The mission creep of hate: Trump's dehumanization targets beyond immigrants

Donald Trump and his surrogates are continuing to channel and amplify Nazism and Adolf Hitler , says Julian Zelizer .

Zelizer: This is not random or happenstance. It is part of a strategy. “Feral politics” made even more explosive and toxic by adding blatant white supremacy, racism, and antisemitism.

Trump has explicitly used such language, describing nonwhite migrants as human vermin and “poison” in the “blood” of the nation.

Frida Ghitis: Donald Trump's anti-immigrant foment reminds me of Hitler ’s anti-foreigner rhetoric.

She says Trump 's language evocative of that used to justify the lynchings and extrajudicial murders of Black men.

Ghitis says Hitler 's rhetoric evoked that of lynching, extrajudicial murder of thousands of black men during the 19th and 20th century .

Sharon Nazarian : Donald Trump has given into his darkest and most dangerous tendencies showing everyone in America his intentions to dehumanize, bully, and endanger anyone and everyone who stands between him and the Presidency.

Nazarian says the stakes of the 2024 election are truly existential for American democracy and freedom.

Trump and his surrogates are only going to increase their channeling and amplification of the Nazis and Hitler .