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Not much time for blogging these days. I am the treasurer of our local town committee, and it’s been a busy time, as I have to account for the multiple donations people are making in exchange for Biden signs, which are going like hotcakes. There’s a lot of frightened people out there, and they’re doing what they can.

In my down time I’m sitting back reading Volker Ullrich’s Hitler: Downfall, the second volume of Ullrich’s Hitler biography and by far the most fun to read. I read Ascent a few years ago, but there’s only so much you can enjoy reading about a guy like HItler when he’s on a roll. It’s a whole lot more fun reading along as he slowly deteriorates, even though he does manage to kill millions of people in the process. Plus, you know the end turns out reasonably well, something we can’t say about our current situation.

I’m reading it on an e-reader. While I’ve been reading it I’ve been highlighting various things that remind me of our Hitler.

Don’t get me wrong. I’m not saying Trump is just like Hitler. Hitler was a lot smarter than Trump and actually knew things. He was likely more evil as well, but, all in all, besides the obvious fact that both were racist sociopaths, they have some other similarities as well.

Hitler, like Trump, could become wedded to conspiracy theories, in the face of all evidence to the contrary. His delusions about the Jewish conspiracy is an obvious example, but there were many more, such as his insistence that an assassination attempt against him by a lone assassin was actually the work of a broad ranging conspiracy.

Hitler, like Trump, was obsessed with the loyalty of his underlings. He was far more interested in having underlings who were blindly loyal to him than competent to do the job they were chosen to do. Once any given underling became insufficiently sychophantic, Hitler would go out and find someone who would tell him what he wanted to hear. Just like Trump.

Hitler, like Trump, was convinced of his own infallibility. As soon as something he set in motion went awry, he would find someone else to blame.

Hitler, like Trump, was dependent on medications to get him through the day. His doctor gave him stimulus shots on a daily basis. It is overwhelmingly likely that Trump is addicted to Adderall, and who knows what other stuff he is taking. Since he’s the master of projection, his recent claim that Biden is getting injections of performance enhancing drugs is likely a confession of his own medical regimen.

It goes without saying that Hitler was, and Trump is, a bigot of the first order. Lest you think Trump is only bigoted against people of color, it is a fact that he is also anti-Semitic, though he can’t be as open about it as Hitler, and, to be fair, he may not yet have settled on a final solution so far as people of color are concerned.

Even the little things: Hitler, like Trump, during his decline, was unable to negotiate stairs and ramps.

I am aware that it is considered tacky to compare our Fascist to Hitler, since we’re not supposed to have fascists in this country, and any use of the word is by definition, according to much of our punditry, overblown. However, I think it’s instructive that Trump shares so many of the mental illnesses and pathologies that Hitler had, and that fact should be acknowledged. And, I am informed by Crooks and Liars that even the mainstream is beginning to recognize the reality, as Morning Joe and his cohorts spent an hour talking about the F word’s salience in these United States. Right now I think Trump has a better than even chance of getting the Supreme Court to steal the election for him, and if he is successful, we will become a full blown fascist state.

UPDATE: A great mind thinks like mine. I mean..Hitler, Stalin, what’s the difference. The megalomania is all the same.