I have purposefully avoided using the name of Hitler in relationship to Donald Trump because I thought, for the most part, it was hysterical hyperbole. I have had a change of heart since the policy of “zero-tolerance” unearthed the cruelty of a suckling baby reportedly ripped from its’ mother’s breast. Whenever we refer to WWII Germany, we say “Hitler’s Germany,” in kind we speak of Stalin’s Russia or Mussolini’s Italy, those monikers were for a reason. Fascist, power-mad, xenophobes, practicing racist and religious intolerance was put upon the innocent and the willing.
Trump’s America
All the tricks from the dictators’ handbook are being employed by Donald Trump, destruction of the press, phony populace nationalism, and incessant lying. We are running the risk of being bludgeoned into acquiescence. The abnormal is becoming the norm and sanity is being driven into political asylums. The President even has his own propaganda machine, at Fox News, whose biggest debate by its morning ministers of propaganda is whether imprisoned children are being held in “cages or “pens.”
We used to watch TV in America or unfurl the Sunday Times and roll our collective eyes when watching or reading about horrific dictators. The Kim dynasty, President for life, Idi Amin Dada, Panamanian strongman, Manuel Noriega, all vicious thugs and killers of not only strangers but their own people. Mr. Trump is well on his way. After the death of American hero Heather Heyer, during the disgraceful Charlottesville, Virginia show of white nationalism, Trump touted the “very fine people” among those who held the same philosophy as that of the killer of Ms. Heyer. Since that time, he has called African nations’“shitholes” American black athletes “sons of bitches” and described Hispanics and Latinos as an infestation of thuggery, rapist, and gang members. He is a fact-free liar, but that is what dictators do. They lie to their faithful and loathe or imprison the dissenters.
“lock her up.”
Mr. Trump has intermittently called for the jailing of those who hold him accountable or disagree. He wants James Comey jailed, Hillary Clinton locked up and Andrew McCabe penniless. Many of his supporters preached to us that he would get the seriousness of the job once he took office. It went from the lame excuses for his behavior, that he is new to politics, morphing into he was elected to shake things up, and now it is, he is keeping his promises. He promised to make Mexico pay for The Wall, he promised to give better and cheaper healthcare to all, he promised to lower taxes on the middle class and he promised to restore jobs to coal miners, womp—womp…
Speaking of Corey Lewandowski, he is the phlegm in the throat of a choking sickness that has infected America. Lewandowski, the former Trump enforcer, thought it funny to make childish noises during an interview when the subject of a 10-year-old child with down syndrome was discussed. There was a time when members of the GOP would have admonished him or the President’s wife for insensitively wearing a jacket that could easily be misconstrued when visiting kids being held against their will, but a shrug and an oh well is what we got from the Republicans. Welcome to the Un-United States of Trump.
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