Applebaum: Trump is using a specific language from the 1930s: “enemies within,” “enemies of the people,” migrants and political opponents as “vermin,” migrants “poisoning the blood” of Americans. That language comes from Hitler, Stalin and the Stasi. 1/

Applebaum: American politics has been racist before. Americans have called each other traitors and unpatriotic. But calling people insects, vermin or parasites is different, it is language used by regimes that treat enemies as less than human. 2/

Applebaum: I did not say Trump is Hitler or that he will cause a new Holocaust. The threat is different: Trump assaulting and undermining institutions, judges, courts, bureaucrats, which is how most democracies fail today. 3/

Applebaum: Democracies usually do not fall now through coups or military takeovers. They fall when legitimately elected leaders who do not respect institutions take them apart. Would Trump do that if he could? Yes, I think he would. 4/

Applebaum: A second Trump term could mean competent civil servants replaced by absolute loyalists, deeper corruption, and federal power used against “enemies within”. The Justice Department, FCC, IRS and other institutions turned into tools of pressure. 5/

Applebaum: Trump has two long-standing policy instincts: high tariffs and leaving NATO. Bolton said Trump once told him before a European summit: “Today is the day we make history. We’re going to leave NATO.” People stopped him then. They may not next time. 6X

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It was also used by Senator McCarthy in the 1950's during the "Red Scare." Roy Cohn was chief counsel to Senator McCarthy. Cohn was lawyer and chief mentor for Donald J. Trump, who taught him everything he knew and every trick in the book.

@rleas You mean, Steven Miller Goebbels is using and telling trumpstein, to use these old racist wording tactics…

The same in Germany! The AfD also makes use of these rhetorical devices. Germany’s history is in danger of repeating itself! #Höcke #Afd #Hitler #NSDAP

Trump is being handed the script. Bannon is the one who said “it’s going to be as exciting as the 1930s.” Now Musk is saying empathy is suicidal. They are preparing for evil.

She is one of the few people who sees clearly what this is all about. I do not understand why it is not on front pages everywhere.

@ES03784893 T identifies with the Prussian-Germanic autocracy his own grandfather [F Drumpf] had fled from: His goal was to “erase” the family shame📌 It was NEVER about making ‘America Great:’ it was ONLY about ERASING SHAME📌 T has been a haunted loser all his life.

Interesting that a diaper wearing adjusted rapist who was also accused of rape/sexual assault by his first wife and numerous other women including children is calling other people vermin

@ecp408 …the moustache is coming soon

@AmoneyResists Why are we still treating all these horrors predicted 10yrs ago as ‘news’?!

Paul Krugman calls for deMAGAfication! Who are the vermin of which she speaks?

Never forget the book his first wife said he kept by his bed, "My New Order", by the Fuhrer, Adolph Hitler. Interestingly a reprint from 8-2016 featured Trump, "The New Furor", on the back cover. Too bad nobody got it!

Sounds like miller has been whispering in his ear again or should I say still!!!

Is that the part of World History that a younger Trump paid closer attention to in school?

It's also the Chinese Communist playbook. Word for word.

@AmoneyResists Don’t forget “remigration” their favor word

@KellecaLimited

That is not the only thing

@l60769773 Unfortunately the average MAGA knows nothing about history and only mouths what they are told to think from FOX, evangelicals and Trump.

I despise Trump but the constant fearmongering about the 30s is tiresome. And it’s not only connected to Trump but everyone that is right wing (even moderate)

@BobInPascoFl 👆🏼 The value of history, the value of education ‼️ Wake up America, wake the heck up‼️🤯💥

He used that language 9 years ago !! Its not new.

Trump choose this language VERY intentionally. He IS a fascist. He IS a dictator. He IS an autocrat. He IS a despot. He IS a nihilist.

@deedeebou And from the Genocidaires who perpetrated the Rwandan genocide.

@Fredsta3 "Insufficiently loyal" to Dear Leader.

@SenateTim he certainly wasn't brilliant enough to have come up with those words himself

@TheAbsintheSL Trump is more a medi eval count that presses money from his servants. He does that via insider trading and fan scam.

Where is the surprised? Trump was elected the first time by the KKK and White Supremacists. The evangelical church got along because Trump promised and deliver a victory on abortion. Nothing new. Trump is racist. He is not pretending. He is not opportunistic. He is racist.

Several years back I read “In the Garden of Beasts” by Erik Larson. A non-fiction tale of the US diplomat to Germany during the events leading up to WW2. Some of the similarities are astounding!

Trump is Hitler 2.0.

💯 And you mean Donald Drumpf, right?🤷‍♂️

@Micha_weiss_es True!

@ivica701 That’s classic fascist language