ItРІР‚в„ўs a toxic mixture that has destroyed democracies before, and can do so again. When you confront the reality of a president like Trump, the state of both sets of brakes-internal and external -become hugely important because Donald TrumpРІР‚в„ўs political train runs on the most potent and dangerous fuel of all: a steady diet of fear, greed, loathing, lies, and envy. Many recent presidents have been awful, РІР‚СљBut then there was Donald Trump, the only president in recent American history to openly despise the twin ideals-individual dignity and fundamental equality-upon which the contemporary United States is built. HereРІР‚в„ўs how Neuborne introduces this section. But the Trump-Hitler compilation is a stunning warning, because, as many Holocaust survivors have said, few Germans or Europeans expected what unfolded in the years after Hitler amassed power. Indeed, the book has a larger frame: whether federal checks and balances-Congress, the Supreme Court, the Electoral College-can contain the havoc that Trump thrives on and the Republican Party at large has embraced. The author repeatedly says his goal is not РІР‚СљequatingРІР‚Сњ the men-as РІР‚Сљit trivializes HitlerРІР‚в„ўs obscene crimes to compare them to TrumpРІР‚в„ўs often pathetic foibles.РІР‚Сњ Many Americans may seize or condemn NeuborneРІР‚в„ўs analysis, which has more than 20 major points of comparison. Much of TrumpРІР‚в„ўs rhetoric-as a candidate and in office-mirrors the strategies, even the language, used by Adolf Hitler in the early 1930s to erode German democracy.РІР‚Сњ РІР‚СљYou see, weРІР‚в„ўve seen what these rhetorical techniques can do. РІР‚СљWatching Trump work his crowds, though, I see a dangerously manipulative narcissist unleashing the demagogic spells that he learned from studying HitlerРІР‚в„ўs speeches-spells that he cannot control and that are capable of eroding the fabric of American democracy,РІР‚Сњ Neuborne says. РІР‚СљUgly and appalling as they are, those speeches are masterpieces of demagogic manipulation,РІР‚Сњ Neuborne says. The English edition of My New Order, published in 1941, also had analyses of the speechesРІР‚в„ў impact on his eraРІР‚в„ўs press and politics. I never sensed that the very existence of a tolerant democracy was in play.РІР‚СњР”Р„ younger Trump, according to his first wifeРІР‚в„ўs divorce filings, kept and studied a book translating and annotating Adolf HitlerРІР‚в„ўs pre-World War II speeches in a locked bedside cabinet, Neuborne noted. But I never felt a sense of existential dread. I opposed each of them when they appeared to exceed their constitutional powers. Bill ClintonРІР‚в„ўs mistreatment of women dishonored his office. But thatРІР‚в„ўs not enough to explain the intensity of my dread. Trump is such a coarse and appalling man that itРІР‚в„ўs hard to stomach his presence in Abraham LincolnРІР‚в„ўs house. РІР‚СљWhy does an ignorant, narcissistic buffoon like Trump trigger such anxiety? Why do so many Americans feel it existentially (not just politically) important to resist our forty-fifth president?РІР‚Сњ he writes.

He has been part of more than 200 Supreme Court cases and Holocaust reparation litigation. He was founding legal director of the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University Law School in the 1990s.

He became the ACLUРІР‚в„ўs national legal director in the 1980s under Ronald Reagan. His 55-year career began by challenging the constitutionality of the Vietnam War in the 1960s. Neuborne doesnРІР‚в„ўt make this comparison lightly. However, its second chapter, РІР‚СљWhy the Sudden Concern About Fixing the Brakes?,РІР‚Сњ extensively details TrumpРІР‚в„ўs mimicry of HitlerРІР‚в„ўs pre-war rhetoric and strategies. In When at Times the Mob Is Swayed: A CitizenРІР‚в„ўs Guide to Defending Our Republic, Burt Neuborne mostly focuses on how AmericaРІР‚в„ўs constitutional foundation in 2019-an unrepresentative Congress, the Electoral College and a right-wing Supreme Court majority-is not positioned to withstand TrumpРІР‚в„ўs extreme polarization and GOP power grabs. A new book by one of the nationРІР‚в„ўs foremost civil liberties lawyers powerfully describes how AmericaРІР‚в„ўs constitutional checks and balances are being pushed to the brink by a president who is consciously following Adolf HitlerРІР‚в„ўs extremist propaganda and policy template from the early 1930s-when the Nazis took power in Germany.

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