Part II

Two dictators – generations apart

Governor JB Pritzker of Illinois has likened President Donald Trump’s America to the early days of Hitler’s Nazi Germany.  Pritzker said : “That is where we are right now. They are going after people for being brown and Black. They’re going after people who are U.S. citizens. They’re going after people who’ve done nothing wrong. They do it under the guise of saying that this is about the worst of the worst, but it isn’t.  (Rachel Dobkin (the Independent 12/1/26).  Recently in Jan. 2026, Trump called himself a king.  Soon there was a photograph of Trump crowned king was posted White House titled Trump: Long Live the king.

Who is a fascist? Wikipedia describes a fascist, briefly, as a person who follows far-right, ultra-nationalist, authoritarian political ideology.  They support dictators, centralized authority, militarism and suppression of opposition.  Their national interest overrides individual ones.  There were many fascists in modern world history. Some such were Hitler of Germany, Mussolini of Italy, Ante Pavlić of Croatia, Pétain of France, Vikdun Quisling Salazar of Portugal, Antonescu of Romania, Josef Tiso of, Slovakia, Franco of Spain and many others.  There are many modern fascist world figures today. A few  are: Donald Trump of USA; Narendra Modi of India, Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil, Marine Le Penn and Emmanuel Macron of France, Matteo Salvini of Italy and many others. Fascist leaders are not only endemic to Europe but all over the world.  We will concentrate mainly on Europe and USA because if there is to be WWIII, it will begin on our doorstep.

Brief Background on Adolf Hitler and Donald J. Trump

Adolf Hitler: came to power in 1933, as German Chancellor but his power trip really began in 1919 when he joined the German worker’s party, renamed it the NAZI party, later.  He exploited the aftermath of WW I and the anger of the people, to become the strongest and most powerful man in Germany. He was a populist, a xenophobic and a racist.  He showed his desire for world dominations in the 1930s but it had already been outlined earlier, in his Mein Kampf written in Landsberg prison in 1924 in which he put down his thoughts and ideas.  In it, he talked about a Greater German Reich, a need for Lebensraum or living space meaning expansion.  Once in power, his megalomania began to be apparent to others..  He showed his desire for world domination in his first territorial annexation – the Anschluss of Austria in 1938, and then the Sudetenland.  Then in a speech in January 1941, he proclaimed a New European Order.  This laid out his vision of a Pan-Germanic state and its need for territorial expansion which he began with Austria, but Sudetenland was the trigger. Germany was specifically for those he called Aryans (Germans).  Emboldened by the compliance of UK and France, re Sudetenland he continued his expansion into Poland.  Europe woke up and the Allied pact was signed.  WWII had begun.

Hitler demanded total obedience and loyalty.  All democratic institutions were done away with.  Minorities were at risk. The WWII concentration camps were established.  Germany became divided into them and us.  Invasions of foreign lands began.  Why?  Because Hitler needed other lands for the “national security of Germany,” because “Germans lived there,” because, in short, he wanted more power, wanted those lands. He was a fascist.  In 1933, elected, and powerful, he began his world conquest.  Soon, WWII began and lasted for 6 years 1939-1945, turning the world upside down, bringing to the fore the worst in some men, but also the best in some others.  This war really changed the world and destroyed some intrinsic parts of our humanity.

Donald Trump first came to power in the election of 2016.  He had some successes like the tax overhaul, an occasional foreign policy success but mostly there were more worrying trends that he set in motion.  His 4 years in office brought to the forefront deep fissures in American society and exacerbated them.  He created greater political polarization, between the whites and whites, (Republicans and Democrats) between the whites and blacks and between the whites and others.  He forced Americans to take sides, to divide the nation.  He threatened communist countries like China and North Korea, carried out uncalled for investigations and punishments of any who did not obey him; put unreasonable trade tariffs, caused environmental rollbacks, carried out attacks on the media – curtailed the freedom of speech; used his political position to attack all and any he considered an enemy including the media if they didn’t pander to his ego or even individuals from, his own administration, elected officials, foreign heads of states, private individuals and so on.  He began his second term threating invasion and attacks of other foreign countries, including his closest neighbours. – like Canada, Mexico …  Corruption within the state, misuse of government organisations, weakening of democracy were all promoted.  He has become very greedy.  He was twice impeached for his behaviour – once for his alleged misrepresentation of his business records to conceal hush money (bribes) and for hoarding classified documents in his Mar-a Lago bathroom and then again for inciting a mob attack on the State Capitol in Dec. 10, 2019, when he lost the election in 2020 in which many were wounded and some were killed.  He also refused to concede the elections or to attend the inauguration.  Instead, he incited insurrection and attack on the State Capitol by his adherents, in which many were wounded and some killed.  It seems he may also face charges for attempting to influence 2020 vote count by pressuring state officials.  Another charge maybe for a telephone conversation he had with President Zelensky for a quid pro quo pact, meaning that US $400 million was available for Kyiv only if Kyiv launched an anti-corruption probe into Biden who, was leading the Democrats in the 2020 elections.

He caused serious problems internationally.  He imposed unfair, tough new restrictions on immigration; withdrew from many multilateral agreements, forged much closer ties with Israel, (very far from being a democracy; began a major trade dispute with China, and threatened Venezuela and its government, among other irresponsible actions.

His first term awoke in him, the desire to rule the world.  It should have alerted us to the danger he posed to democratic society, as we had seen it in the recent past.  In would-be world dictators. Like Hitler, he is a populist, a xenophobic a racist ,a tyrant who must have his way; and has excluded the most marginal in society as well all democratic principles and ideals from his governing.  His specific targets within USA, are ethnic groups, immigrants, LGBQT groups, and people with disabilities and those that disagree with him in any way.  He would be, will be   king.

