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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.
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