Reform UK candidate defends Hitler remarks

A Reform UK election candidate has defended himself after it emerged that he had described Adolf Hitler as “brilliant” at using personality traits to “inspire people to action”. In online posts, the psychologist also described Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian dictator, as “gentle by nature” and suggested that Vladimir Putin’s use of force in Ukraine was “legitimate”. In a post on X, formerly Twitter, in 2022, he wrote that Hitler was “brilliant in using Fe+Ni to inspire people into action” while criticising his “basically incoherent writing and rationale”. So naturally I’m a bit upset about the suggestion that I’m admiring Adolf Hitler.” Mr Aaron, the founder of the World Socionics Society, described socionics as a “pre-science” and said his “key contribution” was “rooting out pseudo-science” from it.