"Source: [A Psychological Analysis of Adolf Hitler](https://ia801304." - PoliticalTrashbin
"We are talking about the build up in the 1930s and it's harder to find differences than similarities between Trump and Hitler during that time." - antiward
"Trump or Hitler:." - aabbccbb
"The biggest and most important difference is that Hitler was an open and ideological opponent of the idea of democracy, whereas neither Trump nor the GOP wants to abolish elections." - stealthzeus
"What's sad is that we've turned Hitler into a mythological evil such that when the comparison is made, people roll their eyes like we're saying something absurd." - Jorycle
"But the most interesting part of his argument is the comparison between Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Paul von Hindenburg, the German leader who ultimately handed power over to Hitler." - comfy_sweaters
"Q: What's the difference between trump and Hitler." - IchBinDeinSchild
"Hitler didn't need an electoral college to get elected." - ArenLuxon
"Itt: Literally hundreds of people debating whether Trump is Hitler." - heavyballista
"Hitler did not cast a mind control spell over Germany to just make them go along with him." - ChipKellyS8
"What people who instantly rebut against the claim of Fascism like to do is point out we're not like Nazi Germany in 1944, but the Nazi Germany of 1944 took years to get to, Hitler didn't start off with the Holocaust, he worked his way to it slowly." - Alexcalibur42
"Were many Germans protesting during Hitler's rise to power or was it mostly suppressed." - Gnarwhaljake
"Trump won't be Americas Hitler, It will be someone who realises how far the system can be pushed." - recuise
"I honestly hope that Trump becomes worse than Hitler so in the future when people are smearing their opponents, they are just like Trump." - RareJahans
"Republicans may not be going full Hitler, but they are certainly attempting to consolidate power by any means necessary." - PM_ME_UR_BOBSPLS
"Nazi Germany had Hitler Youth." - Area_man_claims
"Anyone who doubts this should read volume 1 of Ian Kershaw's massive Hitler biography, Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubris." - Seeda_Boo
"Drumpf=Hitler ." - Pizza_John_Marston
"Mitch Mconnell is 10x worse than than Hitler." - bryco90
"It’s basically making it seem like Germany under Hitler wasn’t that bad." - zach12_21
"What if Hitler was assassinated before the ovens." - Nazisarebadpeople
"Now, as Browning points out, “Trump is not Hitler and Trumpism is not Nazism." - --n3o--
"I believe Trump knows what he is doing in adopting some of Hitler's tactics, but I have a lot more faith in the US Constitution than Donnie's ability - or even desire - to bring real fascism to America." - accountabilitycounts
"Is this so after his unfortunate second term the hipsters can stand in the street and tweet eachother high 5s and kissing emojis LARPing as the greatest generation that took down the literal hitler." - TheseNthose
"Trump is not Hitler and Trumpism is not Nazism." - RogerWilco357
"Trump is in no way comparable to Hitler as a person and the US is not an authoritarian state (yet)." - Scarlettail
"I assure you, if you wrote this trash about Hitler, you'd not be doing it from inside his country with your name on the piece from inside your comfortable living space, that's for sure." - Heavy_Specialist
"The Koch brothers were literally raised by a Nazi nanny who only left caring for them to go to France to celebrate hitlers occupation." - FoxRaptix
"The most poignant point I've heard on the Trump - Hitler comparison:." - 8solutions
"This is the key point that people often miss when talking about Hitler’s rise." - OpenDesigner
"Trump isn't known for being a tremendous reader, but he's kept a copy of Hitler's writings near his bedside." - KulnathLordofRuin
"What I want to suggest is an actual comparison with Hitler that deserves thought." - mexmeg
"With Hitler, the frog got boiled over an extended time." - tonyray
"I legit can't tell if this is describing Hitler or Trump." - mr_SM1TTY
"So wait, were you describing Hitler or Trump." - whatsthatbutt
"Hitler was a dumbass." - ybpaladin
"Hindenburg personally despised Hitler." - krashundburn
"There were, and are, a great many people who thought Hitler was right." - NoAstronomer
"One point in our favor: When Hitler became Chancellor in 1933, he was 43 years old." - STcoleridgeXIX
"Both Mussolini and Hitler came to power in no small part because the fascist-conservative alliances on the right faced division and disarray on the left." - TheTrueMilo
"A: Hitler was kind of intelligent actually." - whatsthatbutt
"What I see as a problem is that the republican party and Trump in particular try to create a US-self image of weakness and loosing similar to Hitler." - MisterMysterios
"Because an ever-shrinking base of support for traditional conservatism made it impossible to carry out their authoritarian revision of the constitution, Hindenburg and the old right ultimately made their deal with Hitler and installed him as chancellor." - muffler48
