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Kid Berwyn

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7. First America
Sun Feb 14, 2021, 11:07 AM
Feb 2021

Then the World.

From one of the wise writers in 2016:



In 2016, I identified four future developments that would justify the Trump-Hitler comparison. Here are the results.

Posted February 12, 2021 by Sebastian Schutte

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Nazi policies concentrated on building a cohesive national majority, to unite ‘ethnic’ Germans against Jews, foreigners, homosexuals, political critics and other minority groups. The contemporary analogy would be Trump actively pitting white Christian America against minorities in the years ahead.

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The first step is scapegoating

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A second component of the Nazi power consolidation was media co-optation.

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A third component of the Nazi reign was paramilitary organizations.

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Finally, I identified emergency laws as a cornerstone of Nazi rule:

Source: https://blogs.prio.org/2021/02/in-2016-i-identified-four-future-developments-that-would-justify-the-trump-hitler-comparison-here-are-the-results/



Very Important Post, yours, olegramps.

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