Opinion Trump is like this fascist dictator -- it isn't Hitler

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Published The Conversation- Commentary
Published January 31, 2026 2:00 PM ET

By Rachelle Wilson Tollemar, Adjunct Professor of Spanish, University of St. Thomas.

Minneapolis residents say they feel besieged under what some are calling a fascist occupation. Thousands of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have been swarming a city whose vast majority in 2024 did not vote for Donald Trump — or for a paramilitary roundup of its diverse population.

Tragically, two residents have been killed by federal agents. Consequently, social media is aflame with comparisons of Trump’s immigration enforcers to Hitler’s Gestapo.

While comparisons to Hitler’s fascist regime are becoming common, I’d argue that it may be even more fitting to compare the present moment to a less-remembered but longer-lasting fascist regime: that of Francisco Franco, dictator of Spain from 1936 until his death in 1975.

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-fascist-2675062586/

[Jack Valentino]

1. 'For Whom The Bell Tolls' Ernest Hemingway

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2. He's doing Hitler

Down to the yonic portal and ballroom over the bunker.

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3. No, Mussolini. Franco, despite his evilness, had some actual competence in some areas. Trump has none.