Trump is Hitler, a fascist, a Nazi – say leading Dems. Here is a piece of reality.

Donald Trump in his typical Hitler gear.

Hitler and Mussolini in their typical militant Trump gear. Imagine Hitler or Mussolini selling burgers or collecting garbage.

Hitler grew up in relative poverty. He wanted to become an artist, a painter. He survived his earlier years by selling aquarelles. He applied for a grant at the Vienna art school but was rejected. He barely passed high school and never studied anything, nor did he learn any craft. He wanted to become a German but was rejected. He joined the German army nonetheless and turned out to be a good soldier. He earned the high decoration of “Iron Cross”. When the fighting parties in WWI started using poison gas, he had to trim his mustache to fit under the gas mask. Hence the “Hitler Schnauzer”. Early on he was drawn into esoteric circles, where he was not only indoctrinated to believe in mystical forces like the “Vril” force but also to believe that Arians were the best humans and Jews were the worst. He was a decent public speaker with a tendency to exaggerated gesturing and wild grimacing, but those who met him in person testified that he had a magnetic personality. He wrote a book about how he would erase the Jews and make the Arians (the Germans) the masters of the world. He believed in biological and social Darwinism, and he has a liking for wearing uniforms. After proclaiming himself “the leader” he practically never wore any clothes other than military ones. Hitler was a Fascist and a National Socialist. His Party was the “German National Socialist Workers’ Party” (NSDAP). In Germany, at the time, socialists were called by the nickname “SOZIs” and consequently the Germans called National Socialists “NAZIs”. That makes a NAZI a National Socialist. In the German language, “national”, in this term, is an adjective to “socialist”, as opposed to Soviet style international socialism. In other words: a NAZI is primarily a socialist with a nationalist flavor.

Hitler borrowed Fascism from Mussolini who had borrowed it from the Italian Duke and General Gabriele D’Annunzio. D’Annunzio invented Fascism in an attempt to resurrect the virtues of the old Roman Republic. Roman Senators had an escort of 12 lictors, an armed bodyguard. Each lictor carried an ax wrapped in a bundle of sticks. The sticks symbolized the power of the government to punish law breakers, and the ax symbolized the power of the government to use capital punishment against murderers and traitors. For D’Annunzio, the sticks also symbolized the collective, the state. To him, the sticks meant that the collective was stronger than the individual and the axe meant that those who went against the state could be punished with the death penalty. The bundle of sticks was called “fascis” in Latin and “fasci” in Italian. Hence the term “fascismo” i.e. “fascism”. Originally, there was no anti-Judaism in Fascism. In fact, Mussolini tried to protect the Jews. They were persecuted after the Germans had taken over Italy. In its essence Fascism is pure statism. Statism is a collectivist ideology that puts the state above everything else. Collectivism puts the collective above the individual. In Mussolini’s own words: “Tutto nello Stato, niente al di fuori dello Stato, nulla contro lo Stato.” – “Everything within the state, nothing outside of the state, nothing against the state.”

Hitler replaced the State with the people, the “Volk”. Hitler: “Du bist nichts, dein Volk is alles.” – “You are nothing; your people are everything.”

Trump grew up in an upwardly mobile family. His father was a successful businessman. He invested wisely and – with some setbacks – developed into a successful businessman himself. He sure fails the statism test. He believes in small (Jeffersonian) government. He fought the “deep state”. i.e. the government bureaucracy that actually runs the government in spite of changing political leadership and he paid dearly for this sin. He abolished thousands of cumbersome regulations and tried to reign in the power of government institutions as much as he could. So, surely, he is not a statist or fascist. He is also not a collectivist. And modern anti-Judaism is no longer at home in conservative circles. It is bred and practiced in our socialist colleges and universities, many of which are depending on financial support from Islamic countries. Trump stands for individualism and individual liberty. He is a patriotic nationalist, but not a chauvinist. Chauvinism is the term for extremely exaggerated nationalism, and it needs to be differentiated from genuine patriotism that protects the interest of one’s own nation without demeaning other nations.

Hitler was a national socialist and a German chauvinist. Trump is neither. But since the nation state is in the way of global governance and since global governance is what the global collectivist elites are aspiring to, the language controllers of the left MSM and of the social media had the brilliant idea to bash any form of patriotism or nationalism as Naziism. This is what Mark Robinson was referring to when he called himself a “black Nazi”. He is a true patriot and American nationalist and consequently his socialist opponents denounce him as a Nazi. Robinson was trying to point out the absurdity of such a terminology, when he concluded that this makes him a “black Nazi”.

To appreciate this kind of irony and parody one must have a minimum sense of humor. And this is another issue on which there is no similarity between Trump and Hitler. Trump has an elaborate sense of humor and often even makes fun of himself. One of my distant relatives in Germany was a Nazi prosecutor. He sought the death penalty for a shipyard worker who had written a funny poem about Hitler. The man was shot. Like almost all despots, Hitler had no sense of humor, leave alone self-irony.

Equating Trump to Hitler not only shows a pitiful lack of understanding who Trump is and what he tries to accomplish. It also shows a dangerous lack of understanding who Hitler really was and what he did and the severity of his crimes, his war mongering, his insane ideas of racial superiority and inferiority, and his imperial aspirations. Maybe equating Trump to Julius Caesar works better. Here is Mark Anthony about Trump (loosely based on Shakespeare):

He fought against the deep state and the Swamp. 
But Kamala maintains he is a Nazi; 
And Kamala’s an honest woman, right? 
He brought peace to the Near East, kicked out regulations; 
Illegal immigration he did block; 
Did this in Trump seem like he was a Fascist? 
He curbed inflation, brought back business, income rose; 
Is not a Nazi made of different stuff?
Yet, Kamala insists he is a Nazi; 
And Kamala’s an honest women, right? 
And did he not uphold the Constitution? 
Did not the Left mob burn, destroy, and kill?
Was he not falsely prosecuted, almost shot? 
Yet, Kamala insists Trump is a despot. 
And Kamala’s an honest women, right?  

(Forgive me, Bill. It’s for the good cause.)