We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12157840 and marked it off-topic.

Define this murky "left". In case you haven't noticed, the old political categories are shifting. I should be on "the right", having grown up in the Midwest, served in the military, and am now working on Wall Street.

Donald Trump is irresponsible and wrong, and you should note that many military service members in particular are rooting for Gary Johnson. Advocating for war crimes is wrong. Nuking Syria will not work. But don't mind us, we've only fought the wars of the past two decades.... Listen to the guy who dodged the draft.

The fact that Johnson is so popular among vets and service members should be a telling indictment of the foreign policies of both Trump and Clinton.

Citing what people say - and in this instance what Trump says - to expose what their political goals or non-goals are is hardly fear mongering. None of the statements I made compared Trump to Hitler, you may want to re-read. The comparison was made to underline how absurd the statement of the parent poster was because by his line of reason you could - literally in good conscience - even support Hilter "because some of his goals align with mine and I don't care of the world burns as a result".

He's not literally Hitler. He is literally someone with narcissistic personality disorder whose grip on reality seems even more remote than usual.

Narcs are barely a step up from psychopaths. They literally lie professionally and have no conscience to speak of.

They're also famous for having no empathy whatsoever. So the chances that Trump genuinely cares about the struggling and low paid is zero.

There is absolutely no rational reason to want someone with NPD as president.

Facts are facts. If Trump talks like Mussolini, perhaps deliberately, then he deserves the comparison.

Sure, all the fascism in his speeches and platform could be some grand act just to rile people up, but he's giving no reliable indication that the terrifying things he says aren't what he really believes.

But I am, of course, biased. As a Jew, I can't stomach anyone who brings white supremacism and open antisemitism into the mainstream. It's just bad for me, you know?