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Robert Danisch, Professor, Department of Communication Arts, University of Waterloo

The media must stop enabling Trump's attention-seeking use of fascist rhetoric

Donald Trump is campaigning for the presidency of the United States the same way that Adolf Hitler in Germany and Benito Mussolini in Italy campaigned almost 100 years ago.

Trump recently travelled to New Hampshire and delivered a speech that included a pledge to “root out the communists, Marxists, fascists and the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country that lie and steal and cheat on elections.”

This was just the latest in a long string of Trump’s dehumanizing, violent rhetoric.

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