Well, that's not true! He also eats sugar, breathes air, dislikes some people, supports a strong military (I rate militaristic as a different item than nationalistic), and has funny hair!
Honestly, I would rate the 2 of them as about the same on Hitler comparison. Hillary's economic proposals are much closer to "fascism" than Trumps, as is her view of the social safety net, corporatism, and frankly, being FAR more racially biased (although her version is a far more damaging extreme patronization than Trumps extremely low grade antipathy). That, and Hillary was literally running on the defining phrase of fascism. On the negative side, Hillary is an internationalist, and is more in favor of non-reproductive relationship types than trump. Oh, and Hillary is more "Hitler-like in her view of religion.
In the main though, really, even if we were to *literally* elect hitler reincarnated, the man himself, he *still* wouldn't be hitler, because 2017 America is NOT 1933 Wiemar. Not even *close*. The extent to which a leader is dangerous is very much related to the scale and willingness to do violence of his supporters. Trump has a relatively small core following, and there are VERY few instances of violence from that group. Hillary had a similarly small following, albeit, one that was FAR more willing to do violence.
There is no analogue to hitler in American History. Sure, there have been some pretty bad people, and some pretty scary circumstances, but hitler was hitler because of the country he governed, not just because of the man he was.
Honestly, I would rate the 2 of them as about the same on Hitler comparison. Hillary's economic proposals are much closer to "fascism" than Trumps, as is her view of the social safety net, corporatism, and frankly, being FAR more racially biased (although her version is a far more damaging extreme patronization than Trumps extremely low grade antipathy). That, and Hillary was literally running on the defining phrase of fascism. On the negative side, Hillary is an internationalist, and is more in favor of non-reproductive relationship types than trump. Oh, and Hillary is more "Hitler-like in her view of religion.
In the main though, really, even if we were to *literally* elect hitler reincarnated, the man himself, he *still* wouldn't be hitler, because 2017 America is NOT 1933 Wiemar. Not even *close*. The extent to which a leader is dangerous is very much related to the scale and willingness to do violence of his supporters. Trump has a relatively small core following, and there are VERY few instances of violence from that group. Hillary had a similarly small following, albeit, one that was FAR more willing to do violence.
There is no analogue to hitler in American History. Sure, there have been some pretty bad people, and some pretty scary circumstances, but hitler was hitler because of the country he governed, not just because of the man he was.
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