Donald Trump using Adolf Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' playbook, says world expert on Nazi leader

[workinclasszero]

Donald Trump using Adolf Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' playbook, says world expert on Nazi leader
President's 'views come out of a playbook written in German' says author — 'the playbook is Mein Kampf'
Charlotte England @charlottengland

A leading expert on the Nazi party has said there are similarities between Donald Trump and Adolf Hitler.

Both men "bluffed" their way into power, confounding an establishment that did not know what to do but normalise them, according to author Ron Rosenbaum.

The Adolf Hitler biographer said he had refused to compare Mr Trump to the Nazi leader during the campaign period for fear of trivialising genocide, but after the election things changed.

“Now Trump and his minions are in the driver’s seat, attempting to pose as respectable participants in American politics, when their views come out of a playbook written in German,” said Mr Rosenbaum, who wrote Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil.

“The playbook is Mein Kampf.”

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/adolf-hitler-donald-trump-mein-kampf-bluffed-way-to-power-nazi-leader-germany-fuhrer-us-president-a7568506.html

[Wounded Bear]

1. It's a pretty universal autocratic playbook...

The details change, and the technology, but the playbook is still the same.

[workinclasszero]

3. This is the stage we are in right now with Trump and his alt-reich followers

From the article:

"The Weimar establishment didn’t know what to do, so they pretended this was normal. They 'normalised' him.”

As part of this normalisation — a phenomenon Mr Rosenbaum said also happened with Mr Trump — Hitler and the Nazi party were allowed back onto electoral lists — in an act of “democracy destroying itself democratically”.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/adolf-hitler-donald-trump-mein-kampf-bluffed-way-to-power-nazi-leader-germany-fuhrer-us-president-a7568506.html

[Botany]

2. and he is pushing fear of terror by people and countries that never attacked us 24/7

The big lie ....

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”

[workinclasszero]

9. Trump and everything he stands for is a big lie

Everything the republican party stands for is a big lie as well.

Everything on Hate radio 24/7/365 is a big lie.

We allowed these liars to spew their toxic nazi lies for decades under the guise of free speech, and it has paid off big for Trump and the republicans.

I wonder if this republic will be able to survive it?

[Botany]

10. Trump used to keep copies of Hitler's speeches by his bed

As per wife # 1 or # 2.

[workinclasszero]

11. I'm sure

You can tell he and Bannon are students of Hitler.

No doubt about it.

[2naSalit]

4. K&R!!!!!

[Delphinus]

5. This gets

scarier and more surreal every day.

[underpants]

6. Truly frightening

[HipChick]

7. He kept a copy of Mein Kampf by his bedside

according to one of his ex-Wives..

[dalton99a]

8. The scapegoating technique is evident.