gassing you. He also says and does things that incite his neo-Nazi supporters to violence (ie: Charlotte) his army of useful idiots who seem to carry out the dirty work for him.

[Girard442]

3. Hitler wasn't Hitler in the early years.

Just a crazy politician the other politicians thought they could manipulate for their own ends.

[smirkymonkey]

4. +1000

[no_hypocrisy]

6. And it was the Nazi organization that made Germany the Third Reich.

More than enabling. Himmler, Goering, Goebbels, Eichmann, and Speer had their own agendas.

OTOH, what Hitler and Trump share is they are emboldened by a small core of supporters who would follow them to Hell and back.

[Takket]

5. he just aspires to be