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I met a Lyft driver from Stockton on Friday who drives 2 hrs to work all night in Oakland so she can support her family, on top of her job.

You fight vampires with garlic. You fight fascists with prosperity and meaningful jobs for the middle and working class.

The way to defeat opportunists like Trump is to make sure people aren't desperate enough to vote for him in the first place.

Trump is an aftershock of the financial crisis. The effects could have been dampened with real social infrastructure and protections.

Trump's racist scapegoating of immigrants is absolutely a descendant of Hitler placing blame for poverty on the Jewish population.

Trump isn't Hitler. But he could be. And not providing infrastructure for the millions of people in poverty leaves that door wide open.

Imagine living in poverty and not having your existence even acknowledged by the government in public. I would be furious.

America's population of people living in actual poverty with little social support, who don't feel listened to, is bait for a demagogue.

Comparing Trump to Hitler does a disservice to the 12 million+ people who died as a result of that man's regime.

In the aftermath of the Treaty of Versailles, and a global economic crunch, a German politician attracted support using a similar approach.

@intelekshual Most aren't, of course. But many people are desperate, and the stats do indicate it is a factor.

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