If Trump is really a Hitler-like figure, shouldn't you be organizing resistance brigades? He's gaining in the pollshttps://www.buzzfeed.com/arianelange/jill-soloway-called-donald-trump-an-inheritor-to-hitler?utm_term=.yd4jo59WyR#.gandZxvWLX …
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Replying to @mtracey
People like this TV woman don't believe their own rhetoric about Trump=Hitler. Otherwise they'd behaving differently, to counter the threat.
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Replying to @mtracey
Also, if HRC is neck-and-neck in the polls with a latter-day Hitler... that sort of paints an unflattering portrait of HRC, does it not?
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Do you think the Social Democrats who were defeated by Hitler in the polls were contemptible figures?
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Replying to @mtracey
My preferred analogy is with George Wallace or Joseph McCarthy. He's Wallace or McCarthy as a major party nominee.
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Replying to @mtracey
To return to original point: even if I reject Hitler-analogy I think those who believe it are justified in using democratic means.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
If I thought Trump would implement extermination camps and invade the world, I'd probably view "democratic means" as insufficient.
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So if Trump is elected and democratic means fail, should the Hitler alarmists organize armed resistance cells?
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Replying to @mtracey
My rule of thumb is that as long as you live in a democracy, you follow democratic rules. Different if it's a dictatorship.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
So you'd advise against the organization of armed resistance cells upon Trump's election?
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