Posted on 12/10/2017 5:27:19 AM PST by Kaslin
We’re back to this again: Donald Trump is a dictator and we could be heading down the same path as Nazi Germany. Former President Obama made similar references at an event at the Economic Club of Chicago this week. He said democracy is like a garden, it needs attention, and that growing complacent could quickly lead to things falling apart.
“That's what happened in Germany in the 1930s, which despite the democracy of the Weimar Republic and centuries of high-level cultural and scientific achievements, Adolph Hitler rose to dominate,” said Obama during a Q&A session. “Sixty million people died. . .So, you've got to pay attention. And vote.”
We’re not Germany. We certainly don’t have institutions as shoddy at the Weimar Republic. We don’t have successful, widespread communist and fascist movements that are tearing the country apart in the same way they did to Germany and the rest of Europe; the latter of which birthed one of the most nefarious authoritarian societies in history. These groups in America also have zero electoral success. Nazis and Communists are not being elected to legislatures en masse. The Left needs to relax. They just lost an election.
In the media, it’s no different. Trump is angling himself to be like Franco, Hitler and Mussolini. MSNBC’s Ali Velshi made note of this when interviewing historian Michael Beschloss on Thursday.
MSNBC’s Ali Velshi Compares President Trump to Franco, Hitler and Mussolini
Donald Trump has threatened to ban an entire religion from entering the country. He attacks the news institutions, which is what Franco, Hitler, Mussolini, and a whole bunch of other people did. Do you feel that our checks and balances in the Constitution and our political system will protect us against these potential violations of the Constitution?
The Free Beacon had a more thorough breakdown of this interview:
Velshi began by asking Beschloss how Trump's behavior compares to other presidents and commented how he could think of examples around the world, but they "tend to be dictators.""How does he compare to other presidents? Can you think of other presidents who attack our institutions as much as he does? And our cultural norms?," Velshi asked. "I can think of this all over the world in other places. They tend to be dictators."
"You're right. And we're not even 11 months into this presidency," Beschloss said.
Ruhle asked Beschloss if Trump was manipulating institutions to his favor.
"It's easy for us to say sitting on a perch–we get criticized for it–that Trump doesn't understand how our political or legal institutions work. Or does he? Is he sly like a fox? Is he manipulating the system of checks and balances to work in his favor?" Ruhle asked.
"Stephanie, you've absolutely got it," Beschloss said. "You know, he certainly does not understand it in the way that most presidents have. Most presidents come in after a career in the military or political life. And most of them have a pretty good sense of history and understanding of our democracy. Almost none of that is true of Donald Trump, but that's not the reason he's doing this. He's doing this because he wants power, wants to expand presidential power, He will be pushed and he will only stop when he is stopped."
Okay—you guys just lost an election; deal with it. Donald Trump isn’t taking your crap in the media; deal with it. Journalists are not being black bagged by secret police. Car bombs aren’t going off. This isn’t North Korea, or any real nation with a totalitarian government. We’re not Oceania. Everyone needs to relax. People wanted change. They wanted someone different, and a person who isn’t a politician, and Donald Trump is that person. The press is just getting some mud thrown their way. They’re not immune from criticism. The eight-year Obama lovefest is over. Also, the Supreme Court ruled that the latest travel ban could be enforced, so let’s dial it down on the potential Constitutional violations we may or may not be facing. Then again, this is what MSNBC does; keep liberal blood pressures at healthy levels.
MSNBC's Velshi and Ruhle Celebrate Festivus Early
He is right Grey. Nugent is 100% conservative
Cobra Commander, Destro, Serpentor, and Zartan need to be included.
BINGO!
Jes teasing .... but you have to admit, his [Nudge] *in-your-face* style is reminiscent of someone I know and love. :)
Winning.
OMG! He's... he's... Mecha-Hitler! And he has NRA approved dual Gatlin guns mounted on each arm, but since they have no visible ammo feed, they obviously shoot Diet Coke! AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
I guess comparing someone to just Hitler has lost a lot of sting, so now they have to add Mussolini and Franco.
This is good news. Means their idiotic name calling is no longer working.
And the media is acting with their lies and agenda like Lucifer.
rwood
They think the “Cultural Norm” is Liberalism and trashing the United States Constitution.
There isn’t a Liberal Democrat alive that wouldn’t relish the thought of loading us Deplorable types into Cattle Cars destined for the Obama Reeducation Camps, not a one.
You are an idiot who has no idea,what is going on. You do not have all the evidence or information.
Trump is getting rid of Obama’s Imperial edicts not based in law, so that makes him Hitler???
And they shout and raise their voice and get oink faced a lot on that nutfest network too. I’m waiting for them to scream for their mommies.
I get flabbergasted every time I read that. Are these teleprompter readers so stupid or are their copyright editors who using interns for such idiocy?
For the umpteenth time: Indonesia has the largest muslim population of any country on Earth. Then you have Malasia and many others. If Trump were banning muslims, wouldn't he start there? No, he's concentrating on the countries that allow terrorists groups to grow. Sheesh, repeated FAKE NEWS.
Guess he forgot Stalin, Mao, Fidel, Mugabe, Idi Amin, et al. The people at MSNBC have mental and emotional deficiencies bordering on insane. How to they crawl out of bed in the morning to put their Hitler right shoe on? Maybe they wear two left shoes. Of course, they're still wrong because Hitler was a leftist totalitarian.
Some of it is reporting, though not by the author, and some of it is opinion by the author. You just have to know which one, and it’s really easy to tell.
You are right, I don’t have all the evidence and neither do you. Tell me what evidence you have. I’m listening.
Convince me that BO isn’t above the law.
No need for the name calling. Let’s keep it on an adult level, Darth.
PMSNBC with their one hundred max audience.
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