On Saturday, 26 March 2016 at 18:31:06 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
It actually does. The key points for the election campaign is
the same at the early campaign Hitler had. Restore the pride of
Germany. Restore German industry. Blame an outgroup. There is
also pretty good overlap in his 1933 speech. Politically, who
knows. Trumps political position is: elect me and I will figure
it out later. And that actually is the core of fascism, handing
power to the strong leader.
Trump is a caricature of a wannabe fascist, the spineless
variant that fucks up the world by accident. Which is not
entirely unthinkable as his resorts and Trump Tower will be
jihadist targets. Only God knows what will follow. Hopefully
not missile launches.
In direct comparison he is much more in the line of Mussolini,
Berlusconi, Milosevic and their like. We certainly have
comparison material here in Europe.
I didn't want to end my participation in this discussion on a
negative note, but this reply is so ironic it hurts.
A person who advocates for a more welcoming community and wishes
for objective moderation introduces a divisive topic (US
election) and goes on about it; despite having been personally
asked by a moderator to not do that [1].
There's a reason why Godwin's law exists - it points out that
comparisons to unrelated, emotionally loaded topics are not
arguments - just diversion. Fascism and Hitler are just the most
popular ones to use. Nobody cares about actual meaning of nazism
and fascism - it's just an emotional blindfold, frequently used
by media to slander and for clickbait. Why don't we leave US
election discussion to US citizens on forums devoted to politics.
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