To match their hats.. And necks.

That comparison is not valid.

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Hitler was a military veteran who served time in prison for his political beliefs. He wrote out, in great detail, his vision for what he thought Germany should be like and devoted his life from a very young age to political activism. He was a true believer, in every sense of the word. Of course, what he believed in so passionately, was the most vile, hateful ideology known to man.

Trump, on the other hand, avoided the military, had barely shown any interest in politics, has changed his positions from one day to the next, would rather make jokes than give a serious speech, and seems more interested in building his brand and making money than actually being president. He seems like he'd be quite happy playing golf and vacationing in Florida.

Trump would have no problem sending others to fight wars for him.

Trump is pretty vile and hateful. If given the opportunity, who know what he is capable of.

Honestly, the instant I read that topic line, he bewigged face popped into my mind. Is it too early to start drinking??

Imagine the mayhem and dead dogs!
[hr][font color="blue"][center]I'm always right. When I'm wrong I admit it.
So then I'm right about being wrong.[/center][/font][hr]

...like his Election observer team?

Which means....what? Pillows and hot towels as they bus you out after storming your home in the middle of the night?

Well...
[hr][font color="blue"][center]I'm always right. When I'm wrong I admit it.
So then I'm right about being wrong.[/center][/font][hr]

Unless Trump is elected.

Really, fuck them all.

and people, environment, everything.

Not similar even remotely.

comparison. Trump has Neo-Nazis and White Supremacists flocking to his campaign, has demonized and plans to deport 12 million people, using deportation squads. It's a pretty good comparison.

Where on earth did you come up with that?

I despise Trump, but he is not Hitler.

Such a comparison is cheap and easy and not illustrative of reality.

But I guess most people don't know who that is.

the fear. Anyway, Jean Marie is a busted flush, Marine is the 21st century face of French/European Fascism.

Hitler was the exact opposite.

This is just my opinion, but I don't think it's a valid comparison at all.

And if saying Trump is "not as bad as Hitler" counts as defending him, so be it.

There is a powerful strain of white nationalism in the US, unfortunately, that exists irrespective of Trump. To me, listening to the Breitbart types spew racism and hatred is what's really frightening.

Much like when Pat Buchanan had his little run (Although he, too, was smarter than Trump and actually had things he believed in, loathsome though they were).

more skilful in carrying out his rabid thoughts, and again those similarities are striking. I don't think we should be afraid of making the comparison to Hitler when it's warranted. I think this is as clear an example as there has been in a while. I accept you don't agree, but we'll have to agree to disagree on this.

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/08/21/trump-campaign-manager-conway-immigrant-deportation-force-to-be-determined.html

who even POSSIBLY looks at the orange turnip think he's anything but a fucking Nazi? "Humane Deportation Force" MY ASS!

Hope he takes down the entire RW Senate & House with him in Nov.

This needs to be TV AD. History repeats itself

MSNBC and CNN have spent most of the morning talking about her Emails

The pathological minds of the RW Cult and the sickness of those that believe.

Trump's casinos? How can this possibly play as a good idea to even those who want every non-white-christian deported? They can't want to actually pay for it!

I know it's the "go to" analogy these days, but it's really not right.

Anne Frank's Stepsister: Trump 'Is Acting Like Hitler': Holocaust Survivors Warn of Historical Parallels
A critique that should chill all of us to the bone.


“If Donald Trump becomes the next president of the U.S. it would be a complete disaster,” author and Auschwitz survivor Eva Schloss states in a recent Newsweek op-ed marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Pointing to his promises to close the borders to Muslims and Mexicans, the 86-year-old Schloss, who is the stepsister of Anne Frank, sees disturbing parallels between the Republican frontrunner and a dangerous historical predecessor. “I think he is acting like another Hitler by inciting racism,” Schloss says. “Fewer people would have died in the Holocaust if the world had accepted more Jewish refugees.”

She is not the only Holocaust survivor who has observed Trump’s ascendancy with fear and foreboding. With “Don’t stand by” as the theme of this year’s observance of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a number of survivors are speaking out about the ugliness of Trump’s message and those who have embraced it. These words of warning come as multiple polls indicate Trump currently holds comfortable leads among GOP voters in Iowa, South Carolina and New Hampshire.

“The guy scares me,” Martin Weiss, an 87-year-old Auschwitz survivor who lost most of his family in the camp, told the Washington Post. “I don’t want to make any comparison to Hitler, but believe it or not his delivery and the way he conducts himself is very similar to Hitler’s way of doing things. He discredits everybody who disagrees with him. He’s insulting. He discriminates against everybody.”

“It’s really frightening,” survivor Al Munzer told the newspaper. “When you see these mass rallies that Trump is able to attract, you really wonder: How are they buying into this message of hate?”

read more: http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/anne-franks-stepsister-trump-acting-hitler-other-holocaust-survivors-warn-historical

My view is that it is not appropriate.

There are much more illustrative examples of candidates like Trump throughout history.

Le Pen comes to mind.

I don't consider them just "a lot of folks."

There are different views among them. Just like every other group. There are some who don't think the comparison is valid and some who do.

Have you read "Against All Odds: Holocaust Survivors and the Successful Lives They Made in America" ?

That book came out in the early 1990s and several of the Holocaust survivors interviewed compared Jesse Jackson to Hitler (a comparison I also don't think is valid).

Both Mussolini and Hitler came to power in ways not altogether dissimilar to Trump's (and the right wing's) method: turn citizens against one another; demonize an entire religion; threaten to deport "undesirables"; draw core support (and muscle) from the more insulated regions of the country; over-the-top nationalism; blatant racism, sexism and hate for LGBTQ individuals; rampant xenophobia; anti-science and anti intellectualism; claim that only one man can make *your country here* great again, etc.

The similarities are horrifying in their implication. And, just like those despots of the last century, one has no idea of just how dark things are going to be down the road while still in the early stages of bluster and fast talk.

Othering is a path only a small mind can walk.

...and bikers--like he did to police the NRC. They like to dress in khaki and sunglasses, jeans and bullet proof vests. The modern survivalist look is what's "hip" among American fascists these days.

will be the Stormtroopers in the TrumpenFührer's Amerika.

It is a term describing fascists.

days ago of trying to make nice with Hispanics during that meeting photo-op?

Wow.

A bunch of pot-bellied, loser white men, with no law enforcement training, clad in red hats, bashing down doors of suspected illegal immigrants?

Let me gently suggest that I think there would be outright violent resistance to that throughout the country.

https://www.facebook.com/LiberalLicious/photos/a.193064114163875.50931.193062840830669/858978437572436/