Trump’s Nationalist America is no different than Hitler’s Nazi Germany
Donald Trump’s goal of rebranding the Republican Party and destroying conservatism in order to build a Nationalist America began the day he first rode down the Trump Tower escalator in 2015, and in the aftermath of the 2026 election, it looks like he succeeded. Yet, even as MAGA and the faux conservative media continue singing the praises of their mango messiah as they defend his “Mission Accomplished” moment, the reality is that America moved ever closer to becoming a nation that bears a striking resemblance to Hitler’s Nazi Germany.
One area where this has been glaringly obvious is Trump’s immigration policies, as we witnessed in a FOX News interview with his deputy chief of staff in charge of immigration policy, Stephen Miller, that focused on immigration. Sounding for all the world like a Nazi discussing the Jews, Miller declared that people from certain “failing” nations shouldn’t be permitted to immigrate into America because they would “replicate” that failure and bring the country down (via Raw Story):
White House adviser Stephen Miller erupted on Fox News in a furious rant claiming that entire generations of immigrants and their descendants “fail” in America, singling out Somali immigrants as he shouted about crime, welfare, and “replicating” supposedly failing societies in the U.S.
Miller declared that post-1965 immigration was the “largest experiment” ever inflicted on a civilization and blamed immigrants for everything from test scores to public policy challenges, escalating into a full-blown meltdown as he insisted the country would “replicate the conditions” of nations he labeled [as] failures. (Emphasis mine)
So, how does this make Miller (and by default, Trump) no different than the Nazis? Adolf Hitler provides the answer in the excerpt from his book, Mein Kampf :
Since the inferior always outnumber the superior, the former would always increase more rapidly if they possessed the same capacities for survival and for the procreation of their kind; and the final consequence would be that the best in quality would be forced to recede into the background. Therefore a corrective measure in favour of the better quality must intervene. Nature supplies this by establishing rigorous conditions of life to which the weaker will have to submit and will thereby be numerically restricted; but even that portion which survives cannot indiscriminately multiply, for here a new and rigorous selection takes place, according to strength and health.
If Nature does not wish that weaker individuals should mate with the stronger, she wishes even less that a superior race should intermingle with an inferior one; because in such a case all her efforts, throughout hundreds of thousands of years, to establish an evolutionary higher stage of being, may thus be rendered futile. ~ Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, Chapter 11, “Race and People.”
For those ready to ignore this as an isolated incident, let me remind you that Trump’s America First nationalism is rooted in racism and xenophobia. This fact reared its orange head during his 2020 reelection campaign when Trump told four Democrat women-of-color in Congress to “go back” to the “broken and crime-infested places from which they came.” After initially taking some heat for his obviously racist comments, Trump doubled down on racism and committed himself to continue the fight against the group he refers to “the squad” because in his mind he was “winning” the battle.
Days later at a North Carolina campaign rally, the army of followers Trump says would support him even if he murdered someone on Fifth Avenue embraced these racist taunts, shouting “send her back” when he mentioned the so-called “vicious” anti-America behavior of Rep. Ilhan Omar, a woman of Somali descent.
Racism and xenophobia have been proven to be foundational to America First nationalism. During the inaugural meeting of the National Conservatism Conference held in Washington, DC in 2019, a panel on immigration featuring University of Pennsylvania professor Amy Wax advocated that America would be better off with fewer “non-whites” from “less-advanced countries.”
The racism and xenophobia we see in Trump’s Nationalist America is reprehensible, but equally reprehensible are the similarities shared by America’s religious “leaders” and those of Nazi Germany and the role each played to facilitate the rise of their respective leaders. It has long been my contention that the spiritual condition of the 21st century church closely resembles that of 1930s Germany and as a result, we are witnessing the rise of a Hitler-like leader.
Church leaders 1930s Germany saw many things in Adolf Hitler that bothered them, but nothing that bothered them enough to risk losing their comfortable existence. Today’s Evangelical often mention things about Trump’s behavior and policies that bother them, but nothing that bothers them enough to risk losing their political power.
For the MAGA crowd ready to dismiss my conclusions concerning the parallels between Trump’s Nationalist America and Hitler’s Nazi Germany and the racist/xenophobic policies they have in common, let me share a statement made by Trump last year at a rally in Pennsylvania (via Newsweek):
Speaking in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday, Trump called Somalia “filthy” and “disgusting,” disparaged Afghanistan and asked why immigrants to the U.S. couldn’t come from Norway, Sweden or Denmark.
Trump’s wide-ranging speech to the GOP faithful in north-eastern Pennsylvania on Tuesday included boasts about the economy, the effectiveness of his tariffs and immigration.
On the latter, Trump said he had announced a permanent pause “on third-world migration—including from hellholes like Afghanistan, Haiti, Somalia, and many other countries.”
Trump asked why there could not be some people from Norway, Sweden, Denmark, adding, “send us some nice people, do you mind?”
This is a reprise of reported comments by Trump in 2018 at that Oval Office meeting in which he had allegedly asked why there could not be more immigrants from Norway.
Trump also said on Tuesday that the U.S. always takes people from Somalia, and places that are “a disaster” in the speech in which he mocked Representative Ilhan Omar, a Minnesota Democrat who was born in Somalia. (Emphasis mine)
So, Trump wants to ban people of color from “disaster” countries but he’s A-OK with white Europeans. Got it!
MAGA and the rest of the cult hate it when Trump’s Nationalist America is proven to be racist and no different than Hitler’s Nazi Germany, and to that I offer something I learned growing up . . . you’re entitled to your feelings, but that doesn’t change the facts.
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