Quote (Ryvulet @ Nov 11 2024 07:06pm)
What am I dodging? I'll put my stance out there, if he said potentially one of Hitler's strategies that recovered Germany and snowballed it to a war machine in a short period of time was a good idea, it probably was, tbh. I wonder how many of those key strats are commonly used in economies and policies around the world today. You take a name and immediately assume (what I point the left actually emobides) and instead of thinking of like (what was the context of the conversation and the specific thing Trump said) to critically understand why this wasn't already used to pivot the election and scare away the voters who decided to step over the left line into the right and help Trump win the election.
You are micro minded and honestly not even well-thought out there.
Now, if Trump said; "We should use the military like Hitler to oppress our peopel and censor the media, and then begin killing/deporting my enemies so that I can establish a dictatorship." I'd be concerned then.
so you not only lack the context of the quote but your assumption is so far beyond generous that I can tell you clearly arent entertaining the possibility he didnt mean it in a good way
John Kelly was his longest service chief of staff, a retired Marine General, and a conservative himself.
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Kelly has long been critical of Trump and previously accused him of calling veterans killed in combat “suckers” and “losers.” Still, his new warnings came just two weeks before Election Day, as Trump seeks a second term vowing to dramatically expand his use of the military at home and suggesting he would use force to go after Americans he considers “enemies from within.”
“Surely you can’t mean Hitler’s generals,” Kelly recalled asking Trump. To which the former president responded, “Yeah, yeah, Hitler’s generals.”
“He commented more than once that, ‘You know, Hitler did some good things, too,’” Kelly recalled to The Times. Kelly said he would usually quash the conversation by saying “nothing (Hitler) did, you could argue, was good,” but that Trump would occasionally bring up the topic again.
In his interview with The Atlantic, Kelly recalled that when Trump raised the idea of needing “German generals,” Kelly would ask if he meant “Bismarck’s generals,” referring to Otto von Bismarck, the former chancellor of the German Reich who oversaw the unification of Germany. “Surely you can’t mean Hitler’s generals,” Kelly recalled asking Trump. To which the former president responded, “Yeah, yeah, Hitler’s generals.”