Trump's Defiance Won't Be Forgotten

The Washington Post in December, December 20th to be precise, had a piece. I wonder if they regret it now. I really do. I think there's a price to be paid by those who compared him to Hitler. This is the headline in the Washington Post, December 20th. Of last year. Yes, it's okay to compare Trump to Hitler. Don't let me stop you, by Mike Godwin. Godwin apparently had a Godwin's Law, you know, not to use Hitler as a comparison because it cheapens Hitler, which was a good idea. But now the author of his own rule about using Hitler to dismiss your political enemies should be dropped. Yes, it's okay to compare Trump to Hitler. When people draw parallels between Donald Trump's 2024 candidacy and Hitler's progression from fringe figure to great dictator, we aren't joking. Those of us who hope to preserve our democratic institutions need to underscore the resemblance Before we enter the twilight of American democracy, we have to thank Trump for being admirably forthcoming that he plans to be a dictator, although he said only on day one. Even for an amateur historian like me, the parallels to Hitler's rhetoric seem inescapable. Comparisons to Hitler or to Nazis need to take place when people are beginning to act like Hitler. Or like Nazis. I long for the days when Americans killed Nazis instead of agonizing over whether to ban them from Twitter. The dots are there, dear students of history. It's never a straight line, but if you've been paying any attention at all, the parallels are enough to scare the wits out of you. These are comments on Twitter. Here's another comment. These are the most popular, and there were 5,000 comments, I think. And here is— these are the most popular ones. Washington Post subscribers. Here's another one. My father worked for the Jewish underground, though he wasn't Jewish and was a young American at the time. I'm so glad my father didn't live to see Trump. He would have been as horrified with Trump as he was with Hitler. How's that, huh? Thanks for your article, Mr. Godwin. Another of the most popular comments and the Washington Post: It cannot be stated often enough, Donald Trump is openly advocating for a fascist government with himself as the great leader at the top of it all. And to varying degrees each and every other person in this nation subservient to and obedient to his will and his will alone. If that's not Hitlerian in nature, I don't know what is. ABC News, also in December: Donald Trump's history with Adolf Hitler and his Nazi writings analysis. There have been multiple reports of Trump privately admiring Hitler. ABC, ABC News. Most people still get their news from NBC, ABC, and CBS. Get that? Multiple reports of Trump privately admiring Hitler. By the way, should I remind everybody? I guess I should, that he happens to have a Jewish child and Jewish grandchildren. Do you know anybody who admires someone who wishes to murder their family? Here's a book that came out last year, I believe it was, by Henk de Berg, professor of German at the University of Sheffield in the UK, published by a major publisher, Paul Grave Macmillan. Trump and Hitler: A Comparative Study in Lying, 2024 edition. Were you familiar with that work? No. A comparative study in lying. If we're doing a comparative study in lying, let's begin with the left. President Biden, New York Times still repeating what even Snopes, which is not a conservative, not even a centrist fact-checker, said. It's not true that Trump said about Charlottesville that there were nice people on both sides, meaning Nazis. Fine people, that's it. That's the word, fine people. He never said that they were— he was never referring to Nazis. We put out at PragerU, what, 5 years ago? How many years ago? Hmm, yeah, 5 years ago we put out, uh, The Charlottesville Lie. Steve Cortez gave a fantastic— there are maybe 10 million views. I mean, it's astonishing. As I've said, we know what they know. They don't know what we know. They don't know that it's a lie. Was repeated by Joe Biden at the debate: that's why I ran for office, because of that. Does anybody believe that? Isn't that a lie? That's why he ran for office. Because he believed the New York Times? Let me deal now with one of the single biggest attacks on Donald Trump is that he called, quote, his political opponents vermin. I did a whole study of that. You're familiar, of course, right? You know, even you'll enjoy this. Okay, so for example, in November of last year, Washington Post— which do you think is more vile, the Times or the Post? Depends on the week. Trump calls political enemies vermin, echoing dictators Hitler and Mussolini, by Marianne Levine, a national political reporter for the Washington Post. So I want to give you the statement first, because most people hear exactly what I wrote, that Donald Trump called his political opponents vermin, and Hitler used the term vermin as well. Everything about this attack is deceitful, everything, and I'll analyze it with great thoroughness for you. Here is the statement that Donald Trump made: We pledge to you that we will root out the communists, Marxists, fascists, and the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country, that lie and steal and cheat on elections. All right, okay. Now, so quoted in the article is a historian at New York University, Ruth Ben-Ghiat. In an— you know, you know about her— in an email to The Washington Post, calling people vermin was used effectively by Hitler and Mussolini. To dehumanize people and encourage their followers to engage in violence. And now let me explain how deceitful there is. First, he did not call his political enemies vermin. Okay, whom did he call vermin? He didn't call anyone vermin. He said they act like vermin. Which is not an insignificant distinction. But here's the key: he called communists, Marxists, fascists, and radical left thugs vermin. He did not call his political enemies vermin. By the way, one of them that he called vermin is fascist. I'm just curious, does Ruth Ben-Ghiat at NYU Does she think it's wrong to call fascists vermin? Curious. Or communists? He didn't call Democrats or his opponents or liberals. For the full episode of The Dennis Prager Show, go to pragertopia.com, sign up, and become a full member.