A common talking point from today’s left is to compare Trump with Hitler, claiming he is following the same policies and that law enforcement is just the modern-day Gestapo. If you examine the policies of 1930s National Socialist Germany, you can readily see the comparison. Too much of the focus has been on 1940s Germany and its wartime policies without looking at how they got to that point. These points are primarily based on Hitler’s two May Day, 1934 speeches.
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Hitler implemented a single-payer healthcare system, as healthcare was too important to leave to the private sector.
Hitler implemented the strongest gun control laws in Western society. He didn’t want the tragedy of school shootings.
No person was more dedicated to preventing misinformation and disinformation. He implemented the Joseph Goebbels-led Ministry of Truth to ensure that only the truth, as officially certified by the government, was allowed. It was just like Trump’s Disinformation Governance Board (oh wait, that was Mayorkas).
The government took over the energy sector to ensure fossil fuels weren’t misused. In an early move to combat global warming, all private transportation was eventually outlawed, though this was in support of the war effort.
Hitler made sure everyone had outstanding jobs. One of the reasons Hitler was Time Magazine’s man of the year was that, in the middle of a worldwide Great Depression, Germany had full employment. Those without good government jobs, such as in the military, were able to get good manufacturing jobs in government-sponsored industries, such as weapons production.
Hitler was very pro-labor union as he integrated the trade unions into the National Socialist party. You can’t have a bigger seat at the table than being directly part of the ruling government.
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Hitler integrated every school in Germany, public and private, as part of his Department of Education equivalent. Uniformity in education was very important to him, as was ensuring students weren’t exposed to disinformation from capitalists and bankers.
Hitler created the government-owned “People’s Car Company” to compete with the big corporate auto makers. West Germany privatized the company in 1961. Volkswagen has done better as a privately owned company.
All economic output was centrally planned through the government’s four-year plans. Private industries and enterprises which did not follow the plan could have their assets confiscated.
These programs were financed by taxing the rich, making them “pay their fair share” and confiscating their assets. It wasn’t just wealthy Jewish bankers that were taxed to oblivion; it was the former German aristocracy that had their assets seized.
Hitler spoke thousands of times against the evils of capitalism and how the capitalist countries would be destroyed in their own excesses. Trump has also spoken out against the oligarchy and the excesses of capitalism (my mistake again, that’s Bernie Sanders). Hitler emphasized repeatedly that he was a socialist.
Revisionists have long argued that National Socialist Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, because they had competing territorial ambitions, were on opposite sides of the political spectrum. They were not. They were both for totalitarian government control using the same methodology, as does today’s Democratic Socialists of America.
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