TPM: Blood and Race and Trump - This was as wild and as unbridled a speech as I've seen from Trump.

[kpete]

Blood and Race and Trump

This was as wild and as unbridled a speech as I've seen from Trump. Even if you couldn't understand English, it would be stunning to watch the slashing hand gestures, the red face, the yelling. It's hard to imagine any presidential candidate in living memory giving such a speech. And again, this is if you didn't know what the words even meant.

As the speech was unfolding, I said something on Twitter that I'm sure many will find extreme or beyond the pale. But watching this speech, compared to the press conference today in Mexico City, what kept coming to my mind was the contrast between Hitler's uniformed rally speeches from the hustings and the suited, statesman Hitler we see in the old news reels in Munich and at other iconic moments in the late 1930s. Hitler is sui generis, of course. His crimes are incomparable. But the demagogic style, the frenzied invocation familial blood sacrificed to barbaric outsiders - these are not unique to him. When we see this lurid, stab-in-the-back incitement, the wild hyperbole, the febrile railing against outsiders who will make us no longer a country - the similarities are real.



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[tonyt53]

1. He did what spoiled kids do when they are caught lying, scream until others forget about it.

Donnie lied about not discussing who would pay for his wall and got caught.

[Mc Mike]

2. Trump is a nazi. Period.

[trof]

6. I don't think he's that clever.

[Mme. Defarge]

3. !

"More than anything, perhaps the most chilling part of this day is the contrast between the two men - a measured, calm statesman figure we saw this afternoon and this railing, angry demagogue figure who captured the emotional tenor of Klan rally. As I said, the ability to shift from one persona to the other is a sign of danger in itself."

[Stinky The Clown]

4. Not only are the similarities in speech real . . . . .

. . . . but I truly believe Trump could act exactly like Hitler, up to and including genocide.

[forgotmylogin]

5. Trump is Godwin's Law on legs.