Today on TV I watched a program called "The Fatal Attraction of Adolf Hitler" which sought to provide backdrop for his rise to power. The piece used archival footage of people who were young at the time and one particularly articulate woman stated that she voted for Hitler because she had seen such pitiful poverty in the slums of Berlin during the early years of the Depression and she thought Hitler was the only person to bring them out of their economic malaise. I was struck by that.

I was also struck by how mild Hitler's language was compared to Trump's even during his rantings at the Nuremburg rallies. He talked about the importance of the German people finding their inner strength to pull themselves up. Who wouldn't warm to that kind of talk? Trump is in another league altogether. Hitler may have not have told Germans he planned to round up Jews but Trump is already telling us he'll round up Mexicans and prevent Muslims from entry. And people are still behind him! We were warned.