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Trump’s diatribes echo dangerous time in history

Supporters of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump take photos of his plane as it taxies to a hangar for a planeside rally at Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport in Vienna, Ohio on Monday, March 14, 2016.
Supporters of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump take photos of his plane as it taxies to a hangar for a planeside rally at Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport in Vienna, Ohio on Monday, March 14, 2016. AP

Mr. Donald Trump is not just a narcissistic egotist — he’s worse! His diatribes against Muslims sound surprisingly like German propaganda against Jews in the 1930s. His calls for more severe torture than waterboarding and calls for violence against protesters echo the brownshirts. The arm-raised salute he calls for almost tempts a “Sieg Heil.”

He, like his fellow candidates, is enamored of the military and wants to spend more on it — our poor, beleaguered military that has to eke by on more money than is spent on armies by the next eight largest countries combined.

Neither Trump nor any of his opponents seem to have gotten the message from President Dwight Eisenhower about the threat to us by the military-industrial complex. No politician will call for restraint on military spending, even to lessen deficits. They are all afraid of being accused of being soft on defense. Trump is the worst of the lot.

If Trump had to be put into a fitting political category, he would be called, rightly, a neo-fascist!

Jim Duenow, San Luis Obispo

This story was originally published March 15, 2016 at 8:36 PM with the headline "Trump’s diatribes echo dangerous time in history."

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