Most of today's GOP figures - especially those seeking the presidency - are aspiring Adolfs, and little more.

Amazing revelation. Thank you for posting this.

A future Mel Brooks production, you think?

Hitler was a man of well-documented failings, but it must be admitted that he was an independent leader. The modern GOP has put itself on Putin's payroll to such an extent that a better analogy is Vidkum Quisling. The lot of them, Trump included, have more in common with a toady like Quisling than with a mover and shaker like Hitler.

And for all his shortcomings and unspeakable crimes, Hitler was at least a big believer in public works and actually trying to develop Germany.

Today's GOP is, for the most part, all of the bad of fascist dictators - but none of the good.

We have a nodding buffoon like Fascist Italy, that we got "by the Grace of God" like Fascist Spain, and it's only a matter of time until a Cabinet official escapes by jumping out of an airplane like Fascist Germany.

But we don't even have the snappy uniforms. We get 5 meter long ties, baseball caps, and poorly-fitting suits. Can't this regime at least get Hugo Boss to dress it?

Awesomely done, your Popefulness

There are a lot of similarities in the playbook that is/has been used.

the problem is not in doing the comparison. that's quite possible to do objectively and without judgment and without any automatic implication that the one thing is anything like the other thing. that's the point of comparing two things, to determine how they're similar *or not* similar.

the problem here is that he was able to *liken* what donnie did to what hitler did. the problem is that the *result* of the comparison was that they *are* similar.


or worse, that perhaps donnie et al. even *modeled* they're strategy after hitler's. they certainly modeled other aspects of their propaganda after hitler and goebbels.

"Trump's like Hitler--he's perfect for the needs of Cambridge Analytica."