Journalists and political commentators responded on social media to an article from The Atlantic comparing former President Trump to numerous fascist dictators, including Adolf Hitler.
The Atlantic article, titled, “Trump Is Talking Like Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini,” was published Friday.
“The former president has brought inhumane language to American presidential politics,” argued Atlantic writer Anne Applebaum.
“When you spend 8 years calling a person every bad name you can think of – including Hitler – only to find it’s not working, so you decide in desperation that the only thing left to do is call him with bad names immediately. Freelance journalist Glenn Greenwald wrote in X in response to the scathing headline.
RealClearPolitics co-founder and president Tom Bevan scoffed at the over-the-top nature of the headline, saying, “The Atlantic with a trio.”
Margot Cleveland, senior legal correspondent for The Federalist, responded, “When Hitler isn’t bad enough!”
Atlantic national editor Scott Stossel praised Applebaum for her piece on Trump’s rhetoric.
“My colleague [Applebaum] knows as much as anyone about the history of authoritarian regimes. When she says that Trump has started using the language of Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini on purpose, pay attention.”
Applebaum called Trump’s political rhetoric “ugly and disgusting” in her op-ed.
“These words belong to a special tradition. Adolf Hitler used these kinds of terms often, “Applebaum.
“In 1938, he praised his countrymen who had helped to ‘cleanse Germany of all those parasites who drank from the well of despair of the Fatherland and the People,'” she continued.
“In occupied Warsaw, a 1941 poster featured a drawing of a louse with a caricature of a Jewish face. Slogan: ‘Jews are lice: they cause typhus.’ The Germans, on the contrary, were pure, clean, healthy and free from parasites. Hitler once described the Nazi flag as “the victorious sign of freedom and the purity of our blood,” Applebaum wrote.
The Trump campaign responded to The Atlantic’s article in a statement to Fox News Digital.
“More fake news from a third-rate media outlet,” wrote Trump spokesman Steven Cheung.
“The fact is that Kamala Harris, the Democrats and their media enablers are the ones who are going crazy encouraging those who threaten President Trump’s security. There have been two horrific assassination attempts on President Trump, and their violent rhetoric is directly to blame. Their outright lies and weaponization of the justice system to perpetuate countless witch hunt frauds against President Trump have been nothing short of despicable and despicable. If the Democrats and Kamala Harris don’t come out and apologize for their hateful rhetoric and tone down their attacks that have fanned the flames of violence, they are explicitly advocating and inciting more bloodshed against President Trump.
“The only people trying to take political advantage of the assassination attempt are Democrats who continue to use loaded and dangerous rhetoric that has emboldened those who threaten President Trump’s security,” Cheung added.
The Atlantic did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.
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