Trump is Hitler!
(Must be an election year.)
Donald Trump starred on the June cover of The New Republic, along with a Adolf Hitler mustache and "American Fascism: What It Would Look Like" in whatever the German font looks like:
After years of political violence under Joe Biden and his fellow Democrats — including pogroms against Jews across the country — you know who reminds this particular publication of Hitler? Trump!
Here's how The New Republic justified their totally unique claim.
We chose the cover image, based on a well-known 1932 Hitler campaign poster, for a precise reason: that anyone transported back to 1932 Germany could very, very easily have explained away Herr Hitler's excesses and been persuaded that his critics were going overboard. After all, he spent 1932 campaigning, negotiating, doing interviews — being a mostly normal politician. But he and his people vowed all along that they would use the tools of democracy to destroy it, and it was only after he was given power that Germany saw his movement's full face.
Today, we at The New Republic think we can spend this election year in one of two ways. We can spend it debating whether Trump meets the nine or 17 points that define fascism. Or we can spend it saying, "He's damn close enough, and we'd better fight."
We unreservedly choose the latter course. And so we have assembled herein some of our leading intellectual historians of fascism; a member of the fourth estate who learned firsthand what the Trump lash feels like; a leading expert on civil-military relations; a great Guatemalan American novelist with a deep understanding of immigrants' lives; one of our most incisive cultural critics; and a man with all-too-real experience in living under a notorious authoritarian regime. The scenarios they describe are certainly grim. We dare you to say, after reading these pieces, that they are impossible.
And the replies were …yeah.
With hordes of modern day Palestinian Nazis roaming the streets of Biden's America in search of Jews, as Biden sends cash to genocidal terrorists, Donald Trump is Hitler?
Give me a break.
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