In 2013, US whistleblower, Edward Snoden revealed the mass surveillance that was going on of mobiles, telephones etc. Now Trump’s close relations with Elon Musk is a further threat of invasion of privacy, manipulation through media outlets, use of AI to monitor the public and so on.  Musk has boosted and continues to boost Trump’s political support through his social media platform.

Trump, it seems had studied Hitler’s methods and actions thoroughly, because there are uncanny similarities between the methods and applications of both that cannot have happened by chance alone.

Similarities between Pre World War II and Today

Here are a few documented similarities between the two:

Elected Heads, first Acts: Both Adolf Hitler and Donald J Trump came to power by being democratically elected.  Both soon showed their undemocratic colours quickly.  Both began dismantling democracy bit by bit.  The policies of both affected all areas of life in their respective countries.  Hitler came to power in 1933 and began issuing executive orders & sidelining the Reichstag. One of the first orders was to pardon & release 100s of his followers, jailed earlier for violent attacks on left-wing supporters and for arson and murders.  Hitler did not accept homosexuals or transgender people.  Trump was first elected in 2016 and then in 2024. Immediately, faster than Hitler, he pardoned or commuted sentences of 1,500 insurrectionists in the Capitol incident of 2020; to this action Schumer commented : “Donald Trump is ushering in a Golden Age for people that break the law and attempt to overthrow the government.  Then Trump signed about 50 executive orders on his first day in office, like the National Border Emergency; acceptance of only two genders (no LGBT+ were accepted anymore in the US under Trump – just like Hitler); end to automatic citizenship in USA; he withdrew the US from the WHO; and ensured states with death penalty always has sufficient supply of lethal injection drugs, etc.  In 2026 he withdrew from the Paris agreement for the second time which is significant because it is a Senate-ratified treaty.  One country cannot withdraw from it unilaterally, without consequences.  He withdrew from 66 other world bodies too. Among them like ECOSOC- in Africa, the Pacific, the Caribbean and Western Asia, The International Law Commission, International Trade Centre, Peacebuilding Commission, Peacebuilding Fund, Offices related to helping children, UN Entity for Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women, UNFCCC, and many more.

Economy: Both Hitler and Trump came to power by promising to fix the economy. Hitler The German economy, after WW I, was struggling with issues like hunger, unemployment, job insecurity, homelessness, poverty etc.  He promised to fix all these and ensure Germany’s rise to power or in other words – Make Germany great again, but instead it led to a very bad time for many Germans; World War II and the division of Germany into East under Soviet Union, and West under USA.  German sovereignty was lost.  Millions died for a megalomaniac’s dream.  Trump: when he ran for his second term, he promised to end the inflation crisis, provide tax and tariff relief policies and cut prices of goods. He promised to make America Great Again – it was Hitler’s idea but Trump incorporated it into his election slogan.  However, Trump’s tax cuts and other polices, have only benefitted the richest 5% of the country.  The rest stayed the same or their position has worsened.  Top earners make $ 360,000+ per year.  The average American makes $600-to $1800 p.a.

Pardons: Many of Hitler’s supporters had been jailed for committing violent acts systematically against his political opponents.  On being elected, Hitler freed them all.  Trump did the same for the State Capitol rioters and many others. Among those released, were: neo-fascist Enrique Tarrio, leader of the Proud Boys & organiser of the 2020 State Capitol attack and Stewart Rhoses, oath keeper founder.  Both swore revenge on the judicial system.

Pure Blood: Hitler wanted to have pure Aryan blood in Germany.  So, he had to get rid of all the contaminants – including Germans who thought or behaved differently. Hitler talked a lot about the good Aryan blood.  Anyone who was not ’’pure Aryan’’ was “inferior and a threat to the purity of the Aryan race.  This included all minorities.  The Gestapo, criminal police, concentration camps were all assembled to control them.   Trump too, focused on having pure blood in America, which was built on mixed blood from the start.  It was colonized by the British (mixed blood, Celts, Normans French, Scandinavians etc.), French, Spanish, Portuguese, Native Indians, international blood…).

Targetting Minorities: Hitler, since he came to power, targeted minorities either racial, like non-Germans mainly Jews, Roma etc. but also homosexuals and any others who deviated from Hitler’s norm or those who opposed Hitler’s policies.  Jews were a very small percent of the total German population.  Hitler redefined citizenship to target all non-German while also eroding all legal protections for them.  Trump also targets the minorities, racial, the Blacks, Hispanics, Africans, Orientals, the disabled or otherwise, like the LGBQT+ groups.  He rewrote immigration laws to bypass oversight and to label all immigrants as national threats.  Trump forgets that his family too, were immigrants to the US.  All Americans are immigrants except the Native Indians who were killed or put in reservations by the immigrants/settler/colonisers from Europe.

Trump blames marginalised communities for problems in the US.  He blames transgenders for sexual assaults on women in female restrooms.  But the thing is there are two problems here.  First there is no evidence that “suggests a rise in violence within restrooms, let alone violence caused by transgender and non-binary people.” as Trump claimed.  And second, transgenders in the US are about only 1%. Trump began attacks on ‘’illegal immigrants’’ and ‘’ others’’ with concocted dangerous assaults and lies..  In his opinion it seems, Latino, Hispanic, and Black immigrants are criminal aliens.  To compound matters, he named the misogynist, Pete Hesegeth, a fundamentalist and anti- LGBTQ+ as the US Defence Secretary.  Recently he revoked President. Johnson’s Executive Order 11246 that required the government to take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed, and employees are treated during employment, without regard to their race, creed, color or national origin.   Trump ensured the opposite.  Trump, further, made major cuts to DEI – Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, which was a framework to help promote equal opportunity and treatment for all. 

Trump not only detests immigrants and minorities but also dislikes Americans of other political ideologies as shown by his warning that in the mid -term elections, next year, blue states will totally disappear off the map.  We should ponder his words seriously. 

