RT-Engels: 20-10-2024,
The magazine’s staff writer Anne Applebaum has claimed the former US president is copying the rhetoric of most notorious dictators
The Atlantic magazine has been ridiculed for publishing an op-ed comparing former US President Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin, and Benito Mussolini. The piece’s author, Anne Applebaum, has long been accused of pushing propaganda for US intelligence agencies.
Published on Friday, the article’s headline declares that “Trump Is Speaking Like Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini.” In the subsequent paragraphs, Applebaum argues that by calling his opponents “vermin,” and referring to criminal illegal immigrants as “animals,” Trump has “brought dehumanizing language into American presidential politics.”
Trump is “cynically” borrowing language from not just Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini, Applebaum argues, but also Mao Zedong and Pol Pot.
“In using this language, Trump knows exactly what he is doing. He understands which era and what kind of politics this language evokes,” Applebaum claims.
The Trump campaign dismissed the article as “more fake news by a third-rate media outlet” and it was roundly mocked by pro-Trump and independent commenters online.
”When you spend 8 years calling a person every bad name you can think of – including Hitler – only to see that it’s not working, so you desperately decide the only thing left for you to do is call him all the bad names at once,” American journalist Glenn Greenwald jeered on X.