Donald Trump ‘Has Been Dabbling in Adolf Hitler His Whole Life’
Republican frontrunner continues to use fascist rhetoric
Donald Trump's parroting of rhetoric straight from infamous Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler continues to stun and outrage many across the country.
And people in the former president’s orbit are actively encouraging his embrace of fascism, according to some observers.
Trump — the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination — said immigrants coming to the United States are “poisoning the blood of our country,” a remark on Saturday at a New Hampshire rally which echoed speech by Nazi Adolf Hitler from his book, Mein Kampf.
And this was just weeks after he similarly used fascist language to refer to his political opponents as “vermin.”
“I heard a former president who is jiving on fascism. There’s no question about that being a line from Mein Kampf. He knows it,” said prominent presidential historian Douglas Brinkley. “He has been dabbling in Adolf Hitler his whole life keeps Hitler’s speeches at his bedside. Mein Kampf seems to be the book that’s inspired Trump the most. So, it’s heinous because it’s the kind of language meant to belittle people, dehumanize them.”
Writer and academic specialist Tom Nichols sees Trump's use of Hitler's speech differently, because he doesn't think that Trump could come up with such rhetoric on his own.
“His vocabulary is so limited. That’s even scarier because it says the people around him are not just enabling him. They are actively arming him with words like this,” said Nichols, who describes himself as a “Never Trumper” conservative. “They are actively working on these plans. It’s not like he’s saying things and they’re saying, ‘Well, boy, we’re really — you know, I’m sorry the boss wants to go in that direction, but I guess I have to write that speech now.’
“I think it’s the other way around. They know exactly what he wants to do and they’re making him better at it. They learned their lessons from the last time around,” Nichols added. “And this time, they’re going to make sure that he’s a lot more focused and a lot more intent on getting things done right on to use his term, right on Day One.”
Former Democratic senator Claire McCaskill also condemned Trump's use of Nazi language, especially since his own wife is an immigrant to the United States.
“He’s also said that he wanted to terminate the Constitution. Those are his words: ‘Terminate the Constitution.’ And this language that he used, I will never believe that he doesn’t understand the reference to poisoning the blood,” she said. “And, yes, he was referring to illegal immigration and, yes, we do have a problem at the southern border.
“But when you really step back and think about this — try this on for size. He is using a phrase that immigrants are poisoning the blood of a country and he’s married to an immigrant,” McCaskill added. “And he is the father of the child of an immigrant, a first-generation immigrant.
“So when he does that, I hope all the Americans who understand that we are a country of immigrants, are as offended as they should be over him using that phrase, which brings up horrific shadows from history that are something we should never allow to be repeated again,” she said.
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