Trump following Mussolini, and Hitler: Analyst

The wall on the Mexican border US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is talking about shows that he is following in the footsteps of Benito Mussolini, and Adolf Hitler, an investigative journalist and activist in Washington says.

Susanne Posel, chief editor of Occupy Corporatism and US Independent, made the remarks in a phone interview with Press TV on Saturday, after Trump reiterated his vow to build a wall along the US-Mexican border in a bid to stop illegal immigration and drug trafficking.

"We are going to build a great border wall to stop illegal immigration, to stop the gangs and the violence, and to stop the drugs from pouring into our communities," Trump said in the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, on Thursday.

The Republican presidential nominee has already stated that Mexico sends “criminals” and “rapists” across the border and that he will force the neighboring government to pay for the giant wall to keep illegal migrants out.

Trump's proposal of the construction of a 2,000-mile wall on the US-Mexico border has been met with strong criticism both at home and abroad.

Posel said  whether or not Trump builds the border wall “is irrelevant at this point because of the ideology that’s proposing that Americans need to wall themselves up, that Americans need to make America great again by making it America again which to this specific group of people he is talking to mean make America white again.”

 “The scary part about it is [that it is] not so much about immigration which is obviously a concern. America is melting pot of immigrants. The idea that the immigration needs to be demonized through Mexicans or Hispanics is simply because they are a lot more of them in this country, and Republicans can’t bank on the black vote obviously when they say blue, white matter, and black, white don’t,” she added.

“The Latino vote is very important to them, and at the same time this man opens his declaration that he is running for president by saying that Mexicans are rapists and criminals,” she stated.

“The border wall… he is talking to represents the same thing that nationalists, populists have used throughout time immemorial… in recent years Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin,” the analyst noted.

“The idea that the country needs to be contained, the infection is because of the ‘others’ that don’t follow in line anymore, we need to be 1953 again – we have to remember that Donald Trump was born just after the World War TWO ended, and he is part of the silent generation.  When he was a kid everything was black and white literally…the television was black and white. Black people knew their place. And every other minority knew their place – that’s the idea behind the wall,” she pointed out.

“The wall is walling out the entire world and all of the progress we have been doing not just in our country but throughout the globe as for as right of the people to just basically live and be able to live, and have the opportunity to be successful,” she observed. 

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