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How close it Trump to being a modern-day Hitler?

How close is Trump to being Hitler?

  • 0% - not in any way shape or form

    Votes: 8 34.8%

  • 20% - some similarities, but get real, every politician has to be a populist...

    Votes: 1 4.3%

  • 40% - enough similarities to make me uncomfortable but still think he is just a performer

    Votes: 4 17.4%

  • 60% - wow, he is close enough to be a little scary, but not enough to worry about really, is it? Uh.

    Votes: 5 21.7%

  • 80% - closest thing to Hitler since Hitler. Something needs to be done.

    Votes: 5 21.7%

  • 100% - He is trying to become the next Hitler and likely has a hidden agenda. Needs to be stopped.

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    23
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Ok let's get it out there, why not?

How close is Trump to being a modern-day Hitler? I have had several articles arise in my various news feeds, one that sums things up very well was in the Guardian, although they are far from my preferred news publication, hence why I do not quote them very often. But in this article they lay out the similarities based on a book by a professor of German in England. Here is the article

www.theguardian.com

The reich stuff – what does Trump really have in common with Hitler?

Comparisons between the ex-president and the 20th-century Nazi leader are controversial but a new book says they resemble each other as political performance artists
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com

Keep in mind this is even a few months old and I would wager Trump is waxing more fascist in recent months, attempting to be the populist that controls the electorate rather than being a good politician with an actual plan of any kind. Of course Hitler had a devastating plan that no one found out about until it was practically too late to do anything about it. Does Trump have a similar plan? I guess time will tell.


Anyway, what are your thoughts?



I do ask one thing, please try to bring evidence of some kind, not just endless xitter posts and memes that say nothing in the end, or just throw opinions around that could be summed up as "nuh-uh" or "uh-huh".
 
This links to an honor thesis on the subject of a comparison of Hitler to Trump. Some interesting points, a few others overblown and some bias on full display in places, but generally well-written and researched. Worth a read.

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Not sure if that will post correctly, if not here is the abstract:

Rhetorical Demagoguery: An Exploration of Trump’s and Hitler’s Rise to Power

While many scholars have examined the rhetoric of President Donald Trump and Adolf Hitler individually, there is a void of scholarly work that highlights the similarities between the two leaders’ use of grandiloquent language to stoke the passions of their perspective nations. In the past one...
digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu
 
LogGrad98 said:
How close is Trump to being a modern-day Hitler?
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They aren't remotely close to each other. Even the authors of your linked paper noted that fact when they said "their political strategies ultimately differed greatly". The paper you linked was comparing Hitler's speeches to Trump's speeches, not comparing the two men as you have done in your poll.

Hitler was a Communist who was in the German Communist Party until he had a falling out and decided to pursue a different kind of socialism. Hitler said that Communism and Capitalism were both Jewish plots. Hitler's socialism was neither Communism or Capitalism, but is what is referred to as Third Position.

Third Position - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org

Trump is a Capitalist. He builds buildings and sells gold shoes. He sells steaks and his own brand of bibles.

On the chart, Trump is someplace between Conservatism and Neoliberalism. Hitler is way over near the end in between Mussolini and Stalin. I also don't think Kamala is Hitler but if closeness is what you're after, technically Kamala would be closer to Hitler than Trump would be.

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My opinion isn’t valid because I’m an insane leftist who has TDS.

To get a better opinion on the matter we need an unbiased source, like Trump's VP canadiate.

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It's extremely embarrassing that people are so uneducated that they compare a guy who killed over 6 million Jews and started a war that killed over 72 MILLION people to Trump. I'm sorry but these people are flat out stupid uneducated melodramatic people.

But as a Trump supporter, I'm curious... Who exactly are we goint to kill? This has baffled me for years. Wasn't it Democrats that shut down schools in their anti-Jew riots just a few months ago? Who has people in the Squad that had Jews? Who sides with a regime that invaded Israel and raped little girls at a concert dedicated to peace? Who sides with Hamas here? Democrats.

But again. Log, tell us who we are going to genocide while you all kill your own children in the womb. Murder millions of black in the womb. Openly advocate to kill presidents like you do? Wish death on people?

Log wont answer. He's a melodramatic troll.
 
Bawse Dawg said:
My opinion isn’t valid because I’m an insane leftist who has TDS.

To get a better opinion on the matter we need an unbiased source, like Trump's VP canadiate.

OIP.iZXFR3qkMWkIqlk8sECHqQHaNH
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Well, in keeping with most followers of demagogues, he has done a "complete 360" on that one.
 

