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NY Times Columnist Compares Trump to Hitler: They Both Used ‘Mass Deception’

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https://www.mediaite.com/print/ny-times-columnist-compares-trump-to-hitler-they-both-used-mass-deception/

 

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As the political polarization in America has increased over the last two years, Godwin’s law of Hitler analogies has been proven true time and time again — the law being that at some point in the escalation of a debate, someone will compare an opposing argument, a person, or a group of people to Adolf Hitler and Nazis.

In a viral New York Times column, Charles M. Blow reached peak Godwin’s law as he compared President Donald Trump to Hitler by claiming both leaders use/used lies in a similar fashion.

In the Thursday piece, titled “Trump isn’t Hitler. But the Lying…,” the liberal columnist essentially claimed that while Trump is not like Hitler for what the Nazi leader is known for — genocide and ethno-fascism– Trump is like Hitler based on the way the two men lied.

Blow writes:

“Ignoring what one of history’s greatest examples of lying has to teach us about current examples of lying, particularly lying by the ‘president’ of the most powerful country in the world, seems to me an act of timidity in a time of terror. It is an intentional self-blinding to avoid offending frail sensibilities. I have neither time nor patience for such tiptoeing. I prefer the boot of truth to slam down to earth like thunder, no matter the shock of hearing its clap.”

It is unclear why Blow referred to Trump’s title of president in quotation marks, but his basic point is: Rather than beating around the bush like other pundits, he is telling Trump’s presidency like it is — regardless of how hyperbolic he may sound to some.

“Trump is no Hitler, but the way he has manipulated the American people with outrageous lies, stacked one on top of the other, has an eerie historical resonance. Demagogy has a fixed design,” said Blow — clarifying that he is, in fact, not calling Trump “literally Hitler.”

Blow claimed that Trump employs the Hitlerian tactic of attributing his most brazen, wild claims to other people who remain anonymous — e.g. “many people are saying” and “lots of people have said.” This allows Trump to employ lies “to assault and subdue” the consciousness of Americans, argues Blow.

“It is Trump doing to political ends what Hitler did to more brutal ends: using mass deception as masterful propaganda,” added the liberal columnist. He later took his rhetoric down a notch, saying that Trump is not a real danger to most Americans, but that people should still realize they are “being manipulated.”

While the article was very popular and even spent a significant amount of time trending on Twitter, it also caused significant outrage among many on the right and center. Daily Wire editor Ben Shapiro even penned a lengthy piece decrying the hyperbolic nature of Blow’s column, though ironically participated in hyperbole himself by calling the article the “WORST Op-Ed Ever.”

 

 

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Wow, I never knew I was being manipulated....did you guys know you were being manipulated?  I'm shocked that someone would try to manipulate me...OMG...I mean that's never happened but one other time in human history...Hitler, he's it...he's the only other human being to ever manipulate people into to voting for them....man, this guy has really nailed it...he's found the answer.  Well, except for that time that every other politician in the history of the world manipulated information to get folks to vote for them....but, other than every other politician, ever, in human history....he's the only one....so yeah, Trump's just like Hitler...wow, thanks dude...I can see why people followed and passed this article along...so fresh and insightful.

And, I'm glad he further clarified that Trump is not "literally" Hitler though, because, I mean, we all knew Hitler escaped to Argentina after the war with Joseph Mengele and moved to the Island of Dr. Moreau so they could conduct their cloning experiments in hopes of returning Hitler to global power....

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Weekly, and in some weeks daily, another of Obama's anti-American ploys and /or executive orders gets squashed. As long as Trump continues on this course, he can piss off as many New York Times writers as he cares to.

Stock market up, unemployment down, ISIS being defeated...the NYT and their followers can't stand Trump's success. :)

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12 hours ago, Mikey said:

Weekly, and in some weeks daily, another of Obama's anti-American ploys and /or executive orders gets squashed. As long as Trump continues on this course, he can piss off as many New York Times writers as he cares to.

Stock market up, unemployment down, ISIS being defeated...the NYT and their followers can't stand Trump's success. :)

Bingo

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