Similarities between trump and hitler
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Anonymous
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Stephen Moore, Trump’s pick for Federal Reserve, said “Trump's only real supporters came from "the nativist fringe” and compared Trump's immigration plans to “the worst parts of World War II”.
https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/04/15/politics/kfile-stephen-moore-larry-kudlow-trump/index.html |
Anonymous
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Actually, there are striking similarities between the early xenophobic rhetoric of Adolph Hitler and that of Donald Trump. This is the opinion of several historians and journalists, including Daniel Okrent, who wrote The Guarded Gate, about the German and American eugenics movement and anti-immigration policies pre-WWII. Here are two quotes from his NPR interview: "The [current] rhetoric of criminality, the attribution of criminality — not to individual criminals but to hundreds of thousands of people of various nationalities — that's very similar to the notion of moral deficiency that was hurled by the eugenicists at the Southern and Eastern Europeans of the 1910s and '20s." "I think that one could say that today's Central Americans and today's Muslims ... are the equivalent of 1924's Jews and Italians, or ... the Jews and Italians then were treated and regarded as these Latin American and Muslim nationalities are today. When you choose your immigrants, when you choose your next door neighbors on the basis of their ethnicity or their race rather than the nature of the individual him- or herself, you're engaged in, in this case, official legal discrimination." https://www.npr.org/2019/05/08/721371176/eugenics-anti-immigration-laws-of-the-past-still-resonate-today-journalist-says Please note that other dictators have also use these ethnic policies, but Hitler is the go-to example because his speeches and writings are so clear-cut and intentional about it. There was a plan, much like there is a plan in Stephen Miller's mind today. |
Anonymous
This is awesome! And so true. I am all for protecting our borders. Why do you support letting migrants die in the desert? |
Anonymous
Yes, many are hurt when you puncture their middlebrow fantasy. Psst, instead of using a particular horror show for an analogy, instead use things that are nearly universal, you’ll make more sense. |
Anonymous
We all wish it weren't true, but sadly it is, and the comparison is justified. You're thinking about gas chambers and killing 6 million Jews. We haven't come to that, and probably won't, but Nazi propaganda started in exactly the same way the Trump administration is talking about Mexicans, Muslims, and other groups today. We are talking about a similar direction, and that in itself is dangerous. |
Anonymous
The party of oppression and slavery likes to make with the hitler jokes. No self awareness at all. |
Anonymous
Only part of one side voted for someone who believes in caging children and letting immigrants die under their watch and pardoning war criminals. There are no "both sides" here. |
Anonymous
Trump was a successful game show host. Hitler analogies are for the simple AND they’re not effective anti-Trump rhetoric. |
Anonymous
Do you really equate Americans shooting immigrants at the border with migrants dying in an effort to reach the border? These events have the same weight for you? There is direct intentional harm on one hand, and no direct intentional harm on the other. What is your solution? |
Anonymous
You tell yourself whatever you need to to keep your head buried in the sand. You know, like Germans did for years. |
Anonymous
Southern Strategy is the evolution of the GOP from the party of Lincoln to the party of slavery. So when you disparage the democrats of the 1850's you are really referring to the modern GOP. Congrats for the self-own. |
Anonymous
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“As a historian specializing in the Holocaust, Nazi Germany, and Europe in the era of the world wars, I have been repeatedly asked about the degree to which the current situation in the United States resembles the interwar period and the rise of fascism in Europe. I would note several troubling similarities and one important but equally troubling difference.”
“Today, President Trump seems intent on withdrawing the US from the entire post–World War II structure of interlocking diplomatic, military, and economic agreements and organizations that have preserved peace, stability, and prosperity since 1945. His preference for bilateral relations, conceived as zero-sum rivalries in which he is the dominant player and “wins,” overlaps with the ideological preference of Steve Bannon and the so-called alt-right for the unfettered self-assertion of autonomous, xenophobic nation-states—in short, the pre-1914 international system. That “international anarchy” produced World War I, the Bolshevik Revolution, the Great Depression, the fascist dictatorships, World War II, and the Holocaust, precisely the sort of disasters that the post–World War II international system has for seven decades remarkably avoided.” “If the US has someone whom historians will look back on as the gravedigger of American democracy, it is Mitch McConnell. He stoked the hyperpolarization of American politics to make the Obama presidency as dysfunctional and paralyzed as he possibly could. As with parliamentary gridlock in Weimar, congressional gridlock in the US has diminished respect for democratic norms, allowing McConnell to trample them even more. Nowhere is this vicious circle clearer than in the obliteration of traditional precedents concerning judicial appointments. ” “Alongside the erosion of an independent judiciary as a check on executive power, other hallmarks of illiberal democracy are the neutralization of a free press and the steady diminution of basic human rights.” Written by Holocaust historian https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2018/10/25/suffocation-of-democracy/ |
Anonymous
Stalin might be a better comparison? |
Anonymous
How was he a successful host? Because an Executive Producer with ties to Russia used Russian money to fund a reality show that was heavily edited to augment the image of the host? |
Anonymous
You're the one that doesn't make sense, so take your own advice first. Walks like a duck, talks like a duck... |