Donald Trump: Not exactly Hitler! But his Nazi Germany comments conceal a dark parallel pattern

[DemocratSinceBirth]

Trump is more like a cartoon version of Hitler than the real thing. But sometimes cartoons come to life


By next weekend, Donald Trump will be president of the United States. That is, I think he will — given everything that has happened throughout the absurdist drama otherwise known as the 2016 presidential election, it’s best not to make assumptions.

Only two axioms have proven true about this bizarre and chaotic presidential transition. The first one is easy: Just when you think things can’t get any weirder, they do. A week ago, we thought it was strange that Trump was praising Julian Assange, and we did not know about the hypothetical existence of a supposed “sex tape” made in a Moscow hotel room, which — if it exists, which it probably doesn’t — does not involve any actual sex. Those were innocent times!

The second axiom is a bit more complicated, but I’ll give it a try: More than a year’s worth of comparisons between Donald Trump and Adolf Hitler, which began as shrill liberal paranoia, have ended up seeming simultaneously more ridiculous than ever and more convincing than ever. If that sounds like an irresolvable contradiction, welcome to America in 2017.

If Donald Trump possessed any significant degree of self-awareness — a logical impossibility, because he wouldn’t be Donald Trump if he did — he probably wouldn’t send out tweets comparing America to Nazi Germany because confidential information is sometimes leaked to journalists. Some mechanism of psychological displacement would seem to be at work here, which like so many other things about Trump would be funny if it weren’t chilling: Porous government agencies and an adversarial press corps are exactly what the monolithic Nazi state didn’t have, and are exactly what Trump would like to get rid of, in the process of Nazifying, or at least Trumpifying, the dysfunctional American state.


http://www.salon.com/2017/01/14/donald-trump-not-exactly-hitler-but-his-nazi-germany-comments-conceal-a-dark-parallel-pattern/

[Doreen]

1. People in Germany have been saying Trump

is a lot like Hitler and are amazed we let him in. My boyfriend is a dual citizenship German/American and his family and friends there are saying that.

[dalton99a]

2. "This guy is a clown. He's like a caricature of himself."

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/03/early-warnings-how-american-journalists-reported-the-rise-of-hitler/254146/

[uponit7771]

3. The article gives America a reason why we could NEVER have a Hitler here; Diversity. There was none

... in Germany.

But, we can have someone fuck shit up really bad if there's the overt cheating that happened last summer IMHO.

The "3 paragraphs" in the article are alarming but in the end... Trump would have to have an all white everything to do the Hitler in America

That aint happening.