What are the similarities between Donald Trump and Adolf Hitler?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

At the Emmy awards ceremony on Sunday night, Transparent creator Jill Soloway compared Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler. Many others have made the same comparison before her: the front page of the Philadelphia Daily News last December; the Council on America-Islamic Relations; the Holocaust survivor Zeev Hod.

The focus of these comparisons has been on the way Trump drums up support by blaming and denigrating groups who do not fit the imagination of a masculine, Christian, hard-working, and essentially white American ideal-type: Mexicans, Muslims, gay and transgender people, and disabled people, to name a few of the most obvious targets.

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What makes the comparison between Hitler and Trump so poignant is not just the rhetorical marginalisation of groups, lifestyles or beliefs, but the fact that both men represent their personal character as the antidote to all social and political problems.

Neither Hitler nor Trump campaign on specific policies, beyond a few slogans. Instead, both promise a new vision of leadership. They portray the existing political systems as fundamentally corrupt, incompetent, and, most importantly, unable to generate decisive action in the face of pressing problems.


http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/what-are-similarities-between-donald-trump-adolf-hitler-1582136

[Respectful Debate]

1. People's biggest mistake is to think of Hitler as a 'cartoon character'

We only see Hitler in grainy, jerky black and white white film, making him appear quite comical. We don't see his charisma and oratory power. Nor do we see his long journey to power and how loved and supported he was by most of the German people. Figures like Hitler don't come from nowhere, they are products of circumstance. And it sure feels like we're heading for similar times now...

[JHan]

2. Another possibility: How about Ahmadinejad? ....

The election begins. There’s a far right candidate who is trying to mix extremist far right ideas with a kind of economic populist message, who is a blatant liar, who presents himself as an “outsider” against both conservatives and liberals, and no one takes him seriously. People laugh and say he has no chance. But he does better than expected, and benefiting from a very crowded field of candidates, wins enough votes to face a single opponent: someone who has been in the corridors of power for more than 30 years, and represents the political establishment, and who is known as a centrist. To everyone’s utter shock, the far right populist defeats the establishment centrist. He has made use of some undemocratic cracks in the electoral system, but he has won.
All this might sound familiar to you. It describes the 2016 presidential election when Donald Trump wins the US presidency. It also describes the 2005 presidential election when Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wins the Iranian presidency.

Trump always reminded me of Ahmadinejad. I couldn’t help it. Both men are so bigoted, dishonest, hateful, and authoritarian. During the election I could see people scrambling to find someone to compare Trump with — Andrew Jackson, Zachary Taylor, Ross Perot, Neil Farage, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and many others. But none of them make as much sense as Ahmadinejad. Donald Trump is the American Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

The similarities run deeper.

- See more at: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/marginoferr/2016/11/11/the-us-has-elected-its-ahmadinejad/#sthash.uRDSJegA.dpuf

[Girard442]

3. Don't ask what are the similarities.

Ask what are the differences -- if there are any.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

4. Hitler served valiantly in WW l. Donald Trump received a deferment because his foot hurt.

[Girard442]

5. Well done sir. NT

[workinclasszero]

6. True, Hitler was evil personified

but he wasn't a draft dodging coward like Trump.