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No, He’s Not Hitler. And Yet ...
We are supposed to find some solace these days in the assurance that Donald Trump is “not Hitler.” One reasonable response is this: Of course he isn’t. Only Hitler is Hitler, and he died in a bunker in 1945. There is no such thing as reincarnation, and history is nothing more than a long, linear series of individual people and events that come and go. It is, as the saying goes, “just one damn thing after another.”
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I know I've said this before, but the story of Trump's rising has a lot of similarities with the way other autocrats reached power. Having lived through Hugo Chavez's rise to power, and having been forced to leave the country as a result, I'm seriously wondering whether I need to be packing my bags again. Hopefully it's not so easy to break the US.