Comparing Donald Trump To Hitler Is A Slippery Slope
By Tyler Durden
Submitted by Kyle Plantz via InsideSources.com,
Throughout the presidential campaign, Donald Trump has been compared to Adolf Hitler on more than one occasion. Especially after TIME Magazine named him 2016 “Person of the Year,” linking the president elect to the German dictator, who also received the same homage in 1938, has significantly increased, as liberals try to explain the rise of the populist businessman.
Just take a look at Twitter where there is no shortage of Trump-Hitler tweets:
Hmm… pic.twitter.com/vVQMg7Na4U
— David Weiner (@daweiner) December 7, 2016
I apologize for writing dozens of tweets that compare Trump to Hitler. It should be hundreds of tweets but I just don't have the time.
— Frank Conniff (@FrankConniff) December 10, 2016
1938: Adolf Hitler, TIME Person of the Year
2016: Donald Trump, TIME Person of the Year pic.twitter.com/uDVcTiLhtd— Savannah L. Barker (@savannah_lb) December 7, 2016
The New York Times published a review of the television series “The Man in the High Castle” on Thursday, which depicts an alternative America where the Allies entered World War II too late, and the United States is ruled by the fascist Nazi Germany and Japanese regimes.
But the reviewer says the show isn’t too far off of what America could be under Trump.
As the internet has taught us, Nazi analogies tend to crush nuance into fine powder,” the review states. “But if it would be hyperbole to treat the series like a documentary, it would be denial to say it plays no differently now than it did before. However hopeful some people may find the election results, there are also bigots who feel validated, for whom the permission to bully and strong-arm was not a sad side effect of the campaign but the whole point. And ‘The Man in the High Castle,’ a drama about finding the imagination to resist darkness, has a new relevance, asked for or not.”
Granted, there are some similarities with their rise to power and others have even gone as far as to say Trump’s rallies are very Hitler-esque. But is this a fair comparison or just political demonizing, by using Hitler comparisons as a way to shut down political debate?
Simply put, there is no proof that Trump exists to begin World War III or wants to exterminate millions of Mexicans, Muslims or people of color in the United States. Many point to Trump’s proposal to temporarily ban Muslims from entering the country (which he has since walked back) as a similar plan that Hitler had with regards to Jewish people. But Trump’s disdain for ISIS and Islamic extremism is not even close to Hitler rounding up Jews and killing them. There is no evidence to suggest that Trump would call for a boycott of Muslim businesses or prevent them from holding prominent positions if he were elected.
There is plenty to criticize Trump on, as there was for Hillary Clinton, but comparing him to Hitler is not a substantive debate on Trump’s rhetoric, appointments, …read more
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