I have always been fascinated by history and love to read. The rise of Donald Trump, his unfathomable election win, and now dictator-like actions in these few weeks in office consistently lead me to make comparisons to the rise of the Nazi party during the Depression era.
As Trump is apparently just a really mentally ill, nearly illiterate, gullible idiot playing out Bannon’s and Flynn’s greatest dreams of “blowing up the government”. Is it possible to identify and report on the similarities of these individuals and their combined influence as compared to Hitler and his inner circle in the very early years of that regime? I think there is a delusion in this country that nothing really bad could ever happen here in America. How can we engage those who believe that this current crisis will never effect “regular people” like them? We have to believe that most German citizens of that time never could have anticipated what was to come. I think they believed the propaganda because it made the weak feel powerful and gave them hope only to find that they had been duped into participating–until it was too late to act without becoming targets themselves.
There seem to be so very many similarities, we all know Trump’s entire life story. But what about Flynn and especially Bannon’s? How did they evolve to be the ideological fanatics with so much influence that they have today?
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I have always been fascinated by history and love to read. The rise of Donald Trump, his unfathomable election win, and now dictator-like actions in these few weeks in office consistently lead me to make comparisons to the rise of the Nazi party during the Depression era.
As Trump is apparently just a really mentally ill, nearly illiterate, gullible idiot playing out Bannon’s and Flynn’s greatest dreams of “blowing up the government”. Is it possible to identify and report on the similarities of these individuals and their combined influence as compared to Hitler and his inner circle in the very early years of that regime? I think there is a delusion in this country that nothing really bad could ever happen here in America. How can we engage those who believe that this current crisis will never effect “regular people” like them? We have to believe that most German citizens of that time never could have anticipated what was to come. I think they believed the propaganda because it made the weak feel powerful and gave them hope only to find that they had been duped into participating–until it was too late to act without becoming targets themselves.
There seem to be so very many similarities, we all know Trump’s entire life story. But what about Flynn and especially Bannon’s? How did they evolve to be the ideological fanatics with so much influence that they have today?
Just an idea. Cpage