‘Donald Trump is using the Nazi playbook’

On Saturday, Donald Trump told a campaign rally in Minnesota, that “You have good genes. A lot of it’s about the genes isn’t it, don’t you believe? The racehorse theory you think was so different? You have good genes in Minnesota.”

This is exactly the same as the Nazi rhetoric that my parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins heard when they were living in Germany and Hungary during the 1930s. It was the reasoning that the Nazis used to justify marginalizing Jews, gays, and Gypsies and it led directly to the Holocaust. Many of my family members were among the 6 million who were murdered.

My parents were lucky enough to escape. Many of those who didn’t were those who expressed the opinion that “it can’t happen here.” They paid with their lives for that miscalculation.

Now it is happening in America. Donald Trump is using the Nazi playbook openly and proudly. If you love this country, if you believe in the great American democratic experiment, do what you can to defeat this man. It’s not yet too late and the future of our precious country — the world’s melting pot — depends on it.

— Peter Lehman, Arcata said it is not bound by a local requirement that the controversial HACHR program provide quarterly reports to the City of Eureka. Even though it would be thoughtful and courteous, as well as follow local law for the city to be informed of progress, or lack thereof, HACHR are within their rights technically to give the city the finger. A council member said they won’t pick up their calls. HACHR has every right to blow off Eureka and let a bureaucrat from outside the county decide their, and your fate. HACHR technically owes Eureka nothing chump change, er, I mean citizen of Eureka.

Regards,

— John Dillon, Eureka