Goose-Stepping Armies, Here We Come

For as long as I've been alive, I've heard people wonder how the heck Hitler came to power and was able to get people to do all the horrifying things done in his regime. Although there were projects done to illustrate how we could, indeed, fall into this trap again (check out The Wave, for example--true story), we still tend to smugly assume that having the benefit of hindsight, we are immune to this type of snowjob. Well, think again, because here we are, unless something or someone can stop this heck of a henchman. While Trump shares many characteristics with Hitler (rigidity, personal insecurity, stubbornness, bullying behavior, no real personal relationships, selfishness, cruelty, and of course, racism), the real linchpin here is Stephen Miller, about whom the book Hatemonger is written. Aptly named, this chronicle of his upbringing and ideological evolution is enlightening, but chilling. With his x-ray vision into the souls of his own base, he is adept at whipping them into a frenzy of fear of brown people which bolsters the far-right bloc. He echoes, verbatim, phrases from white supremecist groups, knows the leaders personally, and has demonstrated his disdain for human life by separating children (even infants) from parents who have committed no crime. Shame on those brown people for requesting asylum--SHAME! SHAME!! It makes you wonder how he would have looked on his own ancestors who fled the pogroms and found protection here. He is a hypocrite of the highest degree, and not only hateful, but power-hungry. I'm fearful of where this could take us, and anticipate the deja vu of another genocide and future generations of people, yet again, asking how in the world that happened. This book is informative and eerie, and gives a glimpse into the mind of who's running the show. And I don't mean Trump.