Discussion: Philly Newspaper Cover Depicts Donald Trump As The New Hitler

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If he suggests his followers should start to dress in a distinctive way, shirts of brown maybe, then I am out of here. See you in Montreal.

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Courage would have been spelling ‘furor’ more classically as ‘führer’.

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A Trump - Cruz GOP ticket will give American voters a clear choice. A fascist regime under Trump, a brutal theocratic state under Cruz, or retain our Constitutional Republic under Clinton or Sanders.

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When his rallies resemble those at Nuremberg, will the GOP step up its response?

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Hate going all “Godwin”…but I HAVE always been fond of this little pic:

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…but you know how the old TeaPartiers vote…’ He who is the most entertaining and gets the most twitter hits is who I’ll vote for— even if it’s against my own best interest’…

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When his rallies resemble those at Nuremberg, will the GOP step up its response?

Goose step.

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Ben Carson has lost his attractiveness to GOP voters and Donald Trump will lose his next as the primaries draw closer. He will have worn out his welcome with his tiresome, extremely simplistic, mean-spirited bloviating. Most Republicans will want someone who sounds serious, sober, and knowledgeable and can appeal to moderates nationwide. (This is me being very generous in assuming Republicans aren’t totally stupid.)

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Sieg! heil! (Victory! hail!) It gets scarier every day.

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I don’t know about anyone else, but I can’t figure Trump’s campaign out.

Is this whole thing a charade by Trump to make the other GOPers appear to be more reasonable?
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Is it an attempt by one man to torpedo the GOP brand (i.e. Trump = a Democratic plant)?
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Is he pushing things so he will have to run as a third party candidate? He doesn’t really want the job, but wants to milk this thing for more more publicity…

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I wish I could agree with you, but after the last two election cycles, I am not so sure anymore. We have become a nation that looks to things like Twitter, Facebook, The Apprentice, American Idol, and instant satisfaction and fame as guidelines, egged on in ignorance by the media that reports on what FOX News reports, without any journalistic effort. We have a generation of old white men who are so afraid and insecure in their masculinity that they embrace their guns and God with equal fervor, and their wives embrace whatever TV personality is going to appear strong and financially stable. You put this kind of voter with the GOP Tea Party rhetoric, or the insanity that is Trump or Cruz, and you have an electorate that cares very little for facts or common sense solutions. When the voters who can keep these kinds of men out of the White House do not vote or get all their information from Twitter or Facebook, instead of doing real research into candidates, their policies and their experience, or worse yet, who fail to vote even though they support the other party’s candidate because they cannot be bothered, you run a very serious probability that a Trump or a Cruz gets elected. When you have a Supreme Court that thinks it should stop the democratic voting process and install a president as we saw in 2000 (and the current court is even more conservative than that one), you have all the ingredients for a theocratic-fascist state dictator, and both Cruz and Trump would be exactly what the GOP ordered to insure that they control our government for the rest of this century, barring a civil war or coup, ruling because only a small, ignorant minority voted and the rest stayed home. 2016 will either keep our nation strong, or it will destroy us, and we will get the government we deserve if we do not stand up and work against the likes of the clowns the GOP is supporting.

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And FDR was wrong.

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TPM:

Trump cited the example of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was heavily criticized for the internment of Japanese-American citizens in World War II …

And still is. I think Roosevelt was one of the best American presidents, but the Japanese internment camps were one of America’s greatest sins - right up there with (or only slightly below) slavery, our treatment of American Indians, and the nuclear bomb.

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Did you notice what Trump said, to polish FDR’s esteem? Not that he won World War II, not that he guided us out of the Great Depression, not that he created Social Security, but that he has a road named after him! To Trump, that is the highest praise one can get, and verification of one’s greatness.

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As far as Trump or his supporters are concerned, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with going Godwin. We’re pretty much scratching the surface of what Hitler’s rise to power looked like at this point.

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Disagree on the bomb, but otherwise agreed. FDR’s support of Japanese internment was an awful thing. I won’t say it was a mistake, it was a sin. But it is twice the sin to return to something that is already known to be wrong.

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Trump cited the example of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was heavily criticized for the internment of Japanese-American citizens in World War II but later “they named highways after him!”

You know he did other stuff too, right?

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The Donnie doesn’t “glisten.”

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I’m by nature an optimistic gal, but you’re right – this country could be sliding fast toward the disaster you describe. On the other hand, politics goes in cycles. When I was a teenager and young adult in the '60s and '70s, the country was more liberal. Then Reagan. Maybe we’re seeing the last gasps of a deranged and dying rightwing political atmosphere, out of which a glimmer of liberalism will appear. I guess we’ll find out in 11 months.

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