| | | Do you think the Trump/Hitler comparisons are blown out of proportion or spookily accurate?
Carrie Cadwallader, Political junkie
I have shared this article before.
Hitler was incompetent and lazy—and his Nazi government was an absolute clown show | Opinion
His government was constantly in chaos, with officials having no idea what he wanted them to do, and nobody was entirely clear who was actually in charge of what. He procrastinated wildly when asked to make difficult decisions, and would often end up relying on gut feeling, leaving even close allies in the dark about his plans. His "unreliability had those who worked with him pulling out their hair…"
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He was obsessed with the media and celebrity, and often seems to have viewed himself through that lens. He once described himself as "the greatest actor in Europe," and wrote to a friend, "I believe my life is the greatest novel in world history." In many of his personal habits he came across as strange or even childish…
He was deeply insecure about his own lack of knowledge, preferring to either ignore information that contradicted his preconceptions, or to lash out at the expertise of others. He hated being laughed at, but enjoyed it when other people were the butt of the joke (he would perform mocking impressions of people he disliked). But he also craved the approval of those he disdained, and his mood would quickly improve if a newspaper wrote something complimentary about him.
Does that sound like anyone in recent memory?
I think the Trump/Hitler comparisons are constructive.
Hitler didn’t just wake up one day and murder 12 million people. He started small, by turning Germans against each other, suppressing the media and subverting the military and the courts.
Kind of like a certain American “president” I could name. |
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