He’s telling us what he will do to his political enemies if he’s president again. Is anyone listening?

It’s Official: With “Vermin,” Trump Is Now Using Straight-up Nazi Talk He’s telling us what he will do to his political enemies if he’s president again. Is anyone listening?

I feel pretty safe in saying that we can now stop giving him the benefit of that particular doubt. His use—twice; once on social media, and then repeated in a speech—of the word “vermin” to describe his political enemies cannot be an accident. That’s an unusual word choice. It’s not a smear that one just grabs out of the air. And it appears in history chiefly in one context, and one context only.

  • Captain_Patchy@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    1 year ago

    You can’t call to exterminate People, you CAN call to exterminate vermin.

    Does the fact that hitler called the jews vermin clear up anything for you?

    • Mango@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      I’m sure he used all kinds of insults. That doesn’t give him a monopoly on language.