Hacker News Reader

They are absolutely nothing like Hitler's. There was global political and economic turmoil at the time. No crisis, not even the financial troubles we are in currently compares to the state of Europe and the World at the time.

The institution of the US government is far more stable than the republic of Germany in 1936. The people were blind, but more importantly, they were desperate. The people of the US are not desperate.

View on HN

Are you saying that Trump is not Hitler because times are different or that he won't be elected because times are different?

Third Wave experiment and some others showed that you don't need desperation to succumb to the strong leader.

And as for becoming a hitler, there's a megalomaniac beast in many of us, probably more so in those who've climbed up the latter as high as Trump has.

The point is, nation doesn't necessarily have to loose The Great War and have its economy in ruins to bring a hitler to power.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com