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Trump's worldview is very similar to Hitler's in many ways. The core similarity is that they both thought/think of everything in international relations as zero-sum.
There's a lot to it that can't be compressed into a readable Lemmy comment, but it's pretty easy to find material.
They're very similar.
They're were both extremely damaged by emotional neglect in their childhoods, while ironically being treated as if they were superior in some way, and after being rejected by society (New York society in Trump's case, art school in Hitler's,) they lashed out instead of being introspective to correct their narcissistic repulsive behavior, and leaned hard into punishing all of the inferior peasants by being colossal entitled assholes.
Malignant Narcissistic Psychopathy 101.
A key difference: Hitler survived on battlefields where he could die a horrible death. Trump lacks the suffering and hardship required to understand what is at stake if he plays the fascist game badly. I think that is going to be a major reason in why Fascist America would lose in the long run, since it doesn't value competency in any respect. Even the Nazis had some competencies, despite being evil dickheads.
While Hitler served, he was no war hero. Don't glamorize him.
I am not. What I am saying is that he has experience with bloodshed, and the knowledge he could be a corpse if he played the wrong cards. Trump doesn't understand consequences, because he has never truly risked anything.
I'm not interested in arguing about this, anymore. I'm done with it.
But you're correct that Hitler had first hand knowledge of war, but I don't see how that makes any real difference.
They are both raging narcissists who think they are "Special," and deserve to be adulated, and worshiped.