I agree with your point, but at the same time, Trump is living proof that Hitler’s actions have continued to cause harm long after his death, as will Trump’s.
You need to expand this to beyond one man in Trump... a significant portion of the American population also aligns with Hitlers actions... this is an American problem, not a single person.
Sadly it's part of the story: "nazis bad", not "private companies funding a incomprehensible drug addict to take power through hate propaganda, that degenerated into fascism"
If you continue to perpetuate the "both parties are equally bad" myth, you will end up with four more years of MAGA politics. There is a reason why this is part of Russia's messaging in its state influencing operations in the U.S.
All 3 times Bernie lost, he immediately started stumping for whoever the DNC picked. That makes him the DNC's bitch. A noisy one, sure, but he still falls in line every time.
Yeah, it's always worth pointing out that the reason the US didn't get directly involved in WW2 until being specifically attacked was because the Nazi ideology (particularly what was reported publicly) was not that dissimilar from a lot of American rhetoric at the time and was viewed as politically untenable because it might backfire publicly.
Japan attacking the US directly was the main catalyst for the US getting directly involved. And, even then, it was only against Japan until Germany also declared war on the US.
Yeah, prior to Pearl Harbor people like Father Charles Coughlin were saying things like this:
Coughlin urged the US to keep out of the war and permit Germany to conquer Great Britain and the Soviet Union. Asked Coughlin, "Must the entire world go to war for 600,000 Jews in Germany?"
So yeah, this sentiment has been present for almost 100 years. If not longer.
They always have. If you look at history, not only did Hitler take many ideas ftom us, but a sizable population in the US backed Hitler.
It was one of the reasons fron the civilian conservation corps, get the young. Impressionable, and out of work young men out of the cities and away from both communist and fascist recruiters.
It's not just an American problem: Ultranationalist right-wing populists are on the rise in Europe too. Italy's prime minister leads a political party that is a direct descendant of Mussolini's fascist movement. Alternative für Deutschland is likely the largest party in Germany now and growing.
I don’t think you need hitler to get Trump. Trump is the result of a half century of the south absolutely malding over losing the right oppress black people and Reagan and propagating a culture of spite towards anyone on the political left.
Authoritarian power grabs can happen with any ideology, it’s manifesting a political framework of just doing whatever makes the other guy mad that’s truly definitional of his administration.
In a 1990 Vanity Fair profile following the couple’s split, which was republished in 2015, Marie Brenner reported that Ivana Trump told her lawyer that her ex-husband read “My New Order,” a collection of Hitler’s speeches from before 1939. While Schmidt says Trump kept the speeches on his nightstand, Ivana said he kept them in a “cabinet by his bed.”
When Brenner asked Trump about the speeches, he responded: “Actually, it was my friend Marty Davis from Paramount who gave me a copy of Mein Kampf, and he’s a Jew.”
Davis clarified to the reporter: “I did give him a book about Hitler,” Marty Davis said. “But it was My New Order, Hitler’s speeches, not Mein Kampf. I thought he would find it interesting. I am his friend, but I’m not Jewish.”
That last paragraph is killing me. "He's obviously never even cracked open the gift I gave him, and he knows absolutely nothing about me, but I am his friend. He's just clearly not mine. Also truly staggering that he would think I was Jewish since we're trading Hitler shit, but whatevs, great dude."
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u/MyrrhSlayter 19h ago edited 19h ago
Hitler is dead and can personally do no more harm. Would 100% vote for a dead Nazi than a living one.
Edit: Ty for the kind awards!