{"id":7919,"date":"2015-09-08T16:49:40","date_gmt":"2015-09-08T21:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/?p=7919"},"modified":"2026-01-06T22:04:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T03:04:16","slug":"bush-started-us-on-path-to-nazi-ism-trump-goes-much-farther","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/bush-started-us-on-path-to-nazi-ism-trump-goes-much-farther\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush started us on path to Nazi-ism. Trump goes much farther."},"content":{"rendered":"

So, I’m reading this article shared by Truthout editor William Rivers Pitt<\/a> about Trump’s extremist stand on deporting immigrants and his incessant hatemongering. And, I recently read a corroboration of Bernie Sander’s statement<\/a> that Hitler was elected to govern Germany<\/a>. All of a sudden that light-bulb goes on in my head: Trump could actually be a modern version of Hitler.<\/a><\/p>\n

Trump’s fascist authoritarianism<\/a> was thrown into stark relief by the courageous act of journalism “committed” by Mexican immigrant and Univision news anchor Jorge Ramos and Trump’s heavy-handed, dismissive treatment of him at a recent press conference. Ramos is one of the US Latino community’s most influential voices … Glenn Greenwald writes about the Ramos challenge<\/a>:<\/p>\n

What is more noble for a journalist to do: confront a dangerous, powerful billionaire-demagogue spouting hatemongering nonsense about mass deportation, or sit by quietly and pretend to have no opinions on any of it and that \u201cboth sides\u201d are equally deserving of respect and have equal claims to validity? As Ramos put it simply, in what should not even need to be said: \u201cI\u2019m a reporter. My job is to ask questions. What\u2019s \u2018totally out of line\u2019 is to eject a reporter from a press conference for asking questions.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Trump is the front-runner in the GOP lineup of 2016 presidential candidates. On the other side, we have humble Bernie Sanders who believes that all workers should be paid a living wage; that higher education should be free and that the wealthy should pay their fair share of taxes. Sen. Sanders, who won his last election with 71% of the Vermont vote, is the leading Dem candidate<\/a> in early primary states.<\/p>\n

Sanders’ statement<\/a> to the press at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast gives the best reason for voting that any just-minded believer in democracy could ever need:<\/p>\n

\u201cA guy named Adolf Hitler won an election in 1932,\u201d the senator said. \u201cHe won an election, and 50 million people died as a result of that election in World War II, including 6 million Jews. So what I learned as a little kid is that politics is, in fact, very important.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Amen, Sen. Sanders. We #FeelTheBern.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, I’m reading this article shared by Truthout editor William Rivers Pitt about Trump’s extremist stand on deporting immigrants and his incessant hatemongering. And, I recently read a corroboration of Bernie Sander’s statement that Hitler was elected to govern Germany. All of a sudden that light-bulb goes on in my head: Trump could actually be … <\/p>\n

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