So, Good evening. It's Monday, May 29th. Happy Memorial Day and welcome to a new

episode of System Update, our live nightly show,

that there's every Monday through Friday

at 7 PM Eastern exclusively here on Rumbull,

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Tonight, was Hitler really so bad after all? That seems to be the question

being continuously posed at least implicitly, sometimes explicitly, by the US corporate media.

Ever since Trump's presidential campaign began to be viable in early 2016,

equating Trump to Hitler has become increasingly common even obligatory.

Despite the small fact that Trump has never actually done nor advocated

any of the things that have made us understand Hitler to be a singularly evil historical actor,

things like attempting to exterminate entire races of people, to eliminating any forms of even

minimal dissent, to launching an aggressive war of

conquest that led to the Second World War, the deaths of tens of millions of

people, indiscriminate air bombing of civilians in large metropolitan areas and ultimately little

things that are Hitler's Signatures Act and ultimately the use of the first

nuclear weapons in Japan those are little things that are Hitler's signatures

acts that Trump never stated or implied that he favored, let alone actually did

during four years in power. Nonetheless, that Trump is literally Hitler became a very common

theme in the most mainstream sectors of liberal corporate media, far more than I actually even

recalled as I realized when we prepared the material for this evening's program.

The tactical problem for the media in branding Trump, a white supremacist, and then a fascist, and even the new Hitler, was obvious at the time.

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