Watching a documentary about the nature of Hitler's "charisma" it struck me that Trump is playing by Hitler's playbook: Focus on the simple; find a small group to demonize and blame all ills on that group; repetition, chants; no subtly, which comes across as boldness and, above all: STRONG MAN!
And what undermines this show? Answering with the following is destined to fail:
1/ Any sentence which include the words: "unprecedented" or "scary" or "it makes me sad" or "I'm so afraid." What you are saying is "he is strong, I am weak."
2/ Dire predictions of the end of democracy. Citizens awaken the next day and nothing has happened and they think, "Oh, he's not so bad."
3/ Talk of legal things: Lawyers focusing on details sound petty, wimp like, irrelevant.
There was a joke which ran through the Third Reich, which could get you shot for saying to the wrong people: "Blonde as Hitler, tall as Goebbels, lean as Goering, the Aryan master race."
What really threatens a puffer fish trying to play the tough guy is ridicule.
And Trump is a prime target, pink, puffy, cowardly, afflicted by heel spurs.
He got away with denigrating John McCain for getting captured, having himself avoided even the risk of getting captured. How did that happen? Where were the Democrats on that one? Missing in Action is where the Democrats were.
Pia Guerra, the cartoonist, should be the load star here: Her depictions of Trump should be attached to every tweet, every posting. She gets it.
But, as in Hitler's case, the problem is not the man, but the weakness of his opposition and the strength of a determined core of imbeciles who feel empowered by hate and enraptured by myth.
But Adam Shiff, Obama, Hillary, everyone but Barney Frank and Bernie could not see it. They continued to sputter and they never hit him where it hurts.
Dems should start reading from the same chapter and verse: He's pathetic. He's weak. He's ridiculous.
And what undermines this show? Answering with the following is destined to fail:
1/ Any sentence which include the words: "unprecedented" or "scary" or "it makes me sad" or "I'm so afraid." What you are saying is "he is strong, I am weak."
2/ Dire predictions of the end of democracy. Citizens awaken the next day and nothing has happened and they think, "Oh, he's not so bad."
3/ Talk of legal things: Lawyers focusing on details sound petty, wimp like, irrelevant.
There was a joke which ran through the Third Reich, which could get you shot for saying to the wrong people: "Blonde as Hitler, tall as Goebbels, lean as Goering, the Aryan master race."
What really threatens a puffer fish trying to play the tough guy is ridicule.
And Trump is a prime target, pink, puffy, cowardly, afflicted by heel spurs.
He got away with denigrating John McCain for getting captured, having himself avoided even the risk of getting captured. How did that happen? Where were the Democrats on that one? Missing in Action is where the Democrats were.
Pia Guerra, the cartoonist, should be the load star here: Her depictions of Trump should be attached to every tweet, every posting. She gets it.
But, as in Hitler's case, the problem is not the man, but the weakness of his opposition and the strength of a determined core of imbeciles who feel empowered by hate and enraptured by myth.
Trump chose the perfect pitch: What was the essence of his core? White trash was bitter about being losers and he told them when he was President they would magically be transformed into winners. He would simply declare them all winners.
Dems should start reading from the same chapter and verse: He's pathetic. He's weak. He's ridiculous.
You are absolutely correct! There is no place for nuance - the only words which he should hear are "weak", "loser" as applied to him. You can throw in "liar" and "crook" if you like - but he already knows that. It would also be nice if those spineless Republican politicians would step up. They said it during the primaries but now, radio silence - except for Corker and Flake who are not running and have suddenly regrown a spine. SAD!!
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