Hitler was also Against Bad Trade Deals

You hear everyone say 'Trump is bad but he's no Hitler.'

But how do they know? Jonathan Chait is right to at least makes the comparison, though he suggests that Trump is not quite Hitler:

"To watch Donald Trump rant and rave uncontrollably on the stump and on Twitter — praising Saddam Hussein for his disregard for civil liberties,insisting the anti-Semitic propaganda he inadvertently borrowed from neo-Nazis is as innocent as a Disney poster — is to ponder the psychology of a party that would entrust supreme executive authority to a racist, nationalistic, power-worshiping demagogue."

"To be perfectly clear, Trump is not Hitler or a Nazi. Trump’s racism is not of the genocidal variety, and he is committed neither to a program of Darwinian racial conquest nor the principled imposition of one-party rule. If President Trump does start a world war, it would probably be as a result of blundering rather than a long-term master plan. But the two figures do have certain traits in common relative to the political environments they inhabit."

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/07/donald-trump-and-hitlers-rise-to-power.html?mid=twitter_nymag

Again, Chait is on the right track to even broach the subject of Hitler but what gives him this confidence that Trump's racism is not of the genocidal variety? What distinguishes 'genocidal racism' than non-genocidal racism?

The KKK and a number of other racist and anti Semitic groups endorse Trump and think he's 'mainstreaming' them. 

In what way do the beliefs of the KKK differ from genocidal racism?

Hitler didn't run on genocide either. It's not like he promised to kill 6 million Jews as a campaign pledge. No, in his campaign he tried to mainstream himself so as not to scare people too much. 

Actually, the very fact that Hitler was elected, he was not born Furher as part of some hereditary monarchy or hatched from the North Star, nor was he imposed by the military, should give us pause and remind us that vigilance here is required. He was democratically elected. 

There are some differences between Trump and Hitler, no doubt. Hitler was born at the end of the 19th century, Trump was born in 1946; Hitler had a mustache, Trump has orange hair. Trump grew up in Queens, Hitler in Germany. 

Hitler was a frustrated artist, Trump is an overrated real estate guy. So, yes, there are some differences. There are also some similarities. 

1. They both oppose 'bad trade deals.'

2. They also claim that their country has been 'humiliated' and the source of this humiliation are mostly unpopular minorities. Trump's always inveighing against Mexico, Japan, and China. Very rarely does he blame a white country. 

3. Hitler gave lots of speeches, Trump keeps a book of Hitler's speeches. 

4. A slight difference: Hitler focused more on Jews, Trump more on Muslims. But recently, Trump has done everything he can to spook American Jews by defending an anti Semitic use of the Star of David. 

Everyone says, 'Of course, he doesn't really mean it. He's just appealing to people who hate the Jews, He doesn't hate the Jews himself. He's son in law is Jewish.'

Sure, nothing ensures confidence more than 'Some of my best friends are Jewish.'

You can't say this and be an anti Semite, it's impossible. 

I'd argue that no one should give Trump the benefit of the doubt on anything, especially since he's done such a poor job of telling us what he plans to do as President and refuses to even release his tax returns as even Nixon did. 

Sure, one clear difference was that Hitler had the Nazi party behind him. So he had a lot more ability to do his worst. The Nazis already had over 100 seats in Parliament after 1930. 

A President Trump would arguably be more isolated. Though some of the things that he wants to do-like $12 trillion dollars of budget busting tax cuts-are areas of agreement with Paul Ryan. 

I'm not at all sure that a President Trump and Speaker Ryan wouldn't get that passed. 

On the Muslim ban, Ryan assures us, he'll sue Trump is he does it. Great, A lawsuit takes time. In the mean time, Trump would already be executing his ban. 

Former CIA director Michael Hayden says that the CIA would disobey some of Trump's worst orders like his vow to do 'Waterboarding and worse.'

So we're pinning our hopes that the CIA will effectively take over the country? We'll be just a free as your garden variety banana republic then, where the military has to take out a crazed dictatorial leader. 

Or, we can simply make sure Trump doesn't even get close. 

But assurances that he might not be so bad are not reassuring and shouldn't be.