To the editor: A few of your letter writers seem to think that making any comparison of former President Trump to Adolf Hitler is inherently extra divisive than something Trump does.
However these comparisons are to not the Hitler of World Struggle II and the Holocaust; they’re to Nineteen Thirties Hitler.
He gained energy by stoking grievance; accusing the elected authorities of treasonous conduct; making a cult of character; defining patriotism as loyalty to him personally; figuring out a scapegoat inhabitants that could possibly be hated and subjugated with impunity; dehumanizing opponents as “vermin”; and selling militia teams to under-gird his place with the specter of violence.
The fixed methodological through-line was the lie — incessant, egregious, ludicrous and above all shameless, till the lies went unquestioned and actuality was outlined by no matter got here out of his mouth.
Trump can’t observe this sample of conduct and duck the comparisons.
Michael Maniccia, Alhambra
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To the editor: Trump supporters fret and complain when their hero is likened to Hitler and Mussolini.
As a scholar of World Struggle II and Hitler’s rise to energy, I imagine that when you don’t acknowledge the similarities between Trump and Hitler and their ways to achieve energy, you don’t know a lot about Hitler or you might be denying what’s been apparent for years.
The political divide received’t be closed when one facet provides a anti-democracy insurrectionist as its presidential nominee.
To paraphrase a well-known line, if the gloves match you have to convict. Trump’s gloves are fairly comfortable.
Ray McKown, Torrance
