PeterS

That Hitler coined the term 'Fake News' and 'Make Germany Great Again' so Trump isn't even original.

Hitler believed that the only truth was what you felt not what could be objectively proven which was the task of mainstream news which was why he thought it couldn't be trusted. The MGGA I find it hysterical. You MAGA morons were preceded by MGGA morons. How'd that work out for them???

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/central-european-history/article/an-american-fuhrer-nazi-analogies-and-the-struggle-to-explain-donald-trump/25CBE639F23D2D80870EA4D3F1E6D566

Parky60 Loc: People's Republic of Illinois

REFERENCES... 'nuff said.

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This article draws mostly on sources from the United States, Great Britain, and Canada, with some additional material from the mass media in Germany and Israel.

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Bessner, Daniel, “The Ghosts of Weimar: The Weimar Analogy in American Thought,” Social Research 4 (2017): 831–55Google Scholar; Caplan, Jane, “Donald Trump: Between Election and Inauguration,” History Workshop 83 (2017): 1–9CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

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A database search on the Fairfield University Library website revealed a 19.5 percent decline in the total number of newspaper articles featuring the keywords “Donald Trump Adolf Hitler,” published between 2017 and 2018 (from 3,048 to 2,452 articles). A related search in the same period featuring the keywords “Hitler Trump” revealed a decline of 22.7 percent in the number of articles (from 701 to 542 articles). There was a similar rate of decrease from 2018 to 2019.

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Google searches for the keywords “Trump” and “Hitler” were at their highest in the months between the fall of 2015 and February/March of 2016, and searches for “Trump” and “Fascism” peaked between Trump's election and his inauguration. See Google Trends.

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See, for example, Matt Lewis, “We Have Finally Normalized Trumpism,” The Daily Beast, February 26, 2019 (https://www.thedailybeast.com/we-have-finally-normalized-trumpism).

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Friedrich, Otto, Before the Deluge: A Portrait of Berlin in the 1920s (New York: HarperCollins, 1995), xxiGoogle Scholar.

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Alexandra Sims, “Donald Trump Compared to Adolf Hitler After ‘Complete Shutdown of Muslims’ Comments,” The Independent (UK), December 10, 2015 (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-elections/donald-trump-compared-to-adolf-hitler-after-complete-shutdown-of-muslims-comments-a6767941.html).

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Martin Farrer, “Two Former Mexican Presidents Compare Donald Trump to Hitler,” The Guardian, February 27, 2016.

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The original story was Marie Brenner's “After the Gold Rush,” Vanity Fair, September 1990. See also Rachel X. Landes, “Did Donald Trump Keep Hitler Speeches by His Bed?,” The Forward, August 6, 2015.

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See “Hitler and Trump: Common Slogans,” at the fact-checking website Snopes, March 4, 2016 (https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/make-germany-great-again/).

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For cartoons: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/opinions/wp/2015/12/08/donald-trump-is-running-out-of-ways-to-outdo-himself/?utm_term=.545e1a2cb05f&wpisrc=nl_opinions&wpmm=1 and http://editorialcartoonists.com/cartoon/display.cfm/146557/. For comedians: Peter Stevenson, “The Hitler-ification of Donald Trump,” Washington Post, March 7, 2016; “Sarah Silverman Dresses as Hitler on ‘Conan,’ Jokes Donald Trump Comparisons,” The Hollywood Reporter, March 10, 2016.

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Jenna Johnson, “Donald Trump Says He Is Not Bothered by Comparisons to Hitler,” Washington Post, December 8, 2015.

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Lucian K. Truscott IV, “This Is the Week That It Became Accurate to Compare Trump to Hitler,” Salon, June 29, 2019 (https://www.salon.com/2019/06/29/this-is-the-week-it-became-accurate-to-compare-trump-to-hitler/).

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William Saletan, “Springtime for Donald,” Slate, October 14, 2016 (https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2016/10/nobodys-like-hitler-but-trump-is-getting-closer.html). See also Max Boot, “The Nazi Echoes in Trump's Tweets,” Los Angeles Times, October 17, 2016.

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Eva Schloss, “Anne Frank's Stepsister: ‘Donald Trump Is Acting Like Hitler,’” Newsweek, January 27, 2016 (https://www.newsweek.com/holocaust-memorial-day-anne-frank-refugee-crisis-donald-trump-420312).

