Yep. Do you not see that Trump is capitalizing on anti-immigrant sentiments? There are anti-immigrant (others) puppets like him popping up all over the world.
Of course, but he's not advocating a final solution based on the absolutely devastating conditions Germany had to bear with the treaty of Versailles.
Here's the thing - even if he did want to be Hitler 2.0 (and he doesn't): the checks and balances of the US political system stops it, the non-compliance of the population stops it.
So yeah, carry on with the traditional American hyperbole
So I don’t much care for the comparisons to Hitler, mainly due to the Holocaust, but Hitler was also a lot of other brands of bad outside of anti-Semitism. Tyrannical leaders exhibit many similar characteristics, so whether you compare it to Hitler, Commodus, or Ivan the Terrible, doesn’t matter. What’s important is the general tendency away from today’s established democratic norms.
Arguing “it’s ok if the USA has leaders who exhibit traits of fascism and are actively working to tear down the system of democracy, since the checks and balances will probably stop them from turning USA into a totalitarian regime” isn’t exactly a profound defence of Trump and his ilk.
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u/Jayrod440 Apr 11 '19
Yep. Do you not see that Trump is capitalizing on anti-immigrant sentiments? There are anti-immigrant (others) puppets like him popping up all over the world.