Rhetorical Parallels: Reimagining Hitler's Quotes in Trump’s Language

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Rhetorical Parallels: Reimagining Hitler's Quotes in Trump’s Language​

To illustrate the similarities in their rhetoric, we can reimagine some of Hitler's infamous quotes in Trump's distinctive language. This exercise is not meant to suggest that Trump is identical to Hitler, but to highlight how similar rhetorical techniques can be used by leaders in vastly different historical and political contexts. In the following quotes by Hitler, notice how many could be adapted to fit Trump's distinctive rhetorical style:

• "If you wish the sympathy of the broad masses, you must tell them the crudest and most stupid things."

• "Tell a lie loud enough and long enough and people will believe it."
• "It is a quite special secret pleasure how the people around us fail to realize what is really happening to them."

• "What luck, for governments, that the people are stupid!"

• "The greater the crime perpetrated by the leadership, the less likely it is that the people will ever believe their leaders to be capable of perpetrating such an event."

• "We have to put a stop to the idea that it is a part of everybody's civil rights to say whatever he pleases."

• "It is not truth that matters, but victory."

• "By means of shrewd lies, unremittingly repeated, it is possible to make people believe that heaven is hell - and hell heaven. The greater the lie, the more readily it will be believed."

• "The receptivity of the masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of these facts, all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these in slogans until the last member of the public understands what you want him to understand by your slogan."

• "I'll put an end to the idea that a woman's body belongs to her... Nazi ideals demand that the practice of abortion shall be exterminated with a strong hand."

• "To attain our aim we should stop at nothing even if we must join forces with the devil."

• "Our strategy is to destroy the enemy from within, to conquer him through himself."

• "All propaganda must be confined to a few bare necessities and then must be expressed in a few stereotyped formulas. Only constant repetition will finally succeed in imprinting an idea upon the memory of a crowd."

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