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nadinbrzezinski

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12. Because I do expect really bad things to happen if he becomes POTUS

Fri Mar 4, 2016, 06:54 PM

Mar 2016

and I give him good odds of winning the presidency, and we were among the first to give him good odds of the nomination.

It will be more, I suspect, in the line of the dirty wars in LatAm, which we have seen already, with things like Occupy, more than Treblynka. Could we get to a full fledged genocide? Yes. I would never, ever discount that.

We are already deep into the transformation of this society and he is registering, because the ground is very fertile at the moment. The only model that Americans truly are somewhat, and it is somewhat familiar, with the rise of a fascist government is mid century Germany. All other models are a haze best case.

So that is why you keep hearing those comparisons. Some of what he is doing is Hitler like, some of it is quite frankly Luis Echeverria Alvarez like. (And I doubt that will make any sense to 99 percent of the posters here)

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Nazi Germany is the closest analogy to what is going on currently. And no I was not calling our side [View all] nadinbrzezinski Mar 2016 OP

Three's a charm? Autumn Colors Mar 2016 #1

I know, I know nadinbrzezinski Mar 2016 #2

from Cabaret - Tomorrow Belongs to Me - vote for who your children vote for nt msongs Mar 2016 #3

In this case you are missing the point by an extremely wide margin nadinbrzezinski Mar 2016 #4

Thank you for the history. So many of us do not know it or jwirr Mar 2016 #5

You welcome nadinbrzezinski Mar 2016 #6

Most right wing populism tends to have a similar feel even if there are distinct differences. stevenleser Mar 2016 #7

Correct, that is one of the tools nadinbrzezinski Mar 2016 #8

The differences are more significant than the similarities nichomachus Mar 2016 #9

That is why I also wrote that history never, ever, like EVER nadinbrzezinski Mar 2016 #10

But there have been a lot of racist demagogues in the US nichomachus Mar 2016 #11

Because I do expect really bad things to happen if he becomes POTUS nadinbrzezinski Mar 2016 #12

Hitler had the jews labeled, remember? FiveGoodMen Mar 2016 #17

My CTs run more toward Trump having started out as a Stalking Horse HereSince1628 Mar 2016 #13

He first considered this in 2000 nadinbrzezinski Mar 2016 #14

When tossing around CTs, which are fantasies, everyone gets to have their own. HereSince1628 Mar 2016 #15

I see him in the White House nadinbrzezinski Mar 2016 #16

As you imagine him in the WH, how much congressional support for him do you see? HereSince1628 Mar 2016 #18

As much as Jimmy Carter got from the Democratic congress nadinbrzezinski Mar 2016 #19

I agree with that assessment. HereSince1628 Mar 2016 #21

This is why it has echoes nadinbrzezinski Mar 2016 #23

I feel it also, and am putting my affairs in order to leave the country Zorra Mar 2016 #20

I should probably should renew that old passport nadinbrzezinski Mar 2016 #22

Having a passport makes me feel safer. Renewed mine 3 yrs ago. $80!!! nt Zorra Mar 2016 #25

I mean my old Mexican Passport nadinbrzezinski Mar 2016 #27

ha! I should have figured that one out. Zorra Mar 2016 #35

The GOP has been fanning the flames of fear and hate, creating a monster Lodestar Mar 2016 #24

First you need to understand what is happening nadinbrzezinski Mar 2016 #26

Per my theory Trump is doing this to get Hillary elected, and even if he is, randys1 Mar 2016 #28

And that theory is shut down by this little fact nadinbrzezinski Mar 2016 #31

I dont know how any of that refutes the fact that he and Bill met (this was reported on) randys1 Mar 2016 #32

I suspect that conversation was not about him running nadinbrzezinski Mar 2016 #34

Those labels...like 'racist'....don't help anything and is in fact the same Lodestar Mar 2016 #33

It is BECAUSE we havent labeled the racists, racists, that we have this problem randys1 Mar 2016 #36

Well in that sense I think you may find you have more in common with them Lodestar Mar 2016 #37

After the race baiting we have seen here nadinbrzezinski Mar 2016 #38

Excellent post nadinbrzezinski! monicaangela Mar 2016 #29

Yup nadinbrzezinski Mar 2016 #30

I have the book monicaangela Mar 2016 #39

I have read Mein Kampf nadinbrzezinski Mar 2016 #40

You can say that again. monicaangela Mar 2016 #41

Try reading Trump's launch speech nadinbrzezinski Mar 2016 #42

Patterned after something you would expect from an Authoritarian type monicaangela Mar 2016 #44

Ding, ding, ding nadinbrzezinski Mar 2016 #45

Excellent OP. xfundy Mar 2016 #43

K/R UglyGreed Mar 2016 #46

The $64,000 Answer kentuck Mar 2016 #47

Well part of it is that they have rules like the DNC has nadinbrzezinski Mar 2016 #48

Trump makes this even more relevant now nadinbrzezinski Mar 2016 #49