Comparing Hitler and You Know Who

ON THIS, the eightieth anniversary of Hitler's invasion of Poland, the event which directly precipitated world War Two, it seems relevant to make a few remarks about Hitler's relevance to our current situation. History does not repeat itself, but it sometimes rhymes, if only roughly, and the past is the most valuable instruction and guidance we have for the present. If Donald Trump doesn't stop mouthing an incessant torrent of nonsense, including vicious attacks on anyone who fails to kiss his ass, a steady stream of what socio-psycho-politically have come to be called "big lies", and a veritable torrential outpouring of small ones - if he's not careful, people are going to start comparing him, his administration, his rise to power, and his supporters to Hitler and the NAZIs of the nineteen thirties through World War Two. If they haven't already begun. He (Trump) fell into the part naturally, from the very beginning of his presidential campaign in his anti-immigrant "they're sending criminals, rapists, drug dealers" rant, what with his openly arrogant defiant attitude, based on anger at the supposed "establishment" over some imagined grievance. The crowds gathered at Trump's rallies, and were seduced, America's angry right wing, just as Hitler entranced Germany's angry extreme right wing into his NAZI movement. This whole business of picking out, isolating, and hammering some alleged "enemy of the people", such as foreigners, the media, or liberals. Trump does it just the way Hitler did. Using the anger towards and fear of these imaginary enemies to rally support and justify dictatorial behavior, at which Trump is just as good as Hitler. Trump's frequent vague references to his remaining president beyond two terms, at the demand of his followers, is alarmingly similar to Hitler's similar suggestions concerning his own perpetuation of power. Many of Trump's followers are now claiming that not only has America been made great again, as a result of Trump's presidency, but that now it is necessary to keep it great, by extending Trump's rule and power. Frightening. From ten very beginning of Trump's presidency many of his opponents, who tend to be just as ardent as Trump's followers, and more numerous, began referring to Trump as "another Hitler". I have always been very reluctant to do this, because I know well that history does not repeat itself, and its tendency to thyme has limitations as well. but the longer the Trump administration continues, and the more i witness his behavior and the behavior of those who support him, the more I am inclined to agree with the Hitler comparisons. Trump's followers are simply way too willing to ignore or lie about the truth to support Trump. They deny climate change, as does their leader, and they ignore Trump's outrageous lies and attacks on others, only because they see Trump as their best hope to turn america into a White nationalist Christian theocracy, in which minorities, such as people of color, transgenders and gays, are relegated to second class status. Trump and his supporters will ultimately be denied their malign agenda, but only because in the United States, unlike nineteen thirties Germany, we have a sufficiently strong democratic structure to root out the kind of malignancy posed by people like Hitler, Trump, and their misguided supporters.