Donald Trump has recently acknowledged that his anti-immigrant rhetoric is being compared to Hitler’s — and then he showed how little that bothered him, repeating much of the same vile language. “They’re destroying the blood of our country. That’s what they’re doing” he said about immigrants.
What’s tragic are the vast numbers of Trump followers who stir echoes of the same blind enthusiasm that Germany showered on Hitler in 1933, who rose to become dictator of Germany. And anyone who even mildly recalls WWII history will attest to what eventually became of Germany.
As a UCSB graduate of history and someone who has extensive knowledge of WWII, I can assure you that what we’re seeing from Trump and his GOP minions is closer to a mirror image of Hitler’s Germany than at any other time in America’s history.