Topic: a conservative explains why not to vote Trump
msharmony's photo
Sun 10/30/16 11:19 PM
http://thefederalist.com/2016/02/29/5-reasons-every-american-should-oppose-donald-trump/


from the article:


“Trump isn’t Hitler” isn’t a defense; it’s an excuse—a way of letting Trump get as close to the line of actual fascism without stepping over it. If we let him close to that line he will, like a toddler, slip a toe over, then a foot, to test us and see how far he can really go. We shouldn’t have to wait for someone to go full Hitler to recognize a danger to our system of government.


Besides, even Hitler wasn’t “Hitler” when he was running for office in 1928 and 1932. He hadn’t yet brought down democracy in Europe, started the most catastrophic war in all history, and murdered millions.

He was just a powerful orator who knew how to connect with everyday people—mainly by exploiting their fears and anxieties over economic dislocation, racial tension, and their belief that they just didn’t win anymore. He wanted to help make Germany great again, and Germans agreed. The rest is history

LittleLeftofRight's photo
Mon 10/31/16 12:52 AM
but Hitler never did anything as gruesome and immoral as Eisenhower and Churchill, you know the 'good guys'.




So whats your point? Surely Trump didnt do anything like that did he?

Conrad_73's photo
Mon 10/31/16 02:19 AM

http://thefederalist.com/2016/02/29/5-reasons-every-american-should-oppose-donald-trump/


from the article:


“Trump isn’t Hitler” isn’t a defense; it’s an excuse—a way of letting Trump get as close to the line of actual fascism without stepping over it. If we let him close to that line he will, like a toddler, slip a toe over, then a foot, to test us and see how far he can really go. We shouldn’t have to wait for someone to go full Hitler to recognize a danger to our system of government.


Besides, even Hitler wasn’t “Hitler” when he was running for office in 1928 and 1932. He hadn’t yet brought down democracy in Europe, started the most catastrophic war in all history, and murdered millions.

He was just a powerful orator who knew how to connect with everyday people—mainly by exploiting their fears and anxieties over economic dislocation, racial tension, and their belief that they just didn’t win anymore. He wanted to help make Germany great again, and Germans agreed. The rest is history
so,Ernst Roehms Brownshirts (SA)had nothing to do with it,did they?