Short Stack: Trump Is Hitler?
Tyranny is a deadly serious subject. So are fascism and other forms of progressive central planning and social engineering. Enough talk. What should the response to Hitler be?
For those who do not remember, here is a timeline of key events in Adolf Hitler's rise to power, spanning a year-and-a-half from 1933 to mid-1934:
JANUARY 30, 1933: Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany by President Hindenburg.
FEBRUARY 27, 1933: Reichstag fire occurs, providing an excuse for an executive order restricting civil liberties, including free speech and freedom of the press.
MARCH 23, 1933: Enabling Act is passed, giving Hitler's cabinet full legislative powers, which include orders for citizens — especially Jews — to surrender firearms to government officials.
JUNE 30 - JULY 2, 1934: Night of the Long Knives — Hitler eliminates political opponents and rivals within his own Nazi Party.
AUGUST 2, 1934: President Hindenburg dies. Hitler combines the offices of Chancellor and President.
The culmination of these events was Hitler declaring himself Führer, which means “leader” in German.
Führer
A Führer is different from a constitutional officer, such as a United States President, Senator, or Representative, all of whom possess only the delegated, enumerated, and limited powers We The People granted to them through our Constitution.
A Führer is much more. The concept was born out of the 19th century German social sciences of economic central planning and social engineering. A Führer is the progressive version of a secular prophet or savior—a kind of Moses-figure without commands from Yahweh, a Jesus-type of leader without the divinity.
Unlike a member of Congress or a U.S. President, the powers of der Führer have no constitutional limits. Why would anyone want to limit the powers of a prophet or one’s own savior?
When progressives describe themselves as atheistic, typically, they’re either being dishonest or they simply lack self-knowledge. They don’t understand that progressivism is their religion—a secular religion, but, still, a religion—in which they have unshakable faith. They are not atheists. They are pious believers. They have simply replaced the divinity of the Abrahamic religions with the all-encompassing authority of the progressive bureaucratic state.
Trump Is Hitler?
Donald Trump differs from Adolf Hitler in many fundamental respects, including the fact that Adolf Hitler never won a popular or constitutional vote for... anything. He was never elected to any office and his National Socialist German Workers’ Party was never a majority party.
Trump has twice won a majority of state-based Electoral College votes and, in this week’s 2024 presidential election, won a clear majority of popular votes as well.
Still, for years, professional journalists, pundits, Democratic politicians, unelected bureaucrats, influencers, Hollywood celebrities, and the ordinary progressive flock, have insisted that Trump is Hitler. They don’t say that Trump is similar to Hitler, or resembles Hitler, or is like Hitler. Rather, they profess a belief—they “feel”—that Trump is Hitler, usually adding the adverb literally: Trump is literally Hitler!
To be clear, I don’t insist that Trump is Hitler. Progressives do. That is what they have been saying, writing, claiming, insisting, repeatedly, for nearly a decade—about the same amount of time it took Hitler to rise to the peak of government power.
Very well.
For progressives, then, this is 1933. Right now. Inauguration Day next year will be 1934. What will you do? What are you prepared to do? We know you can publish emotional meltdowns on social media. We see them, most of which are laughably pathetic. Have you anything else with which to resist progressive totalitarianism?
Tyranny is a deadly serious subject. So are fascism and other forms of progressive central planning and social engineering. Enough talk. You insist Trump is Hitler. How, then, will you respond to Hitler?
Either show the rest of us that you mean what you say and we should take your words seriously, or learn the lesson every bully and brat learns sooner or later: your mouth (and your keyboard) should not write checks you cannot cash.