On Jan.18, 2026 Don Lemon a person belonging to a marginilised group ,and a CNN host of Tonight attended a protest at a Church in Minneapolis. organised by anti-immigration and Customs Enforcement activities in Cities Church in St Paul’s.  MAGA supporters, in a Truth Social post on Monday, Jan 19, 2026, called for Lemon and the other protesters to be arrested.  Isn’t there free speech in a democracy?  Isn’t the US supposed to be the leader of the Free World? Doesn’t the free world have democratic governments?  Are people no longer allowed to go to churches that might say or believe in something Donald Trumps and his band disapprove of? 

Earlier , a small group of elderly ladies were protesting at an abortion clinic.  They were each given 40 years in prison for that because Trump’s government said they were violating the FACE Act.  Trump said he wanted the same punishment for Don Lemon.   Such incidents are being carried out increasingly, under Trump, like a Minneapolis mother, Renee Good 37, who was shot and killed by an ICE officer, Jonathan Ross, because she was trying to leave an immigration raid scene.  ICE used to arrest the worst first, but now under Trump  all those rules are gone said a former John Sandweg, acting ICE chief to POLITICO magazine, .  ICE has become extremely aggressive.

Is human life of people worth so little to Trump and his henchmen?  People are calling for Homeland Security Secretary, Kristi Noem to be impeached or to resign.  This is what USA has descended to – killing innocents because of   what???!!

Both Hitler and Trump have scapegoated minorities and spread untrue rumours about them to turn citizens against them.  Both have brought out the worst qualities in many of their adherents – especially cruelty.

Racism Hitler implemented a racial policy based on pseudoscientific and racist doctrines asserting that Germans were Aryans and so were superior to other races.  This has not been proven anywhere.  His policy combined the eugenics programme that strove for racial hygiene by compulsory sterilization and extermination for those that didn’t meet with his requirements and his intolerance of other races, not just Jews, but also Roma, Slavs and all foreigners, especially non-whites, the sick and disabled.  They were often sterilized or killed along with religious minorities like Jehovah’s Witness. The homosexuals were subjected to horrific treatment, while his political opponents, especially Communists and Socialists faced imprisonment or execution.  Trump, in his first term, carried all-out attacks on women and the American Blacks culminating in the pointless murder of George Floyd, a Black man by a white police officer Derek Chauvin, without any reason.  The American Blacks had a very hard time in his first term..  In his second term, Trump reshuffled his Cabinet demanding absolute loyalty from those he put in position and using executive powers to override all resistance.  His bid for total power is single-minded, all-consuming.  He will let nothing and no one stand in his way – much like Hitler before him. Trump has politicised the Judiciary to a shift away from the Rule of Law during this term in office, using law to control others for his personal gain.  He had bulldozed all obstacles that barred his way and clearly showed his total disregard for any limits during his first term.  This term he is openly following Hitler’s example. He has decentralized the DC Metropolitan Police Department and deployed National Guards to the capital to, he says, deal with out-of-control-crime.   He has also politicised government data by firing the Head of the Labour Bureau and installing a MAGA loyalist instead.  Further, he is snowballing some investigations of his political opponents

Trump is still attacking women, non-whites and all coloured people with increased invectives and actions against them.  He has prohibited spending on any Smithsonian programme or exhibits that are focused on race.  He has changed indigenous names of places, trying to suppress indigenous history.  He has made racist, xenophobic and sexist comments during his speeches, press meetings, his social media platform and Truth social during his second term. 

Still more, he began his term by ending all federal diversity, equity and inclusivity programmes, including all offices focused on minority health, business, fair federal contracting, environmental justice and the digital divide in broadband.

He warned that schools having diversity programmes could have federal funding issues investigated.  He also revoked security clearances from law firms with diversity and equality polices were investigated and threatened by FCC.  His racism and intolerance has hardened further. 

He issued a government -wide memo labelling best practices (that is hiring by merit) were potentially legally suspect, and those using them would lose all federal funding.  Federal prosecutors investigated all contractors who considered diversity.  Furthermore, agencies were ordered to stop using disparate impact analysis and intervention when it was not.  So, The Department. of Justice, the EFOC, the National Credit Union Administration and many others did as ordered.  Automated government and private sector decision making increased.  Immigrants were out of jobs before strike one.  Trump rescinded executive orders that barred discrimination by federal contractors, revoked non-discriminatory hiring and employment, in place since 1965, and data used to track inequality, encouraging schools to collect data on racial disparities.  Discrimination was now allowed.

He greatly reduced civil rights offices in federal agencies, including the Dept. of Homeland Security, the Social Security Administration and the Dept. of Education. About three quarters of lawyers in the Justice Dept and the Civil Rights Division, left.  He added to all this by repealing a requirement that all federal agencies had to enable people with limited English proficiency, with programmes and services.  He also demanded General Services Administration and the departments of Justice and Education to severely scale back all language assistance programmes and services.  Trump also tried to limit birthright citizenship that is guaranteed by the 14^th Amendment.  Instead, he opted to treat ethnicity and non-English accents as legitimate reasons for refusing immigration to the US.  Spencer Overton says that  the present US administration is dismantling the systems that once helped the USA to move forward to a more equal democracy.  Instead, it seems to be replacing it  with selective policies that provide narrow access to cultural, educational and economic participation.  Consequently, there is a fundamental change in the trajectory of US democracy today.

