It’s Official: With “Vermin,” Trump Is Now Using Straight-up Nazi Talk He’s telling us what he will do to his political enemies if he’s president again. Is anyone listening?

I feel pretty safe in saying that we can now stop giving him the benefit of that particular doubt. His use—twice; once on social media, and then repeated in a speech—of the word “vermin” to describe his political enemies cannot be an accident. That’s an unusual word choice. It’s not a smear that one just grabs out of the air. And it appears in history chiefly in one context, and one context only.

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        1 year ago

        What’s right and what happens are two different things. He is officially ineligible. That doesn’t mean he won’t physically be elected.

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            This is the same problem as a cross walk. You have the right of way, but the car will kill you. By the time a court rules on it you’ll be dead. What’s right and what’s real are two different things.

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        And bank robbery isn’t illegal unless you’re prosecuted, right?

        The previous person indicated that there is a clause in the constitution that would make him ineligible, not that anything had been done about it.