Last week I reread Shirer's 'Rise and Fall of the Third Reich'. Comparing Trump

[gregcrawford]

21. Comparing Trump to specific historical figures...

... limits our perception of the larger problem. Mussolini called himself the "Father of Fascism," but he preferred to call his system of government, "Corporatism." Regardless of what you call it, Fascism or Corporatism, the system is defined most simply as the collusion of Big Business and Big Government. And no one with an IQ surpassing room temperature can deny that Fascism v.2 is alive and well in corporate America; they just dress in Armani instead of childish uniforms. The Donald is just the most brazen figurehead for an entrenched system determined to subvert the tattered remnants of "democracy."

The Trans-Pacific Partnership, if this evil abortion becomes law, will be the unveiling of full-blown fascism, sans any attempt to mask it as something else.

Comparisons between The Donald and Adolf Schickelgruber (his surname at birth) are undeniably apt, but he is just the clown on one hand used as misdirection, while the other iron fist crushes any and all criticism or dissent. All of us on DU will have targets on our backs if this evil snake manages to slither into the White House.

My apologies to all snakes for the analogy.