Liberals and other liberals calling Donald Trump a totalitarian and a Nazi and labeling him a” Hitler” may not be able to overstate the harm done to conscience.
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Asked by Anderson Cooper on CNN if she believes Trump is a “fascist”, Kamala Harris said,” Yes, I do”.
With regard to calling Trump” Hitler”, Newsweek’s fact-checker concluded:” Harris did n’t immediately contact Trump ‘ Hitler.’ However, many will think she came very close to it: she confirmed that she believes Trump is a fascist, quoted ( retired four-star General, and one of Donald Trump’s White House chiefs of staff, John ] Kelly’s unfavorable comments ( Kelly said Trump ‘ wanted generals like Adolf Hitler had’ ) and suggested Trump would ‘ invoke’ Hitler”.
Harris ‘ running mate, Tim Walz, compared the Trump march at Madison Square Garden to the 1939 Nazi march at Madison Square Garden.
Numerous Hitler historians have done also. In a 2017 essay in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Ron Rosenbaum, author of a New York Times bestselling biography of Adolf Hitler,” Explaining Hitler”, compared Trump to Hitler:
“( The views of ) Trump and his minions …come out of a playbook written in German…. The rulebook is’ Mein Kampf.’
What I want to recommend is a genuine contrast to Hitler that merits consideration. It’s what you might call the secret strategy, a kind of persuasive power that both Hitler and Trump used on their competitors, particularly the internet.
” Alan Bullock ( the first major Hitler biographer )… had initially argued ( that ) it was likely ( Hitler ) had believed in , nothingand just used the Jew-hatred to advance his cause with the nitwit thug segment of the German people. Only as Trump appealed to his nincompoop criminal racist, anti-Semite supporters…. This is the evaluation I’d been seeking”.
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In April, the Los Angeles Times published an opinion part,” Trump turns his investigations into a platform. Does he understand he’s channeling Hitler”? It was written by another Hitler scholar, Timothy W. Ryback– a former lecturer at Harvard ( surprise! ) — whose most recent book is” Acquisition: Hitler’s Final Rise to Power”. As we approach the election results to determine who will lead the next government in the United States, his summary is” the alarm-clinging couplet of Hitler’s and Trump’s courtroom appearances, two demagogues– separated by a century– exploiting their lawfully guaranteed rights to free speech and expected process.”
The Left’s important trait is the use of language. Liberals have done this not only to” Hitler”,” Nazi” and “fascist” but to “genocide”, “apartheid”, “racist” and almost every other word connoting evil. Trotsky was called a totalitarian by Stalin, and it continues to this day.
The hurt, as I wrote above, never be overstated.
Calling Trump” Hitler” and” Nazi” utterly trivializes Hitler and Nazism. Younger people, the recipients of a mostly meaningless education in National schools– particularly regarding history– know much, if anything, about Hitler and Nazism. For most of them, so, if Trump is Hitler, then Hitler was Trump. Hitler was nothing more sinister than a European type of Trump; he was the only European version of Hitler who was not the architect of World War II and the one who founded the Holocaust.
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It is beyond belief that American veterans and Jewish organizations have n’t yelled protest at Trump’s label as a” Hitler.” It’s difficult to say whether Hitler, Nazism, or the Holocaust will ever again bring back the dread that these words have previously evoked.
That Jewish organizations have never actively protested labeling Trump” Hitler” and” Nazi” simply shows how deep the left-wing influence has been on most American Jewish businesses, particularly the Anti-Defamation League, the organization founded to protect American Jews and combat racism.
It also begs to think that veterans organizations have n’t vehemently condemned the trivialization of Hitler and Nazism. Did hundreds of thousands of Americans perish while being killed by a German Trump? Was it about battling Trump supporters during the D-Day invasion of Normandy?
The word no longer has any meaning if Trump represents the same embodiment of evil as Hitler and the Nazis.
