Get with the program. Quick. The Brown Shirts are coming. Act happy.
The Trump phenomenon is not new. The movement is nothing more than a different version (American) of what happened in Germany in the 1930s. In the American version, the cause is just, the problems real, but the chosen solution, a delusion, and the “hero”, a fanciful graven image hewn out in the imagination of “The True Believers”.
What we are seeing with Trump is a nationalistic populist movement sucking in a lot of good patriotic people. People better figure Trump out pretty quick or we will be in more trouble than we are already in. Trump is no true conservative, but for a few slip-ups that betray him, he could get an Oscar for his performance. This is no more than 1930s and 2008 populism déjà vu in a completely different cloak. Trump is using the modus operandi described in Eric Hoffer’s 1951 book, “The True Believer” - Thoughts On The Nature Of Mass Movements. Trump has found a void and has created a cult following. He is taking legitimate issues and concerns and using them to generate a fanatical mass movement of “True Believers” — intoxicated Trumpaholics, and Tump is their cult leader. There is no way to talk to many of them; their minds have been snatched. Many will not realize the fantasy until it all falls down. History repeats. It is déjà vu all over again.
That’s one of the most pathetic wastes of bandwidth I’ve ever been exposed to.
There it is again! Trump is Hitler!
Wowza.
Exactly.
Get with the program. Quick. The Brown Shirts are coming. Act happy.
How low can you go? So Trump is the American version of Hitler willing to implement a new Holocaust? You diminish and minimize what happened in Germany and the 60 million lives lost during WWII.
I am reminded of the words of Chief Counsel of the Army Joseph Welch at the McCarthy hearings, "You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?
Trump is an outsider who is speaking out against the political class that is bought and paid for by the corporate class and special interests. He is a populist and nationalist at a time when the political class has become disconnected from the people and pursuing a globalist agenda that hurts the American worker and destroys the middle class. Does that make him a facist or a Nazi?
What we are seeing with Trump is a nationalistic populist movement sucking in a lot of good patriotic people. People better figure Trump out pretty quick or we will be in more trouble than we are already in. Trump is no true conservative, but for a few slip-ups that betray him, he could get an Oscar for his performance. This is no more than 1930s and 2008 populism déjà vu in a completely different cloak. Trump is using the modus operandi described in Eric Hoffer’s 1951 book, “The True Believer†- Thoughts On The Nature Of Mass Movements. Trump has found a void and has created a cult following. He is taking legitimate issues and concerns and using them to generate a fanatical mass movement of “True Believers†— intoxicated Trumpaholics, and Tump is their cult leader. There is no way to talk to many of them; their minds have been snatched. Many will not realize the fantasy until it all falls down. History repeats. It is déjà vu all over again.
Spot on. Disappointing to see so many here so eager to jettison conservative principles to prostrate themselves before their new savior.