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Trump’s Hitlerian Remarks on Immigrants Get a Thumbs Up From 42% of Republicans [1]

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Date: 2023-12-21

A new poll has found that 42% of Republican voters are more likely to vote for Donald Trump because of his remarks that undocumented immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country” (from 1:05). Trump’s remarks have rightly drawn both condemnation and comparisons with Adolf Hitler’s race obsessions in Mein Kampf. It is actually quite shocking how much Trump seems to echo Hitler. The Des Moines Register/NBC News/Mediacom shows that these remarks, these obsessions, are not just a personal obsession of Trump’s, they are an obsession of a large number of Republicans.

In case you missed it, Trump said in his interview with Raheem Kassam, that,

Nobody has any idea where these people are coming from, and we know they come from prisons. We know they come from mental institutions [and] insane asylums. We know they're terrorists. Nobody has ever seen anything like we're witnessing right now. It is a very sad thing for our country. It's poisoning the blood of our country. It's so bad, and people are coming in with disease. People are coming in with every possible thing that you could have.

I don’t know about you, but the assumption that undocumented immigrants come from prisons and mental institutions, or are terrorists, and they are “coming in with disease”, sounds pretty much like a neo-NAZI, white supremacist talking point. This so so much so that Trump was accused of quoting from Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf , where Hitler says that,

In the north and in the south the poison of foreign races was eating into the body of our people, and even Vienna was steadily becoming more and more a non-German city. … It seemed as if some all-pervading poisonous fluid had been injected by some mysterious hand into the bloodstream of this once heroic body, bringing about a creeping paralysis that affected the reason and the elementary instinct of self-preservation. … And so this poison was allowed to enter the national bloodstream and infect public life without the Government taking any effectual measures to master the course of the disease.

Throughout Mein Kampf, Hitler goes on and on about blood, poison, and disease. This was an obsession of his, for him, as with Trump, immigrants were criminal, crazed, dangerous, and sickly elements poisoning the lifeblood of the country.

This is not the first time Trump has made similar allusions. In his third and final 2016 debate (from 21:37) with Secretary Hillary Clinton, he said that,

All of the problems—the single biggest problem is heroin that pours across our southern border. It’s just pouring and destroying their youth. It’s poisoning the blood of their youth and plenty of other people. We have to have strong borders. We have to keep the drugs out of our country.

Trump deeply believes these things and he is channeling ideas that many Republicans share. I do not think Trump has ever read Mein Kampf. The man does not read. What I do think is that this echoing of Hitler is because he is so similar to Hitler. For one, they are both germaphobes, so it makes sense that they would link stuff they are afraid of, with disease, and polluting of blood. They both have a horror of immigrants, so again, it is natural they would have this nightmarish vision of Hitler. I think this is actually scarier than saying that Hitler inspired Trump. Trump is Hitlerian not because of some intellectual commitment, but because of who he is as a person. And this man is the icon of MAGA Republicans, a hero to people who listen to this stuff and think, “Yeah, I agree! Sign me up!”.

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