Centralisation of Power:  Hitler, on assumption of power, demanded total loyalty to himself and consolidated his position by reshuffling the Cabinet and forcing loyalty oaths from all bureaucrats.  But he also had a few strategic actions and legal manoeuvres to ensure that happened, like (a)Gleischaltung which was the process to Nazify all aspects of Germany – its cultural, educational, political and social institutions to align with Nazi ideology completely. (b) the Enabling Act of 1933, which allowed Hitler to enact laws without parliament’s consent, which enabled his to disarm the Weimar Republic and establish a totalitarian government instead.  (c)Elimination of Opposition; Hitler’s tools here were intimidation, coercion and elimination of political rivals to silence all dissenting voices.  (d Night of the Long Knives (Nacht der langen Messer) or Operation Hummingbird (Aktion Kolibri) which was the brutal purge of the Paramilitary SA troops (Brown Shirts or Braunhemden) under leaders like Ernst Röhm, and others, he believed to be his opposition.  Through this move, he solidified his control over the Nazi Party. (e) Centralisation of Institutions: The Nazi Regime now took over total control of the country at the national level, undermining local governments and causing a decisive shift in the political landscape of Germany.  Trump also reshuffled his Cabinet demanding absolute loyalty from those he put in position and using executive powers to override all resistance.  His bid for total power was and is single-minded, all-consuming.  He will let nothing and no one stand in his way – much like Hitler before him. Trump has politicised the Judiciary to a shift away from the Rule of Law during this term in office, using law to control others for his personal gain.  He had demolished all obstacles that barred his way and clearly showed his total disregard for any limits during his first term.  This term he is openly following Hitler’s example. He has decentralized the DC Metropolitan Police Department and deployed National Guards to the capital to, he says, deal with out-of-control-crime.  He has also politicised government data by firing the Head of the Labour Bureau and installing a MAGA loyalist instead.  Further, he is snowballing some investigations of his political opponents.

Dismissing Constitutional protections: Hitler, once in power immediately began authoritarian or dictatorial rule, using emergency decrees to suspend all civil liberties.   The Reichstag fire led to the Fire decree which suspended all key liberties allowing Hitler’s government to operate without any parliamentary interference.  This was followed by the Enabling Act which authrorised the government to legislate independently, which made the Weimar Republic a dead letter.  He had laws like the Malicious Practice Laws, the Nuremberg Laws and others that stripped constitutional provisions for the citizens.  He established a one-party system and all constitutional protections were only for his party.  His power was firmly consolidated; all opposition suppressed as well as all democratic processes. (US Holocaust Memorial Museum).  Trump attempted the same by trying to suspend birthright citizenship of non-white Americans and trying to use executive authority to the maximum.  America was originally built on the idea of slavery.  But by 1960s, there were many changes for the better and for equality when Congress enacted Laws that prohibited discrimination in all areas of life for all Americans.   Under Trump they took a very dark turn.  Discrimination was ”in”.  Federal laws were turned against minority groups and citizens.  Corruption was at an all-time high.  The judiciary could not work independently.  It was corrupted as were all other branches of government.  Racial inequality, LGBT+ rights, housing, schooling, living conditions of immigrants and of non-white naturalized citizens.  No more naturalized citizens were going to be accepted.  According to the Pew Research Centre The laws did not eliminate racial inequality, but they made exclusion easier to see and harder to defend.

Corruption: is a cancer in any society.  It must always be controlled. In some it is well controlled . In many others, it is not.  It is worse when democracy , where corruption is generally less, is supplanted by dictatorship , in which corruption is rampant.  Both Hitler and Trump encouraged a corruption as a weapon.  Hitler: corruption under his regime was pervasive and affected most sectors of government.  The most important aspects were in the following areas: (a) Systematic Confiscation – which the Nazi government carried out systematically of businesses and assets and of those they deemed to be inimical to the Nazi ideology, including those of Jews and many Germans.  (b) Plunder & Looting: began in 1923 by Hitler’s Stormtroopers (Sturmabteilung) of Jewish bank sand businesses and continued till 1933 when they were given free rein.  (c) Bribery & Nepotism, which was endemic from the highest to the lowest ranks.  Military officers accepted bribery in lieu of loyalty.  This was regularised and technically legal under the regime.  Hitler led the way.  Corruption undermined the country and the regime’s integrity. (d) Financial contributions: Companies that profited heavily from the Auschwitz camp prisoners contributed largely to the Nazi economy, with financial contributions from the camp operations.  (e) Anti- Corruption Efforts ; such efforts mainly failed or were ineffective because of the regime’s authoritarian structure which generally benefitted the privileged  status of the Nazi higher ups and veterans the most.  It also weakened the regime’s fiscal and military capabilities.  Trump:  The US has never witnessed corruption so blatant and on such a large scale beginning from the top ever.  President and his family disregard all measures to control it, but instead, lead the way.  Some corruption is obvious and can be tracked and controlled somewhat.  Many others cannot.  Corruption is ongoing on both the national and state level.  But all this began from Trump first term and it was brazen then.  Now it is even more so.   Almost every week there is a new corruption scandal connected to him.  The Trump Organisation brokered deals with some oil-rich nations like for the Trump tower in Saudi Arabia, Trump hotel in Oman; and the Trump golf club in Vietnam.  Trump has had many allegations of corruption brought against him.  Of course nothing happened.  Here are a very few more examples (a) Sen Murphy alleged that Trump’s cryptocurrency – the Meme coin- was a token to enable foreign oligarchs, and corporate executives to secretly send money. To Trump, who manipulated its value to maximise profits.  (b) claims that Trump struck a deal with oil and gas industry to supply regulatory advantages in exchange for a billion-dollar campaign contributions.  After his inauguration, he allegedly prioritised oil & gas companies by freezing wind-energy and cutting regulations for fossil fuels.  (c) Congessional Democrats and public figures like Senator E. Warren had over 100 items of illegal conflicts of interest, patronage and favouritism carried out by Trump and his allies  (d) Sen Murphy accused Trump of awarding $800,000 in stock from the Trump Media and Technology Group to cabinet members, including Kash Patel, and Linda McMahon.  This , he argued allowed cabinet officials to benefit personally from Trump’s social media company.  It is also a way for individuals to buy influence.  (e) Trump fired 17 inspectors-generals on taking office because they had exposed government corruption.  (f) Trump fired Hampton Dellinger, head of the Office of Special Counsel, which protects whistleblowers and enforces the Hatch Act on Feb 7, 2025; on Feb. 10, 2025, he fired David Huitema, Head of the Office of Government Ethics, responsible  for governmental policies related to ethics and conflict of interest. According to  a Crew Tracker Trump had fired at least 50  Senate-confirmed sine returning to office;  (g) Trump pardoned former Governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, convicted in 2011 for trying to sell a senate seat for 1.5 million; to rescind$ 8 million in state funds to reimburse paediatricians at the hospital Clinic whose CEO had refused to donate to Trump’s campaign.  According to a Crew Analysis trump pardoned at least 17 corrupt politicians too. The corruption under Trump is blatant  and truly shocking.  The list is long.  (More details and information will be in the upcoming book).

