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In reply to the discussion: Last week I reread Shirer's 'Rise and Fall of the Third Reich'. Comparing Trump [View all]Bucky
(53,997 posts)36. I don't like the Hitler comparison, but I'm okay with calling Trump Mussoliniesque
It's the same sort of clownishness. Because it's going on in America, it has to be about the cult of radical individualism and the envy of money, instead of the garish marching uniforms and appeals to grand cultural traditions. But Trump's politics of spectacle, fear, economic ignorance, and violent militaristic fantasies pretty much sums up Mussolini's political tactics.
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Last week I reread Shirer's 'Rise and Fall of the Third Reich'. Comparing Trump [View all]
cali
Jun 2016
OP
he keeps hitlers writings at his bedside, iirc. btw, he's already written his inaugural speech:
Gabi Hayes
Jun 2016
#11
couldn't agree more, but how is the current dem leadership economically any different? TPP says
Gabi Hayes
Jun 2016
#23
Trump and the republican base are more nationalistic (as was Hitler) in economics, culture, military
pampango
Jun 2016
#27