My feeling is that it is not especially helpful to compare Trump to Hitler. It's more useful to look at what authoritarian governments and fledgling autocracies in general do, which Hitler himself exemplifies and takes to its limit. If we think too much on Hitler specifically, we risk missing what the signs of the present are indicating. For instance, even the period between the World Wars didn't have so many countries with a rapidly rising far right. Then again, they weren't contending with globalization like we are. Etc. etc. There are lots of differences, and authoritarian government in our time has a different look to that of the 1930s. In the long run, because of nukes, environmental crises, and other factors, our version might be less egregious but much more lethal.
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