The Nazis were devoted to science, particularly to a misreading of Darwin's theory of natural selection. They--and many educated people in the 1920s--believed that evolution had produced a superior race in Germany, Britain, etc.
Not content to let natural selection slowly prove them right or wrong, the Nazis set out to hurry the elimination of lesser humans by murdering them.
A hundred years ago, America's racism and eugenics were openly admired by Hitler.
In 1776 many of the Founding Fathers understood that slavery was an abomination and wrote to that effect in private letters (Washington, Franklin, Adams, Jefferson, Hamilton). It also seemed obvious to the Founders that people of color were inferior in intelligence, morality and creativity, despite evidence to the contrary.
Decades later, Thaddeus Stevens was openly living with a black woman and Clarence King had secretly married one. Beliefs slowly changed. Yet we now have Trump commanding our stage, intent on making America white again, fending off the immigrants we need to keep our system going.
Trump's argument is that in countries of color, the governments have culled their worst genetic stock and sent it to our borders to join us and weaken us. He projects his mental illness in all directions. The man is mad.
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