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Jonathan Alter offers an alternative angle:

Dictator or mob boss? President Trump seems to be leaning into “dictator,” but I’d argue that Al Capone and John Gotti fit better than Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini.

Alter may be onto something. Hitler and Mussolini had ideologies. Warped and cruel ideologies, but ideologies non the less.

Avarice, vengefulness, and racism do not in and of themselves constitute an ideology.

But it’s difference without a distinction to his victims.

Follow the link and see what you think of his reasoning.

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