Donald Trump’s second White House chief of staff tried to stop him praising Adolf Hitler in part by trying to convince the then president Benito Mussolini, the Italian fascist dictator, was “a great guy in comparison”.
Donald Trump’s second White House chief of staff tried to stop him praising Adolf Hitler in part by trying to convince the then president Benito Mussolini, the Italian fascist dictator, was “a great guy in comparison”.
The very fact that this is a serious question, that this even could be a serious question, is downright chilling.
Though it will likely show up in the House first, I fear the answer to your question is “not long”.
I remember briefly questioning how tyranny takes hold of a whole country when I was younger. I didn’t think on it hard enough, really. It sucks now to have to live it.
There should be some nuance.
We need to recognize that Hitler did at least one good thing.
(He offed himself.)
In a more serious vein, we need to recognize how easy it is to fall in with… that. Hitler was unspeakably evil. But he had a lot of people following him, some of whom are no more evil than anyone else.
the only way to prevent another version of him, is to recognize there is a risk we, personally, could fall for it. And to be perfectly blunt, republicans have.
Said another way, there is a capacity for evil in everyone; even as there is a capacity for good. Evil people don’t know that they’re evil- they can’t even consider the possibility, because they refuse to accept this.