Quote (Goomshill @ Mar 20 2017 01:02pm)
So you're referring to the way he was advocating they jump in and start axing jews even before the 20's, the complete lack of parallels for the melees, the stormtroopers, the beer hall putsch, his admiration for the march on rome, his trial and nazi party outlawed and his years in prison, the continued violence and campaign of assassinations and trials for treason, the great depression, the reichstag fire and Kristallnacht?
Square peg into round hole is one thing
More specifically, referring to parallels between the speeches and rhetoric used. Hitler ran on a campaign promise of restoring Germany to greatness, repairing the national pride after defeat in WW1, and scapegoated a minority that was already somewhat in the bad graces of Germany at the time.
Trump ran on a campaign promise to "Make America Great Again", repair our international image after some flubs in the Mid East, and has been scapegoating Muslims and Latinos, both of whom have been under scrutiny in recent memory.
Both preferred to air their own "facts" (Hitler by controlling the media, Trump by denying the mainstream media and promoting sources that ride his nuts shamelessly), both were men who shamelessly used flamboyance and social presence over facts or rationality, and Trump has actually made a study of Hitler--which is likely why he's using similar tactics.
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Donald Trump appears to take aspects of his German background seriously. John Walter works for the Trump Organization, and when he visits Donald in his office, Ivana told a friend, he clicks his heels and says, “Heil Hitler,” possibly as a family joke.
Last April, perhaps in a surge of Czech nationalism, Ivana Trump told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that from time to time her husband reads a book of Hitler’s collected speeches, My New Order, which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed. Kennedy now guards a copy of My New Order in a closet at his office, as if it were a grenade. Hitler’s speeches, from his earliest days up through the Phony War of 1939, reveal his extraordinary ability as a master propagandist.
http://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/2015/07/donald-ivana-trump-divorce-prenup-marie-brenner