Well, there is the Jan 6th Putsch, that Trump seems to keep forgetting about.
MadRaymer on
In just the last few weeks he’s said that if he loses the election the Jews are to blame, and that his mass deportation program will issue serial numbers to the deportees.
ChungusAhUm on
They’re planning to build a network of concentration camps. Not hyperbole, they’re announcing it themselves.
And he is neck and neck with Harris in the election?. That tells you all you need to know about a lot of Americans. Disgusting.
RwaarwR on
Too bad the people who most need to absorb this will never read or believe it.
deJuice_sc on
wanting to be a dictator on day one, wanting to jail people for speaking against the supreme court (literally why the 1st amendment exists), and the efficiency office he wants to create for Elon Musk kinda sounds like he’s hoping Elon should operate like the Nazi party’s Hermann Göring – Trump is a convicted criminal, a liar, a cheater, he is repulsive and if he were to gain the power of the POTUS, especially now with everything SCOTUS has recently enabled, he’d burn American democracy into the ground.
gigglefarting on
It’s not just his words. Do we not remember the detention centers he opened?
Even Godwin admitted not all comparisons to Nazis are invalid, and when your rhetoric mirrors Nazi rhetoric, that’s just the truth.
suburban_paradise on
You’re only allowed to compare him to Hitler after he starts a huge war and puts millions in death camps, I guess.
MuttTheDutchie on
I’m so tired of the media and others treating “don’t call me a Nazi it’s mean!” as a legitimate defense when they are literally acting like a Nazi.
OIL_COMPANY_SHILL on
The fascism point that a lot of people miss… it’s not about Trump. Yes, when he says something fascistic it’s bad, but what is worse is how his supporters react.
Those are the people we are going to have to deal with for another 20-30 years at least after Trump is gone.
Oceans_Apart_ on
He resembles Hitler in more than just rhetoric. Adolf was also considered a charismatic buffoon. He was ridiculed and underestimated until he seized power. His administration was also a chaotic circus. He was also extremely lazy and uninterested in the minutae of governing.
I think Nazis have been built up to be such iconic villains, almost an unimaginable evil, that we assume they were all these criminal masterminds. So when we see the clown show that is Trump in real time, we cannot reconcile it with his historical precedent. We fear the “smarter Trump” lurking under democracy’s bed, instead of the real danger at the door.
It’s almost like our egos won’t allow the possibility that this massive dumb ass will be our downfall. It’s a massive blind spot.
waconaty4eva on
“These are just parts of a bomb I have laying around, stop acting hysterical.”
BitAgile7799 on
the rhetoric was that bad ten years ago, Republicans have no excuse, they knew and went all in on fascism
Likestopaintminis on
After “poisoning the blood” and “im a black nazi” and “give them serial numbers” can we finally call these assholes what they are?
ImmediatelyOrSooner on
Anyone with a middle school education knows this.
DM_ME_YOUR_STORIES on
The thing people need to understand is no one is comparing him to 1944 Hitler or even 1939 Hitler, but earlier.
If you went back in time to try and stop Hitler you wouldn’t wait until the Holocaust was in full swing, or after he already fully consolidated power. You’d want to get him as early as possible.
HawkeyeSherman on
Time Ghost, which recently concluded a week by week review of World War 2 spanning several years, just went back and started a month by month review of German political newspapers starting at the crash of Wall Street and Hitler’s entry into the party. https://youtu.be/SdIkDdBQSZs
It’s eye-opening hearing the rhetoric from the Nazi party as well as Social Democrats, German Communists, and others regarding the current events of the time.
Global_Permission749 on
Trump’s rhetoric is that bad, and so is Project 2025 – the playbook created to help him be a dictator on day 1.
knotml on
Project 2025 is a fascist manifesto published by American Nazis for MAGA. The Nazi Justices in SCOTUS are ready and waiting to bring it to life.
walman93 on
Now that he is talking about deporting LEGAL immigrants…yeah we are starting to get into Hitler territory
Crazy4sixflags on
As someone who has studied the propaganda of the 2nd world war this is the only time I have felt that using Hitler as a comparison is valid. It is scary how much Trump follows his playbook
LibrarianNo6865 on
People have already matched up moments to the rise of Nazism in Germany. It’s obvious. He thinks it’s a good game plan for control and is following it. He just didn’t recognize we all didn’t fail history and remember that.
metalhead82 on
Most people have not read Mein Kampf and are not familiar with anything Hitler ever wrote or said. It’s shocking how familiar the rhetoric is.
otherwisesad on
I’ve been reading a lot of books about what “normal” Germans were doing during the rise of Nazis. (This is unrelated to Trump; I just have been very interested in German history after visiting Germany for the first time this year.)
It’s terrifying how similar it is to what’s been happening in the US since 2016.
It’s also been really frustrating trying to communicate this to others, because they think it’s all fear-mongering. They don’t take it seriously because it’s Trump.
