Above all, Hitler symbolized death and destruction; Trump symbolizes law and order, blue lives as well as black lives, and all lives, saving the country from enemies of safety and freedom from outside and from within
Trump Opposite of Hitler --More so than virtually anyone else
Some otherwise intelligent and rational people continue to compare Donald Trump to Adolph Hitler even after the American people have elected Donald Trump to serve as their President.
Love him or hate him, we Americans will now have to learn to understand him.
When Trump was a candidate, many people claimed he does not represent “who we are,” but now that he is our president-elect, the focus should be on “who he is” and “who will he be” as president.
It would appear that most of the “never Trumpers” are concerned more with Trump’s general approach and his approach to minorities generically than with his approach to Jews specifically, though many people consider him to be an anti-Semite. This article will address all of these concerns.
Any fair analysis of Trump based on his life and his rhetoric yields only one conclusion. He was never a Nazi; he is not a Nazi; he never will be. Actually, perhaps more than anyone else, he is the opposite of the personification of Adolph Hitler.
In 1930, even before Hitler came to power, he declared America to be a menace to all of Europe. Trump declares America to be first, and wants Europe to help itself in order to continue to merit American support.
When Hitler came to power, he promoted four theoretical elements of national socialism – anti-Semitism, anti-liberalism, anti-Marxism, and anti-Christianity.
Trump grew up in New York, home of the largest Jewish community outside of Israel; he has a long history of supporting Israel, including having been the grand marshal of one of the annual salute-to-Israel parades; his older daughter converted to Judaism, with her father’s blessing, and Ivanka’s husband is one of Trump’s most cherished advisors; finally, Trump’s promise to implement Congress’ commitment to move the American embassy to Jerusalem seems more likely to be kept than the broken promises of all prior presidential candidates since that resolution was made, all prior presidential candidates having begged off with waivers upon rising to office. Trump is no beggar.
Trump’s credentials as a liberal are well known, having been a Democrat popular with New York politicians for decades. The classic liberals have been taken over by the extremist progressives; it is the extremism that drove Trump to the Republican Party; not an abandonment of liberalism in a positive inclusive sense.
Trump supports people of all religions, not the least of which is Christianity, and in his declaration of his candidacy for president, he even took the Vatican as an example, though not by name, upon pledging to build a wall (as surrounds the Vatican) to protect the United States from unauthorized trespassers.
As to anti-Marxism, Trump is indeed “guilty” of being opposed to Marxism, though he does not favor invading Russia, as Hitler did, but rather seeks to build bridges to the Kremlin to the point that Putin had said that Clinton, not Trump, is a threat to lead to a World War III. Yet the “never Trump” people still unhappily worry about Trump being the “trigger happy” one likely to lead the U.S. into an unnecessary war. (Remember, by the way, it was Trump who had consistently opposed the Iraq war, despite what the Democratic “fact checkers” say based on one half-hearted out-of-context comment, and it was Hillary who voted for it as a U.S. Senator, which can’t be denied even by the Democratic “fact checkers.”)
Hitler denounced the individualism of the western nations, specifically including America. Trump, of course, is for America first, and opposes globalism of any kind, let alone Hitler’s brand.
When Hitler came to power, he suppressed all opposition; although people may remember him most for his Holocaust focusing on people of one nationality, it may also be worth noting that once he came to power in 1933, with his Nazi Party, he banned all other parties for as long as he remained in power. By contrast, when Trump faced the voters, with a fractured Republican Party, the consensus was that his party would be fractured forever (and irrelevant) after the election, with the other party in control, had he lost. On election night, and ever since, Trump has been focusing on inclusiveness and working with everyone interested in working with him, both within the country and internationally. Parenthetically and tangentially, it may be noted that the Democrats are fractured now, and to a great extent blaming each other for their tactical failures, ironically, not for the substantive weaknesses in their positions.
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Hitler rose to power seeking to convert his country into one giant war machine; Trump has focused on rebuilding the armed services for national defense.
Hitler rose to power seeking to control the world; Trump came to power accused of being an isolationist, focusing on America first, not on Americans over all.
Hitler obviously sought to annihilate the Jews on whom he blamed all the world’s problems. Trump came to office pledging to uplift all Americans, often singling out America’s often persecuted minorities, such as Blacks and Latinos. Trump specifically and frequently pledged to bring people from the inner cities, from the poorer and blighted neighborhoods, into the mainstream of society. Statistics have been presented indicating that more Latinos voted for the Republicans this year than in some previous years, and many people assume this translated into votes against Trump, but it turns out that Trump received more votes than the far less controversial Romney had received in the prior election, presumably because many Latinos were not conned and fooled by the mainstream media into thinking that Trump’s positions on immigration in general and on “the wall” in particular were intended to represent opposition to legal immigrants and law-abiding citizens, but perceptive members of majority and minority groups realize that Trump’s positions were and are intended to protect and defend the interests of legal immigrants and law-abiding citizens, among whom many Latinos and African-Americans are proudly included.
Hitler took jobs away from the Jews, the most oppressed minorities of his country, not to mention their very lives; Trump came to office promising to take the most oppressed people of America today, including African-Americans and former coal miners, off the welfare rolls and to give all able-bodied people opportunities to earn good jobs.
Hitler forced Jews to wear yellow starred badges to exclude their wearers from society; Trump encouraged everyone to wear his bright red hats with the plea to Make America Great Again – for all of its citizens.
Hitler sought to murder all citizens of one nationality; Trump seeks to make meaningful borders to protect all of America’s citizens from terrorists by plane and drug dealers on foot.
Hitler sought to prevent German Jews from reaching the borders of his country and escaping from his murderous killing squads ; Trump encourages border guards to have the rights to prevent truly “deplorables” from entering the country through its borders to murder and ruin the lives of Americans of all kinds.
The Nazis prevented pastors from saving the lives of hunted and haunted citizens. Trump seeks to encourage imams to discourage terrorists from emerging to murder Americans.
In Hitler’s personal life, he failed the entrance exam to the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, and gave up on trying again, selling water colors, hanging wallpaper, and largely depending on organized charity before entering and rising through the ranks of the military. Trump, by contrast, began as a student at Fordham University, a Catholic university, and then transferred into Wharton, widely considered to be the nation’s top business school, where he obtained a business degree, which he utilized to become the best known real estate mogul in the world, and one of the most successful and iconic.
Hitler was an ascetic vegetarian who wouldn’t hurt or eat an animal, but who could torture and murder humans and whole civilizations. Trump is known to enjoy good food and fast food, and is determined to save our civilization from those who seek to destroy it.
Above all, Hitler symbolized death and destruction; Trump symbolizes law and order, blue lives as well as black lives, and all lives, saving the country from enemies of safety and freedom from outside and from within.
Comparing Trump to Hitler does a disservice to rational discourse and to the attempt to bring Americans together again, so that America will be great again.
Some otherwise intelligent and rational people continue to compare Donald Trump to Adolph Hitler even after the American people have elected Donald Trump to serve as their President.
Love him or hate him, we Americans will now have to learn to understand him.
When Trump was a candidate, many people claimed he does not represent “who we are,” but now that he is our president-elect, the focus should be on “who he is” and “who will he be” as president.
