If you have any doubts that there are direct links between Adolf Hitler, Vladimir Putin, and Donald Trump, please read this article with an open mind.

First of all, we must honestly appraise the genius of Adolf Hitler. No other despot in history understood the psychology of human beings better than the leader of the Nazi Party in 1930’s Germany. Most of the citizens of any country are sheep who continue to seek leaders who tell them what they want to hear. Hitler was aware that to control his nation he must destroy a free press, and establish control of his nation’s government by establishing a one party system. Hitler believed in ‘alternative facts.’ If a lie is told often enough, eventually most of his nation’s people would accept it as fact. Sound familiar?

Vladimir Putin is technically an ‘elected president.’ However, those elections are a farce. His challengers and any man who adamantly dissents with his actions and policies experience deadly accidents and even open murder. Putin, like Hitler, is a dictator with unlimited power. He controls the flow of information and has isolated his nation from the world.

In 2005 Trump was nearly broke. After taking the ‘Miss Universe Pageant’ to Moscow, during that year his personal finances began to increase. His real estate business was flourishing. Most of it was the result of having met with Russian oligarchs while he was in the Russian capital. The term is ‘laundering.’

In 2016 Putin assisted Trump who barely won the Electoral College. Putin’s agents succeeded in using social media to influence voters. A lower than expected turnout was the biggest reason that Trump won the White House. Since his election Trump has followed the blueprint of Hitler under the tutelage of Putin. He has acted in a purely partisan manner for 13 months and 24 days. Democrats have been ignored.

This is step one in creating a fascist government. He continually attacks the legitimate press and praises the right wing propaganda machine, FOX Noise. This is a clear attack on free speech and the first amendment. Since June of 2015 Trump has offered his supporters ‘alternative facts.’ His lies have been repeated hundreds if not thousands of times and Americans who choose ignorance over reality believe him. Trump has alienated our closest allies and today we are alone in the world.

There is no difference in the beliefs of these three despots; they share everything with the exception of the fact that Trump’s intellect is far less impressive than those of Hitler and Putin.

Finally, all three share their support of white supremacy, misogyny, homophobia, xenophobia, and anti-Semitism. All three refuse to accept advice from any man other than themselves.

By the way; Trump’s family originates from Germany and the real family name is ‘Drumpf.’

Op-ed by James Turnage

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