Honesty compels me to tell you that there are numerous similarities between Trump and Hitler. Hitler’s angry, sarcastic speaking style reminds one of Trump. Like Trump, Hitler was attempting to recreate a mythical golden age in his country’s history. He was lazy and liked to pit his followers against each other (imagine Goering, Himmler, and Goebbels in “The Nazi Apprentice”). He was, shall we say, not too concerned with telling people the truth. He rejected the advice of experts and relied on his intuition, which he viewed as being infallible. He tried to overthrow the government in a shambolic coup attempt but faced few legal consequences for it. Finally, he never won a majority of the vote in a fair election–not that it mattered in the end.
But Trump doesn’t have an SA. He’s much older than Hitler, and has less time left to implement his vision, such as it is. He’s far more driven by personal grievances than a monstrous ideology. He’s not a warmonger. His country is not staggering economically. America under the McConnell Project is still governable; the Communists are not the alternative. The differences thus exceed the similarities.
I think.