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How Hitler's Rise to Power Explains Why Republications Accept Donald Trump

Chait, Jonathan
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/07/donald-trump-and-hitlers-rise-to-power.html

Publisher:  New York
Date Written:  07/07/2016
Year Published:  2016  
Resource Type:  Article

To watch Donald Trump rant and rave uncontrollably on the stump and on Twitter -- praising Saddam Hussein for his disregard for civil liberties, insisting the anti-Semitic propaganda he inadvertently borrowed from neo-Nazis is as innocent as a Disney poster -- is to ponder the psychology of a party that would entrust supreme executive authority to a racist, nationalistic, power-worshiping demagogue.

To be perfectly clear, Trump is not Hitler or a Nazi. Trump’s racism is not of the genocidal variety, and he is committed neither to a program of Darwinian racial conquest nor the principled imposition of one-party rule. If President Trump does start a world war, it would probably be as a result of blundering rather than a long-term master plan. But the two figures do have certain traits in common relative to the political environments they inhabit.

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