WND EXCLUSIVE

ACHTUNG! TRUMP AS TODAY'S HITLER CALLED 'RIDICULOUS'

'The comparison is laughable'

According to a motley coalition of celebrities, journalists and foreign political leaders, the front-runner for the Republican nomination is the equivalent of a Nazi.

Comedian Louis CK recently called Donald Trump “another Hitler.” The president of Mexico, Peña Nieto, compared Trump’s rhetoric to that of Hitler and Mussolini. Even “Saturday Night Live,” which Trump hosted earlier in the campaign, mocked Trump and his supporters as Nazis.

But one expert who has studied the rise of totalitarian movements calls the comparison utter nonsense.

“The comparison of Trump to Hitler is ridiculous,” Murray told WND. “Hitler was a utopian, a central planner, who, like Lenin, wanted to create a perfect society that would provide for all the needs of the people. Trump on the other hand is a businessman who doesn’t pay his bills. The comparison is laughable.”

Murray is the son of Madalyn Murray O’Hair, the atheist activist who filed a lawsuit on his behalf which effectively resulted in a ban on organized prayer in public schools. Murray chronicled his experience growing up in an atheistic, Marxist household and his eventual discovery of God in “My Life Without God.”

Now, Murray is analyzing how totalitarianism grows within a society in his new book, “Utopian Road to Hell: Enslaving America and the World With Central Planning.”

Murray told WND critics who see implicit totalitarianism in Donald Trump are missing what tyranny is all about. He argues it really arises from seemingly well-intentioned utopianism.

“In ‘Utopian Road to Hell,’ I define what central planning is about and what utopian society is about,” Murray said. “And it includes both the far right and the far left. In fact, there is no far right and far left. Though people think of National Socialism and fascism being far right and Communism being far left, that isn’t really true. Those are both centrally planned. Neither one of them involve free governments or freedom of the individual. It is all one thing, which is a centrally planned utopian thought.”

Trump has been accused of having his supporters “salute” him when he asks those who come to his rallies to raise their hand and promise to actually vote for him. Murray found the media hysteria over Trump’s supposed “salute” especially laughable.

“That comparison is also ridiculous,” he said. Murray noted during the first Republican debate candidates were told to raise their hands if they were not going to automatically endorse the winner of the primary. Murray called it a “bizarre comparison” to suggest raising one’s hand is equivalent to a Nazi salute.

Though Murray dismisses any concern Trump is somehow a “utopian,” he does see danger coming from another direction in the presidential race.

“The only people we have close coming to that in the presidential race are Bernie Sanders followed by Hillary Clinton,” Murray warned. “They believe they can set up some kind of central planning system in order to assure the supply of the needs of all people. Not the wants of all people, keep that in mind, but they believe they can supply what they deem to be the needs of all the people.”

Of course, it’s not just left-leaning journalists and activists who have accused Trump and his supporters of having similarities with the Nazis.

Glenn Beck called Trump voters “brownshirts” after the Republican frontrunner upstaged him at the Nevada caucuses.

Over the weekend, Beck upped the ante, explicitly comparing Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler during an appearance on ABC’s “This Week.” Beck previously called Trump a “psychopath.”

Ironically, Beck has been investigated by the Secret Service for supposedly threatening to stab Trump, though Beck claims the comments were simply a playful threat directed at the co-host on his radio show, not the candidate.

Murray says Beck is looking in the wrong direction.

“He needs to be criticizing or examining the people who are following the path to totalitarianism,” Murray told WND. “And the individuals that are following the path to totalitarianism are Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton in an attempt to create a utopian society in America through central planning that cannot be created. So Beck is making a horrible mistake. He is trying to associate an entrepreneur and somebody who wants free enterprise, and I think, old-fashioned, unrestrained capitalism, with fascism.

“In fact, we do have two individuals, one of whom could become president of the United States, who do want a centrally planned society. If somebody is going to lead us down the road to a totalitarian state, it isn’t going to be somebody who wants businesses to be able to run roughshod over everybody, it’s the ones that want to do the central planning.”

Trump himself denounced the comparison with the infamous German leader.

“I don’t know about the Hitler comparison,” he said on ABC’s “Good Morning America.” “I hadn’t heard that, but it’s a terrible comparison. I’m not happy about that certainly.”

But Murray slammed the media for its eagerness to spread the comparison while ignoring the troubling implications in the policies advocated by candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders.

“You have a media that’s coddling, and it coddles the Left,” said Murray. “I don’t know how many people Barack Obama has killed with drones, including U.S. citizens, I’m sure it numbers into the thousands. I know the vast majority of them have been civilians not combatants. His drone killing policy makes George W. Bush look like he didn’t even have one. And the media ignores it. If this were a Republican president, the front page of the New York Times and The Washington Post would just have the Republican president’s picture and the word ‘murderer’ underneath it.

“What I’m saying here is they are letting Hillary and letting Bernie off the hook by not pointing out that the central planning they propose to help the people inevitably leads to totalitarianism. They don’t even point out that they both want central planning, which they are both promoting!”

Murray specifically identified the Democrats’ policies for “free” college education and “free” health care as especially troubling. As he explained, such policies simply empower government bureaucrats to make choices about who gets access to these programs, instead of individuals who are willing to voluntarily pay for them.

“They talk about the benefits of these programs but not the totalitarian side that goes along with it,” he complained. “We are told we are going to get this ‘free,’ but what are we going to get free? We’re going to get the medicine that Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton dictates that we get. We’re going to get it when they say we need it, not when we say we need it or our doctor thinks we need it, etc. So the press is ignoring the central planning side of this entirely.”

Murray encourages conservatives to ignore the flippant comparisons of Trump to Nazis and to understand the deeper roots, and dangers, of totalitarianism.

“In an election year, I think my book ‘Utopian Road to Hell’ is extremely important for people to read,” he told WND. “They have to understand where these ideas of a centrally planned society that tries to supply the needs of all the people will lead. In my book is the history of central planning from ancient Greece to today. The population of this nation need to understand what the alternatives are right now.”

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2016/03/achtung-trump-as-todays-hitler-called-ridiculous/#xPQFFJ73GmHZsAFu.99

My comments: The distinguishing mark of Totalitarianism is God Hating. Obama, Hillary, Bernie and the Democrats are God Haters because God tells them that what they do is Evil. (John 7:7) They are Persecutors of Christians and Promoters of that which is against God and His Word, like Abortion, Homosexuality, Same-Sex Marriage and Transgenderism.