history shows. If it is accepted in exchange for a better economy or because of some propaganda believed doesn't matter and it doesn't take long once people buy in to get bigger and badder
It has already moved quite swiftly in the US with his first attempt to win the national election succeeding. People already are refusing to see what the bigotry can bring believing it is benign
Soon it might be too late to stop Trump and his kind .
I just have read too many articles from witnesses or relatives like the one below .
Plus in the article below it addresses trumps acceptance of torture and war crimes, which is another horror that should not be normalized here(again)
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My grandmother who voted for Hitler was not overly concerned about his anti-Semitism. She believed that there were indeed “some bad Jews” and that Hitler would be good for the country. But when her Jewish friends were in danger of being deported, she couldn’t understand why such good people who had never harmed anybody should be punished. My grandmother wound up hiding her Jewish friends in her attic. But it was too late to turn back.
According to The New York Times, the “new popular idol” possesses “extraordinary powers of swaying crowds to his will.” He is a “reactionary” who is “taken seriously among all classes… feared by some, enthusiastically hailed as a prophet and political economic savior by others.”
His “program is of less interest than his person” and “consists of half a dozen negative ideas clothed in generalities.” He uses racism and xenophobia “as a bait to catch masses of followers and keep them aroused and enthusiastic.”
These words were not written about Donald Trump after his latest primary win. They were written on Nov. 21, 1922, about a rising Bavarian politician named Adolf Hitler.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/04/09/my-grandmother-voted-for-hitler-but-then-hid-jews.html
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