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choie

(4,111 posts)
Sat Mar 2, 2019, 03:15 PM Mar 2019

This 2016 NY Times review of a biography about Hitler

describes in stark reality, how he rose to power. The similarities beween Hitler and Trump are eerie -- the condiitons that allowed them to rise, their language, mode of communicating, the people and institutions that enabled them and their followers I've put a link to the youtube video of a segment of Mike Malloy's program from back in 2016 wherein he reads from the review, and the review itself:



https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/28/books/hitler-ascent-volker-ullrich.html
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This 2016 NY Times review of a biography about Hitler (Original Post) choie Mar 2019 OP
There is a great deal in common in the rise of Trump and Hitler... CrossingTheRubicon Mar 2019 #1
"Propaganda must appeal to the emotions, not the reasoning power, of the crowd." smirkymonkey Mar 2019 #2
Not a fair comparison Trumpocalypse Mar 2019 #3
 

CrossingTheRubicon

(731 posts)
1. There is a great deal in common in the rise of Trump and Hitler...
Sat Mar 2, 2019, 03:49 PM
Mar 2019

including--but not limited to--the decision of the German left to attack liberals in a strategy they called "Nach Hitler, Kommen Wir."

Or Hitler First, Then Us.

Susan Sarandon explicitly affirmed her affinity to this strategy as part of a belief that a Trump presidency would help "bring on the Revolution."

It is a bad idea not to learn from history.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
2. "Propaganda must appeal to the emotions, not the reasoning power, of the crowd."
Sat Mar 2, 2019, 04:07 PM
Mar 2019

"The crowd's purely intellectual level will have to be that of the lowest mental common denominator among the public it is desired to reach. Because the understanding of the masses is feeble, effective propaganda will have to be boiled down to a few slogans that could be persistently repeated until the very last individual has come to grasp the idea that has been put forward."

Scary stuff. The parallels between Hitler and Trump and how they came to capture the the hearts and minds of such large portions of the population are uncanny.

Worth listening to. Molloy at the end said "every single sentence of that review just screamed Donald Trump."

As long as he is in power, we as a nation are in grave danger.

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