Donald Trump on the Eve of Oblivion
By David Gottfried
As Trump faces his much deserved political immolation, I cannot help but see the parallels with the demise of Adolf Hitler.
Trump has found a new enemy: His most fervent supporters in the Republican Party. Of course, his tendency to eat his own cropped-up a long time ago. Jeff Sessions was the first Senator to support Trump’s presidential bid, but shortly after Trump made him attorney general, Sessions became a kneeling puppy dog that Trump maimed for sport.
Now Trump’s psychotic hatred of his supporters has swelled like an appendix about to burst. He castigated the Governor of Georgia because that loyal republican stooge has not been enough of a stooge. He may have been willing to kiss Trump’s shoes, but by refusing to steal Georgia’s votes for Trump, he has declined to eat the mud clinging to the soles of Trump’s shoes. Such rank insubordination is thoroughly unforgivable.
Similarly, Trump’s most famous political antecedent, Adolf Hitler, harbored the delusion that he was losing World War Two because the German people simply refused to fight with the requisite measure of self-sacrifice and blind obedience. In Hitler’s perverse mind, Germany’s defeat was not the consequence of fighting the Soviet Union, Great Britain and the United States, three countries whose combined resources far outstripped Germany’s assets (For example, United States’ steel production exceeded the aggregate steel production of the UK, the USSR and Germany). Rather, the Swastika was diving down to its death, like a Stuka dive bomber shot down by allied forces, because the German people had not given their fuhrer total slavish devotion.
Some of my readers may find it hyperbolic to posit parallels between Trump and Hitler. I am not going to try to craft an exegesis demonstrating why those two fiends were made of the same political poison. I will just leave you with one amazing and sickening factoid: Trump used to keep on his night table a copy of Hitler’s
“Mein Kampf.” Thank G-d that toadstool masquerading as a human being has been unceremoniously booted out of Pennsylvania Avenue.
This is very near the model of a short, sharp, pungent political commentary. It makes its points quickly and without the extra 2,000 words we're used to in blogs. Kudos, David Gottfried. "Similarly, Trump’s most famous political antecedent, Adolf Hitler, harbored the delusion that he was losing World War Two because the German people simply refused to fight with the requisite measure of self-sacrifice and blind obedience." However, it looks as if this Hitler has already planned his escape : the plane is ready to fly to Scotland on the day before the inauguration of the new president. (En route to where, one might ask ? I hope First Minister Sturgeon has a plan for that!) We still have fifteen days of trials and tribulations before the noxious Trump is gone. Good luck, America!