I find Ian Kershaw’s concept of “working towards the Führer” most helpful in understanding the Trump administrationhttps://goo.gl/ZtCwpP
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With the obvious Godwin's Law disclaimer, this is what happens when you have a lazy dictator who wants to keep his fingerprints off the most radical parts of his agenda. Ambitious underlings internalize his persona, and compete to outdo each other in pursuing inferred goals
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We’re well past the point of needing Godwin’s Law disclaimers, with actual Nazis marching in the streets and murdering people
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Trump and Hitler occupy a different moral universe. Hence the disclaimer.
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I think you’re saying that Trump’s evil is not in the same moral league as Hitler’s evil (which was, namely, genocide). Is that a correct characterization?
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I don’t see a distinction—certainly not of kind, and of degree only because it’s juat 1935 yet. I’m very concerned what we’ll find in ICE’s detention centers
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I’ll bet you a dollar we don’t find gas chambers and 130 panzer divisions
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