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For the love of 100 million people dead in Europe in a short span of 32 years. Please stop comparing every other 'Native Populist' to Hitler, Mussolini etc. The
by sremani 10y ago
For the love of 100 million people dead in Europe in a short span of 32 years. Please stop comparing every other 'Native Populist' to Hitler, Mussolini etc. The politics may look similar, yes, there is a racial undertone to it, but seriously, argue the facts not fiction. Comparing Trump to Hitler is intersection of intellectual overreach and laziness.
- aerovistae 10y agoDisagree. The comparison is between Trump and what Hitler seemed to be before he revealed himself in full as what he truly was. The analogy is completely sound. We are comparing to late 1920s Hitler, not 1940s hitler. It's an important distinction.
- whamlastxmas 10y agoMein Kampf was published in 1925 and outlined the vast majority of Hitler's beliefs and plans.
- AnimalMuppet 10y agoKeep in mind, though, that not everybody who sounded like late 1920s Hitler turned into 1940s Hitler. (Can't think of any counterexamples off the top of my head, but I suspect there are more who didn't than more who did.) But it's kind of like safety engineering: You plan for the worst possible accident, not for the happiest possible outcome. If Hitler is the worst possible outcome of electing Trump, that's bad enough that even Hillary looks good. Not that I could vote for Hillary, but I sure ain't voting for Trump.
- aerovistae 10y agoThe safety engineering analogy is exactly it.