Posted on 03/09/2025 5:55:42 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Last October, in the home stretch of the US presidential campaign, Donald Trump told supporters at a rally in Atlanta that he was “not a Nazi”. He was reacting to comments by his former chief of staff, John Kelly, who said in an interview that during his first term in office, Trump more than once suggested that Nazi leader Adolf Hitler “did some good things”. Kelly said that after consulting a dictionary he concluded that Trump “certainly” met the definition of a fascist.
Since the start of Trump’s second term as US president, comparisons between his administration and the Nazi regime are back in the spotlight.
White House adviser Elon Musk's raised right-arm gesture at Trump's inaugural parade prompted many historians to call it a Nazi salute. “How could you not?", says Peter Hayes, professor emeritus at Northwestern University in Illinois and author of numerous studies on the Nazi party.
With Western societies facing rising nationalism, extreme right-wing rhetoric and inward-looking attitudes, some experts are increasingly seeing similarities between the current era and the period leading up to World War II.
For historians, it's always difficult to establish parallels between the past and the present. But according to Hayes, certain comparisons are thus proving “exaggerated”, but also “increasingly relevant".
“Exaggerated because Trump has not targeted a distinct group as the root of all evil in the world” to be singled out “potentially for murder”, Hayes says, in an allusion to the Third Reich's extermination of the Jews.
But Trump has multiplied attacks on “the ‘enemies within’ who must be removed from the body politic, and he shows, like Hitler, absolute certainty about his own genius coupled with ruthless determination to remove any impediments to achieving his objectives”.
(Excerpt) Read more at france24.com ...
Who are the warmongers?
That is where the Nazis will be found.
I’ll start worrying when Trump comes for out guns.
France should write something about that.
Well, France hasn’t changed…
Trump has more parallels to Franklin Delano Roosevelt or Winston Churchill than Hitler.
Trump has been fastidiously following the Constitution.
Trump is a peacemonger rather than a warmonger.
Why post this crap? I am not even going to read this BS.
Just like in WWI the French are at it again in stirring the mud ... WHO was it that saved their bacon from Hitler? Ungrateful wenches ....
Our Euro “allies” are f-—ing nuts.
Isn't it obvious? Trump is LITERALLY Hitler.
This article appears to be the collaborative work of a group of eigth-graders in a liberal state and submitted under a pseudo-name. Certainly, no rational adult, even a Frenchman, could write such pablum.
>> Why post this crap? I am not even going to read this BS.
Hey! Laughter is the best medicine! I’m enjoying it.
Do you know why the French planted all those trees along the Champs Elysee?
So that the conquering armies could march in the shade.
The democrats will achieve their wildest projections by becoming ever more radical and insane.
They are back at this old saw again.
This article is Nancy Pelosi’s wrap-up smear in action.
The Government is bankrupt, the deadline is Friday. The democrats made a fiscal mess and are now sitting on their ‘bonus holes’ seeking to let the Republicans take the hits for the necessary cuts.
They seek a total collapse and replacement of our ‘democracy’.
Oh,,, if only Elon had closed his hand to form a tight fist with the thumb on the outside,,, , that would have colored his gesture to be A okay.
Yes be careful how you wave for the nazi party may try to recognize you.
Analysis: what parallels do historians see between the Biden administration and the movie Cabaret?
We are more like Rome. Chaos has enveloped the country, hostile factions developing, and Huns at the gate.
History is under humanities, same as gender studies, cultural studies, philosophy, and so on.
The more recent hiatorians adopt the framework of postmodern where the most important is discourse or narratives. No objective reality that can be externally verified exists. ‘Facts’ matters as tools to understand or strengthen the discourse.
These professors depth of analysis is only an inch deeper from Rachel Meadow, Joy Reid or Sunny.
Trump is literally Hitler.
A Nazi would be supporting Ukrainian’s war effort with no end in sight.
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