Trump Said He Wanted Generals to Be Loyal to Him Like Nazis Were to Hitler

[ItsjustMe]

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/trump-said-wanted-generals-loyal-131630687.html

There’s plenty of evidence that Donald Trump wanted to be treated like a dictator, that he frequently butted heads with military leaders, and that his ignorance of history knew no bounds. It shouldn’t be that surprising, then, how the former president reached back to World War II in trying to explain the kind of absolute loyalty he expected from America’s generals.

According to an excerpt from The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021 published in The New Yorker on Monday, Trump once griped to then-White House Chief of Staff John Kelly about what he perceived as disloyal generals. “You fucking generals, why can’t you be like the German generals?”

[Pete Ross Junior]

1. Historical sidelight ...

Hitler's generals were not so overwhelmingly loyal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20_July_plot

[Joinfortmill]

2. Yup. He said it out loud. Horrifying

[Ocelot II]

3. And Kelly reminded him of this fact:

“You do know that they tried to kill Hitler three times and almost pulled it off?” Kelly said. I thought TFG was something of a movie fan, but I guess he never saw Valkyrie.

[303squadron]

4. I will stop calling them

fascists when they stop acting like fascists!

[underpants]

5. Welcome to DU

My buddies years ago had a running joke about me calling the Repubs Nazis. They see what I meant now.

[BigmanPigman]

6. All tRump wanted was to be an autocrat....

and he tried his best to politicize the Military and the Justice Dept. If he is ever in office again he will succeed.

[Aristus]

7. I wish Trump's colonels were as loyal to him as Hitler's colonels were to Hitler.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claus_von_Stauffenberg

[lees1975]

8. This should come as no surprise.

It's considered bad form to compare anyone to the Nazis and Hitler, but when the parallels are so compelling, and the demands for personal loyalty are so intense, it's hard to conclude otherwise.

Trump has brought the scum of America to the surface, masquerading as "patriots," and has capitalized on political indifference and apathy. It remains to be seen if Americans live up to their own claims of not being susceptible to this fascist nonsense like the Germans were. Figuring out how to root this evil out of our culture and society, while preserving free speech and expression is not an insoluble problem. It's pretty clear that the right people are in office and are capable of handling this through the long-term that will be required.