Quote:Trump is an aspiring JV Hitler right now. He's trying to undermine the Constitution to suit his agenda. He's altering facts (or just making them up) to suit his whims. He has a large portion of the population eating out of his hands because he's playing right to their latent (or blatant) fears and prejudices, and creating an "us vs. them" atmosphere--much like a certain German dictator did shortly before relocating people into ghettos. He's only addressing the portions of the press that he controls by way of his own personal Goebbels, Steve Bannon. For what it's worth, it's thought that Goebbels had a very high degree of influence over Hitler's actions--much like Bannon and his avowed racism are just this side of controlling Trump. The portions of the press he disagrees with? He takes to Twitter to complain to his devout followers about how corrupt and evil they are, and marginalizes them from the almost totalitarian administration he's assembled.

 

Is Trump Hitler? No, not yet, but he is strolling down a very similar path to Hitler. Divide the people, then reunite them around someone they can both hate, and do so in a way that a police state is welcomed rather than resisted. As someone who spent all of high school, all of college and a lot of time thereafter studying history and staying up with the news, I'm concerned. Borderline scared, in fact, and the presence of Mattis is a mild nightmare for me. If one were going to stage a military coup, they'd logically want one of the most popular commanders of all time on their side. If some no-name three-star general had been made the SoD, any effort by Trump to get that pesky Congress and Constitution out of his way would be shot down in flames. If Mad Dog sounds the war cry, he could actually draw a large number of troops to his side of the playing field.

 

I'm not saying Trump will stage a military coup, or that we're headed for 1941 Germany. I am saying that the dots aren't hard to connect, and the reckless way in which Trump has been handling his office and, frankly, ignoring the Constitution in the process gives me a great deal of concern that we're dealing with a man who isn't the least bit concerned about being impeached or voted out, because he has no intention of giving up the office.