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matt819

(10,749 posts)
Wed Mar 2, 2016, 04:47 PM Mar 2016

Photos of Trump

Saw this photo on Salon today:

Looked around for something comparable. Someone else already thought of this, since I came across this: https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=&imgrefurl=http://forums.canadiancontent.net/us-american-politics/137431-donald-trump-hitler.html&h=353&w=516&tbnid=RELBmPuM-qKF9M:&docid=hXMsO5Fz0-3q1M&ei=RU_XVrOVF8Xk-wGIx7rQAQ&tbm=isch&ved=0ahUKEwjzy9Hq7aLLAhVF8j4KHYijDhoQMwhBKBkwGQ


To be fair, you can probably find photos of really nice people with similar looks on their face, but no one quite comes to mind, and in any case, that's not as much fun.


Others have suggested that making this particular comparison is odious and inappropriate. Perhaps. And while the environment is much different today than in the 1920s and 1930s, some of the parallels are remarkably striking: foment hate, racism, and xenophobia; vilify the "other"; promise a return to greatness - promise everything and anything that you tell people they are missing; create a cult of personality as the sole individual who can make everything right again. Although we are lacking the widespread violence perpetrated by the Italian and German fascists, the threat of violence is certainly a critical element of Trump's campaign rallies.




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