A book reveals the astounding parallels between Hitler and Trump — What every MAGA should read though none will.

Learning from history, recent or distant, is not a MAGA forte.

They believe only what Donald Trump tells them to believe today, even when it differs from what he told them yesterday, which regularly is the case.

Thus, no MAGA will read the following book or even read this post.

The book is summarized here: The Forgotten History of Hitler’s Establishment Enablers.  (The Nazi leader didn’t seize power; he was given it.) By Adam Gopnik

The book outlines how Germany’s political and financial leaders paid dearly for believing they could control a man they knew to be a psychopath.

The parallels with today’s Republican party and Trump’s wealthy backers are astounding. You repeatedly will be reminded, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”–George Santayana,

The Life of Reason, 1905. The MAGA movement allows for no memory of Hitler’s rise to power and his disastrous use of it.

Here are some excerpts from the summary article by Adam Gopnik: ©Provided by ZNetwork

Hitler created a world in which women were transported with their children for days in closed train cars and then had to watch those children die alongside them, naked, gasping for breath in a gas chamber.

Timothy W. Ryback’s choice to make his new book, “Takeover: Hitler’s Final Rise to Power” (Knopf), an aggressively specific chronicle of a single year, 1932, seems a wise, even an inspired one.

Ryback details, week by week, day by day, and sometimes hour by hour, how a country with a functional, if flawed, democratic machinery handed absolute power over to someone who could never claim a majority in an actual election and whom the entire conservative political class regarded as a chaotic clown with a violent following.

Ryback shows how major players thought they could find some ulterior advantage in managing him.

Each was sure that, after the passing of a brief storm cloud, so obviously overloaded that it had to expend itself, they would emerge in possession of power.

The corporate bosses thought that, if you looked past the strutting and the performative antisemitism, you had someone who would protect your money.

Hello, today’s wealthy people, Elon Musk, Kenny Troutt, Woody Johnson, Geoffrey Harrison, Saul Fox, Howard Lutnick, John Paulson, Mike Hodges, John Blanchard, Scott Bessent, David Frecka, George Bishop, Steven Witkoff, Tim Dunn, Diane Hendricks, Linda and Vince McMahon.

Trump doesn’t care about protecting your money. He cares only about protecting his money.

Many of you are billionaires who’ve supported Trump because he promises to eliminate regulations that protect customers.

Some of you gave to him in return for his political and/or financial support for their schemes.

If you notice any Jewish-sounding names in the bunch, you are right, which I, as a Jew, find particularly ironic and loathsome.

Trump is an undisguised bigot, and history shows that when a group supports bigotry, eventually, they themselves become targets of bigotry.

When a government supports bigotry, no one is spared, but the victims learn their lesson too late.

Communist ideologues thought that, if you peered deeply enough into the strutting and the performative antisemitism, you could spy the pattern of a popular revolution.

They were voting for specific programs that they thought would benefit them, and for a year’s insurance against the people they feared.

The rich give their money and votes to Trump because they believe he will make them even richer.

The not-rich vote for Trump because they fear the imaginary dangers Trump claims immigrants and liberals pose.

Ryback, focussing on the self-entrapped German conservatives, generally avoids the question that seems most obvious to a contemporary reader: Given that Hitler had repeatedly vowed to use the democratic process in order to destroy democracy, why did the people committed to democracy let him do it?

That is the key question even today.

Given that Trump attempted to overturn an election he lost in both the electoral college and by 7 million popular votes, why would people committed to democracy now vote for him?

Many historians have jousted with this question, but perhaps the most piercing account remains an early one, written less than a decade after the war by the émigré German scholar Lewis Edinger, who had known the leaders of the Social Democrats well and consulted them directly—the ones who had survived, that is—for his study.

His conclusion was that they simply “trusted that constitutional processes and the return of reason and fair play would assure the survival of the Weimar Republic and its chief supporters.”

Most Americans understand Trump’s faults and ambitions.

Still, they cannot believe that he actually could do what he repeatedly says he will do: Destroy the legal system that protects democracy (He calls it “draining the swamp.”) and install himself as dictator.

Most Americans have a deep faith that democracy will always survive here and that we’re not like those foreign countries.

Yet, democracy constantly teeters on the edge, and we have been remarkably fortunate so far despite our individual foolishness. Today, the election is predicted to be a close call even though:

• Trump disparages blacks as coming from “shithole countries” and being criminals
• He disparages browns as being “rapists and criminals.”
• He is supported by right-wing Christian nationalists who believe in the virtual enslavement of women and who oppose women even having voting or abortion rights.
• He openly expresses his bigotry toward all religions other than Christian nationalism.
• His followers engage in book burning and other anti-free-speech efforts.
• He disparages gays.
• He disparages women.
• He opposes unions and worker’s rights while supporting rich business owners.
• He repeatedly has tried to end ACA (Obamacare), even going so far as repeatedly to reach out to the Supreme Court.
• He admires dictators like Putin and Kim and has admitted he would be a dictator if elected.
• He has committed and been convicted by juries of many crimes, including tax fraud and other forms of fraud (for instance, Trump U., cheating his foreign workers, etc.)
• He made repeated attempts to overthrow the U.S. government and continues to claim the election was tainted despite his loss of 60+ lawsuits proving otherwise.
• His endless lying has become crazier and crazier, indicating his mental deterioration.

By any rational measure, Trump would not receive a single vote other than from the greedy rich and the Christian nationalists, none of whom seem to worry about democracy.

But these are not rational times, and sadly, history is filled with horrifying examples of what happens to a population that departs from rationality.

Rodger Malcolm Mitchell

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