I am surprised he did not invoke the Holocaust more incessantly.
Trump’s Hitlerian disregard for the truth
By Richard Cohen
I realize that the name Hitler has the distractive quality of pornography and so I cite it only with reluctance. Hitler, however, was not a fictional creation but a real man who was legally chosen to be Germany’s chancellor, and while Trump is neither an anti-Semite nor does he have designs on neighboring countries, he is Hitlerian in his thinking. He thinks the truth is what he says it is.
Soon after becoming chancellor, Hitler announced that the Jews had declared war on Germany. It was a preposterous statement because Jews were less than 1 percent of Germany’s population and had neither the numbers nor the power to make war on anything. In fact, in sheer preposterousness, it compares to Trump’s insistence that Barack Obama was not born in the United States — a position he tenaciously held even after Obama released his Hawaiian birth certificate.
At the time, people tried to make sense of Hitler’s statements by saying he was seeking a scapegoat and had settled on the Jews. Not so. From my readings, I know of no instance in which Hitler confided to an intimate that, of course, his statements about Jews were, as we might now say, over the top. In fact, he remained consistently deranged on the topic. He was not lying. For him, it was the truth.
Trump’s fixation on Obama’s birthplace is similar.
It’s great that WAPO has Jennifer Rubin, Dana Milbank, AND Richard Cohen. These oh-so-radically-different-just-happen-to-be-Jewish in that you would never guess way really cover the diverse national political opinions that exist at the DC shabbos table.
How many Jewish columnists does WAPO need to call Trump a fascist exactly?
I think some Jews really just want to be called out. Look at how many willingly, foolishly, still have those parenthesis around their name, signaling their tribalism.
Some tribal Jews have so convinced themselves of their ethnic superiority they don’t even take their ever-increasing enemies seriously.