Weaponising the Justice system & Military: Hitler: did so  through his  (a) arbitrary arrests of political opponents without legal authority  which he called protective custody, the first steps to his concentration camps.  (b) Judicial control by creating the National Socialistic League for the maintenance of the Law. Which was thoroughly aligned with Nazi ideology in undermining law.  (c) the Enabling Act which legally eroded people’s rights by enabling Hitler to enact laws without Reichstag control, effectively emasculating the judiciary.  (d) Establishment of Peoples’s Courts with hand-picked judges for cases of treason, overriding their decisions at will.  (e) His Military Strategy was heavily influenced by his Nazi ideology.  It led to militarisation of the country and his expansionist goals. These helped him to consolidate power and eradicate dissent by manipulating the legal and military systems. (Holocaust Encycloepedia & office of Justice programs, -military-strategies-of-nazi-Germany).  Trump,: in his first term began weaponising the justice system & the military, but accelerated it in his second term.  USA, under Trump, no longer had a robust, civil society with a healthy opposition.  He put in laws and policies to eliminate dissent under the pretence of presidential directives like the EO (executive order) “Ending the Weaponization of the Federal Government, which in fact, means eroding the guarantees of a free & healthy democracy. His government , like that of Hitler’s though less freely, till now, began misusing governmental power in every way, political or otherwise.  He granted clemency to those who were deeply involved in the attack the attack on the State Capitol in Jan. 2020 when Trump fairly lost the election.  He revoked the security detail from his former States advisor Mike Pompeo, and his former advisor, John Bolton for their criticism of the insurrection and other acts during his first term in office. Some examples of this would be (a) his attempt at quid pro quo with  New York City.  Trump ordered Acting DOJ Emil Bove to drop 5 charges against NY Mayor Eric Adams for bribery, conspiracy, & campaign finance violations.  Manhattan’s federal Prosecutor, Danielle Sassoon, and several other prosecutors, resigned in protest rather than carry out such orders.  (b)He signed EO targeting Perkins Coie because his firm had earlier represented Hilary Clinton and hit him with a series of restrictions that would prohibit his working with the federal government.  Similar EO’s are, targeting law firms for ‘’disloyalty’’ to Trump,  Trump issued presidential memoranda targeting US citizens for perceived disloyalty like Miles Taylor who in 2018 had written an article in the NY Times, perceived to be his violation of the Espionage Act.  He ordered the Attorney General (AG) to investigate many people.  Another target was the former  CIS head, Christopher Krebs  for denying that the 2020 election was rigged.  He ordered the AG to terminate Krebs security clearance and investigate him for further misdemeanours.

Trump totally disregards and insults the US constitution probably because he feels he knows better than the great authors of the American Constitution. more example. A comprehensive book on this topic is coming up by the same author shortly.

Purging Government Institutions: Hitler cleansed the Civil service of all non-Nazis and replaced them with strong Nazis.  Trump followed the same pattern.  He forced mass resignations, destroyed agencies like the DOJ and the State Department replacing them with people loyal only to him.

Dismantling Civil Rights: Hitler banned Jewish participation in all public life.  Hetermed equality of all as an attack on German values.  He used derogatory terms for the Jews.  He was extremely racist.  Trump, not to be outdone, froze diversity and inclusion efforts, falsely portraying immigrants as unpatriotic.  He is equally a racist as Hitler was. He has greatly reduced the freedoms of speech, association and expression – all basic tenets of democracy, threatening the structures of civil society.

Targeting immigrants through legal manipulation: Hitler, redefined citizenship, to target non-Germans, minorities and Jews.  He eroded all legal protections for non-Germans.  Trump too, rewrote immigration laws to bypass oversight and to label immigrants as national threats.  But he forgets all Americans are immigrants except Native Indians most of whom were killed by the white immigrants/settler/colonisers from Europe.

Expanding Executive Authority: Hitler used the Enabling Act and emergency powers to bypass legal obstacles and concentrate power in his hands alone.  Similarly, Trump manipulated bought over friendly courts, used executive loopholes to push through controversial policies.  He also filled courts with his own people.

