Ken Burns: Trump Camp’s Playbook ‘Is Out of the National Socialist Party in Germany’

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12. Trump's rhetoric

Trump's rhetoric is often compared to that of the rise of Hitler, but it is actually closer to home than that. George Wallace used the same type language in his rise to power and after, often talking directly to the Klan about the Blacks.
Just before the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church that killed four black girls (Addie Mae Collins, Carole Robertson, Cynthia Westley, Denise McNair) Wallace said this.

" What this country needs is a few first-class funerals," Wallace said," and some polical funerals, too."..

As noted in "The Lynching" by Laurence Leamer:
"Wallace enjoyed provoking his enemies, spewing rhetoric rarely heard in public life. In the end he always backed off, but in toying with words, he toyed with human lives. Words were action, and when he provoked people to do their fearful deeds, he was as much morally responsible as if he had struck the blow. planted the bomb, or shot the bullet."