The correct WW2 analogy for Trump is Hermann Goering, not Churchill

[muriel_volestrangler]

Churchill: "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat", "we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches", "now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. but it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." (that was Nov 1942 - over half way through, as it turned out) etc.

Goering: "No enemy bomber can reach the Ruhr. If one reaches the Ruhr, my name is not Göring. You can call me Meyer." (Sept 1939; the Ruhr was bombed from June 1940 onwards)

[musclecar6]

1. Yeah

That does sound exactly like something the stable genius would say.

[11 Bravo]

2. Hermann Goering, while a despicable excuse for a human being ...

was a WWI fighter pilot ace, and the recipient of the "Blue Max" for heroism in combat.
If Cadet Bone Spurs ever heard a shot fired in anger, he would Ted Nugent in his drawers.

[Adsos Letter]

3. That was my thought when he stole the art from the ambassador's residence.

A typical Goering move.

[TheRealNorth]

4. 100% Correct

[DFW]

5. Goering, after being captured at the end of the war, was actually rather candid about his movement

“Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people don't want war: neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or fascist dictatorship, or a parliament or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peace makers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.”

― Hermann Göring

The Nazis knew what they were doing from the beginning. So do today's Republicans.

By the way, that "poor slob on a farm" was my father-in-law. He didn't have a choice, and he did not come back in one piece.