Trump is half way between the usual right wing Republican and Hitler. This half way postion of his is not of his making, but of ours, the people. We are wiser having more researched information about demagogues. Hopefully there are enough of us to overcome the rebellion of the whites-only crowd. He and the republicans in power can and probably will do a lot of damage to the common people. By the time they are done we will find ourselves in the early 1900 era type governance. I do not think that the common republican is awake to this danger and maybe he/she even wants to be there.

The good news is that Herr Drumpf is not clever enough to be another Hitler; our center-ring circus clown is barely more astute than the right-wing Republican base who voted for him. He is just goofy enough, however, to bungle the job so badly that America will likely sink to new depths of dysfunction, if the last two weeks is any indication.

100% in agreement with the Trump/Hitler comparison. But while we listen to the WH lie and die like a Reality Show, the pipelines are a GO; the worst of the worst are heading Cabinets; the whole Supreme Court drama was Repugs at their criminal best; and, Internet Neutrality is in traitorous FCC hands. Shall I go on? And this despicable administration keeps on lying! One from Trump today: "The pipelines weren't so controversial"! This is the lie he will believe. And then there's Bannon...

Must ask: (I like that this is out, but...) Why did Sen. Blumenthal share comments from a most likely private conversation? Cheap and now hearsay?

If you ask me he is using Nationalism and fear to push his corporate policies. This seem to have more to do with money and power than any kind of patriotism. What does scare me is his infatuation with being a privilidged white male. We all need to see his tax returns. My guess he is hiding some serious financial problems much like his other investments that went bankrupt and maybe more. The other question is how much does Russia have to do with his investments. This all stinks to high heaven

It is bad enough that Donald Trump is a bold-faced liar in his own right, but he is also surrounding himself with other bold-faced liars like Jeff Sessions, Steve Brannon, and Michael Anton (all three of whom he likes to quote). So it looks like Donald Trump intends to "lie his head off" (so to speak) until he gets impeached.

Since Obama is just another corportist shill on the militaristic path the US has followed for decades, his orderly following of Bush was not all that amazing. But Tump--The Duck--is a loose cannon. Hitler is really a stretch, though as has already been said on this thread there are similarities with Mussolini. The current right wing leader of Hungary, János Áder, also behaves the same way. But in a sense Trump has the mentality of a suicide bomber. He doesn't care what damage he does, who he hurts, or what people say. He probably likes the attention since, after all, he Has the Truth.

What is sad is that if he was a real Nazi, suitably packaged as an American leader instead of a loud vest pocket dictator, there are millions of Americans who would gladly follow him. Most people are waiting to be told what to do. An uncultured thug who promises everything, is absolutely sure of himself, and gives the appearance of being rich (he could be broke) is enough to excite them. In that sense there is a similarity to Hitler. But history is littered with such louts, many of whom ran their countries into bad ends.

Power Corrupts. More power corrupts more. Nuff said.

The comparison is hyperbole. The Clinton campaign, Obama administration, deep state, and corporate media made unusual acrobatic illogical leaps to make those conclusions. Most of the problem are those in government who want Christianity eliminated from our society. Take the atheist Clinton campaign, for example, with her incessant anti Christian campaign rhetoric and constant lying and cheating.
Trump won an overwhelming majority of the evangelical Christian vote. Some 80% compared to Clinton getting about 5%. Since it's been abundantly evident Democrats, especially establishment democrats, hate anything Christian, they'll make attempts to discredit anything he proposes.

Then, there's his patriotic appeal. For a long time, Americans have been told any thoughts and concerns about domestic issues was national socialism, or Nazism. Any serious discussions on healthcare reform which doesn't involve billionaires making money is called communism by democrats. Any infrastructure is said to be impossible by neoliberals. Democrats live from disaster to disaster, and leave no room to inject money into the domestic economy.

Trump wants to inject d domestic currency, but is being thwarted in his attempts by globalist elites unwilling to see domestic labor prosper.

Is he Hitler? Absolutely not. Not even close. Comparing him to Hitler is akin to comparing Obama to Pinochet, which would actually be a closer comparison.

Whatever kind of evil he is, it's important we constantly call him the "Republican President". Despite their occasional displeasure with him, Republicans are right in there with him on legislative goals, the consolidation of wealth and on the hate. We cannot allow any daylight between him and Republicans because at any moment he is likely to do something that turns voters away and/or forces him from office. At that moment the GOP will also turn away in an attempt to save themselves.

Are we ready to offer an alternative? Are we speaking our values? Or are we going to continue to fling facts and reason at people knowing that doesn't work? If we have not prepared voters with an alternative, the GOP will just dump their President and take their voters with them.

Learn to frame issues in terms of our values; learn to speak and write effectively. Thom's books on this are a great start.

I love listening to President Trump haters for two reasons.

1. They are too dumb to understand that getting rid of Trump makes their problems 1000 times worse.

2. Their bitterness just energizes President Trumps base and you provide daily entertainment for his followers.

Thank you on both counts.

