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Former President Donald Trump has entered "new terrain" based on his authoritarian tendencies and rhetoric that has drawn comparisons by some to Adolf Hitler, argues a psychiatrist quoted in a New York Times op-ed.
Trump took issue with multiple groups during a Veterans Day speech in Claremont, New Hampshire, saying: "On Veterans Day, we pledge to you that we will root out the communists, Marxists, fascists and the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country that lie and steal and cheat on elections."
He repeated the phrasing and use of the word "vermin," almost verbatim in a Truth Social post following the speech, adding that such groups will "legally or illegally" attempt to "destroy America, and the American Dream." President Joe Biden's 2024 re-election team said Trump had embraced the language of Hitler by using the word "vermin."
"That terrain, driven by grandiosity and dread of exposure (e.g., at the [criminal] trials) could signal the emergence of an even less constrained, more overtly vicious and remorseless Trump who, should he regain the presidency, would, indeed act like the authoritarians he praises," Glass wrote.
"Absent conscientious aides who could contain him (as they barely did last time), this could lead to the literal shedding of American blood on American soil by a man who believes he is 'the only one' and the one, some believe, is a purifying agent of God and in whom they see no evil nor do they doubt."
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-compared-adolf-hitler-psychiatrist-vermin-1846027
Trump took issue with multiple groups during a Veterans Day speech in Claremont, New Hampshire, saying: "On Veterans Day, we pledge to you that we will root out the communists, Marxists, fascists and the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country that lie and steal and cheat on elections."
He repeated the phrasing and use of the word "vermin," almost verbatim in a Truth Social post following the speech, adding that such groups will "legally or illegally" attempt to "destroy America, and the American Dream." President Joe Biden's 2024 re-election team said Trump had embraced the language of Hitler by using the word "vermin."
"That terrain, driven by grandiosity and dread of exposure (e.g., at the [criminal] trials) could signal the emergence of an even less constrained, more overtly vicious and remorseless Trump who, should he regain the presidency, would, indeed act like the authoritarians he praises," Glass wrote.
"Absent conscientious aides who could contain him (as they barely did last time), this could lead to the literal shedding of American blood on American soil by a man who believes he is 'the only one' and the one, some believe, is a purifying agent of God and in whom they see no evil nor do they doubt."
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-compared-adolf-hitler-psychiatrist-vermin-1846027