Regulatory Retaliation: In all countries all routine governments functions from corporate oversight to tax audits, can be used to control dissent, stifle political opposition.  There are protections in place too.  Under Hitler the legal and judicial systems that could help the Jews were dismantled so persecution could take place easily.  From 1933 to 1945 the Nazi regime introduced a plethora of laws and regulations to hobble civil rights and enable Nazi actions legally.  Along with this was the Enabling Act as discussed earlier.  Nazi judges and lawyers played a crucial part in implementing discriminatory laws. And finally, Hitler’s regime was deeply rooted in biological racism, which was a major reason for the start of the Holocaust.  Similarly under Trump, all the protections were for naught.  Trump used his EO and weaponized the Federal government, highlighting the role of the FTC (Federal Trade Commission),  and the SEC (Securities& Exchange Commission) which both explicitly calls for regulatory retaliation.  Till now, the biggest protection against this weaponization were independent government agencies that have all literally vanished under Trump due to some Supreme Court shadow docket decisions which allowed aimless firing of independent agency heads.  This is misuse of regulatory power, allowing intimidation, coercion, or retaliation against institutions or corporations with different political views or affiliation.  Trump’s administration ordered the Internal Revenue Service’s top attorney to revoke the tax-exempt status of Harvard University, because the University refused Trump’s order to end the DEI programme, to restructure their admissions and hiring practices to fit in with Trump’s order about who to hire or who to admit.  Harvard University sued the government, claiming the government’s demand was an unlawful attempt to control the University’s internal decision-making practices.  Havard Uni. could do so, because it is large and well-established.  Other, smaller, newer organisations were forced to cave in under this governmental pressure.  Another such pressure was with Paramount Studios.  It wanted to merge with Skydance and needed the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) approval to do so.  Paramount agreed to pay Trump presidential Library $ 16 million to settle a lawsuit with 60 Minutes that the media called an attempt to intimidate the American Media.  Members of Congress described this settlement as a quid pro quo.  A few weeks later, Paramount cancelled the Stephen Colbert Show as Colbert had been a consistent and major Trump critic.  A couple of weeks later, FCC approved the merger.  Is this the democratic way?  There were other talk show hosts who were at the receiving end of similar Trump behaviour.  Another recent example of this sort of behaviour was what happened with the late-night-comedy show star, Jimmy Kimmel.  It was indefinitely suspended by ABC after the FCC Chair, Brendan Carr threatened punitive regulatory action against ABC and its affiliates.  Carr claimed that Kimmel misled Americans about the surrounding facts re Kirk’s assassination.  But a very strong public backlash and financial pressure followed this governmental act.  ABC lifted Kimmel’s suspension, but two of the largest, local TV owners, Sinclair and Nexstar initially refused to reinstate Kimmel.  They too, caved in after more public pressure.  These are a very few examples.  It is not democratic behaviour when freedom of speech is punished.

Hiding or Distorting Legal Information: Under Hitler the legal system was changed greatly to reflect the Nazi Ideology of biological racism.  Some of the methods he used were (a) Judicial Subversion which he did by control of the judiciary and subverting law, double standards were applied in sentencing – a lenient one for extreme right-wing agitators and severe penalties for left wing agitators. (b) Nuremberg trials exposed Nazi brutalities and atrocities and how its legal system allowed that to happen and justify those acts of persecution (c) Legal frameworks: Nazi legal system was designed to methodically strip away rights from the targeted people through the discriminatory laws and regulations.  (d) the legal discourse about Nazi law often helps to distort its intrinsic oppressive policies and actions.  Trump: In all democracies, transparency is an important component because it assures the citizens that the government has their best interests in mind.  But politicians sometimes do not do so.  They become authoritarian.  Facts are replaced with distortions and lies that support their views.  In USA, there is a network of laws that requires national and state governments to be honest and candid to collect and release truthful information in all speres not just about politics.  When this does not happen or information is misrepresented or altered there are agencies to track them.  In USA today there is a lot of deliberate spreading of untruths and misrepresentation of facts.  For example, Trump signed an EO establishing the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) without specifying who DOGE is but effectively placing Elon Musk at its head with a sweeping mandate.  Crew sued for transparency from DOGE as according to their analysis, Musk’s work has been anything but efficient.  Then there were the 17 inspector generals that Trump fired throughout the government, whose jobs were to ferret out waste and abuse in the government.  Crew testified before Congress about their importance. There was also the case of the OMB (Office of Management & Budget) that issued a memo pausing all federal funding, thus putting about $ 3 trillion federal finances in limbo, including money for essential services like Medicaid, Head Start, unemployment insurance etc.  Multiple lawsuits were filed before OMB rescinded the Memo.  Crew sent a request for congressional investigations into unilateral spending cuts, & freezes.  OMB officers were urged compliance with the law.  There are numerous other incidents along these lines under this President.

Attacking & disparaging the Free Press & promoting Propaganda:   Hitler destroyed independent journalism.  Instead, he used Nazi-controlled media to shape public opinion. He even had a Ministry of Propaganda run by Joseph Goebbels, one of his closest friends.  Trump followed Hitler in this too.  He defunded public media, promoted partisan propaganda via Fox News and other partisan News outlets.  He fined, shut down, publicly condemned or banned any channel or individual show host that dared to air a programme that criticized him in any way.

Branding opponents as Traitors: Hitler’s opponents became his enemiesand so became traitors, branded as enemies of the state.  They were arrested and silenced.  Hitler had almost total control of Germany.  Trump followed a similar pattern using his powers as far as he could.  He too branded his political opponent as traitors and tried to have them prosecuted and imprisoned.  But USA is not Germany.  Same things cannot always be done.  Trump’s dictatorial behaviour is meeting pushback.  More is needed for the safety of the entire world!

Concentration Camps, Deportations, etc.: Mass killings, incarceration, concentration camps in Europe – all began on such after Hitler came to power.  To this victim group belonged the Jews, non-Germans, Roma, all sexual deviants.  Jews were the main scapegoats, particularly, black Jews. Trump felt the same way.  So, he took these pages from Hitler’s book and ‘’improved them.’’ Instead of Jews, he had mass deportation of immigrants, many to a third country, the concentration camps at the borders and imprisonment in the horror camps in Guantánamo Bay, where suspects for Sept 11^th were kept earlier.  He wished to cram 30,000 illegal immigrants in this hellhole which has been called a symbol of torture, rendition and indefinite detention (Holly Thompson)., because, he claimed, that illegal immigrants were poisoning the blood of our country (ibid).  He also imprisoned non-white naturalized American citizens for the colour of their skins and their blood.  Both Hitler’s and Trump’s camps were packed with these so-called undesirables.  Conditions in the camps – German concentration camps and US prisons like Guantanamo Bay had horrendous condition and a lot of brutality went on in there.   Trump has also deported many legal immigrants and many who were born in the States.  ALL Americans are immigrants – white, black, brown or whatever.  The only people who belong to the country and are not immigrants are the indigenous Indians – most of who, European colonisers to America, killed brutally because they wanted the Indians’ land.  If Trump wants to deport all immigrants, then he must deport himself too!!

