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Trump and Hitler: A Comparative Study in Lying

Sporting a semiotic trigger and always leading his followers down.



Hitler expert gives stunning warning about Trump's 'intellectual nitwit' image

by Travis Gettys
Raw Story, June 03, 2024

Donald Trump shares a lot of similarities with Adolf Hitler, according to an expert on Nazi Germany.

The former president has reportedly praised Hitler for doing "some good things," and shared a video on social media dreaming of a "unified Reich" if he wins re-election. And Henk de Berg, a professor of German at the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom, told The Guardian that he saw many similarities in the rhetorical strategies and self-promotion of Trump and the notorious German leader.

“We tend to see Hitler as a genocidal mass murderer, which of course he was, but not so much as a populist," de Berg said. "I thought looking at it through the perspective of Trump can help us wrap our heads around the idea as to why so many people actually supported Hitler and vice versa.”

De Berg, who recently published Trump and Hitler: A Comparative Study in Lying, described Trump and Hitler as political performance artists who speak only vaguely about policy. He said each used jokes, insults and extreme language to command attention.

“Their extremist statements are very deliberately meant to provoke a reaction and to get them into the press," de Berg said. "Hitler actually writes quite openly about this in Mein Kampf and this of course is the challenge: What do you then do as a journalist or as an opposing political party when the other person makes these extreme statements?"

Source: https://www.alternet.org/trump-hitler-2668445534/