(Jewish Group) After watching the USA and Trump, now I understand how Hitler gained power

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4. yes they were technically illegal

but the initial ones were simply recapturing areas that Germany previously controlled and the terms of the treaty were fairly ridiculous and would have been chafed at by any nation.

The Versailles Treaty was a bad treaty. If Hitler had simply done what he did in the beginning, without invading Poland or killing millions of people, and treating the Jews so horrifically, then things would have turned out quite different. Your post wasn't about what Hitler became but HOW he came to power. And the way he came to power was not because of "apathy." He came to power promising and then very quickly DELIVERING on make Germany a much stronger and healthier nation. He didn't initially trumpet an antisemitism that was any stronger than was already going on elsewhere in Europe. Half of the British leadership was filled with anti-Semites for example.

It's a poor analogy yet it keeps being made because people feel a need to make him something he's not.

Hitler was a cunning, intelligent and effective (until the drugs took over and his evil nature spilled out) leader who manipulated circumstances to make himself the leader.

Trump is a bumbling, banal idiot who is only skilled at media manipulation and short term con artistry who lucked into winning.

If you want to make a historical comparison MAYBE Mussolini, but even then still, Trump is even that and Italy then wasn't the US now.

My point is that this is a different model and circumstance more unique to present-day America than tortured comparisons to Hitler or NAZI Germany.