Is Trump the new Hitler? Will we one day look at Trump like we do now? Hitler, as terrible as he was, was quite ingenious in adopting the swastika, “cults of light,” to connect to the people. But the only reason he went Christian in ‘Mein Kampf’ was because he knew that was the path to propagate his ideals of Nationalism and, of course, himself. Trump doesn't have the smarts of Hitler, but he's enough of a con man to pretend to be. It's fascinating to watch, if not bone-chilling.