{"id":4105,"date":"2016-11-16T21:55:18","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T04:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/?p=4105"},"modified":"2026-07-01T12:40:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T18:40:47","slug":"trumphitler-part-ii-why-it-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/trumphitler-part-ii-why-it-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\/Hitler – Part II: Why It Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"

So whenever I post something here and link to it on Facebook, the conversation all takes place over there and not here. For those of you who are not my FB friends, you should know that my earlier post today has ignited something of a firestorm.<\/p>\n

\u201cI quit reading after the 4th paragraph,\u201d wrote one friend. \u201cNot marching people into gas chambers made me throw up in my own mouth. Wish you were here so I could’ve done it in yours.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ouch.<\/p>\n

Another friend told me that my \u201cdefense\u201d of Steve Bannon was \u201cclose to treasonous.\u201d (I tried to make it clear that I was not trying to defend Bannon in any way, shape, or form, as I describe him as \u201ca thug, a bully, and a bigot.\u201d He seemed unconvinced.) Later, the same friend insisted that \u201cwhite power is entering the [W]hite [H]ouse, and anyone not enraged is complicit and Vichy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Which is precisely the problem and the reason I wrote that piece.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a Doctor Who episode titled \u201cLet\u2019s Kill Hitler!\u201d The plot involves going back in time to off the Fuehrer, but they don\u2019t succeed. That hasn\u2019t stopped other fictional characters from trying. The idea is the subject of movies, literature, and even comedy sketches. \"progress\"<\/a>Vermin Supreme, the perennial presidential candidate who wears a boot on his head, has made \u201ctime travel research to kill baby Hitler\u201d one of the planks in his political platform.<\/p>\n

And why not? Who doesn\u2019t want to kill Hitler? Furthermore, who wouldn\u2019t be justified in killing Hitler? The Nazi dictator represents the very embodiment of human evil. There is no punishment he does not deserve, and no response to his evil would be too extreme. Taking out Hitler is not something to be left to chance. You certainly don\u2019t arrest him or put him on trial. You strangle him with your bare hands. If you can\u2019t get close enough to do that, then you lob grenades into his bedroom. Or you bomb the snot out of any building where he might be hiding. Yes, innocents may die, but surely that\u2019s a small price to pay to take out the worst person who has ever lived?<\/p>\n

Well, thankfully, Adolf Hitler is long gone. But now here comes Trump<\/em> Hitler. What punishment does he<\/em> not deserve? What response to his<\/em> evil would be too extreme? Are you seriously thinking we should put him on trial and leave it to the system to prevent the horrors he\u2019s about to unleash? Isn\u2019t it time someone strangled him with their bare hands? And if they can\u2019t get that close, wouldn\u2019t blowing up the White House and killing Trump Hitler be an entirely justified course of action? If Trump is Hitler, then a violent response is not only justified; it\u2019s necessary.<\/p>\n

That leads to horror very quickly.<\/p>\n

Again, and I can\u2019t stress this enough, I think Trump is awful. I think Steve Bannon is awful. I think this campaign played on America\u2019s worst fears and exploited the darkest side of who we are. Nobody should read this and presume that I\u2019m on the side of those who wish to divide us because of what we look like or how we worship. At the same time, I\u2019m not on the side that thinks that violence is an acceptable response to Trump\u2019s election. I stand firmly against rioting, bombing, or any other violent response to President-elect Trump. If Trump really were Hitler, I might think differently. As it stands now, I\u2019m with John Lennon. \u201cWhen you talk about destruction, don\u2019t you know that you can count me out.\u201d (\u201cImagine\u201d is still a sucky song, though.)<\/p>\n

America is surely flawed, but we remain a nation of laws, and we have a system of government that is designed to thwart potential Hitlers. I think it will prove quite frustrating to President Trump, and that he won’t be able to be Hitler even if he wants to be. It is important that our response is commensurate with the actual challenge we face instead of acting like Krsitallnacht has just taken place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sowhenever I post something here and link to it on Facebook, the conversation all takes place over there and not here. For those of you who are not my FB friends, you should know that my earlier post today has ignited something of a firestorm.\u201cI quit reading after the 4th paragraph,\u201d wrote one friend. \u201cNot ... Read more<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4105"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5177,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4105\/revisions\/5177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}