I highly recommend actually reading “Mein Kampf”. After the opening paragraph we should talk again about Hitlers intelligence.
That man was an absolute buffoon, but he was highly intelligent in a social sense of the word. Not entirely unlike Trump.
You make a good point.
Trump is one of the dumbest men on the planet. However, he has clearly stumbled onto a disturbing social skill…Just like Hitler (who was also known to be an idiot).
I actually read the full article on this one. There are a lot of good points and similarities. Did he study Hitler’s speeches? I doubt Mr. “Nuke the storm” or “inject bleach” is capable of studying. I think it’s much more likely that he either blindly stumbled into the same success or learned a few tidbits from what he heard.
I differentiate ‘learn’ and ‘study’, the same way I might pick up a few words words from vacation abroad, vs cracking open a text book. “Fake news” probably comes up in a Hitler speech as much as bano and cerveza do on a vacation in Mexico.
No, it’s not really any better in German. The man wasn’t very smart, he hit a nerve.
I think a dangerous trap we fall into is assuming that Trump is the mastermind at all. Hitler didn’t rise to his position without a lot of things falling into place by a lot of people whose best interest it was in that he ascend. Stopping Trump sets this process back, but the whole organization of politicans, journalists, and business leaders who support him need to be held accountable as well.
