According to Crain’s Chicago Business, on Tuesday night former President Obama compared the era of President Trump to Adolf Hitler’s.
Greg Hinz, writing for Crain’s, said Obama spoke in a Q&A session before the Economic Club of Chicago, back in his home town. Hinz wrote that Obama resorted to the usual leftist rhetoric, intoning that the United States has survived tough times before, referencing Joseph McCarthy and former President Richard Nixon. Then he segued to the need for a free press in order to ensure the country’s survival, saying that he had difficulties with the press, as has Trump, but what he himself understood was “the principle that the free press was vital.”
Hinz wrote that Obama continued that the danger is “grow(ing) complacent. We have to tend to this garden of democracy or else things could fall apart quickly.”
Hinz then reached the crux of the matter:
“That’s what happened in Germany in the 1930s, which, despite the democracy of the Weimar Republic and centuries of high-level cultural and scientific achievements, Adolph Hitler rose to dominate,” Obama noted. “Sixty million people died. . . .So, you’ve got to pay attention. And vote.”
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