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Nicholas O'Shaughnessy, “The Führer and the Donald,” History News Network, October 2, 2016 (https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/163943).

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Mike Lofgren, “Trump, Reagan and Fascism: Frank Rich and the Pitfalls of Historical Analogy,” Truthout, June 17, 2016 (https://truthout.org/articles/trump-reagan-and-fascism-frank-rich-and-the-pitfalls-of-historical-analogy/); Volker Ullrich, cited in Isabel Best, “Should We Even Go There? Historians on Comparing Fascism to Trumpism,” The Guardian, December 1, 2016 (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/dec/01/comparing-fascism-donald-trump-historians-trumpism); Peter Ross Range, “The Theory of Political Leadership That Donald Trump Shares with Adolf Hitler,” Washington Post, July 25, 2016.

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Jeff Nesbit, “History Repeats,” US News, October 26, 2017 (https://www.usnews.com/news/at-the-edge/articles/2017-10-26/trump-propaganda-and-the-destruction-of-the-free-press).

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Charles Blow, “Trump Isn't Hitler. But the Lying …” New York Times, October 19, 2017 (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/19/opinion/trump-isnt-hitler-but-the-lying.html).

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Andrew O'Hehir, “How They Made Germany Great Again,” Salon, March 31, 2018 (https://www.salon.com/2018/03/31/how-they-made-germany-great-again-the-nazi-social-media-campaign-of-1932/).

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Richard Frankel, “Donald Trump's Latest Immigration Outrage,” History News Network, September 4, 2018 (https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/169900).

22
Adam Roy, “Yes, You Should Be Comparing Trump to Hitler,” The Forward, June 19, 2018 (https://forward.com/opinion/403515/yes-you-should-be-comparing-trump-to-hitler/).

23
Michiko Kakutani, “In ‘Hitler,’ An Ascent from ‘Dunderhead’ to Demagogue,” New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/28/books/hitler-ascent-volker-ullrich.html).

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Timothy Snyder, “Him,” Slate, November 18, 2016 (https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2016/11/his-election-that-november-came-as-a-surprise.html).

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Robert Dreyfuss, “It Can't Happen Here—Can It?,” The Nation, March 13, 2016 (https://www.unz.com/article/it-cant-happen-here-can-it/).

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Paul Waldman, “Beware Trump's Reichstag Fire,” The Week, February 7, 2017 (https://theweek.com/articles/678364/beware-trumps-reichstag-fire).

27
Waitman Beorn, “It's Not Wrong to Compare Trump's America to the Holocaust,” Washington Post, July 16, 2018 (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2018/07/16/its-not-wrong-to-compare-trumps-america-to-the-holocaust-heres-why/?utm_term=.b548ab3f5a7a).

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John Whitehead, “Stay Alert America: The Worst Is Yet to Come,” Huffington Post, November 15, 2016 (https://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-w-whitehead/stay-alert-america-the-worst_b_12985752.html); David Neiwert, “Donald Trump May Not Be a Fascist, But He Is Leading Us Merrily Down That Path,” Huffington Post, January 14, 2016 (https://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-neiwert/trump-may-not-be-a-fascist-but_b_8973768.html); Nalina Eggert, “What Made Trump's Remarks So Offensive?,” BBC News, August 16, 2017 (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40948812).

29
Cited on Anderson Cooper's Twitter Feed, July 19, 2019: https://twitter.com/AC360/status/1152382339235733504.

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Jeffrey Tucker, “Is Donald Trump a Fascist?,” Newsweek, July 17, 2015 (https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-fascist-354690); Conor Lynch, “Donald Trump Is an Actual Fascist,” Salon, July 25, 2015 (https://www.salon.com/2015/07/25/donald_trump_is_an_actual_fascist_what_his_surging_popularity_says_about_the_gop_base/).

