Jewish author and screenwriter Shalom Auslander shot down
comparisons of United States President , Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler in a Washington
Post op-ed published recently, claiming that such comparisons
"belittle" Hitler.
Auslander, who was raised in the ultra-Orthodox community of
Monsey, New York, is the author of the memoir Foreskin's Lament and the creator
and writer of the Showtime series "Happyish."
Throughout the 2016 US presidential campaign various people
have made the Trump-Hitler comparison, including Mexican President Enrique Peña
Nieto, singer Cher, former ADL chief Abraham Foxman and right-wing pundit Glenn
Beck.
Auslander, who refers to himself as "a New York Writer
Liberal Jew, the scariest Jew of all," wrote in the Post op-ed that the
Trump-Hitler comparisons bother him "not because it belittles the deaths
of millions of innocents, but because, frankly, it belittles Adolf
Hitler."
According to Auslander, as deplorable as his actions were,
Hitler could not be knocked for not deeply believing in his racist theories.
Trump, on the other hand, does not hold deep convictions, the author argued.
"Hitler was a psychopath. Trump is just a con man.
Hitler had some opinions, he had some plans. They were monstrous and evil, and
reason enough for even an avowed atheist to consider the existence of Satan.
But I don’t recall Hitler flip-flopping. I don’t see him saying one morning,
'I’m going to invade Poland,' and then 'softening' his stance that afternoon
after meeting with Sean Hannity. He didn’t decide to kill the Jews, then change
his mind when his new campaign manager arrived," Auslander quipped.
He referred to Trump
as a "two-bit con man...playing the fools."
Auslander stressed that he was by no means praising Hitler.
"No. I’m saying that if you absolutely had to find just one thing to say
about Hitler that was positive — if you could somehow siphon out all the
festering, maggot-infested sewage that filled his soul to reveal one razor-thin
sliver to point to in his favor — you could possibly say, well, at least he
believed what he said...Which you can’t say about Donald Trump."
Source; JPOST.COM
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