Harris Vs Trump 2024 US Presidential election - read the warning in the OP posted 18/09/24

I’ve made this comparison before, but the sake of repeating myself, I feel that compareing Trump to Hitler is giving Donnie far too much credit. For the moral bankrupcy and evil we know the Nazi leader for; Hitler was also able to actually direct his dictatorship to some degree. He drove it into the ground in the end, but he was at least doing that.

No, I tend to compare Trump to another facist, I compare him to Vidkun Quisling.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vidkun_Quisling?wprov=sfti1#Arrest

Quisling is an infamous Norwegian traitor who even for a time lent his name to be a synonym for “traitor” in the English language. What sets Quisling apart is how clear it was that his treason what almost entirely geared towards the goal of promoting himself. He took over the Norwegian equivalent of the Nazis with the apparent goal of being that party’s equivalent of Hitler. (Even styling himself as «Fører»). Ahead of the German invasion of Norway, Quisling shared Norway’s defence plans (he had worked in the defence ministry before) with the Nazies.
On the day of the invasion he stormed the the national broadcaster and declared himself Prime Minister. However no-one really took him seriously. The German attempted to install him as the head of a puppet government in Oslo, but he wasn’t really that much use to them. Turns out he was full of talk, but pretty feckless. (Sound familiar?)

When the Germans were defeated and Norway liberated, Quisling turned himself into the returning Norwegian authorities, fully expecting that he would be pardoned. In his mind his actions during the Occupation had in-fact saved the country, and expect that he’d be acquitted (maybe even thanked). However, the Oslo Government instead put him on trial, re-legalised the death penalty, had him shot, and the banned the death penalty again.

Quisling was a feckless self-serving bell-end who had no problem with selling his own country down the river to facists in order make himself seem important. Trump has a lot more in common with that destructive loser than any other facist I feel.

Yeah, to re-iterate, this is presented as some sort of exoneration of Trump:

He is a real and present danger to the American republic and the wider world…

Such confidence, bless your socks

Like trump, too lazy to read the material.

However, if "he won't actually do what he's shouting and screaming about" is what trumpers are falling to now, it's a good sign.

But by that logic, they should vote for the DNC as they won't actually do what they said they would do and aren't horrible specimens for a human like trump is (and which they freely admit).

Trump not be a fascist? He certainly is using the fascist playbook.

He blames immigrants and Muslims for all of America's problems. He promises the return of a golden age that never existed. He dog whistles that the future will be white, conservative, straight, Christian, meat-eating only and anyone else is not invited to the party. I don't need to spell it out, but I will anyway, this is bad news for people of the "wrong" skin colour, religion, sexuality, gender identity, people with a progressive mindset, intellectuals, educated people, you get the picture.

The people who go to Trump's rallies are no different to the people who screamed "Heil Hitler" at the Nürnberg Rallies.

And the people who say he is not a fascist are basically using the argument "he's not an Austrian with a combover and a funny little moustache, so he can't be a Nazi".

Trump may not have had classical fascist leanings, but he cannot resist the lure of the cult of personality that goes along with being a populist leader. He will enable any atrocity that allows him to hold on to power and he will have people around him who are only too happy to do that.

Anyone who says Trump is in any way harmless is either a deluded fool or a willing enabler of fascism.

Just needs the red noses to complete the ensemble

Trump really going hard after the Female vote.

Calls a female MSNBC host a bimbo, and says women these days are all unhealthy, not confident and depressed, and they won't have to think about abortions from now on.

And a Marxist

It’s funny that of all the things said against him, the one that bothered him the most and really got under his skin is the suggestion that people were leaving his rallies early. You can call him a fascist and whatever else you like, but please don’t say he isn’t loved. His poor fragile ego can’t take it.

Runicman calls Trump a threat to the US repubĺic also... "a real and present danger."

He is disputing whether he should be called a fascist or merely fascist enabler!

So there is no question - multiple political experts and historians class Trump as a threat.

That can be summarized as 'Not a fascist - yet'

Trump was not prepared in his first presidency, he didn't have full control of the GOP and didn't have the team in place he needed to implement his policies.

Now, he has the SCOTUS, and he has weeded out the people who have even a hint of principle from his inner circle, he has been given a comprehensive manifesto in Project 25 and he will delegate its implementation to actual full on fascists.

Trump showed his character in his first presidency but he was too disorganized to get much done. This time he's surrounded by like minded people who will be much much more dangerous