Donald Trump is the leader of a new, hate-filled authoritarian movement. Nothing would be more harmful to the idea of the West and world peace than if he were to be elected president. George W. Bush's America would seem like a place of logic and reason in comparison.Der Spiegel throws everything at Trump but the "H" word. They do use the "f" word though — "fascistic.
Packer sees the 2008 financial crisis, which caused parts of the US economy to unravel and deprived millions of Americans of their economic foundation, as the main reason many Americans are receptive to a man like Trump. The economy has been growing again since then, but in absurdly unfair ways, says Packer, as inequality becomes more and more glaring. According to Packer, many Americans feel they have been left alone with their concerns, and they feel disconnected and betrayed.…These these are key words that remind Germans of how Hitler came to power.
Many Americans, especially whites and those with relatively little education, are now more receptive than ever to audacious promises and simplistic solutions. But they are also receptive to a form of politics that blames immigrants and minorities for their own fate, and for the race-baiting that has been part of every authoritarian movement to date. Trump offers all of these things, and he offers them more skillfully, professionally and self-confidently than all other candidates.
The kicker.
Some already view Trump as the founder of a new political movement -- "Trumpism" -- that has little in common with the traditional conservatism on the right.
This, of course, is what Hitler did in founded the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei with himself as Führer (Leader).
If the most powerful office in the world wasn't at stake, all this wouldn't be nearly as dangerous. Germany has been too busy dealing with the supposed threat posed by refugees in recent months to appreciate what's really been going on across the Atlantic. Despite their differences, the US and Germany share an unshakeable faith in democracy and freedom. But nothing would be more harmful to the idea of the West and world peace than if Donald Trump were to be elected president.…Quite an article in a major publication in Germany, an American ally, about a person who could be the next POTUS.
Spiegel International
America's Agitator: Donald Trump Is the World's Most Dangerous Man
Markus Feldenkirchen, Veit Medick and Holger Stark
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Yawn. Snore.
The Koch brothers agree that Trump is dangerous -- because he's a closet Democrat who can't be bought !
Ted Cruz makes Trump look good, and Ted Cruz can definitely be bought. My neighbor the fracking billionaire has been buying Ted Cruz:
"Setting Farris Wilks apart is a little-noticed filing with the Federal Election Commission in July that showed he and Dan, together with their wives, had given $15 million to a Super PAC backing Republican presidential contender Ted Cruz."
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"The Cruz donation makes the largely unknown Wilks family the biggest donors in the 2016 race for the White House. So far, they have even outspent the billionaire Koch brothers."
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"We support (Cruz) because he believes in the morality of the free market, in keeping our country safe, and in the right of the unborn not to be killed in their mother’s womb," Farris Wilks said.
I didn't put this up as a political comment. What struck me is that Der Spiegel would publish an detailed article essentially comparing the rise of Donald Trump to the rise of Adolf Hitler, an especially sensitive subject in Germany and also especially since Trump is emerging as a frontrunner for the US presidency.
That article was not published by accident. It is a statement and it is more than about Trump.
Are some Germans in positions of influence getting concerned about the US and the direction it is taking?
God I hope he wins...
German establishment shows solidarity with US establishment. Both are under-attack.
The urban/university elite are losing their grip on power one way or the other but are going to fight.
It seems like Clinton and Merkel are on thin ice with their pie-growth. The ideology battle is between pie-growers versus pie-cutters. New Inequality versus old "work hard" arguments. Race is one angle for pie-cutting, Asian/Middle Eastern/Whites are privileged compared to the rest. Poor whites are mock-worthy as they use Trump to protest, and are reviled as too stupid and poor to matter in a democracy and economic meritocracy. Dangerous game by mainstream. Sanders has taken the young who have never seen prosperous times in their entire lives. Austerity bites.
Germany giving lessons, kings of beggar-thy-neighbor policies and exporting their problems to the rest of the world since they were born as nation. When time comes due they will be the first to elect a jingo bureaufascist (well, one could consider the people in Frankfurt and the likes of Schauble exactly that) and redirect their frustration towards 'the other', as gullible as they have historically been and still are with their misguided ideologies (gold-buggery and economic calvinism).
Getting sick of their 'moral lessons'... Maybe we would have been better if the policy towards 'scorched earth and destruction of Germany' would have won post-WWII instead of rebuilding the nation.
Who owns the German media?
Ignacio,
FYI - just a point of order. We didn't rebuild their nation. That's the PR version. We supplied jobs for the 9 million returning vets and armaments factory workers in the US.
France, Germany, Italy, etc didn't have factories or access to resources to rebuild anything, so we gave them the money so they could buy what we built for them. That was the the $15 billion Marshall Plan.
Obvious to me that the equivalent of AIPAC in Germany controls their media too.
Ha. They were glowing about Obama before he was elected. He was the Next Coming.
Does Haim Saban still own the second largest broadcaster in Germany?
MRW, you're right, they rebuilt their nation, because the international community allowed them to do that. If we acted like righteous Germans they would still be paying war reparations and drowning on external debt.
The rest of Europe and the world was very kind to them, but as usual they periodically get to patronize the rest of Europeans with their righteousness. Been going on since ~1600 A.C.
I, you have to EARN your indulgences not just buy them with free munnie....
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