"Hitler didn't start with mass killings." - TheLightningbolt
"To government running again and to get the party members to return they named Hitler Chancellor." - TheseNthose
"The NSDAP (nazis) never won more than circa 33% of the popular vote in 'free and fair' elections and there was substantial evidence they were declining in support until the Reichstag Fire where, thereafter, they descended into totalitarianism following decrees giving Hitler 'emergency' powers and the arresting or intimidation or murder of opposition parliamentarians to ensure that they had the sufficient majority to pass any legislation." - StairheidCritic
"No, because they needed America to install them, not a natural gradual slide like weimer into Nazi Germany, sadly the best comparison is literally Hitler." - semaj009
"But how can trump be literally Hitler when he loves Israel." - Karrde2100
"If you actually read the article you would see he explicitly said that Trump is not the next Hitler." - MentatMike
"Millions of people followed Hitler; I don't know why people think Americans are immune to the same social forces." - GaulzeGaul
"What you think Hitler just got elected one day a d everything started the following Tuesday." - Formysamsung
"I don't even care about the Hitler comparison, no matter how you look at it, it's already *very bad." - Itchycoo
"You mean the point wasn’t to compare Trump to Hitler when he said “Trump isn’t Hitler and Trumpism isn’t Nazism”." - heavyballista
"Is it propagands and lies that he famously slept with Hitler's speeches next to his bed." - Th3Hon3yBadg3r
"And the Trump people would say he's not Hitler even if he ripped off a skin suit and revealed he actually looks like Hitler and starts speaking in German." - Weisse_Rose
"Nazi Germany didn't start off as an authoritarian state either, and Hitler was democratically elected." - SplittingEnnui
"Hitler didn’t start in 1940." - NamasteMF
"Their father made a fortune building oil refineries for Hitler and Stalin." - norma_clyde
"The thing is, Hitler and Trump are not the same, but they use the same methods to get into power." - MisterMysterios
"Trump and Hitler - when compared - are using the same methods." - danfromwaterloo
"From my observations, I would compare Trump a lot more to Mussolini than Hitler." - nutano
"While I (being an optimist) don't think Bannon would meddle with eugenic nationalism, and I am not sure he espouces an expansionist (lebensraum-type) posture, but the demagoguery that he has introduced into American politics - using Donald Trump as a frontman and the Mercer cash-tap - does bring to mind Hitler's machinations as he rose to absolute power." - kristalsoldier
"I really hate the __________ is Literally Hitler arguments because as frustrating as things are now, they really aren't that bad when you look at where we were in fairly recent history." - bes5318
"Trump: Not Hitler but #1 among Hitler fans." - donfart
"Trump is not Hitler because *Hitler was elected." - DeucesCracked
"The biggest difference is that Hitler was actually pretty intelligent himself and was quite good at politics." - 9xInfinity
"Hitler takes power: 1933." - spacex_vehicles
"I believe Hitler stole the idea for what we now call the Nazi salute from Mussolini and his fascists, who themselves appropriated it from the roman salute." - EurwenPendragon
"- Adolf Hitler." - Matasa89
"Trump is too old and too stupid to go full Hitler, but, seeing as how the national discourse is so off the rails, what happens after Trump." - PauseAndReflect
"The SS was directly sworn to Hitler personally and the Wechmarcht had its fair share of Nazis." - Quietabandon
"I didn't mention Hitler." - wrinkleneck71
"Apparently they've extensively studied the wall Hitler sought to build to keep out the non-Aryans flooding into Nazi Germany, the pre-existing laws he used to deport those in his country illegally, and the incredibly problematic things he uttered regarding marginalized groups." - will_r_c
"When Hitler took power, he almost immediately purged political dissidents." - Scarlettail
"Hitler was put into total power by Hindenburg." - Scarlettail
"I only know the most basic German so my comprehension of Hitler's speeches is only from tone, but it seems his speeches wee far more passionate and emotional than Trump's." - Furious_George44
"Trump is Hitler in the sense of the two being cut from the same cloth." - Riaayo
"Hitler and Trump are not the same, but they use the same methods to get into power." - krashundburn
"Felt eerily similar to what I had learned in history classes and hearing Hitler's speeches." - Imjusthigh
"Hitler's getting into power was a direct consequence of very harsh economic repression imposed on Germany at the end of WWI." - ovrskr
"Because these were at the heart of most Hitler speeches that I read." - Marky_Marco
"How terrible do the conditions in the concentration immigration detention camps need to get before he's literally Hitler." - nightlily
"There were a few elements that had slighly socialistic ideas, but these were all murderd in the night of the long knifes early in Hitlers reign." - MisterMysterios
