I am begining to think that Trump wants to be the 21st century incarnation of someone like Hitler

[wasupaloopa]

was.

Trump needs his white supremacists to be his brown shirts. He sees this as his way to escape what ever Mueller has waiting for him.

He is trapped like a rat in a barrel and he is baring his teeth.

What he did yesterday is his way of acting like the wounded animal he is.

[rzemanfl]

1. Just now you noticed? n/t

[C_U_L8R]

2. His aggression yesterday was chilling. Perhaps psychotic.

Trump fancies himself as a superior blood, a fuehrer, a messiah.
But he's nothing but the emperor of garbage and failure.

[njhoneybadger]

3. I agree, he is desperately looking off a way out

That's what scares me

[AlexSFCA]

4. what took you so long

he's been dreaming about this for decades

[cheyanne]

5. Dictators use violence to revoke civil liberties: why Trump needs neoNazis

This is just the beginning: Charlottesville will happen across the country.

Trump will use this violence to create states of emergency where police and National Guard will be called in to arrest protestors against white nationalism. Then he will claim "emergency powers" to silence all opposition and stop the investigations.

In the past dictators have organized armed bands to attack the “enemies” of the state using such violence to rescind civil rights. Trump has dog-whistled armed bands to attack his “enemies” with impunity.

Every day Trump is eviserating our democracy, working toward a one-party system that will be under his control. All by legitimate means.

Trump has also created the NK crisis by leaking information that he then uses to escalate fears of war.

This is not coincidence: Trump is fighting for his life. He cannot allow the Russia/Trump investigation to go forward. Its just not minor financial crimes and innocent collusion with Russia. The investigation will ruin his career.

Rachel is wondering why Trump has not lawyered up with a tip-top financial/fraud team. But the reasons are simple: Trump cannot even let his lawyers know the extent of his malfeasance and he is planning to end the investigations. And he is using violence to accrue more powers.

We cannot wait for investigations to end.

[ElementaryPenguin]

6. I've been thinking that for some time now.

A poor man's, er, con-man's Hitler.

[R B Garr]

7. Yes, absolutely. He diminishes himself consistently. Instead of expanding to a role

of global leader and all that implies, he shrinks to the level of advocating for a master race that is clearly a huge personal identity for him and is actually in his father's footsteps. Wasn't his father arrested at a Klan rally or something? Rachel covered part of that history yesterday.

But I do think he wants to leave a mark, and this is his way since he must know that the walls are closing in on him with this Russia investigation.