Trump Is Not Another Hitler. That's The Problem.

[ihaveaquestion]

https://substack.com/home/post/p-190869720

The comparison is tempting. The reality is more dangerous and far less predictable.

Frank George, Ph.D.
Mar 29, 2026

People keep asking me:
“Is Trump another Hitler?”

That’s a reasonable question. But it obscures a more important one:

What type of authoritarian threat are we dealing with?

Because if you misread the threat, you misread the risk.

A Malignant Narcissist at the center

Shared Traits: Trump and Hitler

Both Adolf Hitler and Donald Trump show all of the core features of malignant narcissism.

Devaluation Of The Other — The Scapegoat

They both rely on dehumanization. Scapegoats are central — Jews in Hitler’s case, immigrants and perceived enemies in Trump’s. The language overlaps: “vermin,” “animals.” This isn’t just insult. It’s a psychological mechanism: remove humanity, remove empathy, justify harm and cruelty.
Sadism

Hitler embedded cruelty into his ideology — institutionalized sadism. Not so much enjoyment of the domination itself, but enjoyment of the resulting ideological fervor — an Institutional Sadism. This is similar to Stephen Miller.

[Ocelot II]

1. Interesting. It's always been clear that Trump lacks Hitler's evil but effective discipline.

This article offers an explanation. Hitler saw himself as the savior of a nation and employed rigid ideology to further that goal; Trump sees himself as the savior of himself and changes his apparent ideology as needed to further his personal goals of self-glorification and enrichment. In many ways that is scarier.

[haele]

2. *rump is lazy Nepo-baby E-Bay Hitler.

Needy Amin has always been for sale or rent to anyone who needed a flashy, "rich" cardboard cut-out of a businessman for a tool and was willing to enable him to feel like the Special Boy.
So long as you never asked him to do anything but act "strong" while you worked behind him to steal lesser people's lunch money, he is your man.

Hitler actually believed his narcissistic Ubermensch BS and really struggled to make it a reality. He may have been a deluded, neurotic, paranoid bastard - but he actually did the hard work and paid prices on his way to be an icon of evil.

[jimmy the one]

3. Trump's Enabling Act gift from scotus.

The reichstag gave hitler dictatorial rights with the 1933 enabling act.
The US Supreme Court gave trump similar powers with their decision he was immune to his actions taken during his term's official duties. As if he were assumed to be totally acting with the best interests of the country.

[Blue Full Moon]

4. Trump idolizes Hitler.

He is incompetent is either a blessing or not, remains to be seen. He is trying to build Hitler's yonic portal. He's even building a ballroom over the bunker just like Hitler. Maybe we can be lucky and his l end will be the same.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

5. trump is trying to follow in Hitler's footsteps