If it talks like a Hitler and walks like a Hitler …

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3. More and more people are beginning to understand why this

is a valid comparison. Last week I posted Benet's amazing Litany for Dictatorships. I've been posting some of EM Forster's incredible, prescient essays written in the 30s. I've written about Reck-Malleczwen's 'Diary of a Man in Despair'.

I have never before bluntly said that an American political figure in my lifetime, is in the same universe as Hitler. I have no problem saying it about Trump.

I was going to post this as an OP, but it fits well here:



Donald Trump is setting the wrong things free

Keel Hunt 6:41 p.m. CDT June 19, 2016

The Tennessean | 2016-06-19T06:05:35.6170000


Trump’s message and behavior are simplistic, crude, amateurish, childish. He seems not to grasp what the fuss is about.

In this past week of mass murder and meanness, we may actually have seen the beginning of the political end for Donald Trump, candidate for president.

Trump is not the man for this job, though he seems in no way to understand why, and that is part of the problem.

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The world learned this style, too late, in the 1930s. It didn’t help Trump, in my estimation, that when he kicked off his campaign a year ago, I was finishing Erik Larson’s "In the Garden of Beasts," the story of Hitler’s rise. All of it was fueled by ruthlessness and the stirring up of nativist fear.

Many regular German citizens, at first, were amused by the odd-looking man and his screaming. Politicians might have thwarted disaster by speaking up but didn’t. Then, in 1934, came the Rohm Putsch — the “Night of the Long Knives” — and the world went upside down.

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read:http://www.tennessean.com/story/opinion/columnists/2016/06/19/donald-trump-setting-wrong-things-free/86002816/