In 2024, President Joseph Biden turned 80—six years younger than German President Paul von Hindenburg when he died—and was capable of dying literally any day.           

His Vice President, Kamala Harris, was widely perceived as unprepared for the Presidency. 

Meanwhile, Donald Trump—like Adolf Hitler—was waging an all-out campaign to make himself dictator. And—like Hitler—he was using the democratic system to destroy democracy.

Hitler had a list of priorities—such as persecuting the Jews and conquering the Soviet Union—that he intended to carry out. 

Adolf Hitler

And so did Trump. Among Trump’s: Implementing “Project 2025.”  

This was a collection of policy proposals to fundamentally reshape the U.S. federal government in the event of a Republican victory in the 2024 Presidential election. 

Established in 2022 by the Right-wing Heritage Foundation, the project aimed to recruit tens of thousands of radical Right-wingers to the District of Columbia to replace existing federal civil servants.

Under Project 2025:

• Republicans consider federal employees to be subversives who comprise the “deep state.”
• Replacing tenured civil servants with thousands of political hacks would arm Republicans with the power to establish an absolute dictatorship under the next Republican president.
• Republicans believed the Department of Justice had “forfeited the trust” of the American people by investigating Donald Trump’s proven collaboration with Russia to win the 2016 Presidential election.
• As a result, the DOJ must be thoroughly “reformed” and tightly overseen by the White House.
• The director of the FBI must be personally accountable to the President—just as the head of the KGB was personally accountable to Vladimir Putin.   

Seal of the Justice Department

• Federal employees could be instantly fired for not obeying illegal orders, or on mere whim—including the whim of the President.
• The Department of Homeland Security would be abolished.
• The Environmental Protection Agency would be stripped of its authority to protect the air, water and soil.
• States would be prevented from adopting stricter regulations on vehicular emissions, like California had done. 
• The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) which the project called “one of the main drivers of the climate change alarm industry,” would be abolished.
• Fossil fuels—the leading cause of global warming—would be favored and environmental regulations to combat climate change abolished. 
• Federal funding for all public transit systems across the country would be eliminated.
• Traditionally independent federal agencies such as the Department of Justice, Federal Communications Commission and the Federal Trade Commission would be placed under Presidential control.
• The wealthiest 1% would receive massive tax cuts at the expense of the poor and middle class.
• Conception would be designated as the point where life begins.
• Abortion would be outlawed.
• Access to birth control would be sharply restricted, if not banned.
• Christianity would be designated as the official religion of the United States—the way Islam is designated as the official religion of Saudi Arabia.
• The use of capital punishment would be revived and expanded—and the right of appeals sharply restricted.  

Throughout the campaign, Trump denied that he had even heard of “Project 2025.” 

According to the Washington Post Fact Checker 2020, by the time Trump left office in 2021, he had  told approximately 30,573 lies. Among his most lethal were the ones he repeatedly told in 2020 about COVID-19: 

• “We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China.”
• “We pretty much shut it down coming in from China. It’s going to be fine.”
• “The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA.”
• “CDC & my administration are doing a GREAT job of handling Coronavirus.”
• “I think that’s a problem that’s going to go away. They have studied it. They know very much. In fact, we’re very close to a vaccine.”

As a result of his lies and ruthless attacks on medical professionals trying to combat the disease, more than 400,000 Americans died.

That should have been enough to prove that nothing he said could be trusted. But for 77 million voters who were invested in their own hatred and/or ignorance, it wasn’t.

CBS Correspondent William L. Shirer covered the Third Reich from 1934 to 1940. Writing about the rise of Adolf Hitler in his monumental bestseller, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (1960), he noted:

“No class or group or party in Germany could escape its share of responsibility for the abandonment of the democratic Republic and the advent of Adolf Hitler. The cardinal error of the Germans who opposed Nazism was their failure to unite against it. 

“At the crest of their popular strength, in July 1932, the National Socialists had attained but 37 percent of the vote. But the 63 percent of the German people who expressed their opposition to Hitler were much too divided and shortsighted to combine against a common danger which they must have known would overwhelm them unless they united, however temporarily, to stamp it out.”

Competent future historians will reach the same verdict about the second coming to power for Donald Trump on November 5, 2024.