Trump Next Nazi Dictator?--Madeleine Norton, 4th period

 I try not to get too outspoken with politics and my own opinions, so I'll try to stick to the facts here:
Bill Weld, a former Massachusetts governor and hopeful advocate of the VP Libertarian role, stated just today that Trump's vow to deport any undocumented immigrant back to their home country sounded an awful lot like the vows made during the Nazi Regime. In fact, he went so far as to strongly synthesize the possible future act with that of Kristallnacht, a very harmful and significant day to 1938 Jews in the beginning of the Holocaust. And by making that statement, he's brought up issues from not too long ago, and the broken memories of those who suffered or experienced a horrendous genocide of millions of innocent people.

CNN's Jake Tapper asked Weld in an interview today, sensing the tension: "Is that a little strong, you think, to talk about the Holocaust?" Weld replied, "No, I don't think so. I served five years on the U.S. Holocaust Commission by appointment of President George W. Bush. I'm absolutely certain that, as we said in those years, if we don't remember, we absolutely will forget." He brings up the very valid point that we as people, so should we choose to forget history, the pattern of repitition and mistakes similar to our ancestors lie in wait. Our job should be to remember and hold dear every painful memory as a reminder of what will not happen again (in this instance, the Holocaust). Weld then chose to add, "And you got to forget a lot of things to think it's a good idea to round up and deport 11 million people living peaceably, most of them working in America, in the middle of the night. ...Not the United States. China, maybe. Not the United States."

 

Obviously the issue synthesizes directly with the Holocaust, and justly so, since many people of today have paralleled many of Trump's quotes, promises and slogans to that of German dictator Adolf Hitler. These specific promises Trump makes directly rely on fear, hatred, and the eagerness to blame a group of people for the sufferings of the country as a whole, the exact promises Hitler made when rising to power. Many people viewed Hitler as persuasive and one with the people, and his methods certainly didn't start out as brutal. But as his office was assured, his power began to ultimately increase, the S.S. men and Nazi troops growing in forces as his tactics grew more and more blunt, and his motives became more and more clear. Still, however, many people even after the war had to be convinced that their country was committing such heinous and unethical crimes, as it had been so well hidden of Hitler's ultimate, ulterior motive: kill the inferior races. Likewise with Trump, things might, of course, start out small. But due to current issues we have in foreign and domestic policies, it's quite easy for things to escalate out of proportion...

Article link can be found here: http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/22/politics/bill-weld-holocaust-donald-trump/index.html