Trump Echoing Hitler: ‘He’s Said it Over and Over Again ... He’s Going to Try to Carry it Through’
Former president's rhetoric once again parrots Nazi language
Donald Trump's efforts to parrot Nazi rhetoric isn't just irresponsible talk, but rather a plan of action should he be elected to another term as president next year.
That's according to one of the nation's most prominent and long-term political analysts.
The former president 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.
“They let — I think the real number is 15, 16 million people into our country. When they do that, we got a lot of work to do. They’re poisoning the blood of our country,” Trump told the crowd in New Hampshire. “That’s what they’ve done. They poison mental institutions and prisons all over the world, not just in South America, not just to three or four countries that we think about, but all over the world. They’re coming into our country from Africa, from Asia, all over the world.”
Such rhetoric — not Trump's first — must be taken very seriously, according to Larry Sabato, professor at the University of Virginia and the founder and director of the Center for Politics, which works to promote civic engagement and participation.
“Presidential words matter. Presidential candidates’ words matter, and they have implications for policy, implications for relations around the world, and how our country itself can get along one to another. So, that’s what’s important about it,” said Sabato, known for the publication of Sabato's Crystal Ball, an online newsletter and website that provides free political analysis and electoral projections. “He’s saying it, and he’s said it over and over again. And to some degree, I think it is true. You listen to what he says, and he’s going to try and carry through.
“Maybe it will work, maybe it won’t, but he’ll try. He’ll do outrageous things,” Sabato added. “And people need to be aware it isn’t just rhetoric anymore. And those Republican congressmen and Republican governors who haven’t said a word, who haven’t said one word negative about Donald Trump in public — in private, they’ll tell you plenty, but in public they are all encouraging him, directly or indirectly.
“And they’re going to be held accountable for it eventually — maybe only by history — but they’re going to be held accountable for it, because what they’ve done is completely irresponsible and it has led to the re-rise, the resurrection of Donald Trump,” he said.
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