{"id":292,"date":"2023-10-15T16:10:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-15T20:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/skipjack\/?p=292"},"modified":"2023-10-16T06:41:56","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T10:41:56","slug":"the-hitler-trump-connections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/skipjack\/2023\/10\/15\/the-hitler-trump-connections\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hitler-Trump Connections"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now that the 2024 presidential election is approaching, it’s time we looked at the myriad links that connect Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler.<\/p>\n

Begin with the words of Trump\u2019s first wife, Ivana.\u00a0 Her divorce papers said he kept a book translating and annotating Hitler\u2019s pre-World War II speeches in a locked bedside cabinet, and he studied them constantly.\u00a0 Those speeches have been described by Burt Neuborne, one of America\u2019s leading civil liberties lawyers, as \u201cmasterpieces of demagogic manipulation\u201d that guided Hitler to ordering the murders of 6 million Jews and as many as 500,000 gypsies \u2013 all because they did not look like him \u2013 while he was Germany\u2019s dictator from 1933-45.<\/p>\n

In his 2019 book When at Times the Mob is Swayed: A Citizen\u2019s Guide to Defending Our Republic,<\/em> Neuborne lists 20 serious points of comparison between the early Hitler and Trump.\u00a0 Like Hitler, Trump was not elected by a majority, found direct communication channels to his base, uses racially tinged messages calculated to divide white people from people of color, relentlessly demonizes opponents, unceasingly attacks objective truth, including science, ceaselessly attacks mainstream news media, his lies blur reality and his supporters spread them, he orchestrates mass rallies to show status, embraces extreme nationalism, makes closing borders a centerpiece, embraces mass detention and deportations, uses borders to protect selected industries, cemented his rule by enriching elites, rejects international norms in favor of nationalism, attacks domestic democratic processes, attacks the judiciary and rule of law, glorifies the military, demands loyalty oaths, proclaims unchecked power, and relegates women to subordinate roles \u2013 all right out of Hitler\u2019s written words.<\/p>\n

Even beyond that, Trump has made it clear that if he is reelected president he will run the country like an all-out dictator.\u00a0 He has said he will fire thousands of civil servants and replace them with people who will do whatever he tells them to do.\u00a0 He said in a speech that the U.S. should start executing drug dealers after sham trials.\u00a0 Vanity Fair once said he demanded his military leaders act like he was Adolf Hitler and they were German generals during World War II.<\/p>\n

Just last week one of his attorneys, testifying in court on Trump\u2019s behalf, said Trump did not have to follow the Constitution because the Constitution only said he had to \u201cpreserve, protect and defend\u201d it, not follow it.<\/p>\n

And the most obvious Hitler-Trump connection of all, one that we must never forget, is that Hitler told anyone who wanted to be a dictator to lie, lie big, and keep on lying even if it is proven beyond any shadow of a doubt that you are lying.\u00a0 That\u2019s what Trump unabashedly does. He lost the 2020 election to Joe Biden in a landslide, popular vote and the Electoral College vote, and despite admitting privately that night that he knew he lost, he still claims publicly\u00a0 that he won.\u00a0 The Washington Post counted 30,573 lies Trump told during his four years as president.\u00a0 And people still believe him.<\/p>\n

Trump has heard all this Hitler talk, of course.\u00a0 He\u2019s heard it for years. And yet, despite all the evidence that proves he has the heart of a Nazi, he vehemently denies it.\u00a0 As proof, he says, he has fiercely denounced racism and the Ku Klux Klan, and has praised such anti-Nazi heroes as Winston Churchill and Franklin Delano Roosevelt.\u00a0 And, he says, he loves Democracy.\u00a0 Do you think he might be lying?<\/p>\n