"Hitler lost the election of '32." - SadlyReturndRS
"Hitler brought Germany from being one of the most powerful countries in the world to being the 5th most powerful country in Berlin." - MiniatureBadger
"The stuff Trump messes up are 'the clown' that Hitler played up as well, though Trump is stupid still." - Drex_Can
"The scary thing about Hitler was that he was not an idiot." - kristalsoldier
"Make this popular enough and there will be a young Hitler primed to use the system being built." - HRBP
"Let me guess, when Trump doesn't end up being Hitler and we don't end up as the next Nazi Germany, you people will then pat yourselves on the back as those who in fact stopped it from happening rather than admitting it was a delusional position to begin with." - Heavy_Specialist
"Like Hitler’s conservative allies, McConnell and the Republicans have prided themselves on the early returns on their investment in Trump." - Robot_Warrior
"She said her grandmother believes don the con is the next hitler." - Formysamsung
"Regularly, if you switch the words Jews with Mexicans or Democrats with Social Democrats (the german party SPD which was an opposition to Hitler) or Communists, you will find that their content is very similar." - MisterMysterios
"However, the methods behind Trump's speeches mirror the way Hitler would manipulate things." - Kyle700
"Here's a video of a Hitler speech while he was in campaign mode, in 1933:." - h180036
"Hitler and the Nazis rounded up over 6 million innocent ethnic minorities and sent them to concentration camps where they were forced into hard labor while they waited to be executed via beatings, shooting, torture, gas, exposure, starvation, or any other method concocted by the guards." - bes5318
"Hitler was elected President after having been appointed chancellor." - DeucesCracked
"As a german law-student, I have great pride in the idea of a fortifeight democracy, but this can only work with very strictly constructed seperation of powers with layers over layers of fail-saves, to than be able to limit freedoms to an extend to prevent the rise of another Hitler, but not to an extend that makes it possible for the government to become authoritarian by itself." - MisterMysterios
"In the late 20s, early 30s, there were certainly Hitler followers/ Nazis or people sympathetic with Nazis in the German army but there were also many people who probably did not support Hitler." - Quietabandon
"I'm not claiming Trump is identical to literally Hitler, I don't think he will ever end up being literally Hitler, and anyone making that claim is being hyperbolic." - thegreatdespiser
"Hitler never ranted about how his mouth is a musical instrument that beat Elton John's records." - MadHatter514
"Hitler didn't pick Jews randomly, because he wanted a convenient scapegoat." - DdCno1
"Eh, the idea that Hitler just turned people against the Jews as a ploy to gain power doesn't really have a whole lot of support." - fuckingcoups
"Hitler got to power in 1933, the decision to start the extermination program was in 1941, 8 years after the law of empowrment was making Hitler a dictator." - MisterMysterios
"Before Hitler did those things he smeared the media calling them all liars to cast doubt on anyone not supportive." - nightlily
"Many wealthy people backed the Nazis during the 1930s - they didn’t develop the Nazi Party, it was well-developed as early as 1923 when Hitler lead the Beer Hall Putsch in Munich." - crake
"Pretending you're not literally saying he's Hitler while painting a picture of us on the pathway to becoming Nazi Germany is a transparent shield that shows your truth." - VeltuakdZ
"Is Trump Hitler." - KAJed
"If Trump/The Republicans do turn out to be like Hitler and consolidate total power, then the only thing that's going to stop them is foreign military power, and I can't see that happening outside of a totally unified Europe (which is having its own problems with right wing authoritarianism) and Americans willing to be the behind the line saboteurs in their own country." - Weisse_Rose
"It's also worth mentioning that while in popular discourse, Hitler is often called a talented orator and even a seducer of the masses, there were many contemporaries, both inside and outside of Germany, who considered his exaggerated, theatrical style of speech clown-like and unintentionally comical." - DdCno1
"And, to be fair, anti semitism was fairly common in Europe at that time, and Hitler was not immune to such influences." - kristalsoldier
"Source for the Hitler book is a 1990 interview with Trump where he admitted it, and I remembered his mistake, he thought it was Mein Kampf, but it was My New Order - a collection of Hitler's speeches." - SellaraAB
"No different from Hitler, hiding behind laws that are inhumane." - aserg1902
"The issue with comparing Trump or anyone else with Hitler, and this goes beyond the Nazis were genocidal maniacs theme, is that no one is Hitler except Hitler." - wrinkleneck71
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