Atlantic article comparing Trump to ‘Hitler, Stalin’ sparks criticism online from journalists, pundits [Video]

Journalists and political commentators responded on social media to an article from The Atlantic comparing former President Trump to multiple fascist dictators, including Adolf Hitler. 

The Atlantic article, headlined, “Trump Is Speaking Like Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini” was published Friday. “The former president has brought dehumanizing language into American presidential politics,” Atlantic writer Anne Applebaum argued. 

“When you spend 8 years calling a person every bad name you can think of — including Hitler — only to see that it’s not working, so you desperately decide the only thing left for you to do is call him all the bad names at once,” independent journalist Glenn Greenwald wrote on X in response to the harsh headline. 

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RealClearPolitics co-founder and president Tom Bevan mocked the over-the-top nature of the headline, saying, “The Atlantic with a threefer.”

Margot Cleveland, senior legal correspondent for The Federalist, responded, “When Hitler isn’t bad enough!”

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