I was thinking more specifically about Marxism and Islam but Hitler did not rise to power by promising to eliminate everyone but the Ayrians. His was a promise of a return of Germany to a position of prominence in the world. He then turned that, like most tyrants do, into something else. Tyrants need an enemy on which to focus the public’s attention. He turned on the Jews and this article says he felt the same about the Arabs.
He may have had that idea all along but that was not the utopian idea he sold to the public.
Being an idealist excuses nothing.
Hitler was an “idealist”. He was also a socialist, an animal rights advocate, a vegetarian, a teatotaller, an antichristian who espoused a preverse, self-serving form of Christianity, a non-smoker, a drug abuser, a hypochondriac, an avid of follower of unconventional medicine, childishly sentimental, a dilettante and a sexual deviant. He was enthralled by a superficial and superstitious naturalism. He was a technical illiterate fascinated by the fruits of technology he never really understood and upon which he made sweeping generalizations and pronouncements, while loathing and envying its creators. If he were alive today and living in Wisconsin, he’d be on the liberal arts faculty of a third rate community college and a Democratic Party activist
“His was a promise of a return of Germany to a position of prominence in the world. He then turned that, like most tyrants do, into something else.”
An eerie but exact parallel to BHO’s campaign rhetoric that led millions to grant him the power to perpetrate the current horror in which we now find ourselves.