Immediately on coming to power in 1933, he began issuing executive decrees and sidelining the parliamentary reichstag. For hitler, this was about creating a myth of aryan supremacy and a world conspiracy against germany For trump, it involved perpetuating the idea that he was a victim of a “deep state” conspiracy and a “rigged” system. The assumption was that voters would be turned off by seeing trump for what he is — authoritarian, pitiless, hateful — and would recognize him as a kind of hitler. Trump’s actions are designed to undermine the rule of law, dismantle checks and balances and put into place measures that will enable him to remain in office Both hitler and trump said.
President donald trump to adolf hitler, and the maga movement to nazis, is an inexact and unfair analogy Nonetheless, it has appeared repeatedly. Two democratic commentators recently compared former president trump to adolf hitler despite the multiple attempts to assassinate the former president. At his campaign rally in iowa this week, donald trump once again broke new ground, becoming the first leading presidential candidate to find it necessary to insist he had never read the most infamous book of the 20th century. Last weekend, trump as “hitler” did what all tyrants eventually do — he scooped french fries at mcdonald’s and served happy meals
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