Donald Trump's Hitlerian logic is no mistake | Sidney Blumenthal

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

85% : A genius," Trump said in an interview with CNN in 2015.
72% : Trump explained it was a gift from a Jewish friend.
72% : On 17 September, Trump launched a new theme with an old echo.
65% : "Well, but Hitler did some good things," Trump remarked to his White House chief of staff, General John Kelly.
63% : "Well, I think I was born with a drive for success," Trump told CNN in 2010.
58% : On Fox News, in March, Howard Kurtz, the host of its show Media Buzz, interviewed Trump.
58% : Yet Trump cites him as proof of his intelligence, a case positive of "blood".
58% : I have great genes and all that stuff, which I'm a believer in," Trump informed a crowd in Biloxi, Mississippi, in 2016.
58% : "Well, [Hitler] rebuilt the economy," Trump replied.
52% : That is, until Trump.
49% : "I know nothing" has been a useful if transparently false tactic of deflection for Trump, from David Duke - "I don't know anything about David Duke, OK?" - to the Proud Boys.
48% : At Mar-a-Lago, on 22 November 2022, Trump had a night to remember: dinner with the anti-Semitic rapper Kanye West, aka Ye, and Nick Fuentes, a neo-Nazi, who was a leader at the Charlottesville march and riot, present in the mob on January 6, and has built an antisemitic following he calls the "Groypers".
42% : Trump told another nearly all-white rally during his 2020 campaign in a Minnesota town that had voted against accepting refugees.
41% : "In some cases, they're not people, in my opinion," Trump said this March.
41% : Trump bemoaned in a White House meeting in 2018.
38% : Trump has Hitler on the brain in unknowable ways until he lets his admiration seep out.
35% : But his use of blood and soil rhetoric is deliberateIf genealogy is destiny, as Donald Trump believes, then "poison in the blood" - a phrase Trump repeatedly uses - determines the fate of nations.
34% : "The press, as you know, immediately reacts to that by saying, 'Well, that's the kind of language that Hitler and Mussolini used.'" To which Trump replied, "Because our country is being poisoned.
34% : After the violent neo-Nazi march in Charlottesville in 2017, ringing with chants of "Jews will not replace us," attended by a number of Proud Boys, Trump infamously stated, "There are fine people on both sides.
33% : Trump designates his blood as superior and the blood of those he chooses to demonize as inferior.
33% : Do you have anything like that in mind when you say poisoning our blood?""No, and I never knew that Hitler said it, either, by the way," Trump replied.
33% : "Asked again by Hewitt, Trump answered, "First of all, I know nothing about Hitler.
32% : When Trump says immigration, he means race.
30% : "Just recently, on 31 August, addressing Moms For Liberty, a rightwing group devoted to book-banning, he raised again the menace of "poison in the blood": "But what's happening to our country, our country is being poisoned, poisoned!"At a rally on 18 September, Trump elaborated: "They're coming from the Congo, they're coming from Africa, they're coming from the Middle East, they're coming from all over the world - Asia!
30% : "This April, at a fundraiser with donors at Mar-a-Lago, Trump proudly recalled his "shithole countries" moment to elaborate on his categories of acceptable and unacceptable immigrants.
29% : Afterward, when the press reported on the dinner, Trump issued a statement that Ye brought "a guest whom I had never met and knew nothing about".Trump's footsie with Nazis mingles narcissism with Nazism.
27% : Then, he told Marie Brenner of Vanity Fair, "If I had these speeches, and I am not saying that I do, I would never read them."As Trump ginned up his third campaign, Hugh Hewitt, a rightwing radio talk show host, tried to help cleanse Trump of taint from his "poison in the blood" incantations.
26% : "When Chris Wallace, the moderator of the 2020 CNN presidential debate, asked Trump if he would denounce white supremacists, he replied, "Proud Boys, stand back and stand by," a message to the neo-fascist paramilitary group that would be the shock troops in the attack on the Capitol on January 6.
24% : When they are removed, it will be, says Trump, "a bloody story".
23% : Trump is warming up his myth of a scapegoat.
22% : The historical lineage of poisonous ideas, rather than "poison in the blood", explains Trump's doctrine of a master race, whether Trump is aware or not of the origins of his venom.
19% : He refers to them as "hostages".White supremacists, neo-fascists and neo-Nazis attach themselves to Trump, sometimes appearing as more than a fringe - including, recently, the self-proclaimed "Black Nazi" Mark Robinson, the Republican candidate for governor of North Carolina, whom Trump called "Martin Luther King on steroids.
17% : How about Norway?"Trump claims he has not read Mein Kampf.

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