Journalists and political commentators responded on social media to an article in The Atlantic comparing former President Trump to several fascist dictators, including Adolf Hitler.
of Atlantic articlethe headline “Trump talks like Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini” ran Friday. “The former president introduced dehumanizing language to American presidential politics,” argued Atlantic writer Anne Applebaum.
“You spend eight years calling people every name you can think of, including Hitler, and then you realize it's not working and you desperately decide that all you have to do is call them every name you can think of. Once,” says Independent Journalist. 's Glenn Greenwald wrote about X in response to this harsh headline.
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Journalists and political commentators reacted to an article in The Atlantic comparing former President Trump to several fascist dictators. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
Tom Bevan, co-founder and president of RealClearPolitics, scoffed at the overreach of the headline, “The Atlantic with a Threefer.”
Margot Cleveland, senior law correspondent for The Federalist, responded, “It's time Hitler wasn't bad enough!”
The Atlantic's national editor in chief, Scott Stossel, praised Applebaum for his article on President Trump's rhetoric. my colleague [Applebaum] He knows more about the history of authoritarian regimes than anyone else. Pay attention when she says Trump has begun using the words of Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini with clear intent. ”
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In his article, Applebaum criticized Trump's political comments, calling them “ugly and disgusting.”
“These words belong to a particular tradition. Adolf Hitler used these kinds of words a lot,” Applebaum says. “In 1938, he praised his compatriots for helping to “cleanse Germany of the parasites that drank from the well of despair of the fatherland and the people,” she continued.
“In occupied Warsaw, a 1941 poster featured a picture of a lice with a caricature of a Jewish face. The slogan was 'Jews are lice. They cause typhus.'” In contrast, Germans were clean, pure, healthy and free of pests. Hitler once described the Nazi flag as “a sign of the victory of freedom and purity of blood,'' Applebaum wrote.
In his article, Applebaum called Trump's political rhetoric “ugly and disgusting” and compared Trump's words to those of Hitler and other dictators. (Photo by Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images)
The Trump campaign responded to the Atlantic article in a statement to FOX News Digital.
“Fake news from third-rate media outlets has increased,” President Trump's press secretary Stephen Chan wrote. “The truth is, it is Kamala Harris, the Democrats, and their media boosters who are going crazy for emboldening those who threaten President Trump's safety. There have been two attempts, and their violent statements have led to a direct attack.''Unless Democrats and Kamala Harris apologize for their hateful comments and soften their stance, countless witches against President Trump will be fired. Their blatant lies and weaponization of the justice system to perpetuate the hunt hoax is nothing short of disgusting and abhorrent. The attack that fanned the flames of violence blatantly supports and incites further bloodshed against President Trump. ”
“The only people trying to politicize the assassination attempt are Democrats who continue to use weighty and dangerous rhetoric to embolden those who threaten President Trump's safety,” Chan added.
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The Atlantic did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.