But Nazis also weren’t taken seriously. Until it was too late.
hasordealsw1thclams on
The people who scoff are either disingenuous or stupidly think that Hitler just came out of the gates genociding people.
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Well, there is the Jan 6th Putsch, that Trump seems to keep forgetting about.
In just the last few weeks he’s said that if he loses the election the Jews are to blame, and that his mass deportation program will issue serial numbers to the deportees.
They’re planning to build a network of concentration camps. Not hyperbole, they’re announcing it themselves.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trumps-massive-deportation-plan-echoes-concentration-camp-history/
And he is neck and neck with Harris in the election?. That tells you all you need to know about a lot of Americans. Disgusting.
Too bad the people who most need to absorb this will never read or believe it.
wanting to be a dictator on day one, wanting to jail people for speaking against the supreme court (literally why the 1st amendment exists), and the efficiency office he wants to create for Elon Musk kinda sounds like he’s hoping Elon should operate like the Nazi party’s Hermann Göring – Trump is a convicted criminal, a liar, a cheater, he is repulsive and if he were to gain the power of the POTUS, especially now with everything SCOTUS has recently enabled, he’d burn American democracy into the ground.
It’s not just his words. Do we not remember the detention centers he opened?
https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/04/30/us-new-report-shines-spotlight-abuses-and-growth-immigrant-detention-under-trump
Even Godwin admitted not all comparisons to Nazis are invalid, and when your rhetoric mirrors Nazi rhetoric, that’s just the truth.
You’re only allowed to compare him to Hitler after he starts a huge war and puts millions in death camps, I guess.
I’m so tired of the media and others treating “don’t call me a Nazi it’s mean!” as a legitimate defense when they are literally acting like a Nazi.
The fascism point that a lot of people miss… it’s not about Trump. Yes, when he says something fascistic it’s bad, but what is worse is how his supporters react.
Those are the people we are going to have to deal with for another 20-30 years at least after Trump is gone.
He resembles Hitler in more than just rhetoric. Adolf was also considered a charismatic buffoon. He was ridiculed and underestimated until he seized power. His administration was also a chaotic circus. He was also extremely lazy and uninterested in the minutae of governing.
I think Nazis have been built up to be such iconic villains, almost an unimaginable evil, that we assume they were all these criminal masterminds. So when we see the clown show that is Trump in real time, we cannot reconcile it with his historical precedent. We fear the “smarter Trump” lurking under democracy’s bed, instead of the real danger at the door.
It’s almost like our egos won’t allow the possibility that this massive dumb ass will be our downfall. It’s a massive blind spot.
“These are just parts of a bomb I have laying around, stop acting hysterical.”
the rhetoric was that bad ten years ago, Republicans have no excuse, they knew and went all in on fascism
After “poisoning the blood” and “im a black nazi” and “give them serial numbers” can we finally call these assholes what they are?
Anyone with a middle school education knows this.
The thing people need to understand is no one is comparing him to 1944 Hitler or even 1939 Hitler, but earlier.
If you went back in time to try and stop Hitler you wouldn’t wait until the Holocaust was in full swing, or after he already fully consolidated power. You’d want to get him as early as possible.
Time Ghost, which recently concluded a week by week review of World War 2 spanning several years, just went back and started a month by month review of German political newspapers starting at the crash of Wall Street and Hitler’s entry into the party. https://youtu.be/SdIkDdBQSZs
It’s eye-opening hearing the rhetoric from the Nazi party as well as Social Democrats, German Communists, and others regarding the current events of the time.
Trump’s rhetoric is that bad, and so is Project 2025 – the playbook created to help him be a dictator on day 1.
Project 2025 is a fascist manifesto published by American Nazis for MAGA. The Nazi Justices in SCOTUS are ready and waiting to bring it to life.
Now that he is talking about deporting LEGAL immigrants…yeah we are starting to get into Hitler territory
As someone who has studied the propaganda of the 2nd world war this is the only time I have felt that using Hitler as a comparison is valid. It is scary how much Trump follows his playbook
People have already matched up moments to the rise of Nazism in Germany. It’s obvious. He thinks it’s a good game plan for control and is following it. He just didn’t recognize we all didn’t fail history and remember that.
Most people have not read Mein Kampf and are not familiar with anything Hitler ever wrote or said. It’s shocking how familiar the rhetoric is.
I’ve been reading a lot of books about what “normal” Germans were doing during the rise of Nazis. (This is unrelated to Trump; I just have been very interested in German history after visiting Germany for the first time this year.)
It’s terrifying how similar it is to what’s been happening in the US since 2016.
It’s also been really frustrating trying to communicate this to others, because they think it’s all fear-mongering. They don’t take it seriously because it’s Trump.
But Nazis also weren’t taken seriously. Until it was too late.
The people who scoff are either disingenuous or stupidly think that Hitler just came out of the gates genociding people.