Propaganda: Both Hitler and Trump used the propaganda machine for their personal views.  Propaganda played a crucial role in the rise and consolidation of Hitler and the Nazi party under him in Nazi Germany.  He had a separate propaganda establishment headed by Joseph Goebbels, who created the Hitler Myth, showing Hitler as a stable, strong ,dependable leader, looking out for the best for Germany.  Propaganda was used it to brainwash the German public or frighten them into subservience.  Trump tried the same and often clashed and threatened the media.  Propaganda under Hitler was used to exploit public fears particularly regarding unemployment, putting the whole blame on the Jews as the culprits.  It was also used to suppress dissent, control news and disseminate his view to brainwash the populace.  Propaganda was used through news outlets, posters, films, newspapers, spreading his ideology. Trump has used propaganda extensively with all the above methods . He uses it to discredit anyone who disagrees with him or stands in his way and to erode democracy by attacking the pillars of democracy.  

Both Hitler and Trump scapegoated minorities and spread untrue rumours about them to turn citizens against them

The parallels between Trump & Hitler are not just symbolic, but they are also strategic, structural and disturbingly methodical, says Seraphina Cruz.  Trump has repeated all Hitler’s mistakes, methodically, following the same logic, structure, application, suppression methods, using propaganda and pseudo-scientific logic to paint opponents to blame them, using media to turn the tide of tolerance against them, and fanning the fires of envy, greed against his scapegoats.

Censorship: has been used by both Hitler and Trump through book bans to manipulate voters.  Under Hitler, censorship work was under the Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, under the direction of Joseph Goebbels.  Censorship in Nazi Germany meant silencing all past and present voices of dissent.  The only literature allowed to the masses was what the Propaganda Ministry deemed fit.  This was literature or information solely connected to spreading Nazi ideology and the Hitler Myth.  All mass communication, newspapers, magazines, journals, radio, music, films were under the control of the Propaganda Ministry. – much like in a police state. The Nazis burned all books considered ‘’un- German’’ in content or written by Jews.   Under Trump too, there is a lot of censorship.  Any book that the regime feels threatened by or does not cohere with Trumps views are banned.  Some banned books in the USA are: The Hunger Games series, The Handmaid’s Tale, both dystopian novels, Freckleface Strawberry which the Defense Ministry wants banned for ideological reasons.  It is about a girl to eventually learns to love her freckles.  Besides books, Trump threatens any Talk hosts, TV channels, News Channel or newspapers that criticize him in any way, as mentioned earlier. 

Weaponising policy to punish people with different sexual orientation: Hitler used government institutions to crush any who were different or acted differently to his preconceived notions.  Homosexuality was condemned and severely punished, sometimes by death or euthanasia.  His persecution of homosexuals was a priority until war broke out.  The Gestapo then transferred them to the criminal police, the concentration camps, or Kripi. From 1944 they were forcibly recruited from homosexual concentration camps to penal battalions especially the Dirlewanger Brigade.  Under Trump it is very similar.  He has been and is targetting the LGBTQ+ protection centres, sanctuary cities and immigrant aid centres claiming that they are all a threat to national security.

Personality Cult: Hitler had a strong personality.  Some said he was magnetic when giving a speech.  Hitler exploited it to the maximum.  His tools were his personality, mass gatherings, powerful imagery and repetition like only I can save you to solidify his dominant role. He promised Germany greatness.  Trump also follows Hitler in this.  He has mass rallies, slogan-driven messages, the distinctive hat, the raised fist and the slogan Make America Great!

Invasions & threats: Hitler invaded Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland and then France.   Began concentration camps, abolished abortion. WWII began.  Trump threatened Canada, Greenland, Panama Canal, clashed over Gulf of Mexico, threatened and then invaded Venezuela to remove the Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro Moros for no reason at all.  Trump wanted Venezuelan oil.  Now US is seriously threatening Greenland with the excuse of National security.  Greenland’s is a small, icey country.  Its closest neighbours are Canada, Iceland and Norway – not the USA.  So what is Trump talking about?

Genocide Watch:  Hitler is very well known for his horrifying concentration camps. That is one of the reasons for WWII.  Trump: Holly Thompson, a reporter, wrote that the US is currently on Genocide Watch. A Red Flag Alert has been sent out by the Lemkin institute for Genocide Prevention. This happened after Elon Musk used the Nazi salute after Trump’s inauguration speech.  This is a dangerous action when Musk openly dares to use the Nazi salute in a major public venue for the US president.  The salute, the Institute wrote, is an insult to this country, to its Constitution, to its veterans, and to the many survivors of the Holocaust who created new lives and new families within our safe borders.”

Test Cases: The invasion of first Austria, then Czechoslovakia, were test cases for Hitler to see how far he could go without any repercussions from Europe in 1938.  There weren’t any.   In fact both UK and France were okay with the invasion of Czechoslovakia as the Munich Agreement attests to.  So Hitler was emboldened and invaded Poland and began WWII.  Trump has done the same.  The taking over of Venezuela was a test case f.  And he was successful.  Like Germany earlier, there were no repercussions.  It emboldened him to make a stronger attack on Greenland’s sovereignty.  Neither Venezuela nor Greenland are connected to US National security.   US has not forgotten Canada.  Trump is preparing for world domination.  Mexico should also watch out.  It would make another tasty morsel for power-hungry Trump.

