FOUNDATION FOR THE STUDY OF POLITICAL PATHOLOGY

“Is Trump Following Hitler's Playbook?”

Recorded in October 2016, just before the  Presidential Election
 
Richard Koenigsberg on the podcast, “Howard Bloom Saves the Universe,"
with Chad Dougatz, Hangar Studios
 
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Richard A. Koenigsberg is director of the Foundation for the Study of Political Pathology and author of several books including Nations Have the Right to Kill: Hitler, the Holocaust and War and Hitler's Ideology.
One of the most successful publicists of his generation, Howard Bloom represented Michael Jackson and many others. To order his recently-published A Case of the Sexual Cosmos: Everything You Know About Nature is Wrong,
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Dear Colleague,

This wonderful Internet radio program,
Howard Bloom Saves the Universe, was hosted by Chad Dougatz at Hangar Studios and recorded nearly ten years ago. 

It's astonishing how prescient it was. Howard, Chad and Richard discussed Trump's idea of deporting millions of "illegal" human beings, which at the time seemed fantastic; an impossible dream.

Yet, astonishingly, as President in 2026, Donald Trump has begun to actualize this dream. 

There are many commonalities between Trump’s ideas and those of political leaders Richard has studied his entire life.

The most significant similarity is thinking is the idea of a nation in a state of decline—one that has lost its greatness—and the belief that the cause of national decline is the presence of certain classes of people within the body politic, in Hitler's case Jews, in Trump's case Mexicans, illegal immigrants, Muslims, etc.

Donald Trump's idea of deporting millions of human beings—removing them from within the body politic in order to restore the nation’s greatness--was there right at the beginning, 

But no one could have imagined at the time that this "impossible dream"--this fantasy--could be put forth as policy and executed. 

Andrew Hammer, Executive Director
Foundation for the Study of Political Pathology