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
This reporter previously worked for All Jazeera.
Haha!
Wow talk about desperation from the FAKE STREAM NEWS!
Absolutely pathetic!
Really don’t think any of these imbeciles know history as it actually happened. Just what fits their head up their ass world view.
If only....
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LOL
The pen and a phone Kenyan did that.
“The African Marxist is way above the law.”
A serious misconception
MSNBC Reporter: Trump Is Acting Like Mussolini, Franco, And Hitler
Deranged MSNBC Reporter Accuses Trump Of Acting Like Obama, Mussolini, Franco And Hitler
Not a reporter, then. A columnist, opining, not reporting.
I love the way that these pundits love to compare Trump to any random totalitarian dictator, but they are very short on details of exactly *how* Trump is dictatorial. We’re just supposed to *feel* that he’s a dictator, because the left *feels* he’s bad.
On the other hand, we can compare actual policies of leftist American politicians to the policies of past leftist dictators such as Hitler, Stalin, Mao, etc., and find many similarities.
It is because there are tangible similarities, and not because of “feelings” that we can credibly compare Obama, but not Trump, to leftist dictators like Hitler.
They left out Satan, Stalin and Pol Pot.
They’re slipping.
This is an open call for a wingnut to assassinate the president.
“If you knew who Hitler was, would you kill him in advance when you had the chance?” is a deeply ingrained trope.
The media is encouraging insane assassins to take their shot.
Papa Doc Duvalier and the guy who shot Bambi’s mom.
Rush Limbaugh: Obama compares President Trump to Hitler (audio from 12-07-2017)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=turR0mekbfw
(Transcript)
https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2017/12/07/obama-compares-trump-to-hitler/
(excerpt)
I think exactly what I thought was gonna happen is happening. I think Obama is a combination of angry, livid, outraged, paranoid that his agenda is being unraveled, because that’s exactly what Trump is doing. Trump is unraveling all of Obama’s executive action regulations that he can, global warming, the Iranian nuke deal. Trump is literally unwinding everything Obama did, tried to unwind Obamacare.
Donald Trump is trying to erase the Obama presidency, and Obama damn well knows it. I thought this would happen long before now, but it’s finally happened. I predicted to you people Obama is gonna go on TV and start warning everybody. I never thought he would compare Trump to Hitler. But he knows what’s going on. And he viewed his eight years as just the foundation and then the next Democrat presidents would further it and we would finally at some point transform America. Now it’s all being not just unraveled, but erased. And they’re livid.
Blah blah blah.
Never heard this stuff before from our exalted mediaheads.
*yawn*
What a bunch of hate filled, mentally ill children.
Good grief, just STHU
Mussolini proved good for decorating a lamppost, too, but that still has absolutely nothing to do with POTUS Trump, ha ha.....
[well not exactly a lamppost, perhaps, but the corpses of Mussolini and his mistress were hung upside down at a gas station in Milan.... I don’t remember what they were hanging from]
Uh-huh. Has PMSNBC never seen that picture of 0 with his jaw jutting out defiantly? Sure reminds me of arrogance and Mussolini...
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