MSNBC Compares Trump to Hitler: Media ‘Dismissed Nazis as a Joke’ Too
'This is a backsliding democracy, according to an international think tank'
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MSNBC’s host Joy Reid compared Donald Trump to Hitler, saying the media dismissed them both as a joke while warning a "similar pattern" is emerging with the 45th president.
Reid said:
“Let not forget the many who laughed at Donald Trump back in 2016 and even after he was elected."
"Thanks to four years of Trump, this is a backsliding democracy, according to an international think tank," he added.
"And that’s no joke."
"The truth is this country doesn’t have a great track record of recognizing authoritarians for what they are, at least not until it’s too late.”
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She added:
“According to Smithsonian Magazine, Benito Mussolini was a darling of the American press.
"American papers credited Italian fascism with saving Italy from the far left and revitalizing the economy."
WATCH:
.@JoyAnnReid leads #TheReidOut tonight with a warning that despite numerous threats to our American experiment as a multiracial democracy, many in the media report that things are business as usual. #reiders pic.twitter.com/EYhTHh0eB7
— The ReidOut (@thereidout) December 7, 2021
"Similarly, Adolf Hitler was dismissed as a joke, a nonsensical stretcher of wild words according to Newsweek at the time," she continued.
"American press outlets predicted Hitler would be outplayed by traditional politicians or would become more moderate.
"In other words, they got it wrong, badly wrong.
"Now fast forward to the current day, and we’re seeing a similar pattern emerge when it comes to the threat Trump’s big lie.”
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In 2019, the former chairman of the Psychiatry Department at Duke University told CNN that Trump was as bad as Hitler, Stalin, and Mao.
The psychiatrist branded the president in the same categories as the worst dictators in the 20th century, suggesting his presidency might lead to even more deaths than they did.
