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...Loser stewing in his hatred for the entire world...
Excerpt:
While he had by no means turned into an entirely different person, several of character traits had become even more pronounced: his egocentrism, his inability to self-criticize and commensurate tendency to overestimate himself, his lack of scruples when choosing means to his ends, his habit of betting everything on a single card, his contempt for others and his lack of empathy...
...Now that the dictator was a clear failure and blocked off his ways back or out, the mask of the imperator he had assumed in his years of triumph slipped and his face once more the features of the crude beer-hall rabble rouser of the 1920s that "loser stewing in his hatred of the entire world."
...Now that the dictator was a clear failure and blocked off his ways back or out, the mask of the imperator he had assumed in his years of triumph slipped and his face once more the features of the crude beer-hall rabble rouser of the 1920s that "loser stewing in his hatred of the entire world."
More Godwin, this excerpt with obvious parallels, is from the second volume of Volker Ullrich's biography of Hitler, Hitler DownFall, 1939-1945, translated by Jefferson Chase, Chapter 15, page 519, Alfred A. Knopf (2020)
I'm finishing this biography, the perfect book to read at the end of the Trump administration.
Hitler of course, objects to being compared to Trump.