Do you want to know what scares me?

After a Republican primary hopeful calls Mexican people rapists and criminals; calls women pigs and should be penalized for having an abortion; promises to ban all Muslims from entering the country; accuses Ted Cruz’s wife of having an affair and his dad as a conspirator in the assassination of JFK; tells Mexico we are going to build a wall and they are going to pay for it; accuses a federal judge of Mexican heritage of being biased (in a lawsuit against him) based on his parents’ origin; panders to Vladimir Putin; insults John McCain as a non-war hero for being captured; calls Mitt Romney a loser; claims he knows more about the Middle East than the generals, let us not forget the “Access Hollywood” tape, which depicts a serial women molester!

And this man won the Republican nomination for the presidency. Then, what truly scares me is the overwhelming number of Americans who have swallowed his message. Honestly, Trump’s messages are so remarkably similar to those of Hitler.

I wrote this letter just after Trump was nominated by the Republican Party. Now that he will occupy the Oval Office on Jan. 20, we all should be terrified.

Frank Antonioli

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