Can Trump Win....

[I_am_not_mafia]

Yet you never actually even try to counteract any of my arguments. All you do is come up with random meaningless statement.

Yet the only common ground with Hitler is that Hitler used the good old recipe of fear and hate mongering to score. Back then it was jews, eyed with suspicion not only in Germany. Henri Ford wrote his infamous book in favor of antisemitism, after all.

Today it's immigrants, muslims and what Ayn Rand used to call moochers. Also common ground with Hitler, whose minions ultimately deported whoever they thought to be moochers. Well, maybe there is common ground, but ultimately it's only about inciting hatred to score brownie points with disadvantaged primitives. You can make people feel superior by presenting scapegoats and telling them they are better because they belong to a certain race, nation or group.

Hell, yes, let's make America great again. That's nationalism right there. But it's the standard repertoire of all rightwingers in the world. They create a patriotic bubble to offer a false sense of security. It's exclusive by definition and that's what their voters ultimately crave. To feel exclusive in their sorry little existences.

So, no. No Hitler. Just another wayward rightwinger who may walk the path of fascism. There have been thousands in our history. Hitler only carried it to the ultimate extreme, but as I always say, Hitler comparisons only divert attention from what the individual issues with any given rightwinger are.

Actually I wasn't just comparing with Hitler but with all fascist leaders. It's just that Hitler gets brought out as the boogeyman. Trump is also using the same tactics as Mussolini did for example. And nor is it just focusing on a single minority. I have explained how Trump is similar in more ways than that.

On this very thread I said:

He's scapegoating minorities, appealing to the basest instincts of the disenfranchised, not actually describing how he would implement any of his policies and convincing his voters that their country is the greatest and have a god given right to force their will on all other countries by being superior.

You can add to that narcissistic personality disorder, a lack of empathy, sexism, pro-censorship, the fact that he is developing a cult of personality (he even refers to himself in the third person and uses his name as a brand) and encourages violence as a political means (e.g. encouraging disruption of Bernie Sander's rallies).

So yes. Trump is a neo-fascist.

When I have directly compared Trump with Hitler it's usually to say that Trump isn't as competent.