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A Good Start !

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Hitler was tried and convicted when he tried to become the dictator of Germany through violence. Trump has been tried and convicted now, but we MUST finish the job.

On November 8, 1923, Adolph Hitler led a violent revolution to overthrow the German government in the streets of Munich. 15 of Hitler’s fellow Nazis were killed, along with 4 Bavarian police and one civilian. On April 1, 1924, Hitler was pronounced guilty of treason and sentenced to prison.

Just nine years later, on  March 23, 1933, the German parliament passed the Enabling Act which made Hitler the dictator of Germany. Five years after that, World War Two was raging.

There are important differences between Trump and Hitler but more things are the same. One important thing that is the same is that both Hitler and Trump are only interested in power for themselves and will do anything to get it, and keep it.

Both tried to use violence as the path to power and both failed. Like Hitler, Trump is now a convicted felon and may be sentenced to prison like Hitler was. But after failing with violence, both turned to “legal” political action. Hitler succeeded.

Our country is on a knife edge. We must not allow Trump to succeed like Hitler.

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2 responses to “A Good Start !”

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    Bob Thomas

    I believe that Donald Trump may actually be more evil than Hitler. He finally made enemies in Germany and many were/some still are ashamed of being German and letting this man take control of their country.

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      Kinesava

      Thanks for the reply, Bob. Very little gets posted to this site except for what I write and contributions are especially welcome.

      I don’t believe there is a standardized scale for “evil”. Let’s just say that both Trump and Hitler are “out there”.

      One of the histories about Germany and Hitler that I have read recently was one that tracked EVERYTHING that happened in just one small city in the middle of Germany in the late 1920’s and early 1930’s as Hitler achieved absolute dictatorial power. Most histories are “macro” histories where only the great events are covered. This was a “micro” history with the goal of truly understanding what happened on a day-to-day basis.

      Hitler grabbed power by eroding the struggling democracy of Germany in small chunks. Of course, there were huge events like when Hindenburg finally appointed Hitler to be Chancellor. But those can be thought of as “milestone” markers at the end of inch-at-a-time Nazi progress.

      Here in America, the same inch-at-a-time struggle is happening. School boards and county election officials are gaining the power to rule just like they did in Germany. Some of the events are remarkably similar. Book-burning, for example.

      The recent Trump vs United States ruling by our Supreme Court is much like the 1933 Enabling Act in Germany. Both gave one man the power to do whatever he liked and put him above the law. It’s worth noting that after the German Reichstag passed the Enabling Act, it took Hitler just one year to consolidate enough power to murder every person in Germany who might have opposed him in the 1934 “Night of the Long Knives”. Mike Pence and Liz Cheney beware.

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