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It’s Official: With “Vermin,” Trump Is Now Using Straight-up Nazi Talk
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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?

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by Michael Tomasky

We’ve all often wondered whether Donald Trump understands the historical import of what comes out of his mouth. He’s so ill-informed, so proudly ignorant, that it’s easy to think that when he hurls a historical insult, he just doesn’t know.

I feel pretty safe in saying that we can now stop giving him the…

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