It has been suggested that one cannot fairly compare Trump to Hitler or call him a fascist. As St. Ronald would say, Well...

What part of "Hitler did some good things" as reported by former White House Chief of Staff Gen. John Kelly fails to suggest affinity with things Hitlerian or fascistic?

It instantly calls up memories of Trump's Charlottesville comments that "very good people" were parading through the town carrying torches and shouting Nazi slogans.

Trump is responsible for the mindset of his followers. There are no speakers at anyone else's rallies calling to wild applause for the expulsion, incarceration, or outright murder of their non-Trump-loving neighbors. Much of the rhetoric of the rumbling Trump Train could have come straight from the pen of Joseph Goebbels, and along for the train ride go the world's Putins, Kims, Erdogans, Orbans and others who lean so far to the right that the whole train is unbalanced.

Dictators invariably claim affinity with the masses. Last week's performance at a McDonald's restaurant in which Trump attempted to play the role of a fry cook and counter clerk was laughable. Nearly all news outlets (except Faux News and its emulators, of course) were within hours running footage of a bare-chested Benito Mussolini harvesting wheat around 1930.

A much better term for this political stance is "totalitarianism." In totalitarian systems, whatever the Fuehrer says is gospel, and anyone can be punished for the crime of not going along with whatever nutty notion that "leader" pulled out of his ear that morning — be it useless tariffs or injection of bleach to cure disease.

The fact is that Hitler never did anything even temporarily good that did not serve his yearning for self-aggrandizement. The Trump Agenda and Project 2025 are in no uncertain terms schemes to achieve that same end, concentration of wealth and power ever further into the hands of the already wealthy and powerful.

Sounds like a quacking duck to us.