American Hitler - Part 3

If Trump — in adopting language that he cannot help knowing replicates that of Hitler (especially the references to opponents as “vermin” and “poisoning the blood of our country”), we have to wonder if he has crossed into “new terrain.” That terrain, driven by grandiosity and dread of exposure (e.g., at the trials) could signal the emergence of an even less constrained, more overtly vicious and remorseless Trump who, should he regain the presidency, would, indeed, act like the authoritarians he praises. Absent conscientious aides who could contain him (as they barely did last time), this could lead to the literal shedding of American blood on American soil by a man who believes he is “the only one” and the one, some believe, is a purifying agent of God and in whom they see no evil nor do they doubt.

Compliments of Leonard L. Glass, an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.

Remember, Hitler didn't start out murdering six million Jews and millions of others, nor laying waste to a huge swath of Europe. He started out small, as Trump already has. Hitler had his Beer Hall Putsch" in 1923, a coup d'état which ended in failure. Trump had his Jan6 failed coup, his Insurrection of the Capitol.