Trump's 'fascist' rhetoric now sounds 'better in the original German': analyst
Raw StoryFormer President Donald Trump has gone past flirting with fascism and now his campaign speeches just sound like something taken straight out of the rise of Nazi Germany, Catherine Rampell warned for The Washington Post on Tuesday. Vance, for his part, has accused Democrats of inflaming assassination attempts against Trump by calling him a danger to Democracy — but "Given that logic, what does Vance expect to happen to people who are being falsely accused of rape and murder — and who aren’t protected by the Secret Service?" Once upon a time, Rampell noted, political discourse had a convention known as "Godwin's Law" that stated no one could win an argument by comparing their opponent to Hitler. Trump even has antisemitic instincts that have become clear in recent years, said Rampell: "For instance, he accused American Jews of voting for 'the enemy' and agreed with a radio host that Vice President Kamala Harris’s husband, Doug Emhoff, is a 'crappy Jew'". These aren't typical things a candidate says to close out the final days of a campaign, Rampell wrote — "But then, as Molly Ivins, once quipped, it probably sounded better in the original German."
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