(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Donald Trump was likened to Adolf Hitler so many times before and during his presidency that it inspired a cottage industry of online memes to mock the trite comparison.
But in 2023, Hillary Clinton is still playing the role of the stereotypical Trump-deranged liberal. During her Wednesday appearance on The View, Clinton again compared Germany’s genocidal dictator to Trump—the only American president in the 21st century to not embroil the country in a new war.
“I think he would be even worse now because he was somewhat restrained, believe it or not, in the first term, by people who he hired because he thought they would go along with him, and they stood up to him. And so now he’s going to—if he were ever near the Oval Office again—find people who have no principles, no conscience, who are totally tied to his fortune,” Clinton said.
“Hitler was duly elected, right? And so, all of a sudden, somebody with those tendencies, the dictatorial, authoritarian tendencies, would be like ‘oh OK, we’re going to shut this down, we’re going to throw these people in jail,’ and they didn’t usually telegraph that. Trump is telling us what he intends to do,” she later said.
None of The View members noted the irony that Clinton currently voices full-throated support for a president currently doing the same anti-democratic things as Hitler: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Indeed, Zelenskyy announced in June that he’s suspending elections in his country, citing the ongoing war against Russia. That move followed him nationalizing the media and banning 11 opposition parties.
Zelenskyy reiterated Monday that holding new elections in the middle of the ongoing conflict with Russia would be “utterly irresponsible.”
“We need to recognize that this is a time for defense, a time for battle, upon which the fate of the state and its people depend,” he said, according to Voice of America. “I believe that elections are not appropriate at this time.”
A second translation of Zelenskyy’s remarks by the South China Morning Post alleged that he said, “I believe that now is not the time for elections.”
Ken Silva is a staff writer at Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/jd_cashless.
