Eric, thanks for your thoughts. While I try not to be partisan I will say this blog was written before current events. I will also say I concur that we don’t have to wait until genocide is underway to act. I maybe need to blog about “just war theory and opposing evil,” in a future blog. My main point here is let’s not throw the “Hitler” term around lightly. I may have been a bit too hyperbole in the expression of that point, but I can agree is someone looks like a duck, acts like a duck, and whacks like a duck, they are likely a duck. I just let my readers do their own bird watching, it is not my place. However, as you likely know from my blogs, I have no problem calling out issues and demanding social justice for all.
Thank you for being a faithful reader. –Vinnie.

You are correct that comparing every single person we disagree with to Hitler is not helpful. And I do agree we should be slow to judge, and I agree that memes do more harm than good. However, I think that waiting until someone is “firing up a literal oven shoveling 11 million people in it” is a little late. Personally, I think the politics of hate and fear needed to be addressed long before we reach that point.

Maybe we can agree that all “dictators”, whether Hitler, Stalin, Mao or Pol Pot, have shown common signs of their megalomania long before they started murdering millions of people. Oddly enough the only world leaders that our current president has consistently praised and admired are Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong Un, and Xi Ji Ping. Whether we use the name “Hitler” or not the disease and symptoms are the same.

The fact that one of DJT’s main strategies has been creating a common enemy, immigrants, to rally his supporters around is very much like every other dictator in history. The fact that he can make people believe immigrants both take away our jobs and come here to live on welfare show his ability to impair logical thinking, another trait of dictators.

The fact that his followers will applaud him for publically belittling anyone and everyone, but will not allow anyone to speak ill of him shows his ability to cloud their common sense. Jerry Falwell Jr. should know we will “reap what we sow”, but he blindly lashes out when anyone dares to critisize DJT.

The fact that DJT can accuse anyone of any crime with absolutely no evidence, but react so vicously when even questioned about his actions shows his narcissm. Add to his his ability to mesmerize groups of my fellow citizens into chanting “lock her up” or “send them home” and I see the physcological control that every dictator uses.

And I have not even mentioned his tendency to make veiled threats like “if I lose this election I may not be able to control my supporters” or “if she (Hillary) gets elected we may have to exercise our 2nd Amendment rights.”

Or his statement “I don’t know, maybe I am the chosen one.”

Honestly, the main thing that bothers me about DJT is that the majority of the evangelical Christians in this country have fallen madly in love with him. The majority of evangelical Christians are destroying their witness for Christ by blindly supporting a man who would throw them under the bus tomorrow if he thought he could make a better deal.

Maybe using the name “Hitler” is over the top, but if the tendencies are there we probably should try to sound the alarm at some point. Even if the ovens are never fired up.

Thanks!
We are Christians can’t sink to the rhetoric of the world.
May we seek care in political discourse.

Thanks.
I appreciate the kind words. Not all believers want sound advice 🙂