We all have a tiny bit of Hitler lurking within. Human existance is a bubble, and we are trapped inside. A fleshy jail cell where we think and feel and attempt to interact with nature and society; the outside world. All the while bombarded with chalenges. Reproduction, careers, relationships, financial burdens and aging. Flash to Donald Trump, an angry young man molded by an angrier father with more money than God. My view of humanity has been very bleak for the last 30 years, and that view has been reinforced by recent developements. Sure, there are little rays of hope that MAYBE this small bit of cosmic matter we call Earth will survive in it's present state; covered with life and abundance, but in general I'd say we are screwed. The have's will continue to hold fast to their wealth, power and influence completely oblivious to the destruction they leave in the wake of their greed. In fear and confusion the have not's will continue to envy the have's. All the while this fragile thing we call life, in all it's grand diversity, is dwindling away and falling to ash and rock. Time for a reset folks.

Sorry, this was supoosed to be a 'reply' to Drrichardpaul .

I think of Trump as a man who is mentally ill. He has a psychological disorder. He must always be the biggest and the best which is why he can't let go of not winning the popular vote and not having the biggest inauguration turnout. He also does not understand that the president is not all powerful and must follow the constitution. He is not capable of doing that. The crisis that began with Reagan has continued unabated and may come to a head with Trump in the White House. He needs to be watched very carefully.

The hustle and bustle and media flurry following destructive intentions, childish drama, inappropriate appointees and inhumane executive orders is planned chaos to mask the most major scandal our country is now suffering. A FOREIGN POWER HAS INTERFERED WITH OUR DEMOCRATIC ELECTION PROCESS and put a mentally unstable puppet in the white house. Is anyone even trying to investigating this? It is the foundation of everything else. The republican party has lied, cheated and stolen the election with the help of a dangerous foreign government and this fact is plowed under the rubble of massive outrage from dozens of other infractions. Mr Trump, mentally unstable as he is, is a master of distraction and sleight of hand. He knew he would win, which is why he set up the democrats to scream about peaceful transfer of power before the election so they would be seen as hypocrites if his 'win' were questioned. It was a total set up! His lies and 'mistakes' are intentional and masking much bigger issues. We need to focus on what is going on behind the scenes while juggling the circus thrown in our faces that is intended as red herring.

The system is rigged; it is not simply rhetoric -- just not in the way that Trump imagines.

Republican state legislatures and Secretaries of State have been methodically purging Democrats from the voting rolls for decades by the millions, along with every other sleazy tactic they think can slip by public awareness.

The hard evidence of massive "election" fraud is extensive and overwhelming, while there is zero evidence of "voter" fraud. It's the biggest scandal in American political history and has rendered our already weakened democracy into a joke. For obvious reasons, the establishment power structure and their enabling corporate media mouthpieces choose to ignore it at all cost.

A good starting point to wake people up is Greg Palast's "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy." Brad Friedman has also done a lot of heavy lifting on the subject, along with many other honest and competent journalists, lawyers, and investigators who are desperately trying to break the media sound barrier.

Thanks for the source, g.sherri! That's a good one.

deepspace, You make the most sense of anyone I've read here for a decade.

Look Trump is very very bad and is trying to be an authoritarian president. Our oligarchy is showing its age i.e. the government itself is getting more and more senile. That being said some of the major preconditions of a German/Italian/Japanese style fascism is not met. This is true despite the gutting of the middle class over the last 30 years while the democratic party mostly sat idly bye

1. There are million person protests to Trump at hugh protests at airports. The federal judicialry is fighting him so far his military and police are largely abiding by laws unlkke Andrew Jackson.

2. While conditions in the Midwest, the area most responsible for election Trump are dire, they do not compare with the great Depression in Weimar. Instead there is a regional recession/depression and as in Germany a small plurality electing Trump.

3. The opposition in Washington state specifically by the governments of Washington State, and Hawaii along with Massachusetts, New York, and Virginia was unprecedented in Nazi Germany. Even more significant Amicas briefs filed against the Ban by Major American Corporations, indicate that the corporate establishment is split in support of Trump.

4. The weakness of the Democratic Party paradoxically relatively to the Weimar Communist party removes motivation of the corporate establishment to support Trump. The Democratic Party has supported fascist trade policies such as Nafta with its ISDS and ditto for TPP causing some of the threat today to begin with. Nobody sees Democratic Support as Tantamount to desruction of Corporate Power as In Weimar.

All of this being said, the U.S. with a proto-authoritarian regime much more intelligent than it is given credit for is unstable. With a Depression or a Trumped up military threat all bets are off. I think the latter today is hard to pull off however, Americans are justifiably skeptical of War Threats and the Media Support . Its not beyond possibility and heightened activism no matter how little an individual thinks he can do is all I can think of as possibilities. We do not have the power to transform the government or corporate American short of a revolt.