Hitlerism

In 1934 Hamilton Fish, who represented Roosevelt’s home district in New York’s Hudson Valley, said, “This administration has copied the autocratic tactics of fascism, Hitlerism and communism at their worst.”

Trump is literally channeling Hitlerism, and often almost quoting Hitler directly.

In short, it reminds us of how irrational Hitlerism and other fascism had been vis-a-vis to democracy.

Contrary to what some in the news media have incorrectly suggested in their attempts to downplay and normalize Trump’s increasingly unrestrained evil, the ex-president was not using “dog whistles” or “flirting with” Hitlerism and Nazism.

At the end of this conversation, Browning shares his hope that Trump’s fascist movement is a cult of personality, that like Hitlerism and Stalinism, may not survive being defeated in the 2024 election or Trump's imprisonment.