2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Scott Adams (Dilbert): "Her new scare tactics are solid-gold persuasion" [View all]Algernon Moncrieff
(5,781 posts)..or is he serious? The Trump/Hitler comparisons of late have largely come from people who have noted that early 1930s analysts made many comments to the effect of: Hitler doesn't really embrace this rhetoric he's advancing about violence against the Jews - it's all politics. I just read a snip from an old NYT piece saying essentially that.
My opinion: Trump is a blowhard. He never wrote a Mein Kampf outlining a philosophy to which he adheres. He's grabbing onto items he knows play well with the crowd he needs to elect him. However, if he is President with a Republican Senate and a Republican House, and Tea Party types start passing legislation along the lines of what he proposes, I also doubt he'll have the moral courage to veto those bills.