Dump the Trump

Having lived through the demagoguery of George Wallace, Joe McCarthy, and, worst of all, Adolph Hitler, I know a demagogue when I hear one.  I can remember as a child being frightened when someone even said the name "Hitler."  James Whitcomb Riley once said, "When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck."  I don't know about the walking and swimming, but Donald Trump definitely quacks like a demagogue.  And he sounds eerily similar to Hitler.  So I find it extremely scary that the latest results show that nearly half of Republicans are rapidly turning into Nazis by swallowing his nonsense.  The rest of the world is watching, and those outside the US definitely are not amused.  He is doing unmitigated harm to this country's reputation.  The crowd of hate-filled ignoramuses supporting him is doing its best to make it embarrassing to be an American.  Once again we are seeing proof of Edmund Burke's famous statement "Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it."  Must we once again go through what we were subjected to during the Hitler years?  The path Trump is following is a far too familiar one.