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Boot's and Stephens's comments are quoted in Max Ehrenfreund, “Why You Should Stop Calling Trump a Fascist,” Washington Post, December 4, 2015 (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/12/04/why-you-should-stop-calling-donald-trump-a-fascist/?utm_term=.3924df668a45); David Horsey, “Donald Trump's Fascist Inclinations Do Not Bother His Fans,” Baltimore Sun, December 15, 2015 (https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/bal-donald-trumps-fascist-inclinations-do-not-bother-his-fans-20151214-story.html); Jamelle Bouie, “Donald Trump Is a Fascist,” Slate, November 25, 2015 (https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2015/11/donald-trump-is-a-fascist-it-is-the-political-label-that-best-describes-the-gop-front-runner.html); Tyler Pager, “Gary Johnson: Trump Is a Fascist,” Politico, August 23, 2016 (https://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/gary-johnson-trump-fascist-227339).

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Robert Kagan, “This Is How Fascism Comes to America,” Washington Post, May 18, 2016 (https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/this-is-how-fascism-comes-to-america/2016/05/17/c4e32c58-1c47-11e6-8c7b-6931e66333e7_story.html?utm_term=.65fc87952a44).

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Maxwell Tani, “Presidential Candidate Martin O'Malley: Donald Trump Is a ‘Fascist Demagogue,’” Business Insider, December 7, 2015 https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-muslim-ban-omalley-2015-12); Robert Reich, “The Many Ways Trump Is a Fascist,” Chicago Sun Times, March 19, 2016 (https://chicago.suntimes.com/opinion/robert-reich-the-many-ways-donald-trump-is-a-fascist/).

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Richard Steigmann-Gall, “One Expert Says Yes, Donald Trump Is a Fascist. And It's Not Just Trump,” Huffington Post, July 18, 2016 (https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/one-expert-says-yes-donald-trump-is-a-fascist-and_us_578d1a56e4b0d4229484d3e0).

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Matthew Filner, “American Fascism,” Public Seminar, November 10, 2016 (http://www.publicseminar.org/2016/11/american-fascism/).

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Chauncey Devega, “Historian Timothy Snyder: ‘It's Pretty Much Inevitable’ That Trump Will Try to Stage a Coup and Overthrow Democracy,” Salon, May 1, 2017 (https://www.salon.com/2017/05/01/historian-timothy-snyder-its-pretty-much-inevitable-that-trump-will-try-to-stage-a-coup-and-overthrow-democracy/).

37
See the remarks in the interview “How Fascism Works,” Vox, December 15, 2018 (https://www.vox.com/2018/9/19/17847110/how-fascism-works-donald-trump-jason-stanley).

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Albright, Madeline, Fascism: A Warning (New York: Harper, 2018), 209Google Scholar. “If we think of fascism as a wound from the past that had almost healed, putting Trump in the White House was like ripping off the bandage and picking at the scab.” Also see Michelle Goldberg, “Madeline Albright Is Worried. We Should Be Too,” New York Times, April 13, 2018 (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/13/opinion/madeleine-albright-worried-trump.html).

39
Maanvi Singh, “Ilhan Omar on Trump: ‘I Believe He Is a Fascist’—As It Happened,” The Guardian, July 18, 2019 (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2019/jul/18/trump-ilhan-omar-news-today-live-send-her-back-racist-rally-chant-latest-updates).

40
Ruth Ben-Ghiat, “‘Send Her Back,’ and the Advancement of Trump's Authoritarian Playbook,” GQ, July 19, 2019 (https://www.gq.com/story/send-her-back-trump-authoritarian-playbook); Masha Gessen, “The Weaponization of National Belonging from Nazi Germany to Trump,” New Yorker, July 21, 2019 (https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-weaponization-of-national-belonging-from-nazi-germany-to-trump). See also Jason Stanley, “Yes, ‘Send Her Back’ Is the Face of Evil,” Newsweek, July 21, 2019 (https://www.newsweek.com/yes-send-her-back-face-evili-know-fascism-when-i-see-it-opinion-1450243).

41
Jason Stanley tweet, July 23, 2019 (https://twitter.com/jasonintrator/status/1153759025596719104).

42
Dreyfuss, “It Can't Happen Here—Can It?” See also John Broich, “Normalizing Fascists,” The Conversation, December 11, 2016.

43
Robert Paxton, “The Future of Fascism,” Slate, April 6, 2017 (https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/04/fascism-didnt-die-in-1945-it-evolved-and-took-new-form.html).

