Im not convinced that a similar outcome could be driven by the likes of trump. He's a buffon and even people in his sphere are critical of him. The capitol riots are evidence, at least in my mind, that it would take a lot more that whats currently going on to actuall make this type of history repeat.
We also have lots of moderate and left americans that love their guns that would faster ratehr a civil war again than letting something like WW2 germany repeat. I think that's a more likely scenario
Hitler didn't launch the third reich on his own, though. Think of all the support and expertise he gained from the likes of Goebbles, Himmler, etc. Trump plays a very similar role as Hitler in that he is the rallying figure that drives and leverages the sense of loss/grievance and places himeslf at the centre as the standard of a man and the saviour of the nation (with underlying messages that the real threat are those among us, such as the immigrants, the media/immigrants/LGBTQMarxists/communists/handicapped/poor/etc.)
The fact that Trump, without the support of his inner circle, was able to rally the mob and create his version of the Brown Shirts in the Proud Boys only further supports the comparison. I have no idea if Trump has studies history but I doubt it. I'd say that he's simply the same kind of person as Mussolini, Hitler, et al, in that he has a big ego to satisfy and no moral limits to bound the effort.
It's interesting to see comparisons to Hitler on both sides. The far right use it too.
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Yeah, I'd say that based on facts, those that are applying it to the far right are more accurate. However, some of the comparisons the right are making of the far left to Stalin and Mao aren't far off the mark either. Through my research I come across a lot of the new left and it's astounding how much support and excuse-making there is out there for what Xi and Putin are doing.
Take a look at the Twitter feeds of people like John Pilger and Peter Cronau. And check out these supporters of the Chinese communist party
http://www.cowestpro.co/papers.html If you really want to find out how low these fuckers are, dig into what they did to Vicky Xu and Drew Pavlou.
Extreme views and ideological fundamentalists of any stripe are trouble.