Elucidate me, please. As far as I know, I have a pretty good understanding of all of these things, and I would like to know where there are holes in my knowledge.
I see a man who is charismatic, pledges to "Make America great again!," has an intense distrust of minorities (especially Muslims), is playing into the insecurities of the American people, and thinks that one bad Muslim makes them all bad. He has dumbed down his speech so that the lowest common denominator will get hyped over him, because what he says sounds nice and succinct. He is easy to swallow. He is a fellow country-man; people relate to his easy speech and lazy manner. They see him as a good 'ol boy neighbor to be trusted, rather than a greedy, evil politician.
Hitler's rise to power was largely due to the economic issues in Germany and his enthusiasm and charisma; they wanted to be a fruitful and prosperous country after dealing economic recession and other issues, and this exciting man came into the picture and got them riled up with all his ideas of how it could happen. He played on old dislike for groups of people (the Jews killed Jesus, the Jews took our land and money, etc.) and used this to fuel his rise to power. He fabricated an enemy for the people to hate, and there is nothing like hatred to bring a group of people together. This is exactly what Trump is doing concerning Mexicans and Muslims, it just has not reached the extremes that Hitler did yet.
Yes, we have checks and balances, and it would likely never get as bad as the Holocaust (although we DID have Japanese internment camps on our very soil that came pretty close to what Hitler was doing over in Europe), but even so, the rhetoric that Trump is preaching is pretty scary stuff. He is also uneducated; the man is anti-vax and believes they cause :autism:.
He is also very pro-military, and like any conservative, he tends to be into government getting extremely involved in our personal lives (defunding Planned Parenthood, for instance; I would prefer that man to stay out of my ovaries). In my opinion, once we start getting into taking away reproductive rights, that opens a whole can of worms where the government is suddenly able to tell us what we can and cannot do with our bodies, and how many children we are to have, etc. It is a slippery slope.
So sure, maybe Trump isn't actual Hitler (no shit), but he is definitely scarily close in his political ideals, and I would rather a man of that type stay the fuck out of the White House.
; like he is too ridiculous to be real. I don't get how anyone is taking him seriously. But then again, republicans aren't known for being the most intelligent bunch.
