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Fergus Finlay: Europe must tell Donald Trump there's a line he can't cross

It’s not unreasonable to look for comparisons with Trump in the emergence of the Third Reich, writes Fergus Finlay
Fergus Finlay: Europe must tell Donald Trump there's a line he can't cross

French President Emmanuel Macron visits the Danish frigate F363 Niels Juel in Nuuk, Greenland, last June. Outside the US it is long past time that the rest of the democratic world came together in a single gathering to call out America's fascism for what it is. Photo: Mads Claus Rasmussen/Scanpix via AP

I have a suggestion for Donald Trump, because I think he may have missed a trick. 

A famous politician in the past (his name was Adolf Hitler) died a very rich man. And he got rich in all sorts of ways — the usual sorts of thing — gifts from rich people who wanted to curry favour, personal ownership of State property, a huge art collection, enormous royalties from an awful book that loyal Germans were all forced to buy — all that sort of stuff.

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