The entire foundation of the Trump/Hitler comparison seems to be both figures made calculated statements designed to win over a potential voting demographic. Wow! I can't imagine anyone being so evil! When I hear people, it says to me most of what they know about world War 2, Hitler, and the Nazis they've learned from Saving Private Ryan and Inglorious Bastards. It also leads me to infer you believe some people are innately "evil" just a bad guy thwarted by the combined efforts of benevolent leader. Well, it has been said "evil" is found in the results of actions not the motivations behind those actions. This is an important distinction.
The belief in supervillains is one that reinforces ambivalence to historical context. It's no more likely Hitler was the product of a communion between a headless goat and a serpent on the day of a lunar eclipse anymore as it is our current leaders are actually reptilian aliens wearing human masks. They are just the latest procession in what has been described as the "march of folly." Humans make mistakes; they have loyalties, biases, cognitive dissonance, the whole nine yards so they are constantly making rash decisions that at best have relatively benign consequences at worse results in the incineration of a 100,000 people.
Well, the current postwar order has dug itself into quite a hole, and all it can do is continue to dig deeper. The realization the whole thing is already in the grave probably won't become apparent until the dirt starts being shoveled back in.
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