What normalizes extremist behavior is ignoring it while it happens and accelerates. The hateful, extremist policies and rhetoric I linked to — only a small subs

What normalizes extremist behavior is ignoring it while it happens and accelerates. The hateful, extremist policies and rhetoric I linked to — only a small subset, by the way — are highly unusual in mainstream American politics. As a reminder, the man proclaimed that immigrants were "poisoning the blood of our country"[1] and ran on the promise of putting swaths of them (and other undesirables) into actual concentration camps. Can you seriously not see the comparison? It's not even a dog whistle anymore. Repeating myself, Hitler did not campaign on war and genocide. (In fact, the war was propagandized in Germany as a defensive act.) But by the time a 1933 Hitler becomes a 1939 Hitler, it’s too late to do anything about it. Incidentally, here's what an actual Holocaust survivor[2] has to say on the matter: > The woman who was forced to listen daily to Adolf Hitler’s lunatic rants on the radio for seven years in the 1930s was blunt: “When I hear Trump speak, I hear Hitler again. When I see his rallies, it’s like what I saw in Nazi Germany”. [1]: https://wisconsinexaminer.com/2024/01/29/trump-knows-exactly-what-poisoning-the-blood-or-our-country-meant/ https://wisconsinexaminer.com/2024/01/29/trump-knows-exactly... [2]: https://forward.com/community/455507/100-year-old-holocaust-survivor-compares-trump-to-hitler/ https://forward.com/community/455507/100-year-old-holocaust-...