Adolf Hitler:National Socialism:: Donald Trump:Republican Party ('just following orders' edition)

Headlines:  PBS, New York Times

11/16/2020 update starts here

The gray recttangle is a portion of text from an exhibit at the Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism.  

Photo by Retiring Guy

5/5/2020 update, "When authority figures mess with democracy", starts here

Under Trump, America has gone a bit late Weimar. We know how that ended.  (The Guardian, 5/4/2020)

Original 2/23/2020 post starts here

Photo credits:  Wikipedia, Medium

Reported in For National Security Council, A Mission Turns Upside Down.  (The New York Times, 2/21/2020)

Related posts:
2017
Ron Johnson in so many words: SIEG HEIL!! (2/14/2017)
Donald Trump Steves promote Nazi principles.  (2/17/2017)
Echoes of folk state Nazi principle in legislator's statement.  (2/18/2017)
Echoes of totalitarianism Nazi principle in Rep. Devin Nunes' warning to reporters.  (3/4/2017)
Jeffrey Lord loves his alt-right 'sieg heil' dog whistle.  (8/11/2017)

2019
The depth of ignorance here is stunning.  (2/9/2019)
Donald Trump unleashes the Neo-Nazi, white supremacist beast (the Iowa State University edition).  (11/1/2019)

2020
GET ME REWRITE: Dee and Carl McKnight of Boone, Iowa, signal accommodation with and approval of the Trump regime.  (1/2/2020)
GET ME REWRITE: The souls of evangelicals provide a rich soil for seeds of Trump authoritarianism.  (1/20/2020)
This day in history side by side.  (2/20/2020)
GET ME REWRITE: Once again, Donald Trump threatens to take a page from the Nazi Party/Adolf Hitler playbook.  (2/22/2020)
The Hitler Oath and the Trump Purge.  (2/23/2020)