He also claims he\u2019s innocent of all 91 federal felonies he\u2019s been charged with, innocent of the charge he ran (is running?) a criminal empire dedicated to destroying America as we know it, innocent of all the other federal and state felony charges that have been lodged against him.\u00a0 He\u2019s been convicted of sexually molesting a woman, and later insulted her so badly she successfully sued him for slander. He\u2019s bragged about grabbing other women\u2019s crotches.\u00a0 He might even have committed treason by sharing top-secret information about our nuclear submarines with an Australian, who blabbed it widely from there.<\/p>\n

Donald Trump is evil.\u00a0 His past is evil.\u00a0 His present is evil.\u00a0 His future promises to be evil. Donald Trump is very carefully, and very openly, walking in Adolf Hitler\u2019s footprints toward establishing a dictatorship.\u00a0 And his minions are following him like sheep to the slaughter.\u00a0 Polls show that as many as 80 percent of Republicans say they would vote for Trump even if he were convicted of a felony.\u00a0 What more proof do we need that the Republican Party intends to destroy our democracy?<\/p>\n

And what about the people who follow Trump?\u00a0 Either they\u2019re being duped or they want <\/em>to destroy our democracy, they want<\/em> a Nazi-like dictatorship, and they know Trump will lead them there.\u00a0 Or maybe they just don\u2019t care; other things are more important to them.<\/p>\n

It’s also plain that Republicans have reached this level by overcoming the problem that Democrats outnumber them. They\u2019ve depended on two things to get to this level: 1) they know Democrats just don\u2019t vote, because if we did we would have squashed them long ago and we wouldn\u2019t be in the mess we\u2019re in now; and 2) they also know how to keep those of us who do want to vote as far away from the polls as possible.<\/p>\n

Republican-controlled state legislatures pass laws that make it hard for us to vote, and often impossible for us to vote.\u00a0 Republicans also have used supercomputers that were never available before to gerrymander district lines so accurately they can guarantee they will win no matter how many Democrats vote.<\/p>\n

I was one of those gerrymandering victims.\u00a0 I live in Charleston and I was gerrymandered out of a district that GOP extremist Nancy Mace eventually won, and\u00a0 I was put into an always reliable Democratic district, home of longtime Rep. Jim Clyburn.\u00a0 Clyburn didn\u2019t need my vote; Mace\u2019s opponent badly did.\u00a0 South Carolina is one of those super gerrymandered states where only one Democrat can win a seat in Congress.\u00a0 The case is before the Supreme Court now and it doesn\u2019t look good for Democrats.<\/p>\n

And look at what Republicans are doing to Congress.\u00a0 Congress can\u2019t do anything because of these right-wing nut jobs.\u00a0 Republicans don\u2019t even qualify as a mob.\u00a0 Mobs have leaders, and Republicans can\u2019t even choose a leader.\u00a0 They\u2019re a herd.<\/p>\n

Our only way out of this is the democratic way: vote our way out.\u00a0 We must make everyone, everyone,<\/em> aware of the crucial need to vote, now more than ever.\u00a0 Only if we vote in big numbers will\u00a0 this nightmare end.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, I have been accused of being a hack because I present only one side of the story.\u00a0 I plead guilty to that, but honestly it\u2019s because I can\u2019t find anything good to say about the Republicans\u2019 direction, or anything likeable about Donald Trump (thank goodness Jesus tells me I don\u2019t have to like him, I just have to love him).<\/p>\n

But maybe I\u2019m wrong.\u00a0 Maybe there is a good side to the direction Republicans are taking.\u00a0 Maybe Trump is not a neo-Nazi.\u00a0 Maybe his followers honestly do want a democracy that works for all of us.\u00a0 Maybe.\u00a0 But I don\u2019t see it.<\/p>\n

So we\u2019ve made it easy as possible for those who disagree with me to show me and people who agree with me where we\u2019re wrong.\u00a0 Just click on the blue box at the end of this column and tell me.\u00a0 Replies will be posted without editing and will only be subject to such common-sense limits as taste and length.\u00a0 The only other requirement is that you use your name. Anonymous replies will not be printed and probably won\u2019t even be read.<\/p>\n

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