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If Trump is being compared to Hitler, who was Hitler before he was Hitler?

JL;DR SUMMARY Terrence Petty reflects on historical comparisons between Adolf Hitler and previous infamous figures like Robespierre, Boulanger, and Napoleon III, as well as how contemporary leaders like Donald Trump are often juxtaposed with such figures. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Adolf HitlerDonald TrumpAuthoritarianismFascismNazismAmerican DemocracyGavriel D. RosenfeldPolitical HistorySecond TermHistorical Comparisons

Places mentioned

Munich, Bavaria, Germany
"During his early years with the Nazi party in Munich of the early 1920s, Hitler cut a laughable figure a failed artist who went around wearing shabby clothes and acted like a madman at political rallies."
Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
"in a 16th-century, Dutch-born radical and a key figure in an Anabaptist rebellion in the German city of Münster."
Washington DC, United States
"Donald Trump speaks to the media as he walks to board Marine One at the White House."
Brooklyn, New York, United States
"According to Rosenfeld, in 1931 the Brooklyn Eagle newspaper called Boulanger the Hitler of his day."
California, United States
"Clashes between federal immigration agents and protestors in Los Angeles over the past few days may be a foretaste of uglier things to come. Trump has ordered 2,000 California National Guard members to quell the protests."

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