US colleges revise rules to stop resurgence of anti-Israel protests this school year​

As students return to colleges across the United States, administrators are bracing for a resurgence in activism against Israel over the war in the Gaza Strip, and some schools are adopting rules to limit the kind of protests that swept campuses last spring.

While the summer break provided a respite in student demonstrations against the Israel-Hamas war, it also gave student protesters and higher education officials a chance to regroup and strategize for the fall semester.

 
LogGrad98 said:
Well, in keeping with most followers of demagogues, he has done a "complete 360" on that one.
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At least we can be sure he had no outside influences or career reasons for backtracking.


SteakNEggs said:
You won't answer because you can't. But who are we going to kill exactly? As a Trump supporter I'd love for you to back up your stupidity.
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It’s very concerning that you think there needs to be a holocaust equivalent for Trump to be compared to Hitler. Trump uses tons of Hitlers political strategies. It’s been well documented. Should I not be concerned about that because people aren’t being rounded up into ghettos yet? The only argument you have is “yea he said those horrible things and yea he acts like that. But you really think he would actually do anything? You fools!”

Ask the Palestinian people if there’s a genocide going on. Ask the guy in charge of that genocide who he wants to be president of the US.
 
Bawse Dawg said:
At least we can be sure he had no outside influences or career reasons for backtracking.



It’s very concerning that you think there needs to be a holocaust equivalent for Trump to be compared to Hitler. Trump uses tons of Hitlers political strategies. It’s been well documented. Should I not be concerned about that because people aren’t being rounded up into ghettos yet? The only argument you have is “yea he said those horrible things and yea he acts like that. But you really think he would actually do anything? You fools!”

Ask the Palestinian people if there’s a genocide going on. Ask the guy in charge of that genocide who he wants to be president of the US.
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Still waiting. Our education system is a failure. You should be ashamed lol. Hitler is the Holocaust. Wtf do you think people mean by calling him Hitler? Lol embarrassing.

Who does Trump want to genocide? I'll wait. You're(Alt left Democrats) the only one openly advocating for murdering political opponents and arresting them. True or false?
 
SteakNEggs said:
Still waiting. Our education system is a failure. You should be ashamed lol. Hitler is the Holocaust. Wtf do you think people mean by calling him Hitler? Lol embarrassing.
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I just told you, and you just bury your head in the sand and say "No until he kills millions we can't make comparisons!" Hitler is the holocaust, wtf does that even mean? You don't even know what you're saying or the argument you are trying to make.

SteakNEggs said:
Who does Trump want to genocide? I'll wait. You're(Alt left Democrats) the only one openly advocating for murdering political opponents and arresting them. True or false?
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You'll be waiting awhile, because I never said the thing you are waiting for me to say.

False
 
I've always seen Trump as more of a Mussolini. I don't think Trump is looking to do a holocaust, he's looking to be a strongman dictator who demands the adoration of his subjects.

I also think that Trump wouldn't care if one of his favorite underlings did want a holocaust and was actually doing it. I don't think Trump cares either way if Americans live or die. Prosper or starve. Are free or enslaved. He only cares about being worshipped.
 
Bawse Dawg said:
I just told you, and you just bury your head in the sand and say "No until he kills millions we can't make comparisons!" Hitler is the holocaust, wtf does that even mean? You don't even know what you're saying or the argument you are trying to make.



You'll be waiting awhile, because I never said the thing you are waiting for me to say.

False
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Thank you for admitting this a stupid f* thread lol. Yeah as a Trump supporter I have a job and family to feed just as 99.99% of other Republicans. Like we really care that much that we're going to genocide .... Who?....Likening us to Nazis like uneducated Log is truly the epitome of melodramatic stupidity. Or more than likely he's trolling because he obviously can't use words.

Log is the one openly advocating to kill political opponents and wanting people like me dead because I vote differently. You stuck up for him. I can tell you all who you all want dead, unlike you.
 
Bawse Dawg said:
It's funny how triggered you and others get by the comparison.

How much garbage about Kamala is posted here daily? Do us Dems get into a wild frenzy about it? No we ignore the dumb ****.

If this is such a crazy comparison with no basis to support it then why get so upset over it?
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You can't even explain the comparison lol. I can when Log openly advocates to kill people. But please, man up. Explain how Trump is Hitler when you openly admit hes not going to genocide or murder a single person. I can use words, let's discuss this sheer stupidity.

Id ask log bit he's too busy advocating to murder political opponents and telling others to kill themselves to actually back his uneducated claim up.
 
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