Trump Is Speaking Like Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini — The Atlantic

The former president has brought dehumanizing language into American presidential politics. October 18, 2024 To support The Atlantic’s journalism, please consider subscribing today. Rhetoric has a history. The words democracy and tyranny were debated in ancient Greece; the phrase separation of powers became important in the 17th and 18th centuries. The word vermin, as a political term, dates from the 1930s and ’40s, when both fascists and communists liked to describe their political enemies as