This is The Face of Trump's America

"Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it."

-George Santayana.

Yesterday, I went to the Museum of Jewish Heritage Museum, and the similarities of what happened then and what is happening now was not lost on me. A frightened, insecure, child of immigrants somehow convinced a large portion of the voting public that all of their problems could be traced back to immigrants coming into the country. WHAT? Are you kidding me? Somehow the hypocrisy of these men was lost on their respective constituents. Yes, I am making a Trump/Hitler comparison and no I am not sorry for it. I am certain that this piece will lose me friends/fans/work but it needs to be said. The things that Trump has said in regards to Charlottesville and what is happening there is not just racist, it shows his true colors and I don't mean that orange, cheetah dust on his skin.

Full disclosure, I have been anti-Trump since the first season of The Apprentice. There was just something about him that rubbed me the wrong way. When he announced his candidacy, I wrote it off as him angling for a new talk show, where he could have a steady source of income coming in. The minute he got the nomination, I started celebrating Hillary's win. As the results started coming in, I realized I spent too much on celebrating and didn't do enough to ensure her victory.

With that out of the way, Trump has never hid his -isms. Sexism. Racism. He wore them like a badge, he made sure that we all knew that if you weren't a rich, white, straight man, you should have no say in how the country is born. Don't believe me, look at the birther movement he was the face of with President Obama or how he degraded and belittled Hillary Clinton. To say that this person (my friend Justin has warned me against calling him a man) is not racist means you are blind, deaf, or just plain racist/sexist yourself.

As if this administration wasn't enough of a mess, over the weekend the Charlottesville White Supremacist Nazis decided to show their white pride by beating a black man and expressing that they thought they were the superior race. Sounding familiar? Instead of condemning these actions and calling them terrorists, which they are, Trump decided to try and place the blame everywhere but on those that support him. Nearly every other republican including Ted Cruz, who called for an investigation from the Department of Justice into this incident, and Marco Rubio, who flat out called these scum of our society out for what they were, condemned the actions of these people. Not Trump though. Nope, it was "both sides." Bullshit. It was a group of Nazi, white supremacists who supported him. This has shades of when he wouldn't denounce the endorsement of David Duke, because he didn't know who he was.

One of the things that I learned from the museum yesterday was that Hitler spread lies instead of information. If you ever feel like punishing yourself, go read Trump's Twitter. He lies so much, I'm pretty sure that he lives in another dimension. What's sadder is that his followers lap up what he says without asking a single question. WTF? When everything blew up for Hitler, he wasn't there to aid the people who helped him commit the atrocities or clean up the mess for those who supported him. The same will be true of Trump because unless you are him, he does not give a damn about you.

In these scary times, we need to stand up for what is right. We also need to condemn those that are wrong. White supremacy, Nazism, Trump is wrong. Racism, sexism, homophobia are wrong. Trump is wrong.