Ron Rosenbaum, world-class expert on the rise of Hitler compares him to Trump

[Peh]

Srassy said:

Peh said:

You compare competely unrelevant subjects.

Hitler was a populist, so is Trump. That's a much better comparision. And both used it to gain votes.

See, I never got the populist angle.  You mean that he said stuff to get votes?  Like a politician?  Why do we call it populist for the people we dislike?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populism

Populism is a political style of action that mobilizes a large alienated element of a population against a government which is seen as controlled by an out-of-touch closed elite that acts on behalf of its own interests. The underlying ideology of Populists can be left, right, or middle. Its goal is to unite the uncorrupt and the unsophisticated (the 'little man') against the corrupt dominant elites (usually the orthodox politicians) and their camp followers (usually the rich and the intellectuals). It is guided by the belief that political and social goals are best achieved by the direct actions of the masses. Although it comes into being where mainstream political institutions fail to deliver, there is no identifiable economic or social set of conditions that give rise to it, and it is not confined to any particular social class.^[1]