The Wall Street Journal’s Pulitzer-Prize-winning Dorothy Rabinowitz is clearly no sellout, concluding a Sept. 29 column endorsing Clinton this way, “Her election alone is what stands between the American nation and the reign of the most unstable, proudly uninformed, psychologically unfit president ever to enter the White House.” Trump only claims to be a Republican. He might be a much better fit with the National Socialist German Workers’ Party. Parts of the Nazi platform were vintage Trump: Only those born here count as real citizens; purge the country of foreigners; eliminate all press freedoms; annul treaties; and treat “positive Christianity” as the only real religion. Trump is no Hitler. But there are enough similarities in their rise to prominence to frighten us all.Those similarities were brilliantly noted by the esteemed and feared New York Times book critic Michiko Kakutani, in a review of a new book titled, “Hitler: Ascent 1889-1939.” With nary a mention of Trump’s name, Kakutani told how the book described Hitler as an “egomaniac” who practiced “a doctrine of hatred.” Hitler, she wrote, “rose to power through demagoguery, showmanship and nativist appeals to the masses.” He was, she added, a man whose “manic speeches and penchant for taking all-or-nothing risks raised questions about his capacity for self-control.” Two peas in a pod. Trump’s the one without the armband.











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