Fascism expert: Trump speech ‘doesn’t echo ‘Mein Kampf.’ This is textbook ‘Mein Kampf’
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On Sunday, MSNBC’s Mehdi Hasan spoke with Jason Stanley, a professor at Yale University and the author of “How Fascism Works,” and discussed Trump’s frightening Veterans Day rally speech, where he called his detractors “vermin” within our country that...
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Ivana said he kept a book of Hitler's speeches next to his bedside. That's pretty close.
Well I stand corrected.
Maybe he's just playing at being a dumb-dumb, like Boris Johnson was.
Fuck him anyway.
Yeah, he's not as dumb as the character he plays on TV, just like GW Bush. He just took it to another level.
Not that I think he was secretly brilliant or that every one of his public mistakes are deliberate. He just understands his cult and they don't want some genius leading them.