44
Kagan, “This Is How Fascism Comes to America.”

45
Mike Lofgren, “Trump, Reagan and Fascism.”

46
Schama is quoted in Isabel Best, “Should We Even Go There?”

47
Jeremy Diamond, “David Duke on Trump: ‘He's the Best of the Lot,’” CNN, August 25, 2015 (https://www.cnn.com/2015/08/25/politics/david-duke-donald-trump-immigration/); Daniel Lombroso and Yoni Appelbaum, “‘Hail Trump’: White Nationalists Salute the President-Elect,” The Atlantic, November 21, 2016 (https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/11/richard-spencer-speech-npi/508379/); Jessica Reaves, “White Supremacists Celebrate Trump's Victory,” ADL Blog, November 10, 2016 (https://www.adl.org/blog/white-supremacists-celebrate-trumps-victory).

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Uriel Heilman, “Seven Anti-Semitism Controversies Surrounding Donald Trump,” Haaretz, June 2, 2016 (https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/donald-trump-s-anti-semitism-controversies-1.5390934); Lana Adler, “Ten Antisemitic Tweets That Prove Trump's Dog Whistling Is Real,” Forward, October 10, 2016 (https://forward.com/schmooze/351765/think-trumps-debate-dog-whistle-went-unheard-check-out-10-debate-tweets/); Sandy Goodman, “Is Donald Trump an Antisemite? Look at the Record,” Huffington Post, February 28, 2017 (https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/is-trump-an-anti-semite-you-bet-he-is_us_58b511cfe4b0658fc20f99ba).

49
Mark Byrnes, “Trump Isn't a Fascist,” History News Network, May 24, 2016 (https://historynewsnetwork.org/blog/153772).

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James Skidmore, “Trump Isn't Hitler,” National Post, July 6, 2016 (https://nationalpost.com/opinion/james-skidmore-trump-isnt-hitler-but-his-supporters-have-much-in-common-with-those-who-voted-in-the-nazis).

51
William Saletan, “Springtime for Donald.”

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Rosie Gray, “Trump Defends White-Nationalist Protesters,” The Atlantic, August 15, 2017 (https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/08/trump-defends-white-nationalist-protesters-some-very-fine-people-on-both-sides/537012/).

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Katherine Pickering Antonova, “How the British Defeated Homegrown Fascism,” Washington Post, August 16, 2017 (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/made-by-history/wp/2017/08/16/how-the-british-defeated-homegrown-fascism-and-how-americans-can-do-the-same/?utm_term=.582807c19542).

54
Tim Hains, “MSNBC's Donny Deutsch: ‘If You Vote for Trump, You Are Ripping Children from Parents’ Arms,’” Real Clear Politics, June 22, 2018 (https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/06/22/msnbcs_donny_deutsch_if_you_vote_for_trump_you_are_ripping_children_from_parents_arms.html).

55
Jonathan Chait, “‘Liberals Are the Real Nazis,’ Says Donald Trump Jr.: Actual Nazis Disagree,” Intelligencer, August 3, 2018 (http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/08/trump-jr-dinesh-dsouza-liberals-are-nazis-actual-nazis-love-trump.html).

56
Paul Krugman, “The S Word, the F Word, and the Ballot,” New York Times, June 28, 2019, A31.

57
Roger Cohen, “Trump's Weimar America,” New York Times, December 14, 2015 (https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/15/opinion/weimar-america.html).

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Andrew Sullivan, “Democracies End When They Are Too Democratic,” New York Magazine, May 1, 2016 (http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2016/04/america-tyranny-donald-trump.html?gtm=bottom).

and so on...

proud republican Loc: RED CALIFORNIA

President Reagan was the first who used "Make America Great Again"

LogicallyRight Loc: Chicago

Do you know how stupid that makes you look. Who cares of Hitler used those words first. They are still great words and only idiots would bother to make an issue of it. And do you know Trump got it from Hitler or just came up with it on his own. And offer proof please.

As for the Fake news, the main stream news sources are full of biased news, or over emphasis on certain things and avoiding other things to influence the fools who can't see through to the truth. I would count you in that category.

Kevyn

Hitler was successful until the Bunker, and the world paid a terrible price.

Justice101

Presidents Reagan and Clinton BOTH used the phrase "Make America Great Again" before President Trump.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/make-america-great-again-who-said-it-first-n645716