To reiterate the main points:

Both need devotees to follow them unquestioningly Trump like Hitler believes in his infallibility. Hitler was proven wrong and finally committed suicide, maybe.    Trump will also be proved wrong

Both men were/are extremely autocratic, authoritarian, smart and want power.  S Aving their countries, making their countries great again were the catch phrases to get to that powerful position.  It is not a selfish ambition but in their cases it is a tool in dangerous hands. Not only do their political behaviours mirror one another, generations apart, but their methods, their attitudes, their beliefs, are chillingly similar.

Both Hitler and Trump scapegoated minorities and spread untrue rumours about them to turn citizens against them

Trump is a dictator who is called President.  Hitler too, was a dictator. Both centralized power, purged institutions to eliminate opposition.  Both consolidated power by reshuffling the cabinet and forcing pledges of loyalty from all bureaucrats to themselves, taking away control from all independent governmental agencies.  Both used executive orders to override or crush resistance, sentence people to death or imprisonment.  Both bypassed constitutional limits to their power, demanded total, unquestioning loyalty, both used similar or even identical strategies to weaken democratic checks on their power.

• Both forced or manipulated the erosion of civil rights of individuals
• Both demonized ’outsiders’ as a major tool, targeting immigrants, minorities and dissenting voices as necessary for national unity
• Both deliberately brought out the worst in human nature
• Both deliberately undermined democracy and all democratic ideals
• Both were fanatics and believed in their own superiority
• Both turned their people against each other. Hitler caused suspicion and betrayal of Germans by Germans to consolidate his power e.g The Night of the long Knives  where Nazis  killed Nazis.  And Trump is still doing the same between Americans and Americans e.g. Trump incited an insurrection of his people to violence onthe State Capitol when he lost the election in 2020.   He has turned  Democrats and Republicans on one another. Relations between the two parties is very strained and still widening.
• The parallels between Trump & Hitler are not just symbolic, but they are also strategic, structural and disturbingly methodical, says Seraphina Cruz.  Trump has repeated all Hitler’s mistakes, methodically, following the same logic, structure, application, suppression methods, using propaganda and pseudo-scientific logic to paint opponents to blame them, using media to turn the tide of tolerance against them, and fanning the fires of envy, greed against his scapegoats.

To sum up it is upsetting to see the extreme similarity between these two dictators, generations apart, with one strongly influenced by the other.  Shockingly, even Trump’s own party, members are aware of their similarity – a very dangerous thing for the USA and the world.  In fact, Trump’s Vice president J. D. Vance had also associated Trump with Hitler in 2016.  Vance then wrote to a facebook associate that he goes “back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical asshole like Nixon who wouldn’t be that bad or that he’s America’s Hitler.”  Trump has given him fodder by initiating many of Hitler’s actions as seen above.  His longest serving chief-of-staff, John Kelly warns that Trump meets all the fascist criteria.  Added to which, Trump himself admitted to Kelly once, that Hitler did some good things too” and proposed the idea of needing “German Generals,” clarifying his statement by saying “yeah, yeah, Hitler’s generals

Hitler Systematically dismantled the Judiciary and judged became Hitler’s tools rather than defenders of the law.   Trump  administration isat war with the federal judiciary and blocks  or evades all court order.  This is leading to a constitutional crisis.  Trump is trying to disable the judiciary and all judges who are fair or he is unable to corrupt.  But judges too, are hesitant to go too fast or openly against Trump since he abides by nor rules or regulations.  Courts today are apparently helpless.  His appointees/supporters are perhaps the majority.  Much like Hitler.  And like Hitler’s Nuremberg trials, Trumps courts also apply discriminatory laws against immigrants and Trumps opposition  whenever and wherever possible.

Like Hitler  too, Trump is threatening countries in Asia (Iran), Europe( Greenland and Iceland) South America (Venezuela is just the tip), Palestinians as he wants the Gaza as a money-making resort  for himself and the Palestinians who live there are of no consequence.  Hitler wanted  power and Germany’s Greatness.  Trump wants power and money for himself and his family – not for America as the Qatari plane incident clearly showed.

This is History repeating itself!  We cannot allow a Third World War. There will be no earth as we know it, left.  Trump is repeating Hitler’s actions and methods; Hitler’s logic and like Hitler, is drunk on power.  Their attitudes and methods are frighteningly alike.  Both have huge egos and demand blind loyalty.  Both promised to ‘save’ their countries – Hitler from the Jewish threat as the hard-working Jews were wealthy, and so were an easy target; Trump to Make America Great from the immigrants – forgetting Americans are also immigrants from Europe.  Both see themselves as the only answer to their countries’ problems.  Both are intolerant to dissent.

But Hitler the would-be saviour ended in involving Germany in WWII destruction, division and powerlessness.  Trump, his acolyte, may just as easily drag all the world into World War III.  And perhaps total world destruction.  This is a chilling repetition of the era just preceding WWII.  Help save our world from World War III.  There will be no making any country Great when there is no longer any country or a world left.  Our weapons of destruction are stupendous, horrifying in their destructive power.

PS – Just read

Trump now( 29/1/2026) wants to cancel the mid-term elections.  Why? It is because he knows there is a great possibility that he will lose it.

But this is illegal and unthinkable under the US constitution.  He has neither the legal authority nor the ability  to do so. Too many hundreds of people are involved in the process.  Moreover Why should there not be  a legally run elections that a democratic country is allowed to carry out?  Is this an attack on the much-publicised American Democracy?  It appears so.  People of America, those who love your country and  the democratic principles  on which it was established